Lavender season is here and there are lots of lavender farms to visit! How about a vacation where you bop from one lavender farm to another! From Arizona to Pennsylvania, people are in love with lavender. Fields and fields of lavender growing and being harvested and...
Using herbal bath tea bags is the easiest and most convenient way to get healing herbs into your tub. Read on to find out how to make your own bath tea bags and get my herbal bath bag recipe with the relaxing benefits of rose and chamomile. Grabbing an herbal bath tea...
Old European lore talks about hanging bundles of chives in the home to ward off evil spirits. Well, chives do chase away colds, which can feel pretty evil sometimes. Check out the many health benefits and how to use them. Chives Health Benefits Chives are in the same...
Basil is most commonly thought of as flavoring for spaghetti sauce, Italian salad dressing or the main herb in pesto. Let’s take this herb beyond its uses as a flavoring for tomato sauces and think about basil health benefits! Basil Health Benefits The magnitude of...
Are you wondering how to get kids to eat veggies? Meet my son Gabriel. He is 9 ½ and he likes to eat. Just how much he likes to eat was apparent in a recent conversation he had with a schoolmate. Gabriel and his friend were playing in the living room and they asked...
I could have titled this blog, how to help get rid of your snot, which is really the point, but it seemed like kind of a rude title. So I will just stick with Tips to Reduce Spring Allergies. Spring is such a wonderful time of the year, but not if you can’t breathe...
Bath salts are so easy to make! This DIY recipe is the simplest bath salt recipe without any herbs or essential oils added to it. You just need two ingredients for this healing bath: sea salt and baking soda. Sea Salt and Baking Soda Benefits Although I love using...
People often limit their pesto indulgence to basil season. Well, there is more to pesto than basil. This unique arugula pesto recipe is perfect when you have an abundance of arugula or around the first frost when basil is scarce. Pesto is a highly medicinal food,...
Are you looking for an herbal tea to beat those dreaded winter colds and flu? When people around you start getting sick, drink this cold and flu tea. You can drink up to 3 cups a day for several days. When people around you start getting sick, drink this cold and flu...
I love this rosemary pesto recipe because rosemary is an herb that you can get fresh all year long. I harvest fresh rosemary from my large rosemary hedge every week of the entire year. Benefits of Rosemary Think of your rosemary pesto as something that actually...
