Welcome to Real World Homesteading! For those of you who follow my other blogs, I realize that it’s been a long time since I updated. The New Year has given me a whole new level of enthusiasm and ideas and I am hoping to share what I know and gather some of the best links…
Winter & Holiday Inspirations
The cold has set in much earlier than expected this year. But the sound of hammering and sawing and the prospect of all new and energy efficient replacement windows and ceiling fans being installed earlier this month has given this old cabin a new lease on life. My own projects have been following a similar…
Digging Out
These past few weeks have been rather insane for me. In the final bits of getting the house refinanced, had loggers come in and harvest the trees that we had arranged for early this past spring. I have cleaned like a fiend for the appraiser, had 2.5 times the amount of new client articles dumped…
Agrimonia eupatoria
Agrimonia eupatoria (Rosaceae) Common Names: Agrimony, Church Steeples, Liverwort, Sticklewort, Stickwort, Cockleburr, Warlock’s Bane,Philanthropos, Garclive Planetary Influence: Jupiter Element: Air Gender: Masculine Tarot Correspondence: The Wheel of Fortune Description: Gray-green cinquefoil leaves, yellow flowers shaped of stars, the scent of apricots and seeds or burrs that stick to your garments as you pass by. Medicinal…
Achillea millefolium
Archillea millefolium Common Names: Achi Uea, Achilles Wort, Achilles Herb, Arrowroot, Bad Man’s Plaything, Carpenter’s weed, Death Flower, Devil’s Nettle, Eerie, Field ops, Gearwe, Green Arrow, Herba Muilitaris, Hundred Leaved Grass, Knights Milfoil, Knyten, Milfoil, Militaris, Military Herb, Millefolium, Noble Yarrow, Nosebleed, Old Man’s Mustard, Old Man’s Pepper, Sanguinary, Seven Year’s Love, Squirrel Tail, Snake…
Aconitum napellus
(Aconitum napellus) Also knowne as ‘Wolfsbane’, or ‘Monkshood’, is an herb that has been used by Wytches since time immemorial. It is, as they say, a deadly poison and should be handled with great care. Legend has it that this herb can kill a wolf on its own, and indeed one fifth of one grain…
Acacia Nilotica
Acacia Nilotica is known throughout the Craft as a religious herb and an herb of consecration and of funerary rites. This herb is ruled by both the son and Mars and is used to invoke the god Osiris, or as the Aegyptians call Him, Wasir. Other common names are Christ-Thorn, as it is believed to…
A Beginning….
I have been sitting on this blog for a while, hoping that I would actually have some interesting things to post. A new beginning has come, and will launch on October 31st.
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