Farm Life in Maine and New Hampshire
How to Heal Common Ailments With Herbs In Your Cupboard You didn't know when you open your spice cupboard, that you are actually opening a natural medicine chest? You reach for the garlic to put it on your bread, or use it in your soups, but did you know that garlic is one of nature's best antibiotics, and has other medicinal properties, too? Herbs and spices have been … [Read more...]
Healing From Nature Did you know from weeds such as the common dandelion to easily grown flowers such as calendula or mint, you can have a natural medicine chest growing in your own backyard? Below you will find a list of 10 common weeds and garden herbs that you can plant and harvest right out of your garden. If not in your garden, then these healing herbs can be found on a … [Read more...]
Our Favorites: Top Ten Herbs at Cloverleaf Farm A hundred years ago, and even further back, a garden was kept outside the kitchen for medicine. The women of the era knew which plants produced the proper medicinal benefit for just about everything. They were the “doctor†of the house. Plants that could not be grown in the garden would be sought after in woods, and fields. … [Read more...]
Rooibos Contains Natural Alpha Hydroxy & Antioxidants While Rooibos, (pronounced roy-bus) is known world wide mostly as the delicious Red Bush Tea from South Africa, it is also a wonderful herb for healing and protecting skin. Research has shown that Rooibos contains natural antioxidants. When used on the skin, these antioxidants will help repair skin cell damage. … [Read more...]
