We recently starting making our own natural lip balm and love it! This calendula lip balm is made using pure beeswax, calendula infused oil, shea butter and sweet orange oil. Calendula has great anti-inflammatory properties and is also known for…
A New Life for Old Quilts: An Interview With Farm Down the Lane
Meet Tami Voth of Farm Down the Lane, an Ohio-based maker that repurposes vintage quilts into beautiful heirloom treasures. Tami lives in Ohio on an 11 acre farm with her husband where she sews, gardens and tends to their alpacas…
How to Make Beeswax Candles in Recycled Jars
I love glass jars and a good repurpose— so let’s turn some of those jars into beeswax candles! Saving containers for reuse is my favorite thing ever, and reusing what you can is such an important sustainable practice— certain materials…
Garden-Based Homeschool Resources: Kindergarten and Elementary
Here are our favorite garden-based homeschool resource picks for kindergarten and elementary! We’ve had a beautiful homeschool year so far and I’m so thankful for that. With the arrival of Spring, we’re now knee-deep in our Spring garden and transitioning…
Homemade Fruit and Vegetable Wash Recipe
I love making our own cleaning products and we have been making our own veggie wash for several years now. It’s always a good idea to wash your produce, whether you grow your own vegetables in your garden or purchase…
DIY Hand-Rolled Beeswax Candle Valentines
We made quite an impressive batch of hand-rolled beeswax candles this year to give out as gifts, so naturally we also had to make them into valentines! You can make six of these smaller candles out of each single 8”…
