Michelle of MindBodyGreen shares her recipe for Turmeric, Honey & Ginger Tea. It’s an especially healing tea during the cold, flu and allergy season. This recipe uses ground turmeric, ginger and other ingredients. It’s very easy to make. Click on the How to Make Anti-Inflammatory Turmeric & Ginger Tea link below to see the complete […]
How to Make Naturally Sweetened Freezer Jam
Normally if you make freezer jam, it needs a lot of sugar to make it gel. Also, you often end up with overly sweet jam because you’re adding sugar to naturally sweet berries. It’s sugar overload! Betsy of DIYNatural found a solution that allows you to make freezer jam without any additional sugar. She shares […]
Homemade Aloe Mint Lotion Recipe
This is a tweaked version of Rosemary Gladstar’s “Famous Face Cream” which you can find in Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide. This version was created by Jan of The Nerdy Farm Wife Jan provides very clear directions for making a mint tea water base, an oil and Shea butter mixture, and how to combine the […]
How To Grow Fruit Trees In Containers
This is a neat article that explains how to grow fruit trees in containers. This is something you can do inside a house, on balconies, or on rooftops. It even allows you to grow fruit even if you don’t live in an appropriate growing zone for that fruit. The size of the pot DOES matter […]
How to Make Fire Cider
Rosemary Gladstar, the famed herbalist, is credited with creating and popularizing Fire Cider. The recipe infuses apple cider vinegar with grated ginger root, horseradish, cayenne pepper, and other ingredients. After the vinegar is infused and strained, it’s sweetened with honey. I know people who take fire cider all year long to strengthen their […]
How to Make Homemade Red Pepper Flakes – Spicy and Healthy!
I found this project on the Ever Growing Farm website. It’s an interesting project that explains how to take home-grown cayenne peppers from your garden and transform them to dried red pepper flakes. Melissa provides clear instructions on the best way to dry the peppers, process them and store the final product. There is also […]
Homemade Sweet Dreams Bedtime Spray Recipe
This is a short recipe for a Sweet Dreams Bedtime Spray. Laura of Green Living Ladies made this natural spray with her daughter. They wanted a relaxing spray to spray on their sheets before going to bed. There are 3 essential oils used in the recipe. One calms the body and encourages restful sleep. The […]
9 Natural Remedies for Cellulite
Cellulite is a problem that both younger and older women have to deal with. It’s a dimpling of the skin that results from a problem with the connective tissue and fat in the body. Hormones, diet, lifestyle and genetics all play a role. Katie of Wellness Mama shares some natural remedies that she has tried, […]
How to Make a Violet Leaf & Honey Cough Syrup
This is a simple recipe by the Nerdy Farm Wife that uses just 3 ingredients. She explains how to prepare violet leaves and water so that you extract the essence of the violet leaves. After that it’s a matter of heating some of the violet water and honey according to directions and you have a […]
4 Herbal Remedies To Relieve Itchy Skin
When our skin itches it means that it’s irritated. The cause could be sunburn, eczema, poison ivy or other irritants. Meagan at Growing Up Herbal has some GREAT home remedies for itchy skin. And she shares her super secret anti-itch remedy. In this post you’ll get some great research on the causes of itchiness. You’ll […]
Homemade Cayenne Salve for Pain Relief
Rosalee of Learning Herbs developed this simple and effective Cayenne Salve that you can make at home. It uses just 3 ingredients. Cayenne has been shown to reduce the pain of diabetic neuropathy, shingles, migraine headaches, back aches, muscle aches, arthritis, menstrual cramps and bruises. Cayenne gets its heat from capsaicin. It reduces pain […]
45 Uses for Vinegar
This is an interesting list of 45 different applications for vinegar from OneCrazyHouse. There’s a lot of variety. You’ll find instructions on how to use vinegar for: Health and Beauty Cleaning Pet Care Click on the 45 Uses for Vinegar link below to read the entire post. 45 Uses for Vinegar