Goals & Ambitions

Restart Your Garden in Mid-Summer

Restart Your Garden in Mid-Summer

It’s the first week of July.  Spring has vanished and left behind a wasteland of weeds in my garden. Is there a solution to a sad, overwhelming non-vegetable weed garden in the middle of the season? Yep . . . Redeem it by giving yourself and […]

Homestead Update: Week 2

Homestead Update: Week 2

This next homestead post has incorporated the last 2 or 3 weeks, but realistically, the days have been blurring together and it has totally felt like one loooong week! So I’ll just catch you up on our homestead and call it a post! First bit […]

How to make time to enjoy hobbies

How to make time to enjoy hobbies

One challenge that comes with raising a family and keeping a home is trying to find/make time for your own hobbies and interests. It can be hard to balance the necessary responsibilities and joys of parenting with getting some time to refresh by being creative. […]

Back & Excited to be Moving Forward

Back & Excited to be Moving Forward

I didn’t totally vanish! Any useful blog posts on the Herbal Homeschool may have dried up these last 5 months but my little family has been flourishing and growing happily! Now that things are somewhat settled I am going to get back to writing 1 […]

9 Strategies to Live Well When You are Exhausted

9 Strategies to Live Well When You are Exhausted

How do I live healthy when I am too tired to function? That is what I have been asking myself lately because I have been totally exhausted, unable to eat normally, and very unmotivated to maintain normal activities like baking sourdough bread and preparing nutritious meals […]

Your Practical, Actionable Health Goals This Year

Your Practical, Actionable Health Goals This Year

Happy new year! Like every year I find myself saying, ” I can’t believe that 12 whole months went by! It feels like it was JUST January.” But then I stop and look back at everything that has happened this year and am amazed that […]

Creating Herbal Goals for the New Year

Creating Herbal Goals for the New Year

Almost 2 weeks into the new year and after plenty of thought about my priorities, lots of distraction dealing with sicknesses one after the other, and finding a few quiet moments to actually distill my thoughts into real practical ideas, I am excited to say […]

Creating a Herbal Notebook

Creating a Herbal Notebook

Creating a Herbal Notebook I want to share with you an exciting tool I’ve put together to wrangle all the new information we are gathering about herbs; a Herb Notebook! I’ll share the benefits & purposes of an herb notebook, break down each category I […]

What do Herbs have to do with Homeschooling?

What do Herbs have to do with Homeschooling?

Why an herbal homeschool? I just updated my domain name to be theherbalhomeschool.com. This has led to some reflection on my blog name and what it really means to be an herbal HOMEschool as opposed to sharing information as a herbal “school” or our homestead […]

Face your fears to use your herbs

Face your fears to use your herbs

Why don’t you use herbs in your daily life more often? For me, it’s because I’m afraid. Afraid to waste money, afraid to invest time in something that really won’t work, and most irrationally, afraid to poison myself! Well, today that is changing! I want […]