This is a wonderful time of year to treat a loved one to a fine, herbal bath soak. With just a few ingredients, anyone can whip up a tin or beautiful bag full of herbal bath salts. They can be used as a foot soak, as a bath tea, or simply tucked in a drawer [...]
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As Blogged for the Herb Companion – Make Your Valentine an Herbal Bath Soak!
Posted in Recipes, This is How We Make It!, tagged foot care, foot soak, herbal bath soak, pretty piggies on January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Culinary Herbal Christmas Gifts that Won’t Bite Your Wallet
Posted in Recipes, The Herbal Simple Things, This is How We Make It!, tagged culinary treats, herb gardening, herbal christmas gifts, herbal drizzle, herbal olive oil, herbs, how to make vanilla extract, peterman brook herb farm, using fresh herbs, vanilla beans, what to do with herbs on November 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This is an inexpensive, fun, and joyful way to give Christmas gifts that people will love, read on… Now, I just cannot imagine there is a cupboard in the world that would not benefit from a fine bottle of homemade vanilla extract, especially one that can be reused and refilled. Here is the recipe: Purchase boston [...]
Another Easy Peasy Herbal Recipe – Horehound Cough Drops
Posted in Recipes, This is How We Make It!, tagged cough drop recipe, herb farm recipe, horehound cough drop, Horehound herb, what to do with horehound on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You just may be able to get this recipe in yet for winter if you grow horehound. Last Saturday I went out, pushed away the snow, and was able to snip enough horehound for a 1/4 batch to make with a class. Horehound Plant
The Easy Peasy Way to Harvest or Destem Elderberries – Part I of 3
Posted in This is How We Make It!, tagged destemming elderberries, destemming elderberry, elderberries, elderberry trees, harvesting elderberries on September 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Firstly, let me thank our birdies for allowing us to share their berries and freeze some for Part 2 (Making Elderberry Jelly) and Part 3 (Making Elderberry Syrup). We have an elderberry tree just behind our pole barn that is loaded with berries every year. The challenge is getting some of them removed before the birds [...]
How to Make Mullein Ear Oil
Posted in This is How We Make It!, tagged ear ache herbal remedy, herb farm recipes, herbalist in Wisconsin, How to make mullein ear oil, mullein and garlic ear oil, mullien ear oil, peterman brook herb farm, recipe for mullein ear oil on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This spring we had a couple of volunteer mullein plants come up next to our greenhouse so I decided to let them live and become a source of flowers for us to use later on in summer. In the spring mullein creates a fuzzy whorl of leaves that looks very attractive. As the summer months move on, [...]
Get Kids into Herbs – Make Herbal Faerie Dust – As Blogged for the Herb Companion
Posted in This is How We Make It!, tagged faerie dust, faerie fest, fairy dust, fairy festival, how to make fairy dust on August 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We recently hosted a Charitable Faerie Fest on our farm and one of the hits with the children was the handcrafted Herbal Faerie Dust. This is something that can be made with very young children, little money, and herbs that can be grown at home. Here is a list of items needed: A combination of [...]
As Blogged for the Herb Companion Magazine – Green Waters
Posted in This is How We Make It!, Uncategorized on April 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Here in Wisconsin we have a small herb group that meets on a monthly basis. Recently we met a Lara’s house and she served us “Green Water”. She simply used fresh cilantro and a thinly sliced, peeled cucumber and served it on ice in an elegant, tall-stemmed glass. It was cool and refreshing and this [...]
What do you get when you cross a baker and a sugar scrub?
Posted in This is How We Make It!, tagged capuccino sugar scrub, herb shop, sugar scrub recipe, turbinado sugar scrub on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An edible sugar scrub, of course! Recently in our herb and soap shop we had a group of gals that were tasked with creating their very own customized sugar scrub. Among the group was one spunky little gal, named Lindsay, that loves to bake! Her creation was an edible sugar scrub which they named “The [...]
Herb Group Colors Easter Eggs the Natural Way
Posted in This is How We Make It!, tagged easter eggs, herbs, natural dyeing, natural dyes on April 12, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Our herb group, the Northern Woods Herb Society, met at Lara’s house where she showed us how to color eggs using some of the same techniques her Mother taught her as a child. Lara had already prepared for us the egg coloring solution by cooking down the plant material, straining it, and adding vinegar to [...]
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