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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Sometimes this homestead/farming thing is just plain hard. Sometimes, if I were honest with you, I just want to throw in the towel and forget it. It can get discouraging when plants don’t produce the way want them to, when animals get sick, and when things break down. It can even be more discouraging when
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Well, Duck Eggs Maybe Your Answer Recently, we had a person contact us specifically for duck eggs. In fact, she has spent a lot of time searching for individuals in our area that sold duck eggs. She even went so far as Louisiana to purchase them. Why, I wondered? Turns out she is allergic to
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The Drumstick Tree I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE finding new plants that will grow well here in southeast Texas and lucky me, I have found a great tree. Yeah me! We have several fruit trees on the property. These include pear, peach, lemon, loquat, and fig. All are organized into a permaculture guild (. The hurricane
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Why Has My Local Farmer’s Chickens Stopped Laying Eggs? I NEED MY EGGS!!! I hear you. Believe me I do. There are many reasons that hens stopped laying, and when you are used to buying eggs from the supermarket where there is a ready supply, you may not realize that there is a natural cycle
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This is something that always comes up when we sell eggs to customers. Do we wash our eggs or not? The short answer is yes and no. The long answer is we try to avoid it whenever we can. Why is that, you ask? Eggs have a special coating on the outside called the bloom.
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Are You Getting What You Pay For In Your Goat Milk Soap? 4 Reasons Raw Goat Milk Soaps are Superior “You have goats; you have GOT to make some goat milk soap.” This is what my friend, who had taught me to make goat milk soap, said to me one day. “Well, I don’t know…..It
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