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Make your own healing calendula + lavender salve (with no special equipment)
Make your own healing calendula + lavender salve (with no special equipment)

handmade, homegrown, natural skincare, plants as medicine

Make your own healing calendula + lavender salve (with no special equipment)

This calendula salve — handmade using homegrown flowers — has fast become the only face and body cream I use. Happily, it's easy to make...

Koren Helbig2022-06-07T17:36:16+09:30May 6th, 2021|handmade, homegrown, natural skincare, plants as medicine|0 Comments

Using herbs as gentle medicine: a walk through Patrizia’s herb garden
Using herbs as gentle medicine: a walk through Patrizia’s herb garden

eating weeds, homegrown, organic gardening, plants as medicine

Using herbs as gentle medicine: a walk through Patrizia’s herb garden

Join me on a walk through the garden of South Australian medical herbalist, Patrizia Bronzi, and learn simple uses for everyday herbs.

Koren Helbig2020-10-10T09:40:09+10:30October 10th, 2020|eating weeds, homegrown, organic gardening, plants as medicine|0 Comments

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My Top 25 Permaculture Books list to get you going with organic gardening & sustainable living.

I read a lot. These are the books I’ve found best for practical inspiration and actionable skills. I’ll also send you my occasional newsletter, full of even more good things to try at yours :)

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Ngathu tampinthi Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya. Ngathu Kaurna yartangka tikanthi, tirkanthi, warpulayinthi.

I acknowledge and pay my respect to the Kaurna people, the traditional custodians of the land on which I live, learn and work.