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5 Anti-Inflammatory Herbs In Your Own Backyard

5 Anti-Inflammatory Herbs In Your Own Backyard

Spotlight on Herbs: Thyme | Since winter is still firmly upon us, it's a wonderful time to think about thyme. Not only is it a great flavoring in all of the warm soups, stews, and roasts we're busy cooking, but it's a natural healer of colds, coughs, and sore throats. Thyme is an important addition to any kitchen or medicinal herb garden! | GNOWFGLINS.com

Spotlight on Herbs: Thyme

Tomatoes: Easy Steps to a Bountiful Summer Harvest | As every gardener knows, once you taste your own homegrown tomatoes, you'll never go back to store-bought. While these favorite garden vegetables are pretty easy to grow, here are a few tips designed to help you have a successful harvest. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Tomatoes: Easy Steps to a Bountiful Summer Harvest

How to Make A DIY Butterfly Feeder | Here's how to make a DIY butterfly feeder that makes a wonderful addition to any garden or flower bed. This simple feeder, made from a mason jar, some twine, and a piece of sponge, will help attract these friendly insects to your garden and give them a place to refuel. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Garden DIY: Make A Butterfly Feeder + DIY Garden Project Round-Up

KYF #071: Homesteading with Jill Winger | It all began with a pile of horse manure... Jill Winger needed to do something with it! So she and her family started creating their homestead -- where the manure could be put to good use with other processes like gardening and raising other animals. You're going to love hearing about her Wyoming homesteading life. Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/71

Homesteading with Jill Winger (KYF071)

More Urban Farming with Greg Peterson (plus free webinar) | One of our most popular guests, Greg Peterson is back for the third time. He's been inspiring others and practicing urban farming on his 1/3 acre city lot for 25 years. We're talking more about The Urban Farm (his home), the concepts of "food miles" and seasonal eating, plus he is inviting you to a free webinar on urban farming. | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/85

Rainwater and Greywater Harvesting with Greg Peterson of The Urban Farm (KYF079)

How To Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds | One of my favorite things about heirloom plants is being able to save the seeds. Purchase the seeds once and then, by the beauty of God's design, you can save the seeds to plant year after year to feed your family. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How to Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds

Chocolate is one of my must-haves. Can I get an amen? However, after looking at the ingredients in a regular chocolate bar, I couldn't eat it without a major prickle in my conscience... | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

What’s Hiding In Your Chocolate?

Confession: Until recently, we tended to our brooding chicks in our home office. We spend most of our time in this room anyway, and it's so fun to watch them while we're working! Then I discovered that it is possible to brood chicks outside, and it's a win-win for us and the chicks!

How to Brood Chicks Outside

Our skin often acts as a window to our body. If our body is healthy, our skin will be, too! Nature has provided us with many plants to nourish and heal our skin of problems like acne and rosacea -- like these 10 herbs for healthy, glowing skin!

10 Herbs For Healthy, Glowing Skin

Apple Cider Vinegar and Garlic for Goats

Apple Cider Vinegar and Garlic for Goats

Mushrooming: Chanterelles For The Freezer

Mushrooming: Chanterelles For The Freezer

Mature & Dry Green Beans

Mature & Dry Green Beans

What Is Lovage + Lovage and Lemon Roasted Chicken Recipe | Lovage is a forgotten plant that deserves our attention once again. Learn about the benefits and uses of lovage, how to grow lovage, and then try it out with a lovage and lemon roasted chicken recipe! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Lovage (a forgotten plant) + Lovage and Lemon Roasted Chicken Recipe!

Forgotten Plants: Borage (Plus Borage Lemonade Recipe)

Forgotten Plants: Borage (Plus Borage Lemonade Recipe)

Homemade Non-GMO and Organic Chicken Feed Mix | We finally began enjoying the great benefit of having chickens: the eggs! That was until we read what we were feeding them. We had to do better, so we started feeding our flock homemade chicken feed. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homemade Non-GMO & Organic Chicken Feed Mix

Beyond the (Chicken) Egg | All eggs are not created equal. By now, it is well known in the real food community that pastured chicken eggs are more nutrient-dense and healthy than their conventional counterparts. And, if you're willing to stray further off the beaten track, chickens aren't the only birds that lay delicious and healthy eggs. Quail, duck, and goose eggs are all popular alternatives to the chicken, offering variety and different nutritional benefits. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Beyond the (Chicken) Egg

Raw Cat Feeding (Plus Cat Food Recipe) | I don't believe in spending exorbitant amounts of money to keep an ailing animal alive, but I do believe in humane treatment and loving care as much as possible. When our cat Ezra’s kidneys were ailing, I researched good diets that could help her. Over the recent years I had not given much attention to the type of diet a cat should eat: rather than Friskies, a diet fitted to the feline nature. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Raw Cat Feeding (Plus Cat Food Recipe)