Harvesting Dandelions: For Eating & Natural Remedies

Wild food provides complex and fresh aromas that you just don’t get with store-bought produce. [...]

Go Ahead and Eat Your Dandelions (Recipe Included)

There’s a good reason why bees love dandelions. This early spring flower is a nutritional [...]

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Fragrance Flashbacks Steeped in Lavender

My relationship with lavender is three decades old.  In fact, someone cruelly informed me that [...]

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For the love of lavender: History, Aromatic & Medicinal Benefits (Lavendula officinalis)

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then [...]

Thyme & Lavender Herbal Salve

Ah, Zephyrus! art here, and Flora too! Ye tender bibbers of the rain and dew, [...]

Sweet Basil Tea: A Recipe to Boost Immunity

The smell of Basil is good for the heart … it taketh away sorrowfulness, which [...]

Healthy Homemade Chocolates with a Pinch of Love

This recipe for healthy homemade chocolate is beautifully simple. Once you’ve made a batch, you’ll [...]

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Stop Bleeding With Homemade Yarrow Styptic Powder

Yarrow is a common wildflower in the Asteraceae family. You’ll find it spread across North [...]

DIY Fresh Pine Skin Toner

Pine trees are becoming a wintertime favorite in both our kitchen and home Apothecary. When [...]

A Life of Folk Magic and Nourishment

I playfully mock the crows that are making a nuisance of themselves in our field. [...]

Conifer Recipes: Celebrating Yuletide & Winter Solstice

Yule, is when the dark half of the year relinquishes to the light half. Starting [...]

Rosemary Mint Cocoa Butter Lip Balm

Keep your lips moist and refreshed with this super easy recipe for Rosemary Mint Cocoa [...]

The Top 10 Antioxidant Rich Herbs & Spices: Food For Health

Used since ancient times to add flavour to foods, herbs and spices are also packed [...]

Homemade Holiday Herbal Bitters (Recipes Included)

Digestive bitters are ancient medicinal herbal extracts, used through the ages to treat digestive ailments [...]

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How to Make An All-Natural VapoRub Ointment

Have you been looking for a natural remedy for soothing congestion, stuffy noses, and other [...]

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How To Make Rosehip & Juniper Berry Syrup

It’s that time of year and I’ve got an itchy scratchy throat and sniffles. I [...]

Treasured Fireweed Herbal Remedies (Chamerion angustifolium / Onagraceae)

A breeze is blowing through the window carrying the sweet fragrance of fireweed with it. [...]

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Make Your Own Rose Water Skin Toner & Mist

Sometimes a relaxing mist is just what you need to cool and soothe your skin [...]

Herbal Flea & Tick & Insect Repellent Spray For Pets (and people)

Keep your pets safe and happy with this all natural, easy to make insect repellent. [...]

Birch Trees: 10 Practical Ways You Can Use Birch Trees

Birch trees are remarkable: they can keep you warm, nourish you and even heal you. [...]

Growing Your Self-Esteem & Appreciating Yourself

The journey of homesteading is about so much more than chickens, gardening and self sufficiency. [...]

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DIY Radiant Skin Serum – All-in-One Natural Skincare

A luxurious treat for the skin, this all in one radiant skin serum will brighten [...]

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Natural Dentistry: Self Dentistry & Perfect Teeth

It’s been four years since I had dental insurance and consequently it has also been [...]

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Intense Moisture DIY Hand Cream Recipe

This intense moisture DIY hand Cream works like a dream for healing cracked, dry, damaged [...]

Natural Dentistry: DIY Toothpaste Recipes

Have you ever looked up the ingredients of your toothpaste & oral care products? It [...]

Herbal Infused Oils For Natural Skincare

There is something beautiful in the alchemy behind taking pure ingredients and making luxurious, healing [...]

Natural Skincare & Cosmetics

The farm animals don’t seem to mind me sans makeup, and for the most part, [...]