How to Make Iced Tea - A Loose Leaf Tea Guide

In the dog daze of summer nothing hits the spot like iced tea. Apparently American's agree, as 85% of tea consumed is consumed iced. It's one thing to grab an iced tea in town, or at a restaurant, but how do you make iced tea at home? We are going to dive into just that today and all while saving yo...

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How to Make Basil Infused Water - 5 Ways

 

It’s time to use up some of that basil from your summer harvest and learn how to make your own herb infused water  with the addition of fresh fruit for a fruit flavored water. 

Did you know that sometimes drinking water isn’t enough to keep you hydrated? During the heat of the summer when we wor...

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The Lemon Verbena Plant: How to Grow, Harvest and Preserve

Lemon Verbena is a  refreshingly-scented herb that adds a pleasant, fragrant zing of lemon to your garden. It's also an easy-to-grow plant with leaves that are perfect for cultivating to make a healthy and great-tasting tea. 

To keep the uplifting freshness of lemons at your fingertips (and in your...

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Sweet Hibiscus Tea Lemonade | Tazo ® Passion Fruit Tea Hack

Starbuck's ™ very berry hibiscus refresher and Tazo's ®  Passion fruit tea are very popular right now and with good reason. Their sweet, fruity flavor, especially as an iced passion fruit tea really hits the spot on a warm spring or summer day. 

These drinks are packed with refined sugar, concentra...

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How do you Make a Mint Julep Cocktail with Green Tea

Mint juleps are a sign that spring and summer are here. Perhaps you have taken a trip and enjoyed Disneyland's Mint Julep Recipe or know that mint julep recipes are made around the time of the Kentucky Derby. Did you know on average 12,000 mint juleps are served in the 2 days of the Kentucky Derby r...

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Best Herb for Skin Health & Natural Sunburn relief

Imagine your hiking in the mountains, through the trail, and all of a sudden, something grabs on to your leg and isn't about ready to let go.

Or maybe your children or grandchildren are walking through the pasture or field and come back to the house with something stuck to their leg.

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Cheap and Easy Gluten / Dairy Free Zucchini Parmesan

 

Happy Fall Y'all!

Did you just discover the largest zucchini you have ever seen hiding in your garden? 

You thought that you were done with that never ending summer squash. You were ready for the first frost and the leaves to change color. Bring on the winter rest! 

OR MAYBE you love zucchini like...

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Pad Thai Zoodles- Using the Zucchini Madness

It's near the end of summer, which means that the days are getting shorter and fall is coming quicker than quick. It also means that there are piles and piles of zucchini, or what I've decided to refer to as courgettes. (Their fancy French name)

Don't you think it sounds better?

"Hey neighbor! Would...

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Peach Kombucha - Rita

 

Sometimes it's one of those weeks... or maybe one of those months. Or a couple of months? The schedule gets crazy and somethings just fall off the to-do list. Like say the kombucha making.

When that happens then there is sour kombucha, a.k.a. vinegar. And sometimes that means a WHOLE LOT of vine...

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D.I.Y. Natural Electrolyte Drinks

 

Ahh summer! Your sunshine makes one want to "squeeze the day," yet it is also draining at the same time. Your long days allow for large amounts of time spent sowing and reaping the harvest from the summer garden, basking in the sun out on the beach or in the orchard or hiking the mountains of o...

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SOURDOUGH CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI MUFFINS & RECIPE ROUND-UP

 

Plant a zucchini and feed the world, the saying goes. Well my over exuberant self had to plant the WHOLE package of zucchini seeds because what if those pill bugs liked zucchini seeds and left me with none like my lettuce, like my beans? I didn't stop to consider that they might all grow. They ...

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