[This post contains affiliate links] Money, Money Money……C’ome on ya all know you heard that song in your head. Money…. “It makes the world go round;” it’s the root of all evil; “A penny saved is a penny earned;” “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” We have
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“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I got lucky this year. We usually aren’t graced with the presence of the wild plantain, until late winter/early spring, but a warm winter has it peeking out. This is lucky for you and for me, because
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This week we are highlighting the most popular soap in our line–lavender. I’ve talked about some of the benefits of lavender HERE, but this post will go more into depth about it. Like all of the soaps we make, the lavender bar’s main and most important ingredient is the goat milk. You can read about
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[this post contains affiliate links] Have you ever wanted to enter a frog jumping contest? Well, apparently there are some tricks to the trade, as it were. The book, Four Frogs In a Glass Pond by Laura Blodgett, has some tips for frog jumping but you have to read the entire book and no fair
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I was talking the other weekend to a customer at a holiday bazaar where we were selling our soaps about our goats. Numerous people have told me about how they grew up on goat milk because they couldn’t digest cow’s milk or the store formula. I talk about the benefits of drinking goat milk HERE,
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Y’ all asked for if, so here you go! Start with some good bone broth. I just make the bone broth 24-48 hours ahead of time and then just add all the ingredients for the soup to that. Most of the flavor for the soup comes from the bone broth so don’t skip this part.
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The Benefits of Lavender/Sandalwood Exfoliating Bar I’ve talked about the benefits of goat milk soap. You can read about that HERE. But I wanted to highlight some of the benefits of the different essential oils that I use so that when you are making a decision about which soaps to buy you can be better
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Growing Purple Cone Flower (Echinacea) I am pretty excited about what just popped up, especially since I thought it wasn’t going to germinate. About a month ago, my purple cone flower started to emerge, much to my surprise, since the seeds were planted in the spring. Echinacea is actually native to North America, which is
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When It Comes to Homemade Soaps They say the patience is a virtue (man, that is so clique’)….. but when you’re waiting for something as good as our 100% raw goat milk soaps, it can be really hard. One of my favorite parts of the soap making process is seeing what the bars
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Garden Highlight-Luffa (Loofah) I am sure y’all have bought the luffa (loofah) sponges at the store, but did you know that they actually can be grown? No, you don’t get bright pink and blue puff balls on a vine in your garden–sorry to disappoint you there, but this could be a fun project for
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