Grow your own medicinal herb larder with these ideas for plants to grow in a salve garden. Includes plants to infuse into healing balms to soothe eczema, bug bites, and minor burns and injuries If you are interested in plants for skin care and skin healing, you should consider growing a salve garden. Plants in … Read More about Healing Plants to Grow in a Salve Garden
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DIY Sea Glass Stepping Stone
How to make garden stepping stones using colorful sea glass. This project requires only a few inexpensive materials including glass pieces. Sea glass can have romantic origins — it could come from old Victorian bottles or broken glass from a shipwreck. Most of the time it comes from modern-day bottles. Most of the rubbish that … Read More about DIY Sea Glass Stepping Stone
Complete Guide to Natural Soap Additives and How They Work
A comprehensive introduction to natural soap additives and the reasons that we add them to natural cold-process soap recipes In its purest form, natural soap requires just three ingredients: fat, lye, and water. The fat can be vegetable oils, butters, or waxes, and there are many types to choose from. You can also make soap … Read More about Complete Guide to Natural Soap Additives and How They Work
Making and Using a DIY Bokashi Bin
Make a simple DIY bokashi bin using recycled buckets and an inoculated starter. The bokashi composting method allows you to compost cooked food including meat, dairy, fish, and bones. Though many of us have a compost bin, we are taught that there are things that we simply cannot compost. Cooked food, meat, fish, bones, dairy, … Read More about Making and Using a DIY Bokashi Bin
May Garden Jobs for the Vegetable Garden
May garden jobs including seeds to sow, crops to harvest, garden tasks, and DIY projects. Use these tips to have your garden flourishing with homegrown produce and flowers May is a landmark month in the gardening calendar as the soil and weather warms. The garden is just beginning to fill in, climb supports, and produce … Read More about May Garden Jobs for the Vegetable Garden