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Where I was 10 years ago.

By Shaye Elliott

Where I was 10 years ago.

I used to sneak blog posts into nap times. Ha! Nap times? What are those? It feels like it’s been ages since I was able to sit down and process my thoughts for more than a nanosecond. And being able to type those thoughts? It’s pure bliss (at least for a writer-poser, like me).  A

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Filed Under: Ponderings and Dreams Tagged With: Cook, cooking, Farm, Farming, Foodie, Healthy, Homestead, Homesteading, Lifestyle, organic

Homemade Echinacea Tincture.

By Shaye Elliott 7 Comments

Homemade Echinacea Tincture.

You know it’s going to be a delight to make an echinacea tincture that begins with a butterfly photograph, am-I-right?  I’m right. Take a deep breath… in and out… another deep breath… there you go. Don’t you feel better? Now stare at the butterfly below, take another breath, and then we’ll move onto this homemade echinacea

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Filed Under: Homemade, Recipes Tagged With: Flowers, Garden, gardening, Health, Healthcare, Healthy, home remedies, Homemade, Tincture, Wellness

Inviting my children to a revolution.

By Shaye Elliott 43 Comments

Inviting my children to a revolution.

If I could sum up why it is we do everything we do… … the early morning milkings… …. the cleaning out of the chicken coop… … the tending, caring, and slaving over the garden beds… … the answer is actually quite clean and easy. It’s the food. We do what we do for the

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Filed Under: A Mix of Goodies, Faith, Family, Farm, Farming & Gardening, Food Storage/Preserving, Ponderings and Dreams, Raising Rascals, The Politics of Food Tagged With: Farm Life, Food, Healthy, Homegrown, Life on the farm, organic, The politics of food

Putting your health in your hands.

By Shaye Elliott 23 Comments

Putting your health in your hands.

Three weeks ago, I spent a night in the hospital. Not by choice, naturally. The day began as normal – cow milking, children wrangling, and breakfast baking. A few hours later, I noticed that I had begun spotting.  That’s a scary sight for a pregnant person. Especially one with uterine abnormalities like mine (you can

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Filed Under: Essential Oils, Faith, Family, Ponderings and Dreams, The Politics of Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: DIY, Essential Oils, Health, Healthcare, Healthy, organic

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