Herbal salves are one of the simplest homemade remedies you can make. They only require a few ingredients, are easy to customize with different herbs, and can be used year-round for dry skin, rough hands, bug bites, and minor skin irritation. We started making homemade salves years ago as a way to use herbs from
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Fire honey is a new favourite of mine! Don’t get me wrong, I love my traditional herbal fire cider recipe. I still take a shot of the tonic every day in the winter months, but fire honey is a wonderfully warming and immune boosting honey that can easily be added to your tea, coffee, oatmeal,
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It’s the end of the season and I’ve already made pounds of basil salt, I have countless basil pesto prepared and now I also have frozen basil pucks. But there’s still an abundance of fresh basil in the garden, and I needed another way to preserve it. I’ve tried drying fresh basil before, but I
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If you’ve heard people talking about ‘Amish Advil‘ you may be wondering what it actually is. Despite the name, Amish Advil isn’t a medication at all. It’s a traditional herbal vinegar made by infusing rosemary and dandelion flowers into apple cider vinegar. Many herbalists have traditionally used these herbs to support the body’s natural inflammatory
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Buying gifts for gardeners sounds easy until you actually start thinking about it and looking. There are endless lists recommending gardening mugs, decorative signs, random seed packets and every garden tool imaginable. But if you’re buying for someone who gardens regularly, there’s a good chance they already have most of the basics, and they can
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