If you've struggled with sleep, these herbs that promote sleep might help. Find out which are the best herbs for sleep and sleep better tonight!
Meadowsweet, Queen of the Meadow, is a fabled herb that offers extraordinary digestive support, as well as pain and fever reducing benefits.
Lemon balm has many health benefits and one of the best ways to use it is in a tincture. Learn how to make this lemon balm tincture using fresh lemon balm!
You'll love making homemade Ginger Tincture. This easy natural remedy is a wonderful way to support digestion, but also great for several other ailments. Just 2 ingredients and a jar is all you'll need!
First aid kits can get expensive. Make these 7 essential homemade herbal remedies for your 72-hour kits. They are inexpensive, easy to carry and natural.
This homemade calendula salve recipe is the perfect herbal remedy for dry skin, rashes, bug bites, minor cuts, scrapes, and burns.
Harvesting and using horseradish for both culinary and medicinal purposes is a quick and easy process that also keeps the plant from taking over the garden.
Kids come down with coughs for all sorts of reasons. Wouldn't it be great to have a tasty, effective herbal cough syrup that can be made quickly and easily?
A simple recipe for how to make rose lotion bars from Jan Berry's wonderful book Things to Make With Roses. Easy to make and lovely to use!
This DIY headache salve with peppermint, coconut oil, and beeswax is all natural and a wonderful herbal home remedy for headaches. If you suffer from hea...
Make these fermented honey elderberries to boost your immune system or simply for a tasty and healthy treat.
Learn how to make and use rose water for use in skin care to tea to baked goods. Medicinal Rose has any array of uses for health and home.
Wondering if or how you can ferment fruits? In this tutorial, I‘m sharing my fruit fermentation experiment with peaches and a spicy peach lacto-fermentation recipe for a delicious chutney (a fabulous, easy side dish), plus how to ferment fruits in general. My parents came to visit last weekend, an
Learn how to loosen mucous, get rid of congestion, soothe sore throats, and even help lessen the time of colds and flu naturally...with our DIY hyssop cough drops.
Looking for ways to beat the summer heat? Find relief with these cooling herbal teas for summer that your family and friends will love! It’s fun to experiment with various cooling herbal drinks that refresh and cool. Here are 3 cooling tea recipes to get you started!
Herbal aphrodisiacs have been sought, admired, & rumored for their effects on libido, but do they work? Learn what they are & how to use them in this post!
Enjoy learning the basics of how to make an herbal syrup and then let your intuition guide you to create your own tasty blends!
They are known to possess potent medicinal abilities such as fighting off germs, bacteria, and viruses, protecting the hair, skin, and…
This easy Instant Pot elderberry syrup is much faster to make than the stovetop version, but with all the immune-boosting benefits! Filled with lots of elderberry goodness plus citrus, ginger and health-enhancing spices.
If your struggling with IBS, ulcerative colitis or leaky gut these gut healing herbal teas can help you on your gut healing journey.
Easy Homemade Balm and Salve Recipes for Different Conditions! If you are looking to make a healing balm or salve, but do not know where to start, then you will find these homemade balm and
Calendula is a beautiful flower and is well known throughout the world as a powerful healing plant.
The herbal burn salve recipe includes common herbs like calendula, plantain and comfrey, which are all beneficial to using on burns. And here's why!
An analgesic salve you can make today with cayenne pepper, ginger, and St. John's wort in a beeswax base. Good for relief of mild to moderate pain.
Stuck in a rut, eating the same boring lunches day after day? This collection of 365 healthy lunch ideas will re-introduce excitment into your lunchtime!
This Elderberry Syrup is full of immune boosting vitamins!
Botanical Name: Ruscus aculeatus L. The word “rusci-” means butcher's-broom-like, and the word “aculeatus” means prickly or thorny. The plant belongs to the plant family Ruscaceae (formerly classified under the family Liliaceae). Other Common Names Box hollyJew’s myrtleKneeholyKnee hollyKneeholmPettigreeSweet broom. Habitat It is believed that the plant is originally from Hungary but now it is widely harvested in Europe and the Mediterranean. The plant requires medium humidity, moist soil, and 4–18 °C (40–65 °F) for their optimal growth. It grows well in full sunlight that comes from the South/East/West Plant Description Butcher's broom is a shrub with rigid flattened stems
Goldenrod is more than just a weed- it's a powerful herb that can be used in so many situations- from sore throats to wound care. Here's how I use it.
Who has time to create a healthy, tasty meal at the crack of dawn when all you really want is a liter of coffee. The perfect solution: breakfast meal prep!
Did you know you can eat dandelions? And they're packed full of nutrition. Learn the ropes with these 16 dandelion recipes.
Lemon balm has many health benefits and one of the best ways to use it is in a tincture. Learn how to make this lemon balm tincture using fresh lemon balm!
Learn how to make powerful and healing herbal oils with this easy to follow tutorial.
These healthy Halloween treats are simple enough for anyone to conquer. All it takes is a little creativity, a whole lot of imagination, and a BIG appetite.
Learning how to heal your injuries with herbs is a fundamental skill for any homesteader. Here's what you need to know about healing salves.
These heavenly elderberry lollipops, made with elderberry syrup, lemon balm, and lavender, are just the thing to help little ones through a nasty cold!