Live Simply, Grow Your Own, Make Natural Things

Simple Living with Nature at its Heart

On Lovely Greens you’ll discover ways to grow an organic vegetable garden filled with delicious vegetables, herbs, and plants that support wildlife. You’ll also learn how to use your harvests to make delicious food and wonderful things for your skin and home. Let’s dig in!

Seasonal Gardening Ideas, Recipes, and Natural Soapmaking

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Organic Gardening

Grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers to use in food recipes and DIY projects.

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  • How to make tallow soap using tallow with a dash of coconut oil and castor oil. This is a cold process and zero-waste soap recipe that makes use of drippings from cooked meat and includes instructions on how to render fat. The bars are pure white, creamy, nourishing, and gentle on your skin #soaprecipe #soapmaking #tallow

Natural Soapmaking

Learn to make handmade soap from pure ingredients and homegrown herbs

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Live Simply, Grow Your Own, Make Natural Things

Our growing spaces, however large or small, are where we can find empowerment and solace in an increasingly stressful world. It’s where we can meet nature halfway and help provide food for ourselves, food and shelter for wild creatures, and create a beautiful tapestry of plants for all to enjoy.

Growing your own reconnects us with the wild and with our own humanity. Using what we grow to make delicious meals, handmade skincare, and delightful crafts brings us back down to Earth. Each herb we plant and birdhouse we build creates positive change in the one space we can really control.

Garden Projects

Low-cost projects that help you to grow a beautiful and productive garden.

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DIY Skincare

Learn how to make your own skincare, including lotion, cream, cleanser, & lip balm.

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Food Recipes

Use homegrown to make food and drink recipes, and learn to preserve the harvest.

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Discover Lovely Greens

A garden can give us much of what we need for a healthy life: food, medicine, art, and a place to lose ourselves in the beauty of plants. The ideas on Lovely Greens focus on making as much as possible from and for the garden.

The main categories on Lovely Greens include soapmaking, gardening, gardening projects, DIY skincare, food recipes, and crafts. For seasonal inspiration, browse ideas by Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.

Lovely Greens Videos

This website has a wealth of articles and DIY videos that will help you on your natural living journey. For new videos and inspiration, you can also subscribe to the Lovely Greens YouTube channel.