DISCLAIMER: I am not a health care provider, trained herbalist, nor homeopath. I am just a person who has used and researched these integrated therapies for close to 20 years and I use them on myself and my family and have had excellent results. Please read the safety precautions of each herb before ingesting, or consult a health care provider. This summer, while my herb garden was in full ...
The Quickest, Most Efficient Way to Dry Herbs, Using Only Solar Power, is In Your Car!
Hello friends, today I want to share with you my favorite way to dry herbs! This is peak herb harvesting season. It seems that everyday when I go outside, there is something prime for picking. I don’t always have a lot of time to tend to the herbs once I have picked them and so my fall back method is always drying them for later use! Dried herbs are wonderful for teas, both for their health ...
Witch’s Brew: Chamomile Coconut Cooler
This is the first edition of what will hopefully become a new blog series: Witch’s Brew! This series will feature craft cocktails, wine, cider and other spirits of note. My intention is to make this a weekly series, but I may need to re-evaluate as time goes on and to gauge interest. So please let me know you love this series and these posts by commenting on the posts, “liking” links on ...
Chamomile, A Hearth Keeper’s Friend
DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional health care provider, herbalist, nor homeopath. I am just a person who has used and researched these integrated therapies for close to 20 years and I use them on myself and my family and have had excellent results. Please read the safety precautions of each herb before ingesting, or consult a health care provider. Who is a Hearth Keeper? It is ...
How and Why to Make a Cleansing and Energizing Salt Scrub
This is a wonderful little scrub to have in your toolkit. It is easy to make and multi-purposed: great cleanser and toner for your skin, and energizing and cleansing for your aura and energy field. I even use them to scrub my chakras. Using a salt scrub is a simple self-care ritual that doesn’t take much time, but the benefits of adding it in are multi-fold. Salt is well known for its healing ...
Cold & Flu Tincture: Boneset, Elderberry, Chaga and Echinacea
DISCLAIMER: I am not a health care provider, trained herbalist, nor homeopath. I am just a person who has used and researched these integrated therapies for close to 20 years and I use them on myself and my family and have had excellent results. Please read the safety precautions of each herb before ingesting, or consult a health care provider. We are still in the throes of winter here in ...
Spicy Chaga Chai Tea
I really love the spicy exotic flavors of chai tea. There is something so soothing and yet at the same time, so vibrationally uplifting about it. I can feel the warmth of the herbs radiating throughout my body. It feels good, yummy. This recipe is a way to UP THE YUM of traditional Chai Tea, which is already so good, by adding Chaga, a mushroom that grows on birch trees. Chaga is very powerful ...
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