The Care and Feeding of Cast Iron: Cleaning and Seasoning Cast Iron Cookware Cast iron pots and pans are the basis of a well-stocked kitchen and will last a lifetime if you learn the methods for cleaning and seasoning cast iron cookware to maintain the cured surface. The hallmark of any country kitchen is an old black cast iron skillet
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We enter a Full Moon in Scorpio this evening at 5:11 pm PST (2:11 pm EST). I am always one to fall deep into the preparation for a Scorpio Moon and find that it is a few days before this particular Moon that I can truly find what I need to release. Scorpio is a sign that delves deep into the emotional
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This full blue moon offers us a unique opportunity for inner and outer renewal and healing with the energy of Taurus & Scorpio as our guide. The blue moon always offers us the unique opportunity to step into renewal and rebirth if we are willing to go within. Renewal means a new you and a new chapter. In order to
Read moreThermals under a swim suit, water wings, sou’westers, mismatched wellies, crinoline skirt, factor 50 (obviously) on trend today. A joyous orrery alignment occurred as we rocked the cryptic… Source: Blackcurrant, prosecco cheesecake becomes ice cream | ice cream magazine
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Local Iron Oxide taken from a mineral spring, crushed, ground, sifted and made into paint! When I walk along the landscape here, I am greeted with the deep oranges and yellow oxides of our soils laden with heavy amounts of clay and iron. These colors are reflected each time I dig into the…
In the English and European Victorian era, gifting herbs and flowers were used to relay secret messages. When you received a flower bouquet, you would sit down with your dictionary and try to decipher what it meant; honeysuckle for devotion, aster for patience, and roses for love. Fast forward to modern times, important life milestones like births, graduations, buying a
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In May we honor mothers, the best herbs for women and share the handicrafts of women working to make a difference in their rural communities. Womanhood means something different for every woman, but one thing is universal: as daughters, mothers, spouses, friends and coworkers, our default mantra is often “give, give, give.” At times, this outward flow of energy
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Announcements and Events May 2019 This is an exciting month for lavender lovers and farmers! Our plants are greening up and sending up shoots! We will even see flowers from our featured lavenders this month, Lavandula stoechas, and maybe flowers from the early blooming L. angustifolia varieties, such as French Fields, toward the end of May! There aren’t any
Read moreLearn all about wild rose in this wild rose herbal monograph and get a recipe for a DIY firming wild rose undereye cream to try as well! Source: DIY Firming Wild Rose Undereye Cream – Herbal Academy
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If you were born in May, your birthstone is the emerald, a type of beryl colored green by chromium. Perfect emeralds are among the rarest of gemstones. The emerald belongs to the beryl family of minerals that include aquamarine (one of March’s birthstones), heliodor, and morganite. Beryl, or beryllium aluminum silicate in chemical jargon, is a six-sided symmetrical crystal. Beryl
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