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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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Wild Harvest: 5 Tips for Beginner Foragers

Foraging is a wonderful pastime that connects you with nature while allowing you to tune in to something ancient and primal within...

FISHING/HUNTING/FORAGING

Jul 2, 20245 min read

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Herb Spotlight - Plantain

Welcome to a new edition of our Herb Spotlight Series. Plantain was the very first plant I learned to work with when I began my herbalist...

APOTHECARY

Jun 25, 20244 min read

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How To Clean Foraged Plants

Foragable plants are abundant around our homestead, and harvesting them is one of my favorite pastimes. Whether for food or medicine,...

FISHING/HUNTING/FORAGING

May 16, 20244 min read

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Herb Spotlight - Dandelion

This is the fourth edition of our Herbal Spotlight Series . Today, we’ll explore the dandelion. On our homestead, we are passionate about...

APOTHECARY

Apr 23, 20245 min read

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Our 5 Favorite Things to Forage

Each season, one of my favorite things to do as the days get warmer is to forage for all the wild edibles and medicinals on and around...

FISHING/HUNTING/FORAGING

Sep 9, 20236 min read

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Making Plantain First-Aid Salve

It’s a banana, it’s a weed, it’s magic, no. It’s the plantain plant, and it may just be one of the most valuable “weeds” in your...

APOTHECARY

Aug 17, 20236 min read

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How to Make Yarrow Styptic Powder

Since transitioning from full-time work to freelance work, a lot of time has opened up for me to explore more of my passions on the...

APOTHECARY

Jul 11, 20235 min read

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Pine Tip Syrup

Have you ever looked at a tree and thought, “Hey, that looks geed enough to eat!”? Probably not, but one taste of this delicious syrup,...

FISHING/HUNTING/FORAGING

Jul 7, 20235 min read

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How to Make Mullein Tincture & Why You Should

Chances are you’ve seen mullein growing, possibly in your yard or by the roadside. It’s possible you’ve even considered this fuzzy plant...

APOTHECARY

Jun 19, 20234 min read

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Making Mallow Seed Capers

Common Mallow (Malva neglecta), a plant with many names including Cheese Mallow, Buttonweed, Cheese Weed, Round Dock, Cheeses, and...

FISHING/HUNTING/FORAGING

Jun 12, 20233 min read

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Making Dandelion Tincture

Did you know that every part of the dandelion is not only edible but medicinal? Long before the love of green lawns took over the nation,...

APOTHECARY

May 30, 20234 min read

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Beginners Guide to Stocking The Home Apothecary

If you’ve been thinking about introducing holistic health and wellness to your home, chances are you’ve thought about creating your own...

APOTHECARY

Apr 5, 20239 min read

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How to Make Wild Chokecherry Syrup

Growing up, wild chokecherry jam and syrup were a staple in our home. Every year, late in the summer the whole family could be found down...

RECIPES & COOKING

Aug 30, 20222 min read

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On the Hunt For Wild Mushrooms

This last weekend Daniel, the dogs, and I spent a day foraging in the San Juan Mountains on the hunt for wild mushrooms. It was a family...

FISHING/HUNTING/FORAGING

Feb 11, 20224 min read

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The Unbound Blog

Wild Harvest: 5 Tips for Beginner Foragers

Herb Spotlight - Plantain

How To Clean Foraged Plants

Herb Spotlight - Dandelion

Our 5 Favorite Things to Forage

Making Plantain First-Aid Salve

How to Make Yarrow Styptic Powder

Pine Tip Syrup

How to Make Mullein Tincture & Why You Should

Making Mallow Seed Capers

Making Dandelion Tincture

Beginners Guide to Stocking The Home Apothecary

How to Make Wild Chokecherry Syrup

On the Hunt For Wild Mushrooms

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