Wildcrafting Wednesday #94

Welcome to the ninety-forth edition of Wildcrafting Wednesday!

Wildcrafting Wednesday is hosted by:

• Sharon @ Woodwife’s Journal,
• Lisa @ The Self-Sufficient HomeAcre,
• Jennifer @ The Entwife’s Journal,
• Kathy @ Mind, Body, and Sole,
• Anne-Marie @ Bella Vista Farm,
• Alix @ Blessed in Homemaking,
• Jerica @ Sustain, Create and Flow,
• and me! 🙂

While traditional wildcrafting refers to gathering herbs and plants in the wild to use for food and medicine, Wildcrafting Wednesday is a weekly blog hop for sharing self-sufficiency and homesteading tips, tried and true home-remedies, and your favorite herbal uses.

It’s a place to gather information on ways to incorporate old fashioned wisdom in our day-to-day life.

It is anything and everything herbal – from crafts to cleaning to tinctures to cooking.

It is remedies and natural cures made at home from natural ingredients.

It is self-sufficient living, homesteading, and back-to-basics tips to save food, money, and resources.

If it involves herbs or traditional methods of homemaking and home healing then we want to read about it!

In other words, Wildcrafting Wednesday is a “one stop shop” for the past weeks best tips and simple steps to become more healthy and more self-reliant! Please join us! 🙂

Featured Posts from Last Week’s Blog Hop

Each week, we get some incredible posts submitted by amazing bloggers. The following posts are our featured posts as determined by our readers.

Catnip by The Entwife’s Journal

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Medicinal Benefits of Mimosa by Bella Vista Farm.

Carding and Spinning by This One Good Life

 

Thank you to every one of our bloggers who linked up and to all of our readers for helping us pick our featured posts!

 

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1. Please link up your blog post using the Linky widget below. If you are posting a recipe, only real food recipes are permitted please. This means no processed, packaged, or refined food ingredients!

2. Please link the URL of your actual blog post and not your blogs home page. That allows future readers who find this post and go to your link to be able to find what they’re looking for.

3. Please place a link back to this edition of the blog hop in your post. That way your readers can benefit from all the ideas too. This also helps out the other participants who are hoping to get more traffic to their blogs. If you’re new to blogging here’s what you do: Copy the URL of Wildcrafting Wednesday from your browser address bar. Then edit your post by adding something like, “This post was shared on Wildcrafting Wednesday” at the end of your post. Then highlight “Wildcrafting Wednesday”, click the “link” button on your blogging tool bar, and paste the URL into that line. That’s it! If you prefer, you can grab the button below and insert it at the end of your blog post. Either way is acceptable! 🙂

4. Please only link posts that fit the blog hop description. Old and archived posts are welcome as long as you post a link back as described above. Please don’t link to giveaways or promotions for affiliates or sponsors. That keeps our links valuable in the future since a link to a giveaway three months old isn’t going to be worth browsing in three months time, but a link to an herbal tip will be.

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Spicy Lentil Loaf

The other day when I cooked lentils, we had a bunch of leftovers. I didn’t want to throw them away, so we tucked them away in the freezer and I planned to experiment with them. I’ve been wanting to play around with creating a Spicy Lentil Loaf, lentils are SO cheap and they have more of the taste and texture of meat then beans. They are so versatile and are great for meatless meals that are inexpensive. In this post, I’m sharing how I made the Spicy Lentil Loaf. Which, by the way was a BIG hit with my fellas. It’s tasty, filling and CHEAP!

I’ve been wanting to try my hand making a more “structured” meal with lentils such as a Spicy Lentil Loaf. When looking around at recipes, I found a problem. Most of them mock the traditional meatloaf and have sweet toppings on them. My husband does not like sweet dinner foods. He HATES sweet meatloaf especially. So I knew I was just going to have to improvise and come up with something he did like. It took me years, but I FINALLY created a meatloaf he loves, it’s my Spicy Meatloaf recipe. So, I decided to base this Spicy Lentil Loaf recipe on that one. Instead of the topping I usually use, I used my Italian Tomato Salad Dressing on top and it was so yummy that I will start using it on my meatloaf recipe from now on! It came out MUCH better than I was expecting and everyone raved about it.
Spicy Lentil Loaf makes a really yummy meal, and it’s REALLY inexpensive. A great thing to eat on Meatless Mondays, or any day of the week. We like to serve it with Green Beans and a salad. It’s also even better the next day as sandwiches. Yum!  So, here it is!

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Essential Oil Good Girl Moonshine

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been trying to start adding more and more of the Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle choices into my diet in recent weeks.  I am really loving the food and think I’ve actually lost a couple of pounds in the few weeks I’ve been trying it (our scale is broken, so I’m not sure).  I do know that I’m feeling great and enjoying some pretty great, healthy, and skinny treats.  Sugar is my downfall on most diets.  But with Trim Healthy Mama there are lots of “sweets” that are good for you, which I think will make this lifestyle easier for me than for ones in the past.  I’m still working my way through the book, so I’m still no expert.  One of the recipes I heard about very quickly when I was investigating this lifestyle was for Good Girl Moonshine.

Good Girl Moonshine is a drink made out of water, Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV), Ginger, and Stevia.  Sounded good to me, but I don’t care for ginger so I had just been using water with the ACV and stevia.   I had to find a different way to flavor it that would still be healthy and beneficial, but be better tasting–enter my doTERRA essential oils!  For months, I’ve been drinking water with citrus oils in them because the are so cleansing to the body.  They help the body melt away the stubborn petrochemicals from the body which like to attach themselves to our fat cells.  Getting those petrochemicals out of our bodies helps to shrink fat cells!  So I decided to give that a try and I discovered that the essential oils make Good Girl Moonshine go from good to FANTASTIC!  So now I’m going to share with you my recipe for Essential Oil Good Girl Moonshine!  Enjoy it, I know I sure do!

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Living Green Tuesdays Link-UP #46

I am so THRILLED to be join up as a weekly host for the Living Green Tuesdays Link-up Party!! Join us (Jasmine from Like a Mustard Seed, Victoria from Green Idea Reviews and myself) every Tuesday as like-minded bloggers come together with their “green” ideas! We love to see things like gardening tips, natural/money saving DIY projects, sustainable living ideas, herbal/natural healing, homemade anything, and more!

(Each week I will feature 2-3 posts from the previous link up party. Each post will be featured both here at Living Green Link-up and on Essential Traditions’ Facebook page.)

Improve your mood with citrus oils from My Lamp is Full

3-min Hemp Caesar Salad Dressing from Little Mountain Haven

Fresh Papaya Face Masks from Natures Home Spa

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Spicy Pickled Green Beans

We love spicy things around here and we LOVE pickled green beans, so I decided to try my hand at making some spicy pickled green beans.  These turned out really yummy, but a bit on a the mild side–so if you like HOT pickles, just add a few more jalapenos.  My family really loves these Spicy Pickled Green Beans and can’t wait each year when garden fresh green beans are plentiful.  Often times, I’ll be busy canning a batch of these at least once a week–sometimes even more often than that.  Spicy Pickled Green Beans are really easy to make.  They don’t require a pressure canner, just a water bath canner.  I can them while green beans are plentiful and then we have them all year long to enjoy (if I can keep my kids out of them!)

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Sprouting Seeds in Your Kitchen

My husband loves bean sprouts. He doesn’t get to eat them very often because we don’t have anywhere local to buy them. So, I decided to try my hand at sprouting so he can have them whenever he wants and because I also want to try my hand at sprouted grain bread. So after much research, this is how I went about sprouting my own seeds.

First of all, you have to have the right kind of seeds. You don’t want to use any seeds that are poisonous, such as apple, sorghum, Sudan grass, potato, or tomato. Some seeds that are safe and tasty are alfalfa, clover, mung beans, chickpeas, wheat, barley, millet, corn, buckwheat, radish, broccoli, and celery. You also don’t want to use any seeds that have been treated with dyes, chemicals, pesticides or fungicides. Often, seed sold for planting have been treated with these substances to prevent mold and infestation. You should only use seeds that are certified edible. You can buy your seeds at the grocery store in the form of dried beans, peas, and lentils. These are meant to be cooked and have sometimes been over dried. They will sprout, but they won’t yield as much as other types of seeds. You can also purchase seeds for sprouting at your local health food store. Most have a pretty good selection of the most popular sprouting seeds. The best way, in my opinion, is to grow your own. The only drawback is that you have to wait a year to get them. You plant the varieties that you would like to sprout, raise them, and then harvest them when they are mature. They you will need to dry them, either in a food dehydrator, oven, or by solar means. Then you will store the seeds in airtight containers until you are ready to sprout.

So, you’ve got the seeds, now what do you do? You can purchase all sorts of sprouting appliances and equipment, but they are not really needed. You can simply sprout your seeds in old canning jars with a minimal of equipment. After doing this, I would add, that I do think that some purchased sprouting trays would be convenient, but until I can afford them, I’ll continue to use the canning jar method. You will need a clean, wide-mouth, one quart canning jar that has been scalded in boiling water, a screw on canning jar ring (you don’t need a lid), and a piece of panty hose has been cleaned really well.

Now that you’ve gathered your equipment, it’s time for the fun part…sprouting! For these instructions, I’m going to be using Alfalfa seeds. Put 2 tablespoons of the seeds into your quart jar. Fill it half full of lukewarm water. Next, stretch a layer of the pantyhose over the jar and screw down the jar ring until it’s snug, you can also use a rubber band to hold it down. Now let this sit overnight, about 12 hours. In the morning, pour off the water and rinse the seeds in lukewarm water twice, draining completely. Turn the jar horizontally and tap to distribute the seeds evenly, but be sure to keep them away from the pantyhose. Lay the jar on its side in a dark cupboard that doesn’t get too warm. Around lunchtime, rinse the seeds again and thoroughly drain. Spread them back out and place back in the cabinet with the jar lying on its side. Repeat this step in the evening as well. You will need to rinse them three times a day until they have sprouted the required number of days. On the morning of the third or fourth day, rinse them as usual, and then place the jar in a sunny window until the spouts turn green. When they are ready to eat, rinse them and drain well. You can store them in the refrigerator in a tightly covered container for four to six days.

So, why go through all this trouble for a few measly spouts? When you eat sprouts you are eating food that is at it’s highest in both nutrients and enzymes. They are also an excellent source of fiber. They are easy to grow in your own kitchen and will provide you with fresh food all winter long. Sprouts contain higher amounts of proteins, minerals and vitamins because they are young and fresh. They are also easy to digest, so they are really good for those who have trouble digesting certain seeds and grains. They are highly nutritious and can be really inexpensive, especially when you grow your own seeds for sprouting. So, if you have a sprout lover in your family, give sprouting a try. And if you don’t, introduce sprouts to your family and see if you can make some new sprout lovers!

Essential Oils for Acne

What is Acne?

Acne is a skin condition that generally affects the face, but can also affect other oil producing areas of the body, such as the chest, back, upper arms, and back of neck.  It is generally found in adolescents and young adults, but can also be found in adults of any age.  Acne is distinguished by it’s red, irritating blemishes (pimples.  Acne is cause by a blockage of the skin’s pores by dead skin cells, tiny hairs, and oil secreted by the sebaceous glands.  This blockage occurs deep in the skin.  It is not cause by dirt or by eating certain foods.  Over cleansing/scrubbing may actually make it worse.  Over production of oil from the sebaceous glands can often be traced back to a hormonal imbalance.  Thankfully, most forms of acne can be helped or corrected through a healthy diet and through the use of essential oils.

Essential Oils for Acne

• Clear Skin blend
• Melaleuca
• Lavender
• Geranium
• Sandalwood
• Thyme
• Vetiever
• Lemon
• Lemongrass
• Marjoram
• Patchouli
• Cypress
• Frankincense
• Purify blend
• Rosemary
• Roman Chamomile
• Clary Sage
• Myrrh
• Eucalyptus

I would also suggest using doTERRA’s Clear Skin Foaming Face Wash

Using Essential Oils for Acne

Basic care:

• Wash face with a pure soap in warm water, and rinse well.
• Mix together 4 ounces of Apple Cider Vinegar with 20 drops Lavender and 20 drops Eucalyptus.  Use as an astringent/toner.
• After cleansing, put 3-5 drops of Fractionated Coconut Oil in hand along with 3-4 drops of the essential oil(s) of choice.  Pat onto area and let soak in.  Suggest oil(s) to use are Purify blend, Melaleuca, Geranium, and Clear Skin blend.

Treatments:

• For a Mask – In a small jar, mix together 2 ounces of Green Clay and 3 teaspoons Corn Flour.  To apply the mask, mix together 1 tablespoon of the mask powder, 1 teaspoon water, 1 drop Roman Chamomile, 1 drop Lavender, and 1 drop Patchouli.  Spread over face, avoiding eyes, and leave on for 15 minutes.  Rinse well.
• For Facial Steam – in a cup of hot water, add 1 drop each of Roman Chamomile, Clary Sage, Thyme, and Lavender.  Place a towel over you head and steam face for 10 minutes.  Pat dry.
• For Facial Spritzer – Put 10 drops Melaleuca in a 1-2 ounce spray bottle and fill with water.  Spray on area several times per day (close eyes!).

Wildcrafting Wednesday #93

Welcome to the ninety-third edition of Wildcrafting Wednesday!

Wildcrafting Wednesday is hosted by:

• Sharon @ Woodwife’s Journal,
• Lisa @ The Self-Sufficient HomeAcre,
• Jennifer @ The Entwife’s Journal,
• Kathy @ Mind Body and Sole,
• Anne-Marie @ Bella Vista Farm,
• Alix @ Blessed in Homemaking,
• Jerica @ Sustain, Create and Flow,
• and me! 🙂

While traditional wildcrafting refers to gathering herbs and plants in the wild to use for food and medicine, Wildcrafting Wednesday is a weekly blog hop for sharing self-sufficiency and homesteading tips, tried and true home-remedies, and your favorite herbal uses.

It’s a place to gather information on ways to incorporate old fashioned wisdom in our day-to-day life.

It is anything and everything herbal – from crafts to cleaning to tinctures to cooking.

It is remedies and natural cures made at home from natural ingredients.

It is self-sufficient living, homesteading, and back-to-basics tips to save food, money, and resources.

If it involves herbs or traditional methods of homemaking and home healing then we want to read about it!

In other words, Wildcrafting Wednesday is a “one stop shop” for the past weeks best tips and simple steps to become more healthy and more self-reliant! Please join us! 🙂

Featured Posts from Last Week’s Blog Hop

Each week, we get some incredible posts submitted by amazing bloggers. The following posts are our featured posts as determined by our readers.

How a Single Income Family Can Afford a Whole-Food Diet by Growing Home

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How I Made Wild Blackberry Cider by And Here We Are

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My Garden: Repel Pests Naturally by On the Homefront

 

Thank you to every one of our bloggers who linked up and to all of our readers for helping us pick our featured posts!

 

Guidelines for Participation:

1. Please link up your blog post using the Linky widget below. If you are posting a recipe, only real food recipes are permitted please. This means no processed, packaged, or refined food ingredients!

2. Please link the URL of your actual blog post and not your blogs home page. That allows future readers who find this post and go to your link to be able to find what they’re looking for.

3. Please place a link back to this edition of the blog hop in your post. That way your readers can benefit from all the ideas too. This also helps out the other participants who are hoping to get more traffic to their blogs. If you’re new to blogging here’s what you do: Copy the URL of Wildcrafting Wednesday from your browser address bar. Then edit your post by adding something like, “This post was shared on Wildcrafting Wednesday” at the end of your post. Then highlight “Wildcrafting Wednesday”, click the “link” button on your blogging tool bar, and paste the URL into that line. That’s it! If you prefer, you can grab the button below and insert it at the end of your blog post. Either way is acceptable! 🙂

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6. Please leave a comment. 🙂

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Dilled Cabbage Salad {THM Light S Recipe}

Well, I’ve gone and done it!  I’ve jumped on the Trim Healthy Mama bandwagon.  I’ve been hearing such good things about Trim Healthy Mama, that I had to check it out.  I’m still in the process of reading the book, and I’ll write a review of it when I finally get it done.  But for now, I’m just plugging along with it.  It’s a REALLY long book with lots of information to get through.  From what I’ve read so far, the Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle can very easily work with whole/real/traditional food choices, which makes it nice because I don’t have to add anything that I don’t feel right about eating.  Anyway, I am just absolutely LOVING this book and the recipes that I’ve tried so far have been delish.  While I love the recipes, I want to be sure and modify my family’s favorite recipes to fit into the THM lifestyle.  I’ve been trying to make my lunches THM friendly this week and yesterday I created a new Dilled Cabbage Salad that I really loved!  It mixes two of my favorite things–THM AND doTERRA essential oils!  WOOT for me!  The recipe below uses the Dill Essential Oil that can be found in the Summer Splash kit that contains Dill, Basil, Spearmint, and Tangerine essential oils. If you don’t have dill essential oil, you can always use fresh or dried dill. We are BIG cabbage eaters around here because it’s so inexpensive and I find it much more filling than lettuce.  I served this with a skinless, boneless chicken breast that I cooked on the George Foreman grill.  It was a very filling and satisfying meal and oh so healthy!  So watch for updates each week for how I’m doing with the THM diet.  Now on to the recipe!

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Essential Oils for ADD/ADHD/Hyperactivity

What is ADD/ADHD/Hyperactivity?

ADD/ADHD/Hyperactivity (Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit-Hyperactive Disorder) is a neurbehavioral condition that impacts a person’s ability to focus or concentrate.  With hyperactivity, the person may be restless, chattering, full of energy, and constantly moving.  About 3-5% of American children are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD every year.  Some believe that this is often misdiagnosed or over diagnosed, especially in boys.  Often, with boys especially, hyperactivity is the main issue.  They may have no attention issues at all, but simply must keep moving.  This is disruptive to other and can be tiring for Mom and Dad.  As a stay-at-home/homeschooling Mom of a hyperactive boy, I can testify how exhausting raising hyperactive children can be.  My son is hyperactive and by the end of the day I am often exhausted just from the constant chatter and movement.  But he has no issues with concentration or staying focused.  ADD/ADHD is commonly diagnosed in childhood, but symptoms can continue into adulthood.  Thankfully many of the symptoms can be helped by essential oils.  I personally use the Peaceful Child Blend below to help control my son’s hyperactivity and have been absolutely AMAZED at how well it works!  I keep it on hand at all times in a roller ball and have him apply it to his feet multiple times per day.  That’s all he needs to settle down the hyperactivity.

Essential Oils for ADD/ADHD/Hyperactivity

Below is a list of commonly used essential oils for ADD/ADHD/Hyperactivity:

• InTune Blend
• Serenity Blend
• Vetiver
• Lavender
• Balance Blend
• Clary Sage
• Frankincense
• Ylang Ylang
• Basil
• Citrus Bliss Blend
• Elevation Blend
• Marjoram
• Patchouli
• Roman Chamomile

Using Essential Oils for ADD/ADHD/Hyperactivity

• Peaceful Child Blend -In an empty bottle mix together the following essential oils: 30 drops Lavender, 85 drops Vetiver, 30 drops Ylang Ylang, 20 drops Frankincense, 15-17 drops Clary Sage, 10 drops Marjoram, and 35 drops fractionated coconut oil. Apply 1-3 drops on the bottoms of feet and/or on the spine. This is the blend I use to control my son’s hyperactivity.  I make up a double or triple batch in a 15 mL bottle and then refill a roller bottle as needed.  This blend was created by Deborah Dushku Gardner and you can purchase it from her already made up if you don’t want to purchase all the oils individually.
• Jeddy’s Blend – in a roller bottle, add 35 drops Balance Blend, 15 drops Patchouli, 30 drops Serenity Blend, 50 drops Lavender, 15 drops Vetiver, 75 drops of fractionated coconut oil.  Apply 1-3 drops on the bottoms of feet and/or on the spine.  I have personally tried this blend and it did not work well for us at all.  The Peaceful Child Blend worked MUCH better.  But I know many people have had success with this blend, so I included it.  Jeddy’s Blend was created by Dori O’Dell and you can purchase it from her already made up if you don’t want to purchase all the oils individually.
• Diffuse oil(s) or blend(s) into the air with a diffuser to help calm, relax, and help with concentration.  Serenity Blend is a great choice for this.
• Apply 1-2 drops Balance Blend on the bottoms of feet.  I actually put my Balance Blend in a roller bottle and use that to make it easier to apply.  I use it along with Peaceful Child Blend for my son.
• Dilute oil(s) as recommended and apply 1-2 drops to back of neck, temples, chest, shoulders, back, and/or reflex points of feet.
• Place 1-2 drops of oil(s) in 1 Tablespoon fractionated coconut oil and massage onto back, shoulders, neck, or arms.
• Combine equal parts of Lavender and Basil and apply 1-3 drops on the crown of the head.

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