Harvest Hearth

11/22/2024

Happy Friday Ladies & Gentlemen 👋🏽!

Anyone ready to pull the lever and get their garden growing? 👩🏾‍🌾

Start off right with a consultation. We'll work from the soil up, saving you time, money and future heartbreak!

Even if you're in a zone where it's too late to start planting right now, you'll be prepared for the next growing season with knowledge, a custom design based on your space, and your choice of a few varieties of seeds to get you going next spring!

Book at 👉🏽 Www.harvesthearth.com

11/22/2024

Happy Friday Ladies & Gentlemen 👋🏽!

Anyone ready to pull the lever and get their garden growing? 👩🏾‍🌾

Start off right with a consultation. We'll work from the soil up, saving you time, money and future heartbreak!

Even if you're in a zone where it's too late to start planting right now, you'll be prepared for the next growing season with knowledge, a custom design based on your space, and your choice of a few varieties of seeds to get you going next spring!

Book at 👉🏽 Www.harvesthearth.com

Harvest Hearth: Community Supported Agriculture and Permaculture Garden Designs.

11/16/2024

This is incredible! Uuuugh 🥹💚💙🌍

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the country of Niger in the African Sahel to see an innovative land reco...

11/07/2024

My website is rough...I'm not a professional web designer or social media guru and this is far from the creative writing style that I'm most comfortable with.

But this is something that I can do today. I can share a little bit of information that might make a difference to someone. I will continue to add to this information as my journey in ROA progresses.

If you need more customized information and a personalized walk through of how to get started, I offer in person (Phoenix area) and remote consultations.

11/06/2024

I don't share on here nearly enough. Social media is often overwhelming for me and not something I truly enjoy navigating. I just want to garden, farm, grow healthy food for my community and help others do the same! But I also have to let you all know that I'm here somehow.

I can't accomplish what I hope to accomplish in the coming years without building that intentional community! Without putting myself out there more. Today is a day when so many of us, myself included just want to hide and probably angry cry. I'm not gonna do that today though, today I'm gonna put myself out there a bit more by saying this.

We are not helpless. We've been here before and we've overcome before. This is how we've always survived, by coming together, building those communities and leaning on the mutual aid of those around us. There's so much talk in homesteading and garden circles about self-sufficiency and being self-reliant. That's a myth we need to quickly dispell. We can't continue with this individualistic mindset, we have an obligation, a sacred duty to each member of our community to move in a way that is meaningful and mindful, to progress us forward.

I voted as I was called to, and I will continue to do the work that I am called to do. This is a Figeater beetle that my son Atlas is gently holding, in his little hands. They represent transformation, resilience and humility. Things we ought to embody and embrace moving forward. This is how I choose to fight, by building up my community and raising a generation of children with strength in their hands and the integrity to use it humbly.

10/24/2024

I'm 3 assignments away from completing my Intro to ROA and Applied Ethnobotany classes!

06/02/2024

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05/25/2024

One of my favorite flowers and snacks! (The seeds that is)
Although I have tried the young buds prepared like artichokes and its not half bad!
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05/13/2024

I stayed making this candy all last summer!

My watermelon are sprouted up and I can't wait to make more batches of this SUPER sour deliciousness.

I suck at writing down recipes, but I can tell you I literally used the entire watermelon.

So however much juice you get from yours is how much you gotta use😅🤷🏾‍♀️

I used a 1/2 cup of organic cane sugar and enough malic/citric acid to make me go 🤤🤤🤤😖

For the sour sugar mixture, I really tested my limits... and it was glorious. So do what feels right, just don't burn off your tastebuds 😅

I think 2 cups of sugar to 1/2 cup of malic/citric acid (combined) might be close. But consult your own tongue🤗

04/09/2024

Have you heard of the alcohol intermediary method for making herbal infusions?

So far I've used it to make Hibiscus, Cilantro and Ginger infused oils!

Hibiscus oil is packed with antioxidants, and is associated with health benfits such as promoting weight loss, boosting liver function, and lowering blood pressure. Its also great for hair and skin.

Cilantro oil is also high in antioxidants and is great for ridding the body of toxins, due to its chelating properties. Studies also show that its natural sedative qualities can help to relieve anxiety and restlessness. Other benefits include reduced blood sugar levels, UTI prevention, skin soothing and so much more. (seriously, look it up)

Ginger...do I really have to list all the health benfits of ginger? You know its good medicine by now right?😆 Ginger Do It ALL!

As always, consult your healthcare team before trying any new herbal supplements.

04/08/2024

Let's make some tinctures...

In the morning

04/07/2024

You can still be cute and get dirty in the garden!

I call these nails "green gold" lol herbal medicine inspired (so you cant see the tincture stains...turmeric ya know?) My last set were ombre black tips. Dirt inspired 😅

I may have some fun when the chicks and ducklings hatch!🪶

04/06/2024

This stuff is all over the yard! Gotta pull it up before those flower heads appear.

Stinknet is an invasive w**d that can crowd out native plants and becomes a fire hazard in summer. Right now, it's spreading in Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties.

Learn what you can do to stop its spread at https://extension.arizona.edu/stinknet-invasion?publication=20240405&utm_campaign=University+of+Arizona+Cooperative+Extension&utm_content=Stinknet+is+an+invasive+w&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.

Stinknet is sometimes called globe chamomile and is a member of the sunflower family and can grow more than 2 feet tall. It has carrot-like leaves and spherical yellow flower heads that have many tiny flowers. If you crush the leaves, it has a pungent, turpentine-like smell.

It's adapted to a wide variety of habitats including back yards, around desert fivers, urban sidewalk cracks and many other places. It grows through the winter and usually flowers between February and June.

Be careful when you remove stinknet, especially when it becomes dried out and full of seeds. Bag the w**d carefully to contain the seeds. Clean shoes, clothing and equipment that has come in contact with the plant.

04/04/2024

Things are happening, the kids and I are excited!

7 more days until quail lockdown && fingers crossed we see some definitive developement on those muscovy eggs.

03/27/2024

Stay tuned to see what goes in here!
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I can't wait to see the look on the kids' faces.
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