Farm Life in Maine and New Hampshire
ALL NATURAL BODY POWDER All natural body powders are easy to make in your own kitchen. You can use the recipes here, or play around and create your own designer scent using essential oils and herbs. You can also make the powders using both the herbs and the essential oils. This helps keep the scent of the powder longer. Herbal Body Powder Using … [Read more...]
If your house is like ours, right about now, you are loaded with cucumbers from the garden. What shall you do? While pickles are wonderful, I am about pickled out right now. I've made dill, spicy dill, and bread and butter pickles. Jars and jars of them, to be exact. I've made cucumber salad, cucumber salad dressing, and anything I else I cold think of. I wanted something … [Read more...]
A Bad Rap For A Great Healing Herb Goldenrod has gotten a bad reputation over the years for causing allergies, and hay fever, however, it has been shown that it's pollen does not go airborne. Rather, it is pollinated by bees and other pollinating insects. It seems that ragweed, which blooms at the same time of year is actually the culprit for those allergies. Ragweed has … [Read more...]
The redo project started in April. It was originally planned as a three month, three stage project. We are now working on six months, and are up to stage seven....and we still aren't quite done. We wanted to go with all historical colors, so we chose to use California Paints. California Paints carries a line of Historic Colors of America that we just fell in love with. They … [Read more...]
Each fall, my grandmother and I would go to the near by orchards and pick apples. Since most of our neighbors had an apple orchard, there was always plenty of apple picking to be done. I enjoyed these special outings with her, and cherish them today. These bushels of apples that we were picking were going to be used for several apple recipes. Apple pie, apple jelly, apple … [Read more...]
Looking for an alternative to chemical carpet and room fresheners? We've got an easy recipe for you! Most store bought carpet fresheners contain some form of chemicals that can seep into your rugs, and then produce toxic fumes. Our recipe is easy, all natural, and simple to use. This recipe is safe for pets and children. (Be sure the pets do not lick the mix) … [Read more...]
