Homemade gifts, especially when they have an herbal element, are my favorite things to give! This peppermint coconut sugar scrub is easy to make and package up for a thoughtful gift. It smells absolutely amazing and is cooling, soothing, and moisturizing for the skin. All natural beauty at its best! Make & Give Home Apothecary…
Herbalism
Using herbs, flowers, and plants for medicine is something I feel very strongly about, as I believe that the plant world has given us almost everything we need to stay healthy! I’m passionate about teaching others how to make their own herbal remedies and skin care products with homegrown and foraged herbs and flowers.
Learn how to make herbal salves, creams, lotion bars, soap, tinctures, and teas.
Fir Needle Forest Chai for Respiratory Wellness
Sometimes herbal medicine is right in your own backyard, and you often don’t need to go much further than that. But if you venture out to the woods, be sure to collect some conifer needles, as they have benefits that not everyone knows about! Fir needles are especially nice, and can be made into a…
60+ Rose Hip Recipes for Food, Health, & Beauty
Rose hips are a powerhouse of an herb with a wide array of benefits to our health and beauty. Once you learn about how nutritious and packed full of antioxidants they are, you’ll be glad to know there are many uses for rose hip both in diet and skincare. Let’s discover over 60 rose hip…
Homemade Rose Hip Soap Recipe
Do you have delicate skin or skin that is beginning to show the marks of passing time? Rose hip soap may be the perfect bar of all-natural herbal soap to care for your skin! As a facial bar, it will leave you with a brighter, healthier complexion while combating the signs of aging! Rose Hip…
70+ Elderberry Recipes & Remedies for Food & Health
It’s no secret that elderberries are a superfood with many undisputed health benefits! These tasty elderberry recipes will leave you with tons of ideas of how to use these immune-boosting wild berries. Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal weeds that surround us and how to use them, check…
Foraging St. John’s Wort + How to Make St. John’s Wort Oil & Salve
When the sunny yellow flowers of St. John’s wort start to appear then I know that summer is here! It is such an unassuming little plant that often grows along roadsides, but it is a powerful herbal ally. It is a great plant to know how to forage for, as it grows nearly everywhere and…
80+ Mint Recipes: Drinks, desserts, remedies + more!
These 80+ mint recipes for food and medicine are sure to please! Use up all of that mint in your garden with these recipes for food, drinks, desserts, bath & body, and remedies. There are many reasons to grow mint, but we all know the best reason, that delicious intense flavor that adds sharpness to…
Nasturtium Flower Infused Vinegar
Nasturtiums are an easy-to-grow edible flower with an old fashioned feel to them. They have been growing in and around gardens for centuries! If you look in the original Peter Rabbit book by Beatrix Potter (originally written in 1893 and published in 1902) you will see nasturtiums in the beautiful illustrations. Since the nasturtiums I…
Elderflower Honey Muffins
In late spring to early summer, elderflowers are in bloom. This time of year seems magical to me, right at the crux of the summer solstice! The creamy blossoms don’t last long, and I always feel the need to do something with them. Elderflowers are both edible and medicinal, so there are many choices on…
How to Make Lemon Balm Tincture
Lemon balm is a plant that grows rather freely and for some is considered a nuisance. What some don’t realize is that lemon balm has many benefits from being good for sleep and relaxation to helping digestion and even easing headaches and other pains. Making a lemon balm tincture is a great way to utilize…
