Sage Benefits for Home, Health & Personal Care

Sage Benefits for Home, Health & Personal Care

Salvia means “to save”, and with all the wonderful benefits of sage, you’re sure to want it in your garden, kitchen & medicine cabinet. We’ll share simple tips to help you use this versatile herb. Sage (Salvia officinalis) is a perennial, evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers. Salvia (sage)…

Thieves Vinegar – Immune Booster and Germ Killer
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Thieves Vinegar – Immune Booster and Germ Killer

Thieves Vinegar, Four Thieves Vinegar, Vinegar of the Four Thieves or Forthave’s Vinegar – no matter what you call it, thieves vinegar has a long history of use. From Scientific American’s 1910 reference to “medicated vinegar was invented by four thieves of Marseilles who successfully employed it as a prophylactic during a visitation of pestilence”…

Cooking with Herbs – How to Use Herbs in the Kitchen
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Cooking with Herbs – How to Use Herbs in the Kitchen

This is a guest post from Jennifer Downing of Nourish about cooking with herbs. I love my vegetable garden. It’s tucked in the corner of the yard surrounded by a white picket fence. It makes me happy. Buzzing with honey bees from our hive, bushels of beans and towering tomatoes, this modest garden produces a…