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Cream of Chicken And Cream of Mushroom Dry Soup Mix Recipes

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  How how often do you use a can of cream of chicken or mushroom condensed soup in your dishes? I do fairly often, but I don’t use the processed cans of soup you get at the store anymore. I came up with a cream soup dry mix recipe that blows the canned soups away! […]

Filed Under: Healthy Recipes, Soups and Stews Tagged With: food prep, pantry staple, soup

How To Grow Potatoes In Containers | Vlog

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How To Grow Potatoes In Containers

So this year I did a thing. I learned how to grow potatoes in containers. Yep, it’s my first time because of my small garden space. My garden plan didn’t originally include potatoes because I didn’t think I had room. But after a lot of research, hours of reading and video watching later I decided […]

Filed Under: Gardening, Vlog Tagged With: Container Gardening, growing potatoes

Raised Bed Garden Tour (#1-week 4)

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If you are just getting started gardening or using only containers, then I hope this raised bed garden tour has you considering how you can do some raised bed gardening too. I’m a raised bed garden newbie. When I was a kid we had a really big garden. That’s what kept us fed. We didn’t […]

Filed Under: Gardening, Self-Reliance, Vlog Tagged With: High Intensity Gardening, home grown vegetables, Intensive Planting, Raised Bed Garden

How To Pressure Can Green Beans

by Celene 2 Comments

Here I show you how super easy it is to can green beans and even more so if you are using an electric pressure canner like my Nesco Smart Canner. I just love this canner and use it all the time. Watch and see how simple it is to can with an electric canner and […]

Filed Under: Canning and Preserving Food, Vlog Tagged With: canning, electric pressure canner, green beans, Nesco Smart Canner, preserving

The Healthy Benefits and Uses of Red Clover

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Red clover is has amazing health benefits. Here's what you need to know and how to use it. #Redclover #homeherbalist #herbs #herbalism #homeremedies #naturalliving #homesteading

This week I foraged lots of Red Clover. You know, the kind cows eat. We are spending most of the summer at the lake where my wild crafting itch is being scratched daily! Everywhere I look I see herbs to forage. It’s so much fun! All around the lake’s shoreline are big beautiful patches of […]

Filed Under: For Export, Health & Wellness, Herbs and Essential Oils, Natural Home Tagged With: alternative herbs, herbal tinctures and teas

The Wonderful Health Benefits Of Cranesbill -Wild Geranium: There Are At Least 14 Of Them

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Wild Geranium (Geranium matulatum) or cranesbill as it is often called can be found in growing wild in Eastern, Central and the Midwest U.S. states. You’ll find it growing in woodsy areas. It’s all over the place here in Illinois where I live. Did you know it’s the state flower of Michigan? We use affiliate […]

Filed Under: For Export, Herbs and Essential Oils, Natural Home Tagged With: home herbalist, Wildcrafting

How Weight Loss Led Me To Backyard Homesteading

by Celene 3 Comments

Who could have imagined that my weight loss journey would lead me to become an accidental backyard homesteader? About 7 years ago we decided we needed to get our health under control and pharmaceuticals just weren’t cutting it. It seemed the more Mr. H and I  went to the doctor, took the prescriptions and did […]

Filed Under: For Export, Health & Wellness, Natural Home, Self-Reliance, Weight Loss Tagged With: Container Gardening, Herbal Medicine, Pressure canning and food storage

My Favorite Nourishing Vitamin and Mineral Rich Herbal Tea Recipe

by Celene 8 Comments

Give your body the nutrition it craves with this vitamin and mineral rich herbal tea recipe. In my quest to learn more about natural herbs and how they can benefit our health, I’ve discovered that herbal teas can make a huge difference in how our bodies feel and in our overall well-being. If you don’t […]

Filed Under: For Export, Health & Wellness, Healthy Recipes, Herbs and Essential Oils, Natural Home Remedies Tagged With: herbal tea, nutrition, vitamins and minerals

Old Fashioned Fire Cider Master Tonic Recipe With An Herbal Twist

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Master Tonic or Fire Cider as it is often called is a great immune booster as well as an amazing cold and flu home remedy. We use affiliate links to support this blog, my coffee and backyard chicken habits. But don’t sweat it, it won’t cost you a penny more. Since there is an ongoing […]

Filed Under: For Export, Health & Wellness, Herbs and Essential Oils, Natural Home Remedies Tagged With: colds and flu, Immune System Booster

How To Make Herbal Remedies Using The “Folk Method”

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  Many home herbalists use the Folk Method of making herbal remedies. Herbalism can be as complicated or uncomplicated as you want to make it. There’s no exact science to the Folk Method, it’s more instinct than precise formulation. I don’t know about you but ratios and mathematical formulas give me a headache. For most […]

Filed Under: For Export, Herbs and Essential Oils, Natural Home Remedies Tagged With: healing with herbs, home herbalist

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Hi I’m Celene

Celene Harrelson, Natural Living Homesteader

A backyard homesteader, wife, mom, grandma and lover of all things pertaining to home and family, self-reliance and living a more simple natural lifestyle.  As a Home Herbalist, I’m constantly learning more about herbs for health and making herbal medicine. I love essential oils, making my own natural remedies, gardening, cooking, canning and fermenting the food I grow in my garden. Oh… and I am crazy about chickens and RVing!

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  • How To Grow Potatoes In Containers | Vlog
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  • How To Pressure Can Green Beans
  • The Healthy Benefits and Uses of Red Clover

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