GROUP ARTICLE For near 10 years we usually posed inquiries to our Important Natural Yahoo! group and mixed the solutions into some actually spectacular articles.  Yahoo! discontinued teams, and we’ve not actually discovered something that comes near the camaraderie that occurred there.  Sometimes we nonetheless strive.  This was a type of makes an attempt, and it was fairly good!

Vacation crafting from the Nov/Dec ’20 challenge.
We requested, “Do you’ve got a enjoyable natural reward concept that may be described/defined in a paragraph or two?”  

The Important Natural Journal – I am going to begin
This yr, I am interested by making up a easy recipe ebook for the youngsters, however as an alternative of meals recipes, it will be natural preparations for dwelling treatments. It would not should be massive or fancy. Lower than 50 pages, I am certain. Chilly/flu, Sore Throat, Splinters, Sprains, Cuts, Bites, Cramps, Sleeplessness, Melancholy, Stuff like that…

Regardless that I’ve written a number of books, I take into consideration what number of occasions we hear, “I want I would written down what my grandparents mentioned.” We’d like to get our palms on a ebook from family on one aspect of the household, however that is not going to occur. We’ll simply have to start out our personal!
Tina Sams

I make up simmering potpourri on the fly, once I occur to be doing one thing like peeling an orange, or baking with cacao nibs and spices. 

No measuring mandatory, and you should use dried supplies rather than contemporary, and package deal in a cello bag with a fairly ribbon for reward giving. One in every of my favorites across the hoidays is to throw collectively a small handful of entire cloves, cinnamon chips (or a few cinnamon sticks), orange peel from the orange I simply ate, a few sprigs from the spruce bushes in my yard, and possibly just a few cranberries if I’ve them.
One other is cacao nibs, cinnamon, a bit of spent vanilla bean, and some cardamom pods.
Place a small handful of potpourri combine in a pan of water, and simmer on low for a short while.
Rebekah Bailey 

I give natural cleaning soap, natural tea blends I made, lotion bars, ache salve, candied pecans or almonds, natural syrups, dried elderberry w/ spices and recipe for syrup, EHM booklets, sachets or coasters with spices or herbs, waxed cinnamon (cassia eo) pine cone hearth starters, hearth cider, pomanders, bee’s wax tree ornaments.

Marci Tsohonis

I’ve made Italian salt, violet sugar, lilac sugar, catnip logs for cats, and lavender sachets (and the rest I can use lavender for!). 

I additionally assume the small ebook for teenagers is an excellent concept. I instructed my 10 yr previous niece I had a journal that I saved my notes, recipes, rising suggestions and dried sprigs of herbs in. In order that meant she and her cousin must argue over who obtained it once I died. She simply shrugged and mentioned, It is OK Aunt Marlene, we are going to simply make copies for everybody who desires one. She is a candy one.
Marlene Perry

Lava bracelets which were soaked in a particular mix of lavender, frankincense and patchouli.

Tami O’Neal

Sweet Cane Bathtub Salts

Epsom Salt
Himalayan Salt
Important Oil (elective)
Mason Jar
In a glass Mason jar, layer Epsom salt and Himalayan salt, alternating as you
fill the glass jar. You’ll be able to add just a few drops of important oil. Peppermint could also be too
sturdy for some, so lavender, or rose would make a pleasant choice. Add a burlap cowl
and fairly ribbon on the highest.
Phoenix Fermin @ Phoenix’s Apothecary

Sweetened Citrus Peel

Minimize the rind of 1 orange and one lemon into matchsticks with out an excessive amount of of the pith. In a medium-sized pot, deliver water to a boil. Add the orange and lemon peel and prepare dinner for 15-30 seconds. Drain by a sieve. Return the matchsticks to the pot and add 6 tablespoons of granulated sugar and 5 tablespoons of water. Carry to a boil and prepare dinner for 8-10 minutes, till the liquid is syrupy. Take away the peel from the pot and place on a wire rack to chill. (Impressed by “The Large Ebook of Superb Truffles” from “The Nice British Baking Present”)
Greatest with: orange sorbet, ginger, chocolate nd vanilla ice cream drizzled with Grand Marnier.
We love this on a salad of sliced orange rounds on prime of a mattress of blended greens in the midst of winter.
Whereas nonetheless heat curl. – Lancaster Information 7/16/2020
Jen Sheffield