Category Archives: Herbs & Health

{Spring} Dandelion Salad

Years ago, it’s not something I ever thought that I would be serving at our dinner table … but people grow and change and learn to appreciate different things… and so, here I am, serving wild dandelion leaf salad, which we gathered together this afternoon, to my family tonight. Topped with diced tomatoes, carrots, pine […]

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Herbal Remedies {for Babies & Adults alike}

Little Lazarus had a fever a few days ago … it was his first (thankfully) and it was not severe, but enough to make him unhappy. Poor thing … I don’t think it was teething but perhaps it could have been. I have never had a baby teeth this early so I have my doubts […]

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Coltsfoot {Infused} Honey

Lyla came running up to the kitchen door a few weeks ago – and she proudly handed me “the first dandelion” of the season.   But no, this beautiful little yellow-burst-of-sunshine-in-a-flower was not a dandelion  … it was coltsfoot!   {It then, sadly, proceeded to snow for two weeks and we could not pick any […]

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Children’s {Multi-vitamin} Tea

    For our Tea on Tuesdays at Two, Lyla and I decided to make our own kind of tea – a children’s multi-vitamin tea. As Lyla mixed up the herbs, I told her what each herb would do for her body. It was a sweet addition to our afternoon tea party.   It is […]

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Comfrey-Infused Oil

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. Genesis 1:29     It did not start out this way. Throughout my […]

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