5 Healthy Pumpkin Recipes to Make This Fall
It’s pumpkin season! From sweet pie to savory soup, pumpkins provide that cozy autumn flavor and they’re super nutritious, too. Pumpkins are packed with nutrients like vitamin A, which aids vision, and carotenoids, which protect the skin. They’re also high in fiber and nutrients like iron, zinc, and potassium. Here are five delicious and healthy pumpkin recipes to enjoy this fall……
Self-Care Secrets: How to Create an Herbal Bath
Making your daily bath or shower an easy self-care practice with herbs can improve your health in many ways. Here are some simple ways to use medicinal leaves, flowers, salts, oils and hydrosols to customize your herbal bath experience for relaxation, invigoration, or replenishment.
How To Figure Out the Best Herbal Remedies
Want to know the best herbal remedies? Learn how to use your sense of taste to tell the difference between different herbal preparations. Let’s start with a nettle experiment…
Grounding in the Garden: Fall Gardening Tips
Tending a garden and making herbal remedies from plants you cultivated is a great way to gracefully transition with the seasons. As we move into fall, the sun becomes less intense and the night sky starts to arrive sooner, a symmetry of light and dark. Leaves are starting to fall on the ground and soon growth energy will be focused on root development. To help you live in harmony with the season, here are my fall gardening tips, plus five healing plants to grow.
Sage Oatcakes: Sweet, Savory and Perfect with Tea
These delicious oatcakes combine the rich aromatics of sage with the chewiness of oats. You can easily make them with or without gluten.
Natural Remedies for Back to School
It’s back-to-school season for many families. Alongside the excitement of new backpacks, teachers, and friends, this time can also bring challenges like emotional stress, bedtime problems, and the dreaded “back-to-school plague” that hits when children are exposed to more germs. As a parent or caretaker, you can prepare with these natural remedies for back to school. Many of…
At-Risk Herbs: 8 Popular Plants to Consider Growing
Some of the most popular herbs – Echinacea, ginseng, goldenseal, and many more – are being rapidly depleted from their native habitats at alarming, devastating rates. Here are eight popular at-risk herbs and their associated medicinal qualities that you should consider growing if you want to use them
6 Natural Home Remedies for Summer Problems
Summer means spending more time outdoors, which also increases your chances of getting bites and stings, rashes, and sunburns. We’ve rounded up six of our tried-and-true home remedies for summer problems. Many of these natural remedies use herbs and “weeds” that you might find in your own backyard.
10 Best Herbs for Soapmaking (& How to Make Chamomile Soap)
Discover the 10 best herbs to use in your soapmaking projects. Plus, learn how to make your own Chamomile Tea Soap with Chamomile Flowers.
4 Easy Steps to Herb Gardening with Kids
Summertime is here and it’s the perfect time to get kids out of the house and into the garden! School is out, days are lazy and the heat and rain of summer do wonders for growing herbs. Here are some simple tips for herb gardening with kids.
