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Easy to make elderflower cordial recipe using fresh elderflowers and lemon juice. Makes three bottles that you can use in refreshing summer drinks, or to make edible flower desserts and recipes. June signals one major event in my foraging year — elderflowers. These creamy white umbels of sweet and fragrant flowers grow on elder trees…
Make this rich and moisturizing handmade rose hand cream recipe using wild rose petals and raw honey. Includes step-by-step instructions and guidance on lotion ingredients
Discover thrifty ways to get plants for free. Learn how to bulk out your garden and growing space with plants that are free or cost practically nothing.
How to use Himalayan rhubarb extract to naturally color soap hot pink to red. This rhubarb soap recipe includes tips on sourcing the extract, making naturally red soap, and using fresh garden rhubarb in soapmaking.
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…
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…
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,…