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Getting Started

Learn the basics and get started with healthy, seasonal, simple living. Discover the DIY tutorials that will help you master any of the recipes you'll find on Grow, Forage, Cook, Ferment.

Basics like mastering the easy-to-identify edible mushrooms or brewing your first gallon of mead. Grab a basket and head out to forage in the spring, start an herb garden and plant a simple herb like mint, and once you're harvesting herbs, learn to make an herbal salve.

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How to Make an Herbal Salve

Making your own all-natural herbal salve is so easy! This salve is the perfect beginner recipe for a novice herbalist. It has powerful, soothing benefits thanks to all the herbs it contains, and smells divine! Learn how to make an herbal salve using herbs and plants you can find in your own backyard or grow…

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The Easiest No Knead Sourdough Bread

You must have known this was coming after my homemade sourdough starter post last week, and I hope you’re happy about it because this bread is amazing! Not only is it wonderfully tasty and sour, but it is really easy to make. I’m sure you’ve heard of the no knead bread craze, but it has changed…

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Hello there! I’m Colleen.

I want to inspire you to live seasonally, become more self sufficient, and protect your health. I share information on foraging and wildcrafting, fermenting and preserving, cooking whole foods from scratch, permaculture gardening, and making herbal products. And that’s just the beginning! Learn more.

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