Use your Instant Pot for herbal medicine making and fully utilizing this advanced herbal remedy making machine, while you save on electricity and keep your kitchen cool. The Instant Pot is a useful appliance for your home. While it allows you to make dinner without heating up the kitchen, giving you options for slow cooking […]
How to Make a Reed Diffuser and Kick the Commercial Air Fresheners Out of Your Home
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Make a reed diffuser in 5 minutes to freshen indoor air safely and naturally. In summer the gross smells seem to hang around a little longer. The more hot and humid it is the more off-smells seem to cling. But don’t grab the toxic solid air fresheners or sprays. Instead make a reed diffuser and […]
The Healthiest Hummingbird Nectar Recipe
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This healthy hummingbird nectar recipe and glass feeders will keep those pretty hummingbirds coming back to your garden year after year. We have 4 species of hummingbirds that visit Joybilee Farm each spring — rufous hummingbirds, calliope hummingbirds, and black chinned come regularly. Some summers we’ve also seen ruby-throated hummers. They raise their babies in […]
DIY Herbal Bath Tea for Cooling Summer Rashes
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Herbal bath tea soothes and cools summer skin rashes, bites, and minor sun burns, while it calms and relaxes. You can make it in minutes from the herbs in your garden. This DIY herbal bath tea project makes a lovely and unique gift for those who could use a little spa time in their hectic […]
Planting your Natural Dye Garden for a Full Palette of Natural Colors
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Planning your natural dye garden: A natural dye garden will give you eco-friendly, natural dye pigments for textiles, knitting yarns, soap making, and even artist paints and pastels and children’s art supplies. This year, put aside a portion of your garden, that you normally dedicate to flowers and herbs, to plant a rainbow of natural […]
5 Herbal Teas From the Garden that You May Have Overlooked
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Herbal teas can be harvested from the hedgerows, the garden, and the wild lands around you. They are rich in vitamins and minerals as well as active medicines that help your body thrive through the stresses of each season. These 5 fruity herbal teas can be harvested in the summer and are so abundant that […]
10 Cookie Baking Secrets that Grandma Knew, That Made Her Famous in the Neighborhood
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There are a few secret cookie baking tips that our fore mothers knew intuitively from hundreds of batches of cookies. Today these cooking baking secrets are not so intuitive. But allow me to share these tips with you so that you, too, can bake perfect cookies every time. When I was a young lass of […]
Make Fireweed Tea in 5 Easy Steps
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Fireweed tea or Ivan Chai is a traditional fermented black tea, or tisane, made from fireweed or willow herb, a medicinal herb that grows throughout the northern hemisphere and from California to Alaska in the west, and as far south as North Carolina in eastern North America. While legend has it that tea was […]
