Hi friend! Looking for tips to help you reach your summer health goals? Here are the strategies that helped me go from a chronically sluggish junk foodie to a more energetic vegetable maniac. Summer has really snuck up on us. There’s been so much upheaval - it seems like time has dragged by, but Keep Reading
Healthy Home
Healthy home living can be easy as paying attention to what products you are using in your home. Learning how to make your own cleaning products will make sure that you know what is going into your home. Going green and living naturally can be as simple as using whole foods, natural products and remedies, and being active. If you can not find natural alternatives to products, you can make your own. From making your own cough drops, to your own beauty products, to even being able to put essential oils to work for you. Essential oils and baking soda are great resources to have at your disposal because of their versatility when it comes to their use in the home. In fact, using baking soda, vinegar and essential oil, you can make your own standard household cleaner that works just as great as store brand. Making your own laundry detergent from baking soda is not only easy but affordable as well and it insures that you know what is affecting your body.
Pumpkin Spice Foaming Hand Soap Recipe
One of my favorite things about Fall is the scents that are associated with it. Cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, apple pie, pumpkin. They’re so warm and homey. As much as I keep artificial scents out of my house, I can’t help but stop at the candle aisle in the store to hover over a few fall scented Keep Reading
Free Printable Weekly Cleaning Checklist
Do you struggle to keep your house clean? I sure do! Golly. Over the last decade of being the primary homemaker, I’ve learned a couple things that make it easier for me - though I know not everyone agrees: Smaller house. We rented a largish house for awhile, and I had a hard time keeping up with Keep Reading
How To Make Elderberry Syrup
Learn how to make elderberry syrup to keep your family healthy this winter! So, the flu is spreading like wildfire. And not just in my area, it seems to be everywhere in the midwest and southern states. Needless to say, none of us want to actually catch the flu (duh!) we’d rather keep our kids Keep Reading
5 Natural Headache Remedies
Headaches have been a bit of a plague for my family. My dad gets them a lot, as well as some of his siblings, my cousins, and a few of my own siblings. Fear of headaches is such an ingrained thing in me, that when I read that the FDA had strengthened its warnings that NSAIDs (that’s ibuprofen Keep Reading
5 Ways To Go Green On A Budget
This post is underwritten by iHerb, which is cool, because it means you get $5 off your first order when you shop through this link. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that being more earth-friendly necessarily has to mean spending a lot of money (what’s up with that anyway?). There Keep Reading
Did You Know You Can Use Essential Oils In Cooking?
Did you know that Essential Oils Can be Used in Cooking??! One of my favorite things in the world is cooking and baking. I mean, you get to create a beautiful, healthy, or at the very least, least tasty dish for your family to enjoy out of a pile of ingredients that are nothing on their own! It’s Keep Reading
6 Simple Steps Toward a More Natural Lifestyle
This post brought to you by Tom’s of Maine . The content and opinions expressed below are that of The Frugal Farm Wife. Growing up, I had a very flippant attitude about health. I’m sure that’s pretty typical among kids who’ve never really have to think about it. It wasn’t until I was an adult, and Keep Reading
My Top 5 Essential Oils For Spring
Ah, Spring, how I love you! the weather starts getting warm, we get a few thunderstorms - which I love! - the trees and grass turn green, flowers start blooming… and there’s pollen everywhere. That part, I don’t love. I doubt very many of us do. With that in mind, I have two main goals when I Keep Reading
Homemade Dusting Spray
If one of your goals this year is like mine - to eliminate as many harsh chemicals from your life as you can - then this homemade dusting spray is perfect for you! We have mostly really old furniture in our house. Our piano is about eighty years old, and the finish is all cracked, and very Keep Reading