About
Hello & welcome to The Nerdy Farm Wife!
My name is Jan and here’s where I share natural soapmaking ideas and tips, along with DIY skin & body care recipes, plus herbal home remedies.
I’m especially fond of finding fun uses for common garden plants, along with weeds and otherwise overlooked plants!
My interest in herbs and more natural living began when my son was a toddler with all sorts of food and environmental allergies, asthma, and eczema. I taught myself to make soap for his ultra sensitive skin, created a lemon balm lip balm for his cold sore breakouts (It works! He hasn’t had a cold sore in the 17 years since!), and made tons of other helpful herbal products for the whole family.
We roam around and grow/forage on about 100 acres of land in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I have 14 myotonic goat wethers who move around the land, working on dense patches of kudzu, Japanese knotweed, autumn olive, bittersweet, and more. We also have turkeys, pigs, quail, chickens, ducks, and several rescue animals – 2 dogs, 4 cats, and a bunny!
I’m also a bestselling traditionally published author and you can find those print books listed on my Amazon Author Page. Plus, I have an eBook shop with digital products.
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Contact Info
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Some of My Guest Posts & Media Features
Mountain Rose Herbs – How to Make Your Own Soap with Herbs
Mountain Rose Herbs – Bath Bomb Recipe with Lavender
Unruly Gardening – All About Ghost Pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
Soap Queen – Thyme & Witch Hazel Facial Bar DIY
Modern Soapmaking – Citrus Breeze Brine Soap
HGTV – Creative Genius: Jan Berry
Attainable Sustainable – Making Soap: A Simple How-To for a Basic Bar
Well + Good – Make Your Own Spring Cleaning Products With Plants From Your Garden
InStyle – 3 Easy Ways to Make Your Cleaning Products Eco-Friendly
Money Saving Mom – Turning Scraps to Cash
Hobby Farms – How to Make Winter Rose Soap