Natural Living
Tips and tutorials on making your own all-natural home and personal care products, growing and crafting your own herbal medicine, using essential oils and eliminating toxins from your home and life.
DIY Bath Salts with Essential Oils
I started making my own bath salts with essential oils about 3 years ago at Christmas. They instantly gained a permanent spot in my homemade repertoire. I couldn’t believe how easy they were to make! Just a few simple ingredients, a Mason...
Essential Oil Diffuser Blends for Christmas
These 10 essential oil diffuser blends for Christmas will have your home smelling like the holidays the all-natural way with just one easy push of your diffuser button! I love my diffuser. When I was gifted my first set of essential oils,...
How to Get Started With Essential Oils
By guest contributor Jade Cardy of Yurtigo. I've always liked essential oils. I used to buy them to diffuse in my apartment to make the room smell nice. Or I would make a body spray to make myself smell nice. I had no idea the health benefits...
How to Safely Harvest and Use Stinging Nettles
When it comes to increasing your self-sufficiency, taking control of your food supply and nutrition, saving your hard earned money and even knowing how to survive in an emergency situation, there’s perhaps no more valuable, all-encompassing skill than learning to...
35+ Last-Minute Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas
There are only a couple days left to go until Christmas, but you realize you still haven't checked everyone off your list! It's time to choose your own adventure: Do you... A) Brave the crowds in town and at the mall, rush around trying to buy presents for everyone...
DIY Cookie Cutter Birdseed Ornaments
These easy DIY birdseed ornaments make a perfect homemade gift at Christmas. They also make a nice ornament for your tree and serve a functional purpose by feeding hungry songbirds in winter. And all you to make them is a bit of birdseed, some...
How to Grow and Use Calendula Flowers (+ Seed Saving Tips)
I got my first packet of calendula seeds in the mail a couple years ago. An acquaintance I had met in an online gardening group sent me a pack of seeds she had saved herself, along with a handmade information pamphlet detailing the many...
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Hi! I’m Anna, and I’m a city girl turned modern homesteader who’s passionate about growing, cooking and preserving real food at home, creating my own herbal medicine and all-natural home and body care products, and working toward a simpler, more sustainable and self-sufficient life each and every day.
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