recipes
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Fresh Milk to Silky Suds: Everything You Need To Know To Get Started Making Goat’s Milk Soap
“Soap is to the body what laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb Let me start by saying that all soap is made with lye. Any “soap” not made with lye at some point is, in truth, a synthetic… Continue reading
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From Vine to Table: Discovering the Hidden Treasure of the Wild Passion Vine
“Be Like a Passion Fruit: vibrant, full of flavor, and true to your unique essence.” Passiflora Incarnata, also known as Purple Passionflower, Maypop and Wild Passion Vine The fruit of the Wild Passion Vine is one of my absolute favorite… Continue reading
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Water Bath Canning – Yes You Can!
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” Aristotle Water bath canning can be quite intimidating for a beginner who doesn’t have someone to teach them. It used to be part… Continue reading
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Cooking with Abandon
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet Van Horne I recently discovered that I have contracted Alpha Gal. For those who are not yet familiar with this term, it is a… Continue reading
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Wild Foraging
“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mold myself?” Henry David Thoreau Foraging is an ancient practice of gathering wild plants, fruits, nuts, seeds, and fungi for food and medicine. Too few… Continue reading
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Pineapple Weed (Wild Chamomile)
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A.A. Milne Identification: Pineapple weed, also known as wild chamomile, and disc mayweed, is an annual plant that freely re-seeds itself. Green-yellow cone-shaped flowerheads with no petals appear from March… Continue reading
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Knowledge is Power
“Reading brings knowledge and knowledge is power; therefore reading is power. The power to know and learn and understand . . . but also the power to dream. Stories inspire us to reach high, love deep, change the world and… Continue reading
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Pineapple Crowns
“Pineapples remind us that even the prickliest things can have the sweetest hearts.” Jason F. Wright Have you ever seen a pineapple plant bloom? It is probably the prettiest flower I have ever seen. Incredibly unique, both in it’s appearance… Continue reading
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Messy Mistakes
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”― Niels Bohr I began my sourdough journey at the beginning of the year. My first loaf was okay but not great.… Continue reading
Radiant Roots 