Have you ever wanted to make your own fermented soda? It’s easier than you think! This homemade strawberry rhubarb soda is naturally fermented using a ginger bug. It’s a delicious and refreshing springtime beverage! Using a Ginger Bug in Homemade Soda So, you’ve made a ginger bug. Now what the heck do you do with…
Lilac Mead: Floral Honey Wine for Spring
I love the smell of lilacs blooming in the springtime! The beautiful edible blossoms don’t last long, so I like to try to preserve that flavor to enjoy throughout the year. This lilac mead recipe is a delicious way to do that! Simple Mead Making Ebook If you want to learn more about making mead,…
Herbal Bath Salt with Calendula and Mint: Relaxing and Nourishing
This calendula and mint herbal bath salt is soothing to the skin and smells absolutely amazing! It is wonderful when made with fresh herbs, but can also be made with dried herbs for longer storage. Using high quality sea salt from New Zealand provides ample minerals to make for a relaxing and nourishing bath. Bio-Gro…
10 Reasons to Grow Calendula for Your Garden, Food, and Health
Calendula is a flower that everyone should have in their yard, for multiple reasons. First and foremost, it’s beautiful! It’s edible, easy to grow, and readily reseeds itself year after year. It’s also a powerful medicinal, and is one of the top herbs that I would highly recommend everyone have on hand. Here are 10…
8 Ways to Eat Radishes and Radish Greens
Radishes are a vegetable that are sometimes hard for people to get excited about. The truth is that radishes are amazing! Not only that, but they are a tasty treat straight from the dirt, no processing required. The best part is you get two veggies in one, the root and the greens – yes you…
10 Reasons to Grow Thyme for Food, Health, and Garden Benefits
Thyme is an amazing herb that has culinary and medicinal uses as well as being good for the garden. Learn all the reasons to grow thyme for food, health, and your garden! Healing Kitchen Herbs eBook Did you know that most of the herbs you use in your kitchen also have medicinal uses? My eBook…
10 Reasons to Grow Rosemary for your Garden, Food, and Health
Rosemary is a highly beneficial plant that everyone should be growing in their garden. Learn about all the reasons to grow rosemary and its benefits for the garden, your health, and as a delicious culinary herb. Healing Kitchen Herbs eBook Did you know that most of the herbs you use in your kitchen also have…
How to Make Sauerkraut: Traditionally Fermented Cabbage
Traditionally made from cabbage and a saltwater brine, sauerkraut is fermented for several weeks. Homemade sauerkraut is amazing and doesn’t resemble store bought at all, plus it’s easy and cheap to make and filled with probiotics. Let’s make homemade fermented sauerkraut! What is Sauerkraut? I don’t know about you, but I hated sauerkraut when I…
Foraging for Wild Violets: an edible early spring flower
Wild violets are both edible and medicinal and come up in the late winter or early spring. Foraging for wild violets is easy as they grow almost everywhere! Wild violets are an edible and medicinal flower, and easy to spot! Learn how to identify and forage for wild violets, and the many ways to use…
Homemade Elderberry Gummies (made with elderberry syrup)
These homemade elderberry gummies are a delicious way to support your immune system. Elderberry gummies are easy to make, especially if you already have elderberry syrup on hand. Kids and adults both love them! Everything Elderberry Book This recipe for elderberry gummies comes from the book Everything Elderberry by Susannah Shmurak of Healthy Green Savvy….
