Healthy Muffin Recipe With Bran And Buckwheat
Spicy, hearty muffins baking in the oven on a cold New England morning will warm your heart and your kitchen. In recent years, many of us have moved away from baking or even from eating baked goods. We know that we don’t need the sugar, fat, flour or extra calories. This is an enlightenment of…
10 Posts To Review 2013
Happy New Year! Before looking forward to 2014’s opportunities, we wanted to take a step back to reflect on this last year through the posts we’ve featured on our website. Please enjoy some of our favorite and most popular articles featured over the last 12 months.
Meditation And The 2013 Winter Solstice
This article is written by Lena Yakubowski, yoga teacher and communications assistant at the Herbal Academy of New England. This time of year is busy for many of us. The stores are busting at the seams as people try to get their items needed for holiday cheer, and the roads seem more congested than ever….
14 Last Minute DIY Christmas Gifts
Whether you fell behind on your Christmas shopping or are looking for an extra little something to gift to a friend or family member, here is a beautiful list of last minute DIY Christmas gifts that we are sure you’ll enjoy. From the herbalist to the bird lover to the foodie, there is something for…
Herbal Gift Box
This article is written by Lena Yakubowski, yoga teacher and communications assistant at the Herbal Academy of New England. Photos by Lena. The holidays are creeping up on us, and I know I’m not the only one feeling a financial pinch. It is a year that I’ve decided to tackle making all of my gifts…
Turmeric Health Benefits: The Golden Goddess
Most of us know turmeric (Curcuma longa) as the vibrant orange powder located in the spice section between thyme and vanilla beans. And many of us use turmeric root powder in our cooking, particularly if we have an affinity for preparing Indian-inspired dishes. Similar to the root-like component of its cousin ginger, turmeric has been a…
Favorite Homemade Body Butter
Wintertime necessitates the use of double-duty moisturizers that protect us from both the cold wind outside and the heated super-dry air inside—something more emollient and longer-lasting than what we might use in the summer months. Body butters to the rescue! Butters provide heavier moisturizing for dry winter conditions, are protective of the skin, and are easy…
Cinnamon for Health: More than Just a Holiday Spice
As a spice, cinnamon plays such a popular role in our breakfast cereals, holiday desserts like pumpkin pie, hot apple cider, and other staples of our cuisine that we tend to forget that it has medicinal properties as well. And while it might not surprise us to learn of its value as an herb, how…
Jazzy Vegetarian Classics Cookbook Review
I have heard many refer to vegans as being alien-like, as if their choices are out of this world. However, it seems like our culture is beginning to finally slow down and notice the damage done in a fast paced lifestyle of convenience over consciousness. We have lost our way and have become disconnected from…
How to Create a Reflection Garden in 4 Steps
With the coming of winter, many of us start to miss time in our gardens. And why shouldn’t we? Our garden is a special, dedicated place. We go to great effort to cultivate the land so that plants of our choosing can have a home. We till the soil, fertilize it, and make sure that…
