The Herbal How To Guide,
Sharing the Fun of working with
Nature.
The Herbal How To Guide is dedicated to the love of our natural world and sharing knowledge of how to work with herbs. It's about beautiful gardens, both created and wild and heavenly smells on a nature walk. It's about relieving the stress of life and learning how to stop and smell the roses.
Plants have a rich and beautiful history and as each of us learns and tries something new we add to that history with our own discoveries. Many of our medicines today began with a knowledge of herbs. Cooking includes the art of understanding what spices will enhance a meal. Was it magic, or was there truth behind some of the old wives-tales?
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So I'm on a mission to share this beautiful world with you. But I can't do it alone. Throughout the Herbal How To Guide I'm building invitations to share your knowledge, photographs, stories, tips & tricks, recipes and much more. Together we can create an herbal community that helps each of us learn and grow. Join me on my nature walk to discovery and join the Herbal How To Guide on FaceBook as well.
The
kinds of things you'll find here are:
- How to Build a Wild Herb Garden.
- Wildcrafting (finding herbs in the wild).
- Harvesting and Drying Plants.
- Photos.
- Basic Plant Preparations.
- Cooking and Cleaning - a more Eco Friendly home.
- Plant-by-plant information.
- Invitations for you to share your knowledge throughout the website.
Start by using the site navigation on the upper left and enjoy all the information that's already here.
Sandy Marie
| Composting: Make Your Own Good Dirt Composting doesn't have to be a mystery. Enjoy this 'how to' page with a nitrogen carbon chart. |
| How To Create A Backyard Habitat Learn to create a Backyard Habitat. The National Wildlife Federation allows you to certify it. |
| Wild Herb Garden a.k.a. Backyard Habitat Creating a wild herb garden or backyard habitat can be extremely fun and very rewarding. Join me in this adventure. |
| Drying Herbs Drying herbs, three different ways, that yield the highest, natural quality and give the longest shelf life possible. |
| Storing Herbs Are you confused about storing herbs? Actually this information is for all food storage. |
| Gardening Days Many calendars feature a little symbol to tell you what kind of Gardening Days it is. This page teaches you to apply this to the rest of your life. |
| Herbal Tea You can make a perfect cup of Herbal Tea - every time! Learn how here. |
| Infusion Learn how to make an Infusion with herbs. |
| Decoction Learn how to make a Decoction with roots, seeds, or bark. |
| Herbal Creams and Lotions Herbal Creams and Lotions are a luxury you can't pass up. In my opinion commercial products just don't measure up, and never will. |
| Essential Oils You can make Essential Oils at home using a process called solvent extraction. This web page explains how to do it. |
| Natural Soap - Handmade At Home Making natural soap at home is actually very easy. This entire section of my web site is dedicated to soap making. |
| Fixed Oils Information on Fixed Oils, Vegetable and Nut Butters, Fats and other ingredients that soap makers use. |
| SAP Value Chart This is a detailed SAP Value Chart listing SAP Values for both NaOH, Sodium Hydroxide (for hard soap), and KOH, Potassium Hydroxide (for liquid soap). I will continue to add more as I find them. |
| The Wrap on Plastic Learn about Safe and Unsafe Plastic. |
| Recycle What does Recycle, Up-cycle and Down-cycle mean? |
| Site News Blog Stay up to date with the Herbal How To Guide's Site News Blog. You'll find information about new pages added, herbal news, and much more. |
| The Herbal Blog Instead of an About Me page, I created this blog to share my fun herbal life with you. |
| FaceBook Page for Herbal How To Guide FaceBook has become the social place I share herbal news and website information with friends. Come join Herbal How To Guide on FaceBook. |
| Contact Me This page will allow you to contact me. |
| Privacy Policy The Privacy Policy for using herbal-howto-guide.com |
| Mountain Rose Herbs: My Only Herbal Supplier Why is Mountain Rose Herbs the only supplier I feature on The Herbal How To Guide? Quality! Learn more about them here. |
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