Winter is here. Along with the celebrations, the holidays herald in cold and flu season. Preventing and limiting the duration of colds and flu is a household art that has a big impact, especially when it comes to avoiding the use of antibiotics for winter sicknesses....
Did you know that many of the evergreen trees have medicinal uses and health benefits? Read on to learn about pine tree medicine and cedar tree medicine. You’ll find out how to make Christmas tree tea, such as pine needle tea or cedar tea, as well as a...
Cold and flu season is here. Wouldn’t it be nice to just be able to prevent a cold before it takes hold? This tea is our go-to tea when we feel like there is some cold and flu grunge in the air. You can purchase fresh ginger root at the grocery store. Ginger has...
Are you still using tea bags for your morning or afternoon tea? That’s okay, but make your tea from scratch and you will have a fresher and higher quality beverage with more health benefits. In this video and recipe, I show you how to make rosemary tea using fresh or...
Women have between 350 and 500 periods in a lifetime. Time to do some math! If your monthly period is five days long, each year you spend 60 days menstruating. You spend 1 ½ or more years out of every ten years of your life bleeding. If you bleed from the time you are...
Do you have this plant growing in your yard? Do you weed it out every chance you get, cursing it for taking over your lettuce bed or your garden in general? Why does it get so darn big you wonder? Look at this plant? It is everywhere! Well, actually, a purslane...
Do you love oranges? Once they come into season, we enjoy their delicious, juicy flavor almost daily. But what do you do with the peels? Most people throw away this part of their orange eating experience because they just aren’t aware of how beneficial the orange...
Do you love or hate cilantro? If you love it, you are in the right place! I am definitely in the “I love cilantro” camp. I love to eat it, and I also love to inspire others to use it in their culinary endeavors. Let me inspire you to use cilantro! Cilantro is also...
I see people pulling their dandelion, cursing it, kicking it and spraying chemicals all around it. What people don’t know is that this jagged-edged green weed that causes them so much trouble is a powerhouse herb with many health benefits. Here’s why you want to...
When you shuck your corn for the next summer evening meal, save the silk! You can brew up a tea with the fresh silk or dry it for later use. Besides being tasty, there are many corn silk tea benefits, especially for a UTI or urinary tract infection. Corn silk makes a...
