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DIY Holiday Decor for the Garden
Do you love a rustic look for the holidays? Use garden pots, sticks, and simple household items to make cute decorations for your yard and garden.
Headache Tea Blend – a helper against migraine pain
Migraines took my life from me, and made me miserable and wrecked by pain on a daily basis. I am one of the lucky ones who was able to find relief without pharmaceuticals.
How to make Ginger Tea
Ginger is spicy, soothing, and delicious. It warms the heart and calms the tummy as a hot tea.
In appreciation of bitterness
When we taste bitterness, our faces squench up, our noses wrinkle, and sometimes we are even wracked with an involuntary shudder! But is the experience truly a bad one?
Blotto Botany: A book after my own *hic* heart…
When Blotto Botany arrived at my door, it was a beacon of light into the dark corner where I was hibernating. It wasn’t just the well-crafted recipes for herbal cordials, bitters, and elixirs that helped to lift my spirit and stir my soul, but the beautiful way in which it is delivered.
Taste of home: create your own foraged spice blend
My spice blend changes through the year as I get new plants harvested and dried. It’s a whole new level to seasonal cuisine! Thyme and oregano in late summer, bee balm in spring, rosemary all year round!
I’ll be teaching at the Good Medicine Confluence 2019!
I’m finally heading west to play with the fae folk and plant people! It is official – I’m teaching a few classes at the 10th anniversary of the Good Medicine Confluence: Healing Arts & Pleasure Faire this May 2019, in Durango, Colorado. How could I refuse to teach at an event with the following mission statement for…
Gift Guide: Kitchen Gadgets and Doo-Dads!
I used to be the type of person who would scoff at people with kitchen gadgets. I thought that all I needed was a few good knives, some wooden spoons, spatulas, a few pots and pans, and I was good to go. My stubbornness was rooted in my belief that if I couldn’t make it…
Recipe Box: Spicy Citrus Salt Blend
I just hate to waste leftovers in the kitchen, don’t you? My mind is often busy with trying to figure out how to repurpose the fruit or herbs that are strained from tinctures or vinegar after the infusion process is over. Some things are too pretty for the compost bin! For example, when I was…
Things I Love: Sweet, Busy Springtime Insanity!
Howdy there, readers! It’s a lovely spring day in Asheville, which means that it is sunny, the wind is blowing hard enough to knock me down, and it’s going to snow this weekend. Whee! I have a new page on this site that I’d like to draw your attention to: Workshops & Appearances This will…
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