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Pine Resin Salve Recipe

Pine resin salve is a simple but powerful remedy to keep stocked in your home apothecary. It can be used for general first aid purposes,

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How to Make Pine Resin Oil

This tutorial walks you through exactly how to infuse pine resin into oil, including resin-to-oil ratios, safety tips, and cleanup tricks. It’s a helpful read

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How to Forage Pine Resin

Pine resin is a natural ingredient that can be foraged for herbal first aid and home remedies almost any time of the year. (Though I

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Yellow Dock Salve Recipe (Curly Dock)

This summer, I’ve been testing out a yellow dock salve recipe for a foraged remedies book that I’ve been working on for about 3+ years

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How to Make Redbud Jelly

Here’s a bright and colorful springtime jelly recipe, made with the edible flowers of the Eastern Redbud tree, Cercis canadensis. Step 1: Picking Flowers Pick

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DIY Solid Dish Soap Bar Recipe (Cold Process)

Learn how to make your own bars of solid dish soap! In this guide I’ll share a cold process dish soap recipe that you can

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(NEW Printable!) Differences Between Henbit, Creeping Charlie & Purple Dead Nettle

Here’s a free printable to help you tell the differences between three commonly confused spring weeds: Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule), Creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea), and Purple

Spring Weeds Lip Balm

Here’s how to make an effective, all-natural lip balm using beneficial weeds right from your backyard! You can mix or match any of the following

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Ginger Pain Salve Recipe

Here’s how to make a warming ginger pain salve for achy joints, sore muscles, and arthritis. Ginger is one of my top favorite herbs! It’s

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Cedarwood & Clove Soap on a Rope (Melt & Pour)

This cedarwood melt and pour soap recipe has a warm woodsy scent and boasts a rope for easy hanging in the shower! French green clay

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Easy Ginger Honey Syrup

This tasty homemade ginger syrup is made with just two easy-to-find ingredients and is a snap to mix together! It’s excellent for: Ginger (Zingiber officinale)

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How to Make a Ginger Tincture

A ginger tincture is super easy to make and is useful for treating: Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is also antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory. The best part

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Fir Needle & Mint Shave Soap (Melt & Pour)

These melt and pour shave soap pucks are infused with pine needles for their astringent toning properties, and comfrey for its power to heal tiny

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Growing Asparagus From Seed

Here’s how to grow your own asparagus plants from seed! These perennial plants will provide homegrown food from your garden for years to come! Surprisingly

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Nettle & Horsetail Shampoo Bars (Cold Process Soap)

Here’s a homemade nettle shampoo bar recipe that also features horsetail and tallow! (Or an alternative vegan variation using shea butter and cocoa butter.) I

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Foraging & Using Pine Needles

Here’s how to identify pine trees, plus some uses for pine needles, including infused oil and salve, pine needle tea, and a sore throat elixir.

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Pine Needle Chest Rub Salve Recipe

Pine is a traditional herbal known to be warming and helpful for respiratory congestion. Today, we’re going to turn your locally gathered pine needles into

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Pine Needle, Honey & Brandy Elixir (cough & sore throat remedy)

Here’s how to make a pine needle, honey, and brandy elixir – a natural remedy for coughs and sore throats that combines the respiratory benefits

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Easy Honey Nut Candy (just 3 ingredients!)

Here’s how to make a quick, easy honey candy with just 3 ingredients and no candy thermometer needed! To make this, you’ll need: salted butter,

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Rosemary Mint Sugar Scrub Cubes

These cute little individual scrubs are made with melt and pour soap base and are used to help polish away patches of dry flaky skin.