Release Balm
As my love for mimosa grows every season, I welcome new opportunities to explore all that this amazing ally offers. Until this year, I...
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- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 min
Strawberry Basil Shrub
Year of honeys no. 10 - We've been enjoying strawberries for the last few weeks as a treat while we start revving up for spring & getting...
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
Crowned Tulsi Elixir
Year of Honeys # 9 - In the fall I was playing around with tea blends & this one quickly became a favorite on damp gray days. It's...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
Rosemary Lime Oxymel
Year of honeys: week 8 - I enjoyed the vanilla pine oxymel so much that I was really looking forward to making another. Not being use to...
- Feb 27, 2022
- 2 min
Chamomile Molasses Electuary (Week 7 Honeys)
Or as my lil one named it Golden Gut Paste because... well the chamomile powder looks like gold flakes to her! When my 10 year old was...
- Feb 24, 2022
- 2 min
Honeys Recap - 6 weeks in
I kicked off my Year of Honey 6 weeks ago as my theme for 2022. So far it's going pretty well. I've been exploring different ways to make...
- Feb 19, 2022
- 2 min
Cinnamon Honey
Year of honey: week 6 - I've enjoyed cinnamon as a spice as long as I can remember, especially cinnamon sugar cereal & toast as a kid. ...
- Feb 18, 2022
- 2 min
Deep Dive Honey Essence
I've been dreaming of making a moon honey essence for awhile & now's the time to make the first one apparently! I'm so stinkin' excited...
- Feb 17, 2022
- 2 min
Realign Tea Infusion
Over the past year I wound up getting mild food poisoning twice & salmonella, also food poisoning but I'm listing it separately because...
- Feb 12, 2022
- 2 min
Vanilla Pine Oxymel
Year of honey: week 5 - I'm admittedly not a huge fan of oxymels. I have sampled a few over the years & they were just too vinegar-y for...
- Feb 5, 2022
- 4 min
Echinacea Pastilles (pills)
Medicinal honeys week 4: I tried my hand at making herbal pills, also called pastilles. I searched through many recipes online & in...
- Jan 29, 2022
- 3 min
Rose Cacao Elixir
Week 3 honeys - medicine as an elixir! I've struggled a bit this week for inspiration on the honey front. It was a busy & tiring week. ...
- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
Hibiscus Electuary (herbal paste)
Week 2 for Year of Honey featuring Hibiscus Sabdariffa (red zinger) 🌺 Red Zinger is an all-time favorite of mine that goes back to my...
- Jan 13, 2022
- 2 min
Vanilla Infused Honey
Kicking off our first honey of the week for 2022 with Vanilla Infused Honey! Who doesn’t like vanilla? Not the ridiculously cheap...
- Aug 23, 2021
- 1 min
Kudzu Blooms
There isn’t much I will get out in our insane outdoor sauna for this summer, but kudzu… ... yes kudzu will for sure get me out regardless...
- Aug 6, 2021
- 1 min
Grape Leaves
...are a good source of vitamins C, E, A, K and B6, plus niacin, iron, fiber, riboflavin, folate, calcium, magnesium, copper and...
- Aug 3, 2021
- 1 min
Fig Harvest
Gathering figs between storms. We have a very healthy fig tree that’s a fifth generation transplant. In about five minutes I collected a...
- Feb 19, 2019
- 1 min
Sweet Orange & Clove Sugar Scrub
Yield: 8 ounces Ingredients 1 cup sugar 1/4 cup carrier oil 15 drops Sweet Orange essential oil 5 drops Clove essential oil Directions...
- Feb 7, 2018
- 2 min
Nourishing Skin Balm
One of my first recipes, this balm is one we always have on-hand. We use it for general skin conditioning, rashes, itchiness, chapped &...
- Sep 4, 2016
- 2 min
Cure-All Syrup
Ingredients 1 medium organic onion 1 head of organic garlic 1-2 inches of fresh ginger root 1/2 inch or so of fresh turmeric 1 TBS black...
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