Natural Home Ideas

Healing Plants to Grow in a Salve Garden

Healing Plants to Grow in a Salve Garden

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.

Homemade Dish Soap Recipe for the Zero-Waste Home

Beauty | Household Products | Natural Home Ideas | Soap

Homemade Dish Soap Recipe for the Zero-Waste Home

A simple homemade dish soap recipe with long-lasting fluffy bubbles that get dishes squeaky clean. Includes full cold process soap making instructions and uses recycled glass ramekins as containers. This recipe is perfect for the natural and zero-waste home

How to Decorate a Fresh Christmas Wreath

How to Decorate a Fresh Christmas Wreath

Step-by-step process on how to decorate a fresh Christmas wreath with foraged greenery, berries, and dried fruit. Also includes how to create a wreath base using willow

Tips on Starting an Urban Permaculture Food Forest

Gardening | Gardening tips | Homesteading | Kitchen Gardening | Travel

Tips on Starting an Urban Permaculture Food Forest

A visit to a permaculture food forest and p-patch, how it works, and realistic tips for starting your own urban food forest. A food forest is a place where food plants are grown in layers that simulate the layers of a forest.

Herbal Medicine | Preserving

Three Ways for how to Dry Mint Leaves

How to dry mint leaves to use in tea, beauty products, and food recipes. Methods include air-drying, using a food dehydrator, or drying it in the oven.

Gardening | Homesteading | Kitchen Gardening

5 Tips to Start your Urban Homestead

Tips and ideas to start your urban homestead, a tiny farm in the backyard. Lack of land does not have to stop you from living your dream right now. Start living your homesteading dream where you live and create a life you don’t want to move from.

List of Natural Soap Plants High in Saponins

List of Natural Soap Plants High in Saponins

An introduction to plants that can be used as soap without having to use lye. Includes common plants such as English ivy and soap nuts but others that can be wild harvested and ways to transform natural soap plants into sudsy cleansers.