Making stuff
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Today’s project: homemade salve with around a dozen herbs, olive oil, lanolin and beeswax. Miraculously the final mixture was exactly the right amount for the containers I had… not too much, not too little. Perfect. I take that as a good omen. Herbs used: Comfrey Echinacea Plantain Grindelia Rosemary Yarrow Calendula Chaparral Chickweed Agarita Myrrh […]
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Labor Day brewing: Cooking up a batch of IPA with organically-grown, fresh Oregon hops, malt extract and a touch of dried wormwood, based on a recipe in Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation. In the pot is the wort, the unfermented beer as it boils, and before the addition of yeast […]