Top 10 Healing Herbs for the Home Apothecary

Creating your own home apothecary is such a valuable tool for you and your family — especially with pharmaceutical shortages becoming more and more common. It's time to have a backup plan using the herbs that God made - some of them right in our own backyards!

 

Not only can an...

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Tincture Making and Crafting Your Own Tincture Recipes

 

Tinctures are one of my favorite ways to use herbs in the home after herbal medicinal teas. They are simple to use for the home herbalist or caregivers wanting natural remedies for their families and loved ones. These concentrated herbal extracts offer a convenient and potent way to...

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Plant These 10 Herbs in Spring for Your Herbalist Garden

Plants have been used as medicine for thousands of years.

Today, much of the world's population uses herbal medicine in some form as remedies for a wide variety of ailments. It's time we planted some of these herbs in our own backyards!

What better time is there to grow healing plants than when...

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Headache Remedies & Best Tea for Headaches

 

Drinking tea is one of the best natural remedies for many ailments, including headaches.

No need to look far and wide for something that can calm a pounding headache, God's amazing herbs can help!  Headaches are a real pain, they can keep you from you taking care of...

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Chamomile Flower Tea: How to Plant, Grow, Harvest, and Blend

 

 

Chamomile is an easy-to-grow, common flower that brings whimsical life to any garden, and its plethora of uses means it's ideal for growing and making chamomile tea.

But how do you grow chamomile? And what goes into actually making something useful out of it?

It's not as...

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Most Affordable and Productive Medicinal Plants to Grow

 

We have used medicinal plants in healthcare for thousands of years. Studies have been conducted across the world to prove how good they really are, and most of the time, medicinal plants win the argument. Although we can’t always do without modern medicine, curing common ailments and...

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How to Stratify and Scarify Medicinal Plant Seeds

 

We've all been there. Our new botanical seeds arrived in the mail, we planted them eagerly into the ground, and then... nothing. They don't sprout; they don't grow, and we're left wondering if our green thumbs have shriveled off.

Did you know, though, this happens because seeds...

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