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Instructions for how to make homemade firestarters using wood wool, beeswax, and liquid cooking oil. It takes about thirty minutes, start to finish, and they light up in a flash. Starting fires can be a pain without firestarters. They go out, don’t catch, and basically drive you mad. If you build your fire with something…
Instructions for how to make DIY soy candles using recycled glass ramekins, soy wax, a natural wick, and beautiful fragrance. A great way to make natural candles for home use or for cute and inexpensive gifts. If people knew how easy it is to make soy wax candles I doubt that there would be as…
The secret for the best pumpkin pie from scratch? Leave out the pumpkin and use butternut squash instead. It’s closer to what’s used to make canned pumpkin and will give you a sweet and creamy pumpkin pie with full-on traditional flavor
Make hedgerow jelly with any ripe berries and fruit including blackberries, raspberries, plums, and apples. A great way to preserve autumn’s bounty in a jar!
Use real pumpkin puree and natural essential oils to make pumpkin spice soap using the cold-process method. Instructions include making homemade pumpkin puree and how to use it to naturally color soap orange. With autumn comes pumpkins, whether you grow them in a garden, visit a farm’s pumpkin patch, or see a stack of them…
Use foraged hawthorn berries and vodka to make hawthorn tincture. This recipe follows a folk method and creates a medicine that is used for heart health and enhancing memory.
Foraging and Drying Porcini, an easy-to-identify wild mushroom also known as the Cep, Pennybun, Steinpilz, or Boletus edulis. Known as the ‘King of Mushrooms’ the flavour is rich, delicious, and more ‘mushroomy’ than any other!
It has a classic relish flavor, and you can use it in the same way—one of the best green tomato recipes you can make in a jar.
Grow your own food throughout the year with an indoor vegetable garden. Discover the best vegetables to grow indoors, how to grow food hydroponically or with potting mix, lighting, nutrient and water requirements, pest advice, and tools.