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Saturday, October 06, 2012

Last Minute Leaf Gathering, Etc.

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It started as a walk around the immediate yard and surrounding fields last evening as the sun was starting to set.  Various seed pods, le...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

So long September, Welcome October!

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Waking up this morning, my eyes flew open and my mind raced to determine what today's pressing requirements would be.  Generally speakin...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Mountain Rose Herbs and The Essential Herbal Magazine giveaway!

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Check it out, folks! Visit the Mountain Rose Herbs Blog and get all the details.  You can enter to win all the ingredients for a winter co...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Women Herbalists: Lydia Pinkham

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Women Herbalists:   Lydia Pinkham The Essential Herbal ( www.essentialherbal.com ) Mar/Apr ‘12 While Lydia Pinkham might not be a...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

Equinox

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The official end of summer is here, but we've been feeling it for a few weeks now.  Flowers have given way to seeds or fruit, with onl...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Rose Hip Jelly

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From The Essential Herbal Magazine Nov/Dec '11 Pure Rose Hip Jelly Recipe by Twyla DiGangi Rose hips are the ‘fruit’ of the rose p...
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Friday, September 07, 2012

"Parts" in a Recipe?

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Measuring in “Parts” Tina Sams The Essential Herbal , Sept/Oct '10 Often people have a difficult time converting recipes f...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012

New! Elderberry e-book!

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  An Elder Gathering What do you get when you gather 6 herb women with a combined experience of nearly 150 years?  A lot of great informat...
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Sunday, September 02, 2012

Pineapple core - dried

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Over the past few months, I have been eating pineapple a lot.  It started when we dropped grains and sugar from our diet here.  It's alw...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

To fix things, or not

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I spend a lot of time thinking about how connected everyone is these days.  Not necessarily to each other, but to devices of communication. ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Mid-Autumn Fruit Splurge

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This year, the fig tree has grown large enough to be supplying me with a bounty that is finally pushing me to try different things with th...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Essential Herbal Sept/Oct '12

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  We've been a little absent on the blog lately, but it isn't for lack of activity!  All kinds of busy here on the farm, with harve...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Drying Elderberries

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Right now, we only have a small quantity of berries ready for drying.  Later, we'll have huge flats of screens out, but for now this is ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Treasure from the Storm

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We had a gully-washer last night, and a lot of branches broke.  We didn't notice any problem on any of our trees around the house, and I...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

From the Vault

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Something old, something new... A few months ago, we received an extraordinary gift from The Rosemary House ! Any herbie worth their salt ha...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Summer "Salad"

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So far, this summer has been an interesting one here on the farm.  For the most part, we are pretty well insulated from the very serious n...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Yarrow Bath Tea and Compress

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In the Jul/Aug '12 issue of The Essential Herbal , Alicia Grosso provides a glorious bouquet of ways to use yarrow for the relief of s...
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Sunday, July 08, 2012

Reality of Herbal Fanaticism

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The climate and landscape of alternative care has been changing rapidly over the last couple of decades.  In herbs, we've gone from a ti...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Neck Coolers–for keeping cool…

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These neck coolers are one of the easiest ways to keep cool in really hot weather when you need to be outside, or just need to cool down qui...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Fruit popsicles

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We eat a wide variety of fruits here, but lately the addition of our own berries in the yard and those from our CSA share have challenged ev...
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