By Amanda Rose | Rosemary
Drink a tea to help keep your brain sharp and grab that herb right from your cupboard or kitchen herb garden. I would love for everyone to be able to walk outside their house and harvest a small remedy to improve their mood that very day. Here in California, most of us can stroll through […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Sage
This is a fun plant that you will want to leave a bit of garden space for in the coming years. The flavor and fragrance is exquisite, almost sweet with a mild pineapple note as its name implies. The super bonus with this plant is that it might improve our health as well — it […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Rosemary
We have a lot of projects going on around the house, leading me to transplant about a dozen rosemary plants. We are in the middle of a massive redesign of our front entry area, mainly because the front deck was so completely rotten that you could lose a leg in it. I helped my dad […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Mint
Frederick is very proud of this drink because, first, it’s fantastic, and second, the “secret ingredient” was his idea. We were driving back from a Labor Day breakfast and planning to make a pineapple drink. “It needs more than pineapple,” I said. We brainstormed. I had a number of suggestions but when Frederick mentioned his […]
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By Amanda Rose | Aloe Vera
Amanda’s note: Here is another wonderful contribution from Ramya Venkateshwaran who writes from her home in India. Ramya describes her homemade aloe vera lipstick for chapped lips. Find her on her website WildTurmeric.net for more ideas on healthy living. ~~~I love lip balm but the problem is I love it way too much and, when […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Nettle
We are lucky to have nettle all around us here in the Sequoia National Forest, for nearly nine months a year at various elevations, giving us a great chance to nourish ourselves for the cost of fresh air, some clipping, and steeping or cooking. We rely on a frozen nettle stash through the year for […]
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