Jess' Journal

Spring is around the corner now and with the warming weather, a taste of being outdoors more in our Northern land is a delightful thought.  One year into this global...

Vinegar Herbal Hair Rinse Update May 2024- I am still making this every Spring (five years in a row now) and I am using wild Violets and this year I...

Flower Facial Steam A steam is a quick and easy way to clean facial skin when you don’t have time to make it to your outdoor sauna in your woods. ...

  As a rural woman, fall is a busy time of year with harvesting.  Harvesting our grain crops, our vegetable garden & wild herbs.  Gathering the crops is one thing...

What are Bitters? Ever heard of bitters before?  Bitters are bitter herbs infused into alcohol and used as a digestive aid, to be taken before or after a meal.  This...

By now we probably all have our garden seeds planted here in Alberta and our flower pots and planters looking fabulous on our decks.  Hopefully you planted some herbs being...

  To say 2020 has been a strange year is an understatement.  The devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected all our lives in many ways.  The part I want...

It's hard not to notice all the plastic in our homes, especially the plastic bottles in our bathrooms and under the sinks.  Not only does it create all that guilty...

It’s amazing what over an inch of rain can do to our prairie landscape after a slow start to Spring. Over the last ten days we saw everything turn green...

    I’ve been planning a soap recipe for months using wild roses and rosehips so finally this week, it happened! When you wildcraft your ingredients, it does take a...

I’m called many titles… mom, wife, auntie, nurse, soap-maker, and now a forager.  A what?  A forager.  Do people still do this in 2020?  There is certainly a small community...