Use some foraged early spring greens to make a lovely little lip balm! Violet leaves, purple deadnettle, and chickweed combine with sweet almond, tamanu, and castor oil to create a soothing balm for chapped lips. Infused Oil First, you’ll want to make an infused oil to use in the lip balm. You will need: 1…
As nice as it would be for every passing project idea I have to work out perfectly, unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. This just so happens to be the latest of my failures: the answer to ‘can you make jelly out of spicebush flowers?’ I tried two experiments before ultimately deciding that, at least for…
It’s that time of year around here where the sweet pink mist of redbud flowers is visible around the edge of the woods when you look out the window, and it won’t be too much longer until they’re gone! So while they’re still here, why not use the magic of lemon juice and redbud tea…
Forsythia doesn’t bloom for long, but while it’s here, might as well make jelly out of it! Ingredients 1 cup forsythia flowers 1 1/4 cups water 1 3/4 cups sugar 1 oz Suregel low sugar pectin (pink box) Recipe Pick your forsythia flowers, making sure as you go that you haven’t left the little green…
April should be a busy month! Now that everything’s gone back to green and growing, and the weather’s warming up, there’s a lot more things to do outside! Gardening Direct-Sowing & Transplanting This is a late-April-possibly-not-until-early-May-depending-on-the-weather thing, but once the weather’s warmed up for good and there’s no more risk of frost, it’ll be time…
March has spent most its time jumping between woodstove weather and lovely spring days. Not too much longer until the weather here goes so hot we’ll be running to hide from the sun, instead of basking in it! outdoors The first flush of spring flowers has hit, and the earliest of them are already starting…