Tag: <span>oil</span>

Ocular Herbal Healing for Human and Horse

The idea of potentially doing a workshop around herbs for you and your horse, got another boost this winter. For those who have been following me awhile, you’ll know that near the tail end of 2020, we downsized into a fifth wheel to tiny home not only our lives, but …

Story of Herbal Wound Speed-Healing in The Horse That Started It All

Today’s blog article is going to be a bit different from what I often write, for three reasons: A) It is a clear example of how the spirit world can impact the physical world, B) It is a story of one way God answered prayer for healing, and C) It …

Oatmeal and Wild Herbs

My daughter’s been on a bit of an oatmeal kick lately. She already eats a handful raw with nuts and dried fruit every morning while her brother makes himself porridge every workday. But we were talking about bread alternatives when the subject of the original scottish bannock came up. It …

A Tea Order and A Marathon Foraging Run – Reminder of Upcoming Foraging Workshops

Today’s foraging run is brought to you buy a custom tea request at the recent wellness fair, that was hoped to be a wild flavour version similar to Earl Grey. The purchaser liked the smell, and if the recipient likes the tea, we need to be ready for potential re-orders. …

Macerated Aromatic Oil and Scented Lies

This week, we’ve been very busy foraging around the barn property each evening. Coming home with more purple deadnettle, yarrow, discovered quite a bit of desert parsley we need to grab, and began picking arrowleaf balsomroot flowers for Ashley’s aromatic oil by maceration experiment. Sidenote:  We are planning Foraging Workshops …

Poutine Without the Fries! But not necessarily without the potatoe. . .

Every now and then, I have no choice but to experiment in the kitchen! I’m not a chef by any means, nor do I particularly love being in the kitchen. This means meals are fairly simple and plain for the most part, unless its festive time when I attempt a …

Herbal Treatments of Smallpox Through the Years

The Nigerian research link in my first smallpox article, sent me on a very useful encyclopedic bunny trail that ties right back into the “new” threat on the immediate horizon, with 2 confirmed and potentially 20 more cases of monkey pox in Quebec, across the country from me (I live …