The Garden Squatter
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Winging it with Vanilla Jasmine Herbally Medicated Moisturizing Hand Lotion
Hand Lotion This stuff smells amazing! Vanilla and Jasmine, strike the most beautiful note in this medicated moisturizing hand lotion that I make by winging it on the homestead. I mix a bit of this and a bit of that, on dreary days like today, in...
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Pikku, The Dog Has An Ear Infection
Pikku Pikku, the dog, is a bit of a handful. Partly just because she is huge. Partly because she is all sass and teenage doggy angst. Very sweet, good heart but what a naughty one. We love her very much though certain issues have come up. The...
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Look who came to wish me a happy birthday!
A deer in the yard The weather is still off stinking… I can’t believe it. I have never seen a July this ugly. The humidity is absolutely suffocating…. It is sort of raining… I have been busy studying herbalism, reading In...
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My Contribution To Book Club
Baked pear bowl filled with fresh granola, later garnished with whipped cream and cinnamon. This morning, was a book club brunch tea meeting. For which I made baked pear. This is so simple. The only tough part is scooping it out to create the...
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Lip Gloss For Dry and Or Chapped Lips
Making herbally medicated lip...
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One of The Goats Being Silly
Little Stella, being silly. One thing is guaranteed, when you keep goats. They are endlessly searching for a way out of their enclosure. Endlessly putting in a concerted effort to even invent one. Here, they have opened up a hole in the fence...
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A Butterfly’s Meditation
A new friend I met this little guy on a walk down the little gravel farm...
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Eastern White Pine
Herbs from my homestead apothecary. The sun hides it’s face today behind the grey that has temporarily taken over the sky. It is a November day in the middle of April. A small set back for the warmth I can feel coming. Beating beneath my...
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House Cleaning All Natural!
Wildflower Farm Dish Soap The sunlight spills in to spite the cloudiness of the sky in the kitchen today. All kinds of fun and interesting things happen in the Wildflower kitchen. Things get canned, dehydrated, created…....
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Micro Canning Mulberry Jelly
Mulberry Jelly We are expecting storms… I am not yet convinced they will happen but I am hoping… It would save me time watering the garden. I have so much to get to…. But still, like a small leaf riding the wind, the smell of a...
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