I had a request to share the final wild violet jelly after it was processed and made, and I am finally getting the photos together to shar...

It's been raining here since last Thursday, so that makes 7 days of rain straight in a row.  Some days, partial day rain, and others ful...

Last fall, I roasted the last of the mashed potato squash we grew in the garden, and froze them.  I thawed a container for a dinner, and it...

                  I've been spring cleaning so to speak.  Really, the entire house needs swept and mopped, so I'm tackling one room ...

  Any foragers here?  I have a few reference books, but zero information in them in regards to if Purple Dead Nettle and Henbit both have th...

  I've gotten off the path of sharing my "thrifty" or "frugal" anything on my blog.  Many of these are repeats, but ...

I made homemade hair detangler last year, and used it all year long. I even bought a small spray bottle for traveling with (and it worked g...

                        (old photo of picked plantain, but I used both broad leaf and narrow-leafed plantain for the salve)   I completely f...

  Mashed potato squash was a new garden treasure to grow last summer.  There is very little information about it online, and very little inf...

The newest tincture has been strained.  It's a "Sleep" tincture.  We have not tried it yet, not actually needed it (oddly). Wh...

  Hot mess express checking in for a quick minute.  October has been, and still is a crammed month of commitments, projects and whatnot.  Mo...