The mosquito’s are a real problem to many this year but that problem brought me to remembering my Mother and the fact that she was a soap maker among all her many talents. Three times a year she would make her own lye from pouring spring water through wood ashes that began the soap making process. All of us would laugh when we talk about Mother’s soap. We credit her with the good skin we have though we laugh and tell everyone the reason we are the fairest skinned in all the fam ... Read More

I am preparing to start a new group on our site that will be centered around using and growing medicinal herbs.

In the past we honored our relationship with the earth and the plants and animals that inhabited it.  We have moved away from nuturing our bodies by the plants we grow and instead have depended on others to do that for us.  There has been a groundswell of movement in the past few years to lead us back into growing our own food and medicines.  ... Read More

The following article I believe is really worth noting for all the herbalist healers especially.  The government is trying to make access to herbal medicine impossible so they can promote the big pharmacuetical companies and corporations.

The FDA has told women and their doctors: stop using bioidentical hormones. Your choice and your doctor’s prescription don’t matter. Heart and cancer questions raised in 2002 about FDA “approved” synthetic women’s hormones don’t matte ... Read More