Refreshing Herbal Mint And Clover Tea Recipe
Spring and summer are the perfect times to forage mint and wild clover to make this herbal tea! Brew up a batch with fresh ingredients, or dehydrate to make later. Enjoying a glass of ice tea after working out in the garden is a refreshing treat! This recipe is super simple, and our younger children…
Cultivating A Love Of Learning In Children
Raising children to have a lifelong love of learning is one of the central goals of homeschooling. Like other great ambitions, it’s challenging to know how to do this when you are first starting out. I’d like to share some of the best ways that we’ve found to cultivate a love of learning in children,…
Healthy Blueberry Melon Smoothie Recipe
This refreshing blueberry melon smoothie is a great way to use fresh garden produce in the summer, or add frozen fruit instead and enjoy it anytime of the year! We grow a lot of melons in our garden, and love incorporating them in smoothies. One of our favorites is this blueberry melon recipe because it’s…
Easy Homestead Breakfast Frittata Recipe
This savory frittata recipe is a great way to use fresh eggs and veggies on the homestead. We make this every week, and it’s always a little different depending on what we have available. It makes a great base recipe with all sorts of variations. I’ll show you how we make this easy homestead breakfast…
Morel Hunting – How To Forage This Wild Mushroom
If you are interested in foraging wild edibles, read on to learn some of the best ways we’ve found to harvest, prepare, store, and forage the wild morel mushroom. “That was just a detour, a shortcut.” ~Merry “A shortcut to what?” ~Sam “Mushrooms!” ~Pippin Morel mushroom hunting is highly anticipated each year during the spring…
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Welcome to Heartwood Holler
This is where we work hard and play hard. Grow food and live seasonally. Nourish bodies, minds, and souls. Where chaos and order are intertwined, and large family logistics reign supreme.
This is where we build friendships and loyalty amidst lego towers and forts. Where the wild things in nature are more than acquaintances, and forest school is just part of everyday life.
This is where we learn skills that some might call old-fashioned. Where we prefer to shop from our pantry rather than the store. Where board games and books and teatime are some of our favorite things. Where memories are made and legacies cultivated.