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Welcome to our blog! Here, you’ll find recipes for herbal remedies, chicken keeping, gardening tips, DIYs, and all the tips, tricks, lessons, and skills you’ll need to manage a homestead and become more self-sufficient. Whether you’re new to this lifestyle or you’ve been doing it for years, we hope you find our content entertaining as well as educational.
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Unlocking the Secret to Making Golden Milk
Golden Milk reigns supreme as an anti-inflammatory, healthy, and healing drink. Its earthy, warm, and golden spice is a powerful...
Apr 84 min read
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After Sun Black Tea Salve
Winter is nearly at its close, and that means the warmer days of spring and summer are on the horizon. Warmer days usually mean longer...
Mar 175 min read
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The Best Botanicals For DIY Facial Steams
Facial steams are excellent for the skin and a must-try ritual for overall self-care! After a long day, simply breathing in the sweet...
Feb 186 min read
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DIY Rosehip Facial Serum
This DIY rosehip face serum recipe belongs in everyone's natural skincare regime. Made using dried rosehips, jojoba oil, and apricot...
Jan 94 min read
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How to Make Black Drawing Salve
A homemade black drawing salve is a perfect addition to your home apothecary or herbal first-aid kit. Insect bites, stings, splinters,...
Jan 26 min read
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DIY Decongesting Botanical Vapor Steam
Cold and flu season is officially upon us, and respiratory infections seem to be common this year. I don’t know about you, but for me,...
Dec 30, 20245 min read
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Gifts to Give - DIY Cuticle Oil
Welcome to another edition of our Gifts to Give Series . If you love making DIY gifts, be sure to check out the rest of the posts in this...
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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DIY Herbal Vapor Rub
When a cold or flu strikes your home, relief is what you seek, and Vicks VapoRub is one of the most used products around this time of...
Oct 31, 20245 min read
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DIY Boot and Shoe Deodorizer
As winter boot season draws near so too does smelly shoe season. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that when your feet spend all day...
Oct 25, 20243 min read
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DIY Magnesium Oil
Did you know that according to the World Health Organization, as much as 75% of the U.S. adult population could be magnesium deficient ?...
Oct 14, 20246 min read
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Elderberry & Rosehip Electuary
Electuaries are tasty and simple herbal remedies requiring nothing more than dried herbs ground to powder and raw honey. Plus, electuary,...
Oct 9, 20243 min read
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Our 5 Favorite Herbal Recipes for Fall
Fall is just around the corner. Don’t get me wrong, I love Summer, but in my heart of hearts, I’m all about Fall. That subtle chill has...
Sep 15, 20244 min read
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How to Make Four Thieves Vinegar
So much history, legend, and lore surround Four Thieves Vinegar that it’s difficult to discern fact from fiction. Nonetheless, this...
Aug 21, 20246 min read
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Have You Heard of Solé Water?
I first learned of Solé (pronounced so-lay) Water from a fellow herbalist at an event last week, and I was immediately intrigued. People...
Apr 28, 20244 min read
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A Guide to Carrier Oils
I’ve had a lot of people ask, “Which carrier oil is the best?” The answer is that there is no cut-and-dry answer. The better question is,...
Feb 12, 20246 min read
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Homemade Ginger Cough Drops
I tend to be prone to coughing, even when I don’t have a cold, but I hate over-the-counter cough drops. The flavor is always nasty, and...
Dec 8, 20234 min read
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Immuni-Tea! How to Make an Immune Boosting Tea
We’ve fully entered the cold and flu season, but that does not mean the cold and flu season needs to enter your house! Help keep winter...
Nov 27, 20233 min read
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Gifts to Give - DIY Lavender Bath Salts
Giving the gift of relaxation is the ultimate way to say you care. These soothing, relaxing, and healing bath salts are quick and easy to...
Nov 4, 20232 min read
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DIY Chicken Frostbite Balm
Winter is nearly here, and nighttime temperatures in Colorado are beginning to drop dramatically. It won’t be long before we see days...
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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Holiday Gifts to Give - Herbal Infused Hot Chocolate Mix
Homemade hot chocolate mix makes a delicious gift to give, but take it to the next level and turn this sweet treat into a decadent and...
Nov 1, 20235 min read
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