Herbs

Have extra dried lavender? Make this easy DIY lavender potpourri! It's a beautiful way to preserve your garden harvest and create a natural fragrance for your home using lavender, roses, citrus peel, rosemary, mint, and cinnamon. Have extra dried lavender? Make this easy DIY lavender potpourri! It's a beautiful way to preserve your garden harvest and create a natural fragrance for your home using lavender, roses, citrus peel, rosemary, mint, and cinnamon.

If you grow lavender in your garden, making your own lavender potpourri is a lovely way to enjoy the harvest long after the flowers have finished blooming. Lavender potpourri is simple to make, smells wonderful, and looks beautiful sitting in a bowl or tucked into a pretty jar. You can use lavender from your own…

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Want to preserve your lavender harvest? This simple tutorial walks you through how to press fresh lavender while keeping its beautiful color and delicate shape. Perfect for cottage garden crafts, botanical art, handmade cards, and keepsakes. Want to preserve your lavender harvest? This simple tutorial walks you through how to press fresh lavender while keeping its beautiful color and delicate shape. Perfect for cottage garden crafts, botanical art, handmade cards, and keepsakes.

Lavender is one of those garden plants that is almost as beautiful dried as it is growing in the garden. If you have more lavender than you know what to do with, pressing the flowers is a simple way to preserve them for crafts, cards, journals, homemade decorations, and other projects. Pressed lavender keeps some…

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If you’re planning a lavender garden, you may have noticed that not all lavender looks or grows the same. English lavender and French lavender are two popular choices, but they have some pretty important differences—especially when it comes to hardiness, appearance, fragrance, and how you care for them. Both are beautiful additions to a cottage…

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Turn fresh rosemary into a flavorful homemade oil that's perfect for cooking, drizzling, marinades, and dipping. This easy recipe also makes a beautiful homemade gift when packaged in a pretty bottle. A lovely idea for gift giving, simple homemade living, and homemade pantry projects. Turn fresh rosemary into a flavorful homemade oil that's perfect for cooking, drizzling, marinades, and dipping. This easy recipe also makes a beautiful homemade gift when packaged in a pretty bottle. A lovely idea for gift giving, simple homemade living, and homemade pantry projects.

If you have rosemary growing in your garden, making rosemary olive oil is a wonderful way to bring that fresh, woodsy flavor into the kitchen. It’s delicious drizzled over roasted vegetables, used in marinades, spooned over bread, or added to homemade salad dressings. It also makes a beautiful homemade gift when poured into a pretty…

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Learn how to infuse fresh basil into vinegar for a flavorful pantry staple you can use all year. This easy project is perfect for simple homemade living, building a well-stocked homemade pantry, and making thoughtful handmade gifts for gift giving. Learn how to infuse fresh basil into vinegar for a flavorful pantry staple you can use all year. This easy project is perfect for simple homemade living, building a well-stocked homemade pantry, and making thoughtful handmade gifts for gift giving.

If your garden is producing more basil than you can possibly use, making basil vinegar is one of my favorite ways to preserve that fresh summer flavor. It’s incredibly simple, too. Fresh basil is infused into vinegar until the vinegar takes on that wonderful herbal flavor. Then you can use it in salad dressings, marinades,…

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