Category: Natre’s bounty
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🌱 Living Sustainably: Choosing All-Natural, Homemade Products Over Commercial
Happy autumn, friends! I hope this beautiful season finds you enjoying the spoils of harvest and soaking in the colors and scents of nature’s grand finale. The trees are performing their yearly ritual of dazzling transformation—from green to glowing golds, rustic browns, and deep oranges—and I can never get enough. Autumn always sparks my creativity.…
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Supporting Local Businesses: A Small Choice with a Big Impact
Hello from upstate New York, where we are currently being absolutely pummeled with snow. What better time to sit down and write this blog post—especially when I’m weary from both shoveling and worrying! If we want to build more resilient communities, we need to take action now. Not just worrying about the weather, but also…
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Improve Your Garden Soil with Regenerative Techniques
Harvest lessons prompts fall soil amendments Happy Autumn! The weather in September has been absolutely gorgeous in upstate New York, it’s been sunny, warm and dry. Like the past two summers, New York experienced loads of rain and tropical temperatures from June through August. I didn’t have to water my garden once. The ground always…
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Forest bathing and Grounding, how spending time in the woods can improve health
Having two German Shepherds who require exercising, I spend a lot of time walking through the woods that I am fortunate to live in. For the past three years, we have been out there every day and there is always something different about the woods. It’s hard to explain, but the combination of the weather,…
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Summer Eco-Prepping Includes a New Manual Push Mower
Happy mid-summer! Is everybody warm enough yet? 2024 is already breaking heat records. Here in upstate New York, the weather has been noticeably wetter these past few years, and we have definitely had many hot days already, but I feel lucky to be in the Northeast comparatively. We are no longer bracing for climate change,…
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Make Your Own Spring Body Care
Easy homestead recipes for whipped body butter, sunscreen, body scrub, and body wash. Hello! It has been a minute since my last post. This time of year is so incredibly busy around the homestead. Spring offers that small window of opportunity for making progress, or getting back to the unfinished projects from fall. Trying to…