Jess' Journal

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...

Easter is around the corner and with that comes family traditions.  Our family has been decorating pysankas since our Grandma took up the traditional Ukrainian method of decorating eggs years...

Time to make the switch to bar soap. If you haven’t already made the switch to using bar soap, I’m going to convince you why you should get with the...

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...

  There’s a movement happening to create a natural, toxin-free home. It’s something everyone should take seriously because once you start learning about the different chemicals that are in our...

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 have been buying handmade bar soap for years and swear by it. My dry itchy skin is gone and my skin sensitivities disappeared. Then a few years ago, my...

    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...