How To Build A Butterfly Oasis

Butterfly gardening can be a wonderful way to experience wildlife in your garden, encourage pollination, and it takes very little maintenance, giving you more time to enjoy the beauty of watching butterflies flock to your garden.

Herbal Aromatherapy: Do Scents Make Sense?

Herbal Aromatherapy: Do Scents Make Sense?

Inhale something lovely, a sprig of lavender perhaps. What happens? Better yet, open the bottle of perfume your mother always wore. Memories flood in. Why? Our sense of smell has been vital to our survival. We, in 2018, may not rely on that sense as we once did, but...

Gardening and Mindfulness

Gardening and Mindfulness

Although some would argue that ‘mindfulness is the new black', for most gardeners, we've been practicing mindfulness since the first moment we connected to the soil. Don't get me wrong guided meditation, in the classic sense, is an important I'd argue; a vital...

Tips for Growing Herb Plants Indoors

Tips for Growing Herb Plants Indoors

I’ll be the first to admit it:  growing herbs indoors is not as easy as growing them outdoors.  But, rest assured, it can be done.  Since I have a lot of greenhouse space, plenty of light and water and 24/7 attention, I never felt the need to grow them indoors, at...

Lavender & Calendula Healing Salve

Lavender & Calendula Healing Salve

Whether you are suffering the effects of this current Arctic Blast or wintering is South Florida (lucky you), most of us are feeling the effects of winter on our skin.  Dry, chafing, itchy skin that looks nothing like those hand models on TV.  Here is a quick and easy...