Sweet Lemon Honey & Thyme Cough Syrup is a wonderful, homemade cough syrup recipe that will help you or your kids stop coughing the next time you come down with a cold. What I love the best about this remedy is that I can make it quickly with a handful of simple ingredients found in […] Read more…
| feverfew, flora, Herbs, In the Garden, natural health and beauty, perennials
In case you thought I was about to limit myself to culinary herbs in my shade garden, I’m not. Dear me, I think my oldest would have my head! It doesn’t surprise me I suppose. After all this is the boy I remember posting about long, long ago and his eating of corn silk, pine […] Read more…
| garden, Herbs, In the Garden
It’s said the best place for the kitchen herb garden is… well… right outside the kitchen. But not every garden space near the kitchen is an ideal location for growing herbs because they would be in shade. Such is the case in my new home. There will be no skipping outdoors and snipping fresh oregano […] Read more…
| 2012 vegetable garden, Herbs, In the Garden, sweet potatoes
It would seem that I’ve topped my month-late August garden update with a two month-late September and October garden update. For the purpose of journaling/record-keeping here is how we fared the last couple of months- {Main Garden} {Early September}{Early October}{Mid-October}{Late October}{Corn & Pumpkin} {Early September}{Late September}{Early October}{Fall Garden #1} Kale, Mangel Beets, Parisian Carrots, Purple […] Read more…
The herb garden. Slowly, but surely, coming along. {week one} {week two} {week three} {week four} August brought with it ~the close of the cucumber harvest, ~the largest onion & potato yields to date, ~the early trickling in of peppers, tomatoes, and green beans, ~parsnip seed was collected for next season, ~ a fall garden […] Read more…
We’re the first culture that views children as liabilities instead of assets. All cultures in history viewed children as a blessing. Today we talk about the cost of raising a child. You know, this is the first generation which the average child has not had domestic chores… kids used to grow up weeding the garden, […] Read more…
5/13- First chive blossoms… Rebekah (2 next week) found them at some point and her little baby breath hasn’t been sweet since. 5/14 & 5/15- I succeeded in continuing to fail at this little challenge I’ve made for myself. 5/16-Only five more feet of pathway to go. Surely we’d be finished by now if nearly […] Read more…
Despite feeling inspired this spring, my herbal aspirations didn’t amount to much this year. The herbs and edible flowers I tried to start from seed in the window boxes seemed as though their growth was stagnated causing discouragement followed by a failure to keep them watered which, of course, led to their eventual death. I […] Read more…
I’ve been searching for a little herbal garden inspiration lately as I shift back and forth between simply adding herbs to my perennial gardens or delegating a piece of our land exclusively to the purpose of growing herbs. At this time I’m leaning toward… both. I’ll continue to add to my perennial gardens as always, […] Read more…
| garden plans, Herbs, natural health and beauty, natural remedies, our homestead
I challenged myself this month to study up on herbs medicinal & culinary in order to determine which I’d like to add to our homestead gardens. I had originally intended to build a garden exclusively for growing herbs and plan that out this month, but enough chatter about expansion here and there has caused me […] Read more…