How to Spring Clean and Re-Create Your Home in 4 Easy Steps
Tags: clean living space, Feng Shui, how to declutter your home, organizing your home, spring cleaning, Vanessa Stewart
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21 Herbs Every Mother Should Plant
21 Herbs Every Mother Should Plant
by Tamara Hogsett
Happy Mother’s week to all of you mothers and potential mothers. I gave birth to six children, have two step children (consider them bonus children), and many others who lived with us and call me mom (daughters from Vietnam, Armenia, and the Philippines and sons from Armenia and two from Mexico). Lately it has hit me that I need to learn more about medicinal herbs, so I can help not only myself but my family too. For Mother’s Day this year I requested DIRT and HERBAL PLANTS. Recently my husband and I attended a Preparedness Fair. One of our favorite classes was “The Home Grown Herbalist” by Dr. Patrick Jones (a veterinarian). He listed 20 herbs (plus threw in one bonus one) that we all should plant in our garden. This is in no way complete, but just enough to inspire us to learn more. Following is a list of herbs that will provide you with your own medicine cabinet at home. Fewer doctor calls, expenses, side-effects, and most of all the love of a mother through mother earth to her family and friends! Read more »
Tags: family herbs for healing, harvesting herbal medicine, herbal medicine, medicinal herbs, natural first aid kit, uses of herbs
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5 Benefits of Green Vegetable Juices, and How Green Juices Could Turn Your Health Around
5 Benefits of Green Vegetable Juices, and How Green Juices Could Turn Your Health Around
By: Joanna Steven
Whenever people are afflicted by a life-threatening disease, they are often advised or inspired to start juicing. Similarly, seemingly healthy folks decided one day to dust off their juicer, and found that that they went from ordinary to superhero with this single new habit! Let’s learn what the deal is about juicing, and if juicing might be right for you.
Tags: green juice cleanse, green juice diet, green juice health benefits, nutrient absorption juice, remineralization, vegetable juices
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It Takes A Village: How One Mom is Making Dreams of Community Come True
It Takes A Village: How One Mom is Making Dreams of Community Come True
by Courtney Clay
Most of us have heard the ubiquitous saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” After my son was born, my experience as a mother drove this truth deeply into my awareness. For many years, I have cherished a vision in the deepest places in my heart of living on a beautiful, spacious piece of land with my family and closest friends, surrounded by lush forest gardens, pristine springs, rivers and ponds, diverse wildlife, the best food ever, cozy handmade earth homes, community support, love, laughter, joy, singing, dancing and celebration. My son was first conceived in my imagination in the midst of this greater vision. Alive in my vision of motherhood was just me, then there were two. My community is coming alive, and it can for you too! Read more »
Tags: attachment parenting, community support for women, Courtney Clay, families and community, like-minded community, natural parenting, unschooling
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The Most Amazing Woman I Know.
The Most Amazing Woman I Know.
By: Tera Warner
I know A LOT of amazing women. Some have written books, published films, conquered corners of the globe doing things to make the world a better place, but one of the most amazing women I know is quietly living in a senior’s centre in northern Alberta.
Tags: longevity, longevity and aging, secret to longevity, Tera Warner, unconditional love, wellness
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