I bought a pressure canner in 2020 but I only used it once to can some salmon I was given. I grew up with a mom who did water bath canning so I learned how to can tomatoes and peaches and other acidic foods. But I had never done pressure canning and I have found it rather intimidating. So I … [Read more...]
Drying and Preserving Medicinal Herbs and Plants
Being able to properly harvest and preserve your herbs after planting them is a very important part of creating your own herbal pharmacy. Below are all the steps you can take to easily preserve your medicinal herbs. Step 1 - Harvesting Flowers For flowering herbs like calendula, … [Read more...]
Is Your Stress Causing Adrenal Fatigue?
(This post contains affiliate links from which I will benefit if you purchase them.) Recently I went through a few months of some significant stress (compilation of caring for my aging mother in-law and the rest of my family, changing hormones, and just the general day to day of life). It left me … [Read more...]