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Celery Stalks

Celery: Bland and Boring? Not So Fast!

Celery is one of the most underrated vegetables. Most people would never think of this humble stalk...
Fire Cider

Fire Cider and How to Make this Health-Boosting Tonic

Fire Cider boosts your health with herbs stewed in apple-cider vinegar. Fire Cider. The very name...
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Recipes for Homemade Toiletries: Soaps, Shampoos, and More

Make your own soap, lotion, and other healthy body products! Here’s our recipes for homemade...
Stir-Fry Recipe

Stir-Fry Recipe With Bone Broth

Here’s one of my favorite Stir-Fry recipes using bone broth. It’s good for you and good tasting!...
Cranberry Bowl

Cranberries: Get ’Em While You Can

Among only a few native North American fruits cultivated commercially in the modern era,...
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How to Get Rid of a Cold Sore

What causes cold sores and what are some natural cold sore remedies? Find out here! What are Cold...
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Honey Natural Remedies: Not Just for Tea

Looking for a natural alternative to common over-the-counter medications? The cure may be closer...
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Natural Remedies for Anxiety and Stress

Herbs and natural remedies can help calm anxiety and stress. Here’s a list of ways to relieve...
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Natural Sleep Aids for Insomnia, Sleep Deprivation, and Snoring

If you are suffering from insomnia or sleep deprivation, simply can’t sleep, or are snoring, you...
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Natural Mosquito Repellents and Mosquito Bite Remedies

Use these natural mosquito repellents and mosquito bite remedies to keep the mosquitoes away and ...
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10 Healthiest Vegetables and Fruit to Grow in Your Garden

Fresh, homegrown fruits and vegetables are packed full of nutrients which help to boost health and...
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Vacation: A State of Mind

If you’ve ever tended a big food garden in a region that gets frost—the kind of garden that you...
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Cucumbers: Health Benefits

How healthy are cucumbers? Cucumbers are much more versatile than you might think, so here are tips...
Green Beans at Market

Green Beans: So Good for You

String beans. Green beans. Snap beans. Not only are they healthy for your body but also they are...
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Household Uses of Salt

Salt certainly makes our food more flavorful, but it can also work to fix many of our unexpected...
Honey for Health

Honey Health Benefits

Cuts, scrapes, scratches, burns, coughs, canker sores, heartburn, stomach upsets, diaper rash—...
Calendula

Comforting Calendula and Its Many Benefits

No other flower in the cutting garden glows with cheerfulness quite like calendula. Irresistible...
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Poison Oak: Identifying and Treating Poison Oak

Here are ways to identify poison oak as well as some home remedies to treat poison oak rash.  What...
Beet Kvaas

Beet Kvass Recipe

Beet kvass is a fermented vegetable drink that is easy to make and loaded with probiotics. Learn...
Sleeping Legs

Leg Cramps at Night: Causes and Remedies

Eeow! Startled from a deep sleep, you suddenly come to with a shriek, as your calf, thigh, or maybe...
Wild Strawberry & Garden Rosemary Summer Tarts

Wild Strawberry & Garden Rosemary Tarts

The family and I headed out for an after-dinner walk the other night. We started down the driveway...
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A Little Chocolate For Health? Maybe.

The good news is never quite as good as you wish. However, recent research suggests that eating a...
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Home Remedies for Pets

Here are some valuable home remedies for dogs and cats that can keep your pet’s tail wagging and...
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Bee or Wasp Stings: Prevention and Treatment

Here are some first aid tips for those annoying and often painful bee stings and wasp stings. Leave...
Lavender Garden Bundles for Home and Health

Lavender for Health and Home

Lavender is more than just a pretty plant. This fragrant perennial has been revered throughout the...
Essential Oils

Essential Oils: Trendy But Nothing New

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of headlines about essential oils in connection to health. What are...
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Switchel or Haymaker's Punch Recipe

Switchel or Haymaker’s Punch is a refreshing drink made from apple cider vinegar. It was how...
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Tick Bites: Lyme Disease Symptoms, Prevention, and Tick Removal

It’s the season for ticks! Prevent Lyme disease by keeping yourself tick-safe with these...
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What Counts As Exercise?

Most of us are used to thinking of “exercise” as something to do in a gym, but we’re over looking...
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Home Remedies for Sunburn Relief & Treatment

Here are 20 home remedies for sunburn relief and treatment. If you have a minor sunburn (where the...
Purple Cauliflower

Food Trends of 2017

At the end of each year or early into the new year, famous chefs, food critics, food writers,...
Mint Plants

Benefits of Mint Plants: Medicinal, Culinary, and More

What do you know about the mint family, Lamiaceae, the sixth- or seventh-largest of the flowering...
Blueberry Bush

Blueberries: The Easiest Fruit to Grow Is Also One of the Healthiest

Blueberries are one the easiest fruit to grow. Here are some of the best blueberry varieties to add...
Road to Nowhere

How to Get Motivated | Tips for Self-Motivation

Lack of motivation can be a pervasive and debilitating problem, but do not despair—there are ways...
How to Eat in Seven Words

How to Eat in Seven Words

Looking for advice on a healthful eating plan? There are so many diets that it can set your head to...
Running Race

Ready to Run? Walk? Move?

Trouble getting up and out the door in the morning? Hoping to lose some weight, as we shed layers...
What is the Microbiome?

What Is the Microbiome: You Are What Your Bacteria Eat!

Trillions of bacteria live inside our body. There’s an entire ecosystem—or, microbiome—that we host...
5 Reasons to Eat More Cabbage

5 Reasons to Eat More Cabbage

If you haven’t eaten cabbage in a while, we urge you to look again at this healthy, unsung hero of...
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Could Cocoa be the Sweetheart Spice?

Where does cocoa come from? What’s the difference between cocoa and chocolate? Is chocolate healthy...
Edible Flowers: Nasturtiums

Flowers You Can Eat

But did you know that the flowers of hundreds of common wild and cultivated plants are edible? Yes...
Healthiest Vegetables to Grow

The Most Nutritious Vegetables You Can Grow

What are the healthiest vegetables to grow? After all, if you’re going to plant vegetables, why not...
Bike Commuter

10 Tips to Help You Start Exercising (and Keep at It)

How do you start working out? How do you get back in shape? How do you stick to it? These are...

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