Lavender eye pillows are simple to make, yet luxurious to receive. I have been making lavender eye pillows for my friends and family for years and they are always appreciated. It’s been reported back to me that lavender eye pillows have helped people sleep better and reduce tension headaches. I like using lavender eye pillows […]
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One of the suggestions from Herbal Remedy Kit owners was for ideas for herbal gifts that grandparents could make with their grandchildren. These are simple projects that you can do with children. Here we’ll learn how to make potpourri and sachets. This first idea is making herbal potpourris and sachets as a way of introducing children
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Why is it that some foods are only eaten on certain days? We’ve got a pumpkin cheesecake recipe you can eat ANY time. It’s even a healthy cheesecake recipe. In the last holiday newsletter we talked about cranberries, a food native to North America that is often only consumed a couple days out of the
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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a beautiful and incredibly useful plant that grows practically everywhere, and is a great natural insect repellent. I tell hikers and other avid outdoors people that if they only knew one plant, yarrow should be it. My first introduction to yarrow was quite dramatic. While out camping, a friend sliced open her
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We are really lucky in Carnation, WA to have an awesome summer Farmer’s Market every Tuesday. On a recent market day, they feature edible flowers and edible flower recipes. Last week they were featuring edible flowers, and I thought it would be a GREAT topic for an Herbal Branch. Kimberly often tops our summer salads
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Here’s a spicy sweet idea combining pecans and spices that your friends and family will love to receive as gifts. It’s one of my favorite healthy snack recipes. Not only is this healthy snack recipe a tasty treat, but a potentially healthy one as well. Scientific research into the nutritional profile of pecans reports that
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Peaches are also a great remedy for the heat of summer to help our bodies cool down. If you love the taste of peaches, then you’ll enjoy this cooling peach smoothie recipe.
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Early spring is nettle season! This is the time of year when we put stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) in as many dishes as we can in order to bring the health benefits of this amazing plant into our daily lives. We’re going to share our recipe for nettle lasagna with you. It’s definitely one of
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“Let food be your medicine.” –Hippocrates When I was growing up we had cranberries approximately two days a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas. The cranberries we ate were slurped out of a can, sliced and then plopped on a plate. I can’t say they were my favorite. Now that I have grown up and do my
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Are you looking for a way to help your friends and family enjoy herbs? Who doesn’t love popsicles? Cool and refreshing, popsicles scream of hot summer days and the deliciousness of cooling down. Want to make yummy herbal homemade popsicles? I came up with this popsicle recipe with kids in mind, but I’ll bet a
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