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How to Make Jun – The “Champagne of Fermented Drinks”

Have you tried jun? It is sometimes referred to as the “champagne of fermented drinks”. I remember the first time I tried it. A friend of mine has huge ceramic crocks on the go, full of jun. She prepared a tall glass for me with ice and freshly crushed verbena leaves … that was it,…

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Dried calendula petals, easy to store and ready for use.

All About Calendula (and a Healing Balm Recipe)

A stash of calendula is an essential herbal medicine to have on hand for making remedies to treat minor wounds, burns and infections. This hardy plant is easy to grow, preserve and use, let’s find out how! When winter descends, the veggie garden takes on tones of dark greens and purple. Calendula punctuates the garden…

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Local Raw Honey and Garlic Cloves Fermented

Honey Fermented Garlic and Fresh Honey Garlic Mash

My two pantry apothecary essentials for winter are honey fermented garlic and elderberry syrup. Garlic gets to work on microbial (including bacterial) infections while elderberry works against the cold and flu virus.

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Elderberry Syrup From Dried Elderberries

Try to always have a stash of elderberry syrup on hand during winter. It is definitely one of the better tasting herbal remedies. One the whole family won’t turn their nose up to.  In the UK and Europe, elderberry is a much loved traditional remedy. A valuable hedgerow medicine, used since ancient times for all…

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Hawthorn and Apple Fruit Leathers

I have left a fair amount of rubber on the road in my time because of a true foragers eye. I drive my family insane by screeching to a halt next to a fertile roadside crop of something wonderful like elder, rosehips and most recently hawthorn. This find was the perfect opportunity to make a stash…

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Healing Herbal Gummies

  Healing herbal gummies never last long in our house. I started to make them when my first child was small. There is no better way to smuggle in herbs and nutritionals when the kids are sick. We now make a “general tonic” version, there is a stash in the fridge to snack on most…

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Cooling Aloe Cubes

There is a big pot of Aloe vera that sits just outside my kitchen door. I cannot tell you how many times I have popped out  and torn off a little of the leaf to squeeze out the cooling gel to soothe a minor burn or a mozzie bite. When autumn comes I always try…

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Baby botanical bath bombs, white cubed bath bombs in a ceramic bowl, lavender and rose petals are pressed into them. Lavender is scattered around the bowl.

Baby Botanical Bath Bombs

At the moment, my kitchen smells DIVINE – I have been scenting a batch of bath bombs for teacher’s presents. They are infused with a gorgeous relaxing blend of essential oils including ylang-ylang, rose geranium, petitgrain and oakmoss. Not only do they smell divine, but they also look so pretty as we have been pressing…

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Beautiful Botanical Burner Melts

Beautiful Botanical Burner Melts Most commercial burner melts are a toxic cocktail of petroleum derived waxes, artificially colours and fragrances. So here’s a DIY natural alternative! You can use local and home grown ingredients and your favourite essential oils.

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Make Your Own Herb and Spice Cold Infused Oils

I could not live without infused oils. I incorporate them into my lotions and potions and they are also perfect for adding zing to stir fries, salad dressings, roast veggies and also as a garnish for soups and dips. Infusing herbs and spices allows the oily constituents of the plants to impart their own unique…

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☀️Sliding into the last moments of Natural Medicine Week to celebrate spices - the healthy flavour bombs you have in your pantry. Earthy, warm, and slightly bitter, turmeric looks like a ray of sunshine. The health benefits of turmeric (Curcuma longa) are well known. But how do you get more into your diet? Turmeric Paste!
Foxglove (Digitalis spp). An old remedy with a narrow therapeutic window, meaning there is little room for error in dosing, a smidge too much and it is poison. NOT used as a home remedy anymore after numerous fatalities. A source of compounds called cardiac glycosides, isolated and used in pharmaceuticals for cardiovascular disease, such as digoxin. Such elegance as they reach for the sky, and an absolute magnet for pollinators.
Herbaceous water kefir second ferment. Heavy on camphorous rosemary, sunny sweetness of orange and subtle blueberries give it a beautiful hue. One day in and super fizzy with all the added wild microbes 🧡⁣. After training the grains from a first ferment of water kefir, flavourful, aromatic herbs, spices and fruits can amp up the taste and the fizz when added for a day or two for a second ferment. Do you second ferment??
🌱 As we move through spring many herbs and plants reach the cusp of maturity. They are most potent and nutrient-rich before the heat of summer sets in and they push their energy into flowering and seeding. ⁣
🔬 Microorganisms make the magic happen when it comes to fermentation. They can be: ⁣
Waste not, want not! 🍏 Old lunch box apples get fermented to Apple cider vinegar. They are super bubbly for the first few days before they are strained off and the liquid rested for at least 3 months, we go longer for extra tang! Me 8 has taken to sealing our ferments with globes so they wave at us 😂😊.

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