How to Make & Use Dried Flowers for Decor, Tinctures, and More
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We use a lot of flowers around here for purposes other than decoration, from calendula for skin to dandelions for iced dandelion lime tea. While I enjoy a vase of fresh flowers…
Natural Home
Clean and organize your home naturally with these simple DIY recipes for household cleaning and helpful tips to avoid indoor toxins in household products, air and water.
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The Best Houseplants for Purifying Indoor Air
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I’ve heard it said that a person can go three weeks without food, three days without water (roughly) and three minutes without air (roughly). With those numbers, it seems that…
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Best Essential Oils to Use in the Car
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With six kids, going into car travel prepared is a must. We often take games and activities, healthy snacks, and with all those bodies in the car… some ways to…
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11 Baby Steps Toward a Zero-Waste Home (That Save Time and Money Too!)
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It’s clear that plastic is becoming a huge problem in our society and environment. As consumers, it can sometimes feel like there’s nothing we can do to stem the flow…
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How to Try Fermentation in Your Kitchen for Probiotics on the Cheap
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I often sing the praises of bone broth as a healing food, but fermented foods are just as important for a healthy body. Fermented foods are a great way to…
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7 Simple Steps to Start Composting
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One of the tenets of organic gardening is to feed the soil, not the plant. The easiest (and cheapest) way to do this is by composting kitchen and yard scraps…
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Microfiber Cloths: Green Cleaning or Plastic Pollution?
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When I first switched to more natural and green cleaning products, microfiber cloths seemed like a panacea. They cleaned almost all surfaces with little or no additional products, were reusable, and…
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How I Use One Natural Plant-Based Cleaner to Clean the Whole House
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With a family and a business, life can get very busy, very fast. Both take a lot of time and intentionality to nurture and I’m not one to let either…
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Healthy Easter Basket Ideas the Whole Family Will Enjoy
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Since we largely avoid candy and other processed foods, I have to get creative and come up with other Easter basket ideas each year. As kids, my brother and I…
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How to Create the Best Garden Soil
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If you know anything about organic gardening, you may have heard the saying “feed the soil, not the plant.” Creating healthy soil for plants to grow in is the best…
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My Natural Home Cleaning Checklist (for Spring Cleaning!)
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I’ve written many times about all-natural cleaning methods without the use of chemicals. Now to check off something that’s been on my list for a while: a complete cleaning checklist for…
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DIY Potting Soil Mix for Indoor and Container Plants
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For years, I thought I was terrible at keeping indoor plants alive. Forget a green thumb, my thumb apparently was great at killing plants and not so great at keeping…
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How to Create a DIY Indoor Plant Wall (& Why)
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I’ve already confessed my weird hobby of taking on remodeling projects whenever my husband leaves town. Today, I’m sharing another one of my (somewhat strange) infatuations: my plant wall. Or…
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How to Make Natural Drawer Fresheners
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Homemade air freshener is great, but sometimes it’s my clothes that need freshening. Homemade drawer fresheners aren’t a new idea (I’m pretty sure my grandmother had some), but they are a…
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How to Build Sliding Barn Doors With Simple Hardware
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I’m a big fan of DIY projects. Heck, I make my own deodorant. That’s why when we needed a door for our office but the opening was a weird size…
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The $15 Fix to Reduce WiFi Exposure by Half
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EMFs are a controversial topic these days! Many types of technology are new and we don’t yet fully understand how they impact the body. In a technological world, avoiding all…
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Natural Homemade Air Freshener Recipes
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Between pets, kids, and everyday life, homes can smell less than fresh sometimes. Artificially scented air fresheners don’t offer much of a solution as they just mask the smell with…
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Plastic in the Ocean: How We Can All Reduce Single-Use Plastics
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This post is a humble plea to help be part of the solution to a problem that is much bigger than any of us… the growing amount of plastic in…
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How to Make DIY Industrial Pipe Shelves
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Fun fact… I have a long running habit of secret things I only do when my husband leaves town. If you guessed drinking wine or watching chick flicks… you’d be…
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Is Borax Safe to Use for Natural Cleaning?
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It may be natural, but is borax safe? This is a question I’ve tackled before but is worth another look as it is in the news more than ever. No…
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How to Stay Safe in a Disaster: Emergency Preparedness List
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My heart breaks for all of those affected by the pandemics, tornados, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and all the other natural disasters that have caused so many issues. I grew up…
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Red Wine Stain Removal (Natural DIY Recipe)
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As a mom of 6 I’ve had a lot of experience removing stains over the years, but red wine stain removal is especially tough (and is one stain I can…
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Understanding Ceramic Cookware (Pros, Cons, & How to Cook With It)
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There’s a lot of confusion about safe, natural cookware, in part because it can be hard to tell the difference between a safe piece of cookware and a “green-washed” one.…
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DIY Wool Dryer Balls – Natural Laundry in Less Time
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Ask any mom… laundry is a never-ending job in a family! I am always looking for a way to save time on laundry and I certainly like helping the environment,…