By Amanda Rose | Dandelion
I had never considered making a dandelion lip balm until I had such great success with the hand salve. Anything that great on the hands is worth a shot on the lips too and, I have to say, it’s wonderful. After my success with the salve on our Las Vegas trip, I whipped up some […]
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By Amanda Rose | Dandelion
From the mountains of dandelions we have gathered in the forest (that I have raved about for the past couple of weeks), I had to do it. I tried the jelly. The jelly is a lot of work and so I had put it off until this season, but it was a fun project. The […]
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This is a popular solution on the Internet for dry hands and I have hesitated to try it only because the hype just seemed out of proportion to the concept: dandelions in oil. (*yawn*) Don’t get me wrong, I love the springy look of a dandelion flower but I figured that the real love for […]
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By Amanda Rose | Dandelion
We have had access to dandelions since March but it is late spring here when the meadows in the higher elevations in the Sequoia National Forest are bursting with them. The Sequoia National Forest office allows us to harvest them for our own consumption and so we do. 🙂 We leave plenty behind for the […]
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By Amanda Rose | Lavender
This syrup may be the most popular herbal syrup by far. Most of us are obsessed by the beauty and the fragrance of this Mediterranean herb. Its popularity has exploded in the United States in the last couple of decades. We can now find many varieties of English lavender, Spanish lavender, and even yellow lavender. […]
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Amanda’s note: Here is another fun post by Carol Little of Studio Botanica. She mentioned the concept of dandelion pickles in her post here on dandelion vinegar and I said, “Carol, we NEED to know more about that.” She sent me a recipe, I made it, waited around for two weeks before I could taste […]
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