A significant part of our Homo-Steading journey has been practicing self reliance in all forms. When Marti contracted a spot of poison ivy earlier this Summer, she took to the woods (but first to Google) to harvest some jewelweed to apply to her itchy skin. When we have needed a little pick me up and have run out of coffee, we have sipped on Nettle tea, fresh from the woods. Using herbs for cooking and for medicine is part of our daily life and will continue to be more significant, as we plan to repurpose the vast majority of our backyard as a small speciality herb farm in the summer of 2020.
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