It is finally gonna happen! Winter is going to allow spring in the door. Temperatures in the high 60's to low 70's this week. We might be able to get our potatoes in by Good Friday after all! And, the snow around the chicken coop is almost gone. I see baby chicks in our future this weekend. Probably 8 to 10 layers and 20 meat birds to start.
While reading in Mother Earth News this week, we came across a neat idea for the upcoming holiday. Chemical free Easter egg dyes. And we thought it would be a great idea to share this week. Why do this? Egg shells are porous, and what ever you put on them will leech in to the egg itself, so why not go natural? And what would be more fun than making the dye with the kids as well as coloring the eggs! We will include some of the dye recipes at the bottom of the blog. Now mind you, these are just some of the things you can do. You can also use several roots seeds, and flowers to make different colors, (like blood root) however, since most of those are still buried in snow and the leaves are not up, so we can locate them, we will have to gather them this year and try them next year and report back to you.
Some of Ed's all organic tinctures are now ready. He has made clove and mustard this week, and will have oregano, pepper, cinnamon and rosemary by the end of the week. These will be used for health reasons as well as in food recipes. Why tinctures do you ask? Well, the main reason why you make them is that you can concentrate all the goodness from the plant, root, seed or flower and they will last for a minimum of 10 years if it is done properly. And, they are great for you and can cure certain ailments. For example. Take clove. Did you know that clove has the highest concentration of antioxidants of anything you can take. Let's do a comparison. Most people think that acai berries and goji berries are the highest antioxidant things you can eat. And, although they are good, the pale in comparison to clove, cinnamon, rosemary and oregano. The units of measurement for antioxidants are called ORAC's. (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity). Goji berries have 25,300 units, acai berries have 102,700 units or ORAC. Now compare this to clove which has 314,446 units of ORAC! Now, concentrate that in a tincture, and you are over 1,000,000 units of ORAC. Talk about health benefits!! Sumac is the second highest and cinnamon is third in ORAC value. Followed closely by oregano and rosemary. With all that being said, do not go out and eat a pound of clove a day. For one, your mouth will go numb, and second, it is best to get your antioxidants from more than one source every day. So, a combination of high ORAC value foods should be in your diet on a regular basis.
Our web site will contain the health benefits of all the tinctures Ed is making and they will all be for sale. In fact they are now. So if anyone is interested, feel free to leave a post, or email us. We will respond to any and all questions and inquires. Tune in Wednesday to hear about an awesome experience we had with Earthbound farms. They are one of the organic vegetable growers you find in most grocery stores. We were very impressed by them. And as usual, our weekly post next Sunday. We hope everyone has a great week!
Ed and Amy
Recipes for Natural Dyes for Easter Eggs
RED
2 cups beets, grated
1 tbsp white vinegar
2 cups water
Substitute: strong Red Zinger tea, or chopped fresh or frozen cranberries
YELLOW TO GOLD
3 large handfuls of yellow/brown onionskins
1 tbsp white vinegar
3 cups water
Substitute: strong chamomile tea, or 2 to 3 tbsp ground turmeric
BLUE
1 pound frozen blueberries, crushed
1 tbsp white vinegar
2 cups water
Substitute: red cabbage leaves, coarsely chopped, create lavender
OTHER COLORS
Mix combinations of the primary dyes (in separate cups) to make secondary colors: red and yellow for orange, yellow and blue for green, and blue and red for violet. The proportion of one color to the other determines the shade.
Follow the recipes to make the dyes, using individual stainless steel, glass or enamel saucepans for each color. Combine the ingredients and boil each color mixture separately for 15 minutes before dyeing eggs. The vinegar acts as a fixative — without it, the dyes won’t stick to the eggs.
• Before dyeing, hard boil white eggs and let them cool.
• For uniform color, strain each dye mixture through cheesecloth or a fine strainer.
• For a mottled, tie-dyed or spotty effect, leave all the ingredients in the pans.
• Use crayons to make designs — circles, geometrics, your name — on the egg; the crayoned part will not take up any dye. White crayons work especially well.
• The longer the eggs remain in the dye, the deeper the color.
• For special effects, dip half the egg in one color, the other half in another.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Easy yogurt cheese
The snow banks in the back yard are getting smaller and smaller every day. Soon we will have the chicken coop ready for the new birds. It will be interesting to see what Marlin (our new puppy) will think of them!
Last week we shared with you how to make yogurt. Hopefully a few people tried it. This week, we will share with you how to make yogurt cheese! Yogurt cheese, called yocheese, is a very healthy snack that can be made to suit almost every craving. It can be made in virtually any flavor you desire. For instance, we have made a fruity one for toast in the morning, as well as an onion chive and hot peppery ones for snack crackers when company comes over.
What you will need:
a jelly bag
a blender
a glass jar for the process.
Instructions:
Take your yogurt, put it into the blender, as well as what ever you want to use for flavoring it, blend well. For instance when we made the onion chive spread, we just added our home made garlic powder, onion powder and dried chives. There really are no boundaries as to what you can create!
Place the jelly bag suspended inside the glass jar. Make sure you leave enough room on the bottom on the jar because the whey will separate from the curds and drip into the bottom of the jar. We usually leave about 2 inches.
After you have blended your yogurt and ingredients together, pour the mix into the jelly bag that is hang in your glass jar. Then set your creation on a shelf, on top of your refrigerator, in your refrigerator, anywhere really. It doesn't need to be refrigerated for the process to complete.
You let it sit anywhere from 8 hours to a couple of days. Depending on how strong you want the flavor to be. The longer you let it sit, the thicker it will get. When desired thickness is achieved, take the cheese out of the jam bag and enjoy. It will last in the refrigerator for about a week and a half to two weeks. Besides spreading your yocheese on toast, or crackers, you can add it to what ever your cooking. For instance in pasta. And if you make the fruity cheeses, those can be used a very healthy desert! Yocheese is very addicting, once you make it. I think most of you will not only enjoy the process and taste of the yocheese, but will also feel artistic in your creations.
Do not throw the liquid in the bottom of the jar away! The whey is also very healthy for you. Here is some information on what the health benefits of yocheese and whey. Remember, that the yogurt is a living culture so it keeps fermenting. It is already full of probiotics, and when you add things that are high in antioxidants, to it when making cheese, it will increase the antioxidant effect by 20 to 50 times in just a couple of days! Yocheese will boost your immune system. Will detoxify you and can knock out stomach or intestinal flu in 8 hours just by adding cinnamon!
The whey can be used in protein shakes. It is what body builders spend lots of money on to add to theirs. We add it to our smoothies in the morning. It is also very good for your liver, and has anti-cancer properties.
Our product review for the week is a little different. We would like to recommend a seed company for those of you that have a garden. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. This is the second year we have bought from them, and are very satisfied with everything we have received so far. Their seed selection is amazing. Over 1000 different varieties to date. Germination has been amazing! Almost 100 percent. And we plant a lot of seeds, over 500 every year, so to have that kind of germination is amazing! Their website is rareseeds.com Go check them out. We would also like to tell you about an amazing new site that we came across this week. It is called Natural News. It is a web site dedicated to natural health, natural living and natural news. Check it out at naturalnews.com
Need a menu idea for company? This is what we are having tonight for our friends that are coming over: Appetizers are sweet potato and prime rib roll wrapped in bacon with a wasabi cream dipping sauce, bruchetta (homemade of course) over Eddies homemade rye bread, and an avacado dip, served hot from the oven, with blue corn tortilla chips. For supper: Northern pike ala griglia with brussle sprouts and herb salad.
We want to thank everyone that takes the time to read our blog and are happy with the questions we receive every week. We will be launching our new web site soon! It is called Pine and Prairie Trading Post. We will have lots of interesting articles as well as links and our on-line store on there. Stay tuned!
Thanks for your dedication to us as we continue ours to you.
~Amy and Eddie
Last week we shared with you how to make yogurt. Hopefully a few people tried it. This week, we will share with you how to make yogurt cheese! Yogurt cheese, called yocheese, is a very healthy snack that can be made to suit almost every craving. It can be made in virtually any flavor you desire. For instance, we have made a fruity one for toast in the morning, as well as an onion chive and hot peppery ones for snack crackers when company comes over.
What you will need:
a jelly bag
a blender
a glass jar for the process.
Instructions:
Take your yogurt, put it into the blender, as well as what ever you want to use for flavoring it, blend well. For instance when we made the onion chive spread, we just added our home made garlic powder, onion powder and dried chives. There really are no boundaries as to what you can create!
Place the jelly bag suspended inside the glass jar. Make sure you leave enough room on the bottom on the jar because the whey will separate from the curds and drip into the bottom of the jar. We usually leave about 2 inches.
After you have blended your yogurt and ingredients together, pour the mix into the jelly bag that is hang in your glass jar. Then set your creation on a shelf, on top of your refrigerator, in your refrigerator, anywhere really. It doesn't need to be refrigerated for the process to complete.
You let it sit anywhere from 8 hours to a couple of days. Depending on how strong you want the flavor to be. The longer you let it sit, the thicker it will get. When desired thickness is achieved, take the cheese out of the jam bag and enjoy. It will last in the refrigerator for about a week and a half to two weeks. Besides spreading your yocheese on toast, or crackers, you can add it to what ever your cooking. For instance in pasta. And if you make the fruity cheeses, those can be used a very healthy desert! Yocheese is very addicting, once you make it. I think most of you will not only enjoy the process and taste of the yocheese, but will also feel artistic in your creations.
Do not throw the liquid in the bottom of the jar away! The whey is also very healthy for you. Here is some information on what the health benefits of yocheese and whey. Remember, that the yogurt is a living culture so it keeps fermenting. It is already full of probiotics, and when you add things that are high in antioxidants, to it when making cheese, it will increase the antioxidant effect by 20 to 50 times in just a couple of days! Yocheese will boost your immune system. Will detoxify you and can knock out stomach or intestinal flu in 8 hours just by adding cinnamon!
The whey can be used in protein shakes. It is what body builders spend lots of money on to add to theirs. We add it to our smoothies in the morning. It is also very good for your liver, and has anti-cancer properties.
Our product review for the week is a little different. We would like to recommend a seed company for those of you that have a garden. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. This is the second year we have bought from them, and are very satisfied with everything we have received so far. Their seed selection is amazing. Over 1000 different varieties to date. Germination has been amazing! Almost 100 percent. And we plant a lot of seeds, over 500 every year, so to have that kind of germination is amazing! Their website is rareseeds.com Go check them out. We would also like to tell you about an amazing new site that we came across this week. It is called Natural News. It is a web site dedicated to natural health, natural living and natural news. Check it out at naturalnews.com
Need a menu idea for company? This is what we are having tonight for our friends that are coming over: Appetizers are sweet potato and prime rib roll wrapped in bacon with a wasabi cream dipping sauce, bruchetta (homemade of course) over Eddies homemade rye bread, and an avacado dip, served hot from the oven, with blue corn tortilla chips. For supper: Northern pike ala griglia with brussle sprouts and herb salad.
We want to thank everyone that takes the time to read our blog and are happy with the questions we receive every week. We will be launching our new web site soon! It is called Pine and Prairie Trading Post. We will have lots of interesting articles as well as links and our on-line store on there. Stay tuned!
Thanks for your dedication to us as we continue ours to you.
~Amy and Eddie
Monday, March 15, 2010
Yogurt and good things to read
It has been another exciting week here in western MN. A lot of the snow is gone and we are enjoying being outside a lot more. Some of the diver ducks are starting to migrate north and it is fun to see the changes happening every day! We have been doing research on tapping maple trees, and have had some success with Amy's parents in Northern WI. So, we think we have a pretty good idea on how to get it flowing next spring. We have started our seeds for the garden. 338 tomatoes so far and lots of other seeds to go. No, we are not planting that many, be we had lots of requests from friends and neighbors to buy our plants last year. Every thing we grow is heirloom and organic. And it seems that a lot of people are tired of genetically modified and are looking to plant better gardens.
We want to take the time to let you know about a magazine that we think is just outstanding! It is called Mother Earth News. It is by Ogden Publications. Ed has been reading it for a couple of years now, and it is full of great ideas and information for anyone looking to be more self sufficient, a better gardener, a better livestock farmer, and just better living all around. And it has a lot of information about organic growing and living as well. We have gained some very valuable information from this magazine. For example. We will be building a chicken coop and a bee box this spring from designs in articles that we have read. We really recommend this magazine to anyone looking for information in these and other areas. It is also are available on-line and you can get some very valuable information there as well. Go check it out! We haven't found another magazine with as much information for the same price. It is really reasonable. $14.95 a year, and you can get a renewal for $10.00.
They have two other magazines out as well that are called GRIT, and The Herb Companion. We don't know a lot about these, as we have just subscribed to them. But if they are anything like Mother Earth News, We are very excited about receiving them.
We have had some people ask us how to make yogurt. And we are happy to share! It is a very easy process. The best milk to use is raw unpasteurized. I know that not many of you will be fortunate to be able to get that, but if you live anywhere near an organic dairy, as we are, you will be able too. Otherwise, use organic whole milk from the store. You can use milk that isn't organic, but we wouldn't advise it.
All we do, is heat the milk to 100 degrees fahrenheit, add two tablespoons of yogurt culture, per quart of milk and keep at 110 degrees for 8 hours. Then store it in your refrigerator. That is it! The easiest way to keep your newly made yogurt at 110 for 8 hours is to have a nice sized dehydrator that has a timer and a temperature setting. If you don't have that and if your oven goes low enough, you can use that as an option.
Most people however, place their jars on a heating pad and wrap them in a blanket for 8 hours. That maintains a high enough temperature for the culture to grow. We use quart mason or ball jars for ours and it works out quite nicely. For those of you that don't go through that much yogurt a week. You can always use pint jars, or share or barter with your friends and family.
For the yogurt culture, just use plain yogurt you can buy from the store. We use Stonyfield organic. It has worked well for us. After the first use, you can just use your own yogurt after that.
Thanks for all the comments and questions that we have been receiving. It has been really amazing to hear from so many people. If you have questions you can email us at pineandprairietradingpost@yahoo.com. Or just leave a post on here. We will respond to you individually, or in a future blog if there is a lot of interest on the same topic.
We are still working on our website, and are looking forward to sharing that as well.
Have a great spring and enjoy the nice weather as it comes. And if you enjoy the small amount of information we have to pass along, please, let your friends know about us!
Have a great week!
Eddie and Amy
We want to take the time to let you know about a magazine that we think is just outstanding! It is called Mother Earth News. It is by Ogden Publications. Ed has been reading it for a couple of years now, and it is full of great ideas and information for anyone looking to be more self sufficient, a better gardener, a better livestock farmer, and just better living all around. And it has a lot of information about organic growing and living as well. We have gained some very valuable information from this magazine. For example. We will be building a chicken coop and a bee box this spring from designs in articles that we have read. We really recommend this magazine to anyone looking for information in these and other areas. It is also are available on-line and you can get some very valuable information there as well. Go check it out! We haven't found another magazine with as much information for the same price. It is really reasonable. $14.95 a year, and you can get a renewal for $10.00.
They have two other magazines out as well that are called GRIT, and The Herb Companion. We don't know a lot about these, as we have just subscribed to them. But if they are anything like Mother Earth News, We are very excited about receiving them.
We have had some people ask us how to make yogurt. And we are happy to share! It is a very easy process. The best milk to use is raw unpasteurized. I know that not many of you will be fortunate to be able to get that, but if you live anywhere near an organic dairy, as we are, you will be able too. Otherwise, use organic whole milk from the store. You can use milk that isn't organic, but we wouldn't advise it.
All we do, is heat the milk to 100 degrees fahrenheit, add two tablespoons of yogurt culture, per quart of milk and keep at 110 degrees for 8 hours. Then store it in your refrigerator. That is it! The easiest way to keep your newly made yogurt at 110 for 8 hours is to have a nice sized dehydrator that has a timer and a temperature setting. If you don't have that and if your oven goes low enough, you can use that as an option.
Most people however, place their jars on a heating pad and wrap them in a blanket for 8 hours. That maintains a high enough temperature for the culture to grow. We use quart mason or ball jars for ours and it works out quite nicely. For those of you that don't go through that much yogurt a week. You can always use pint jars, or share or barter with your friends and family.
For the yogurt culture, just use plain yogurt you can buy from the store. We use Stonyfield organic. It has worked well for us. After the first use, you can just use your own yogurt after that.
Thanks for all the comments and questions that we have been receiving. It has been really amazing to hear from so many people. If you have questions you can email us at pineandprairietradingpost@yahoo.com. Or just leave a post on here. We will respond to you individually, or in a future blog if there is a lot of interest on the same topic.
We are still working on our website, and are looking forward to sharing that as well.
Have a great spring and enjoy the nice weather as it comes. And if you enjoy the small amount of information we have to pass along, please, let your friends know about us!
Have a great week!
Eddie and Amy
Monday, March 8, 2010
Link to Maylee's Garden Soaps
Oops. We forgot to add the link to the laundry soap we use. Enjoy! Ed and Amy.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Laundry detergent
Hello to all our friends and followers!
Another week has come and gone and we have made new concoctions (the yogurt and yogurt cheese is fantastic!!) and sampled a few products. As promised, we want to tell you about a product that we have tried and really like.
Product#1-
It is an eco-friendly laundry detergent made by Maylee's Garden Soaps. It was given to us by a friend to try. We have been in a search for recipes to make laundry detergents of our own and decided to try this one while we continue the search. The one we tried was the Cinnamon vanilla blend. You only need to use one teaspoon per load and can be used in HE washers.
Ed works in a factory making Sprayers and tractors so you can imagine how dirty his clothes can get. We tried it on several loads, and not only did it get his laundry clean, it left all of our laundry smelling fresh. We highly recommend this product. And, we don't get any kick back or recognition for mentioning it. I doubt they even know we have tried it. You can check out the products on the link we will provide.
A little background as to why we no longer use commercial laundry detergents. After researching what was in commercial laundry detergents, and believe us, it wasn't easy. We found out that the base ingredients are petroleum product based and formaldehyde, we decided not to use them anymore. And that nice scent that you smell when you open the bottle? It is the cover scent for the formaldehyde. You wouldn't buy it if the smell of formaldehyde came flowing out of the bottle, now would you? Formaldehyde is not only known as a cancer causing agent, it is also the base for embalming fluids and was the reason why all those temporary homes were rejected as housing for Katrina victims. They paneling was full of formaldehyde and is a known health hazard.
Back in the early 1900's, it was frequently added by US milk plants to milk bottles as a method of pasteurization due to the lack of knowledge regarding formaldehyde's toxicity. This resulted in numerous deaths in both orphanages and homes, particularly in the MidWestern states, where infants were fed the tainted milk, which resulted in a high death rate at several large orphanages in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
So you can see from this information we were able to uncover, we had no hesitation in excluding commercial laundry detergents from our lives.
Our Product#1-
On our way home from my parents in Northern Wisconsin, we decided to stop at a cheese factory in search of some cultures to make cheeses of our own. There I saw a tube of chapstick from a very well-known beeswax brand (Ernie's friend, hint hint!) that is sold at 0.15 oz costing $2.99, and it made me think... 1 ounce divided by 0.15 is 6.67, so if you multiply 6.67 x $2.99, the cost of 1 ounce is $19.94, that is crazy!!
Why are we paying SO much for so little amount of the product?! With that said, I have made and am releasing to the world(once again), my salve formerly known as Lunchbox Butter. Which is now called Pine and Prairie Healing Salve.
So whats so great about it??
First, here is a list of the ingredients in alphabetical order: beeswax, cocoa butter, lavender oil, olive oil, rosemary oil, tea tree oil, and vitamin E.
Each containing it's own healing property. And Each has a WIDE spectrum of properties, I will stick to the ones pertaining to my salve and it's purpose.
Beeswax: Not only an antiseptic, but also improves the skin compatibility for healing.
Cocoa Butter: Known as a GREAT moisturizer, softens the skin for easier healing while also creating a shield against the environment. Properties found in cocoa butter also help boost the immune system and fight cancer. (Note, we are not stating that my salve can fight or cure cancer,I wanted to add that because I thought it VERY interesting fact!)
Lavender, Rosemary & Tea tree oils: all are mild antiseptics
Olive oil: Helps to relieve itching, great for those that are using the salve for fresh tattoo's during the healing stage. I can tell you from personal experience, tattoo's do itch, and this DOES help!!
Vitamin E: Good for cell repair.
Originally I created this salve to heal new tattoo's. Over time, my friends and neighbors would use it on burns, chap lips, scrapes and cuts. What I found is that it aided in healing all of them.
My friend Sean's dad was dying from cancer and had REALLY bad bed soars. His hospice nurses gave many topical ointments but none of them helped. So I gave a tin of my salve to Sean to "give it a try." Three days later he called me and asked if I had anymore of the salve. When I asked him why, he said because they used it on the bed soars and they had shrunk to 1/2 the size they were just three days earlier! My jaw fell to the floor. Jim (Sean's dad) said that he would give a testimony for the salve, that if it could help him, it could help anyone. Jim meant a lot to me, and if I could make his last days on earth a little more comfortable, I have already succeeded. I never did get his testimony, primarily because I didn't know that someday I would be starting this business.
So what I offer to all of you and the rest of the world is my Pine and Prairie Healing Salve, 1 oz tin for $7.00 plus S&H. A far cry less expensive than the other brand previously mentioned.
If anyone is interested, please contact me at pineandprairietradingpost@yahoo.com
Thank you all for taking the time to listening to the wonderful story of salve.
Stay tuned next week for the recipe of our yogurt cheese, your going to LOVE it!!
And as always, we appreciate your time at our blog. ~Amy & Eddie
Another week has come and gone and we have made new concoctions (the yogurt and yogurt cheese is fantastic!!) and sampled a few products. As promised, we want to tell you about a product that we have tried and really like.
Product#1-
It is an eco-friendly laundry detergent made by Maylee's Garden Soaps. It was given to us by a friend to try. We have been in a search for recipes to make laundry detergents of our own and decided to try this one while we continue the search. The one we tried was the Cinnamon vanilla blend. You only need to use one teaspoon per load and can be used in HE washers.
Ed works in a factory making Sprayers and tractors so you can imagine how dirty his clothes can get. We tried it on several loads, and not only did it get his laundry clean, it left all of our laundry smelling fresh. We highly recommend this product. And, we don't get any kick back or recognition for mentioning it. I doubt they even know we have tried it. You can check out the products on the link we will provide.
A little background as to why we no longer use commercial laundry detergents. After researching what was in commercial laundry detergents, and believe us, it wasn't easy. We found out that the base ingredients are petroleum product based and formaldehyde, we decided not to use them anymore. And that nice scent that you smell when you open the bottle? It is the cover scent for the formaldehyde. You wouldn't buy it if the smell of formaldehyde came flowing out of the bottle, now would you? Formaldehyde is not only known as a cancer causing agent, it is also the base for embalming fluids and was the reason why all those temporary homes were rejected as housing for Katrina victims. They paneling was full of formaldehyde and is a known health hazard.
Back in the early 1900's, it was frequently added by US milk plants to milk bottles as a method of pasteurization due to the lack of knowledge regarding formaldehyde's toxicity. This resulted in numerous deaths in both orphanages and homes, particularly in the MidWestern states, where infants were fed the tainted milk, which resulted in a high death rate at several large orphanages in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
So you can see from this information we were able to uncover, we had no hesitation in excluding commercial laundry detergents from our lives.
Our Product#1-
On our way home from my parents in Northern Wisconsin, we decided to stop at a cheese factory in search of some cultures to make cheeses of our own. There I saw a tube of chapstick from a very well-known beeswax brand (Ernie's friend, hint hint!) that is sold at 0.15 oz costing $2.99, and it made me think... 1 ounce divided by 0.15 is 6.67, so if you multiply 6.67 x $2.99, the cost of 1 ounce is $19.94, that is crazy!!
Why are we paying SO much for so little amount of the product?! With that said, I have made and am releasing to the world(once again), my salve formerly known as Lunchbox Butter. Which is now called Pine and Prairie Healing Salve.
So whats so great about it??
First, here is a list of the ingredients in alphabetical order: beeswax, cocoa butter, lavender oil, olive oil, rosemary oil, tea tree oil, and vitamin E.
Each containing it's own healing property. And Each has a WIDE spectrum of properties, I will stick to the ones pertaining to my salve and it's purpose.
Beeswax: Not only an antiseptic, but also improves the skin compatibility for healing.
Cocoa Butter: Known as a GREAT moisturizer, softens the skin for easier healing while also creating a shield against the environment. Properties found in cocoa butter also help boost the immune system and fight cancer. (Note, we are not stating that my salve can fight or cure cancer,I wanted to add that because I thought it VERY interesting fact!)
Lavender, Rosemary & Tea tree oils: all are mild antiseptics
Olive oil: Helps to relieve itching, great for those that are using the salve for fresh tattoo's during the healing stage. I can tell you from personal experience, tattoo's do itch, and this DOES help!!
Vitamin E: Good for cell repair.
Originally I created this salve to heal new tattoo's. Over time, my friends and neighbors would use it on burns, chap lips, scrapes and cuts. What I found is that it aided in healing all of them.
My friend Sean's dad was dying from cancer and had REALLY bad bed soars. His hospice nurses gave many topical ointments but none of them helped. So I gave a tin of my salve to Sean to "give it a try." Three days later he called me and asked if I had anymore of the salve. When I asked him why, he said because they used it on the bed soars and they had shrunk to 1/2 the size they were just three days earlier! My jaw fell to the floor. Jim (Sean's dad) said that he would give a testimony for the salve, that if it could help him, it could help anyone. Jim meant a lot to me, and if I could make his last days on earth a little more comfortable, I have already succeeded. I never did get his testimony, primarily because I didn't know that someday I would be starting this business.
So what I offer to all of you and the rest of the world is my Pine and Prairie Healing Salve, 1 oz tin for $7.00 plus S&H. A far cry less expensive than the other brand previously mentioned.
If anyone is interested, please contact me at pineandprairietradingpost@yahoo.com
Thank you all for taking the time to listening to the wonderful story of salve.
Stay tuned next week for the recipe of our yogurt cheese, your going to LOVE it!!
And as always, we appreciate your time at our blog. ~Amy & Eddie
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