Natural Incense

Making natural incense is as easy as a stroll through your garden, forest, or local park. Just follow these easy instructions! Making natural incense is as easy as noticing the plants that grow around you. Take a walk around your yard and garden, you might find everything you’re looking for to harvest for your own […]

Candied Ginger

What better herb to bring a bit of warmth to body and soul than ginger? Not only does this root quell nausea, but it’s nutritional to boot! Ginger Ginger is more than just a fiery tasting spice, it’s also medicinal! The pungent roots contain pain relieving and anti-inflammatory salicylates. The gingerol in the root is […]

‘Heaven’s to Betsy’ Healthy Chocolate Morsels

Chocolate… the word brings up visions of the waterfall at Willy Wonka’s factory, that commercial where the lady is biting into chocolate like it was her soulmate, a shared moment with a friend. I am a chocolate snob with food allergies. Even high quality – melt in your mouth at first touch – chocolate sometimes […]

Crazy Easy Bath Truffles

Who doesn’t love a good truffle, amiright?! Eating a chocolatey herbal truffle while lounging in a tub resplendent with the dreamy scents and fizzy goodness of bath truffles is ecstasy as I see it. Throw in some meditation music and a nice candle and you have the makings of heaven on earth. Guess what, my friends? Bath […]

Nettle Lasagna Recipe

Nettle Lasagna. It’s one dish I make several times in the spring. Nettles are high in iron and many nutrients including calcium, manganese, magnesium, selenium, zinc, and potassium. As I’m a big fan of getting the medicine of plants to the people in a way they will happily take, so that healing can occur, nettle […]

Recipe: Pickled Dandelion Flower Buds and Burdock Root

Use these pickled herbs as a condiment as you would any pickle; mix into tuna, egg, green or potato salad, on a sandwich, next to a fine roast, and even enjoy straight from the jar! When making pickled dandelion flower buds, make sure to pick only the flower buds that have not yet opened and […]

Grief

Grief can grab a hold like a boa constrictor, squeezing the body, mind and soul until a person can’t catch a breath, can’t think, even day to day functions seem impossible. Then, when it releases for only a moment, a memory, a smell, a song, a comment from someone, even walking into a room can bring back the crushing grip, from which there seems no redemption. Grief is so tricky. It comes and goes and yet is always there. Sometimes overwhelming, sometimes a tiny nudge that makes us stop in our tracks, taking away our breath, reminding us of the love, the regrets, the aching of missing.

The Alchemy of Relief: Navigating Arthritis and Chronic Pain

Pain is as subjective as the people who feel it, but its impact is universal. It can bring mental fog, bodily weakness, disrupted sleep patterns and an anxiety that steals the joy from daily life, often leaving a person completely drained.

Recipe: Nettle Pesto

Nothing says, “See ya, winter!” like harvesting nettles in the early spring for food and medicine. After a long dark winter, harvesting nettles is a very welcome treat. For me, the abundance of chlorophyll, antioxidants, macro and micro nutrients, and other healing constituents in nettles provides the quintessential shot of life that is so badly […]

DIY Natural Household Cleaners

Tips for cleaning your home, naturally! Cleaning your home with DIY natural cleaners is not only environmentally and personally friendly, but these cleaners are cheaper than store bought products to boot! Science has seen that the active ingredients of many of the “antibacterial” cleaners have been linked to endocrine disruption, thyroid damage, and the emergence […]