You can make fresh mozzarella cheese at home – with just four ingredients! Use your homemade mozzarella to make mozzarella balls from scratch, or stretch it into homemade string cheese. This posts features the “30 Minute Mozzarella Cheese” recipe from Ricki Carrol’s book “Home Cheese Making“. If you’d like to make traditional mozzarella (which takes a…
Both my mother and my grandmother dealt with arthritis pain. When I was a little girl, my grandmother Catherine held up her gnarled hand with crooked fingers and told me, “This is what happens when you crack your knuckles. Never crack your knuckles.” While most studies seem to have found no correlation between knuckle cracking…
Today’s featured plant is Jewelweed, Impatiens capensis. Jewelweed is also known as touch-me-not, spotted touch-me-not, common jewelweed, spotted jewelweed, orange jewelweed and orange balsam. Range and Identification of Jewelweed Jewelweed is an annual native, and can be found throughout most of the United States and Canada, except for the extreme north and some areas of…
If PMS is making you an uncomfortable cranky-pants, you can pop a pill and zone out on a caffeinated buzz until it’s all over with, or you can grab some herbs and get some tailor made natural relief. You know what your most bothersome symptoms are, and more than likely they change a bit every…
We’ll explore how to use cultivated herbs and learn wildcrafting with the Weekly Weeder Series to help you identify and use wild plants. There are a TON of ways to use plants for food, medicine, cleaning, crafts, and more. We help you learn how, easily and safely, with full color photos throughout the site. Herbs…