Plant a Victory Garden

Sharing from the Home Grown USA Facebook page

This is so important!!

Best crafty thing you can do – make your own garden! Create intentions to be a little more self-reliant and grow food – a little bit or a lot, just grow something!!!

Remember to buy good seeds too! Purchase organic or heirloom varieties from a trusted source -

Gardening is fun & you’ll be proud – hooray for homegrown!!!

d.i.y.friday ~ Capsule Your Own Herbal Powders

Making herbal capsules yourself can be fun & necessary if you are wanting a unique blend of herbs just for you! It’s also a frugal thing to buy bulk herbs & save $$!!

There’s two ways to capsule herbs – by hand or invest in a capsule machine (what I need to do!)

Here’s our home video of the first time we capsuled herbs by hand. SO Sorry for the crooked video-taping!! I seem to regularly forget the correct way to hold the phone when making a video (the comfy way is the wrong way, I guess)

And now, about that capsule machine…

AND, because I always stumble upon something extra that strikes me as fabulous – what about not even using capsules at all and instead, making pills?? Yes! Loving this idea too!!

Okay – that was pretty fun!  Any ideas on what herbal blend you’d like to make for yourself?

When shopping for bulk herbs, please visit my 3 favorite places:

Bulk Herb Store
Mountain Rose Herbs
and Amazon

Power of a Bow

How handy-dandy can a little bow-tie be?
Just grab some chicken wire & yarn,
And you will see!

Until the chicken coop is fitted with a proper door, I think my Sadie-fashioned gate will work out just fine… for now anyways! The girls needed to reclaim their roaming space – being locked in the hen house, they were feeling too cooped up!

haha

Healthy Snack: Raisin Delights

Delicious!

I discovered a quick & easy snack to make in your food processor –

1 cup raisins
3/4 cup pecans or walnuts
1/4 cup carob powder
1/2 tsp coconut oil (optional)

Process! Roll into balls & coconut if you wish. Seriously, I think these are fantastic.

Many ways to reinvent too ~ use dates or figs or apricots. Use any nut or seed… Wow, thinking we found a winner folks!