Simple Summer Herbal Remedies to Make Now to Be Ready for Summer

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Homesteading Family

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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With summer comes scrapes, burns, stings and bites. Let's prepare our herbal medicine cabinets now so we're armed and ready for the season! In this episode, I'm sharing three of my go-to remedies for the summer, including a calendula sunburn salve, plantain bug bite balm and a peppermint lemon cooling spray. For the printable, step-by-step recipes, visit the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/how-to-start-using-medicinal-herbs/ Thanks to Azure Standard for sponsoring this podca...

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1:27.0	Hey, you guys, and welcome to this week's edition of the pantry chat, food for thought.
1:32.8	I am Carolyn from homesteading family, and today I am here solo to talk about one of my
1:40.9	favorite, favorite topics to talk about in the whole world. And that's herbalism. We're going to be
1:47.7	talking about some simple herbal remedies that even a beginner herbalist can make in their own kitchen
1:56.7	to be ready for all of the summer bumps and bruises and owies and sunburns and all the things that tend to happen around the house and around the homestead during the summer.
2:10.6	So again, these are really, really simple projects that you can do.
2:15.6	So if you're interested in herbalism but haven't quite
2:19.1	weighted in yet, these are some really great things to start with. We're going to be covering
2:26.1	three must have summer useful herbs and talking about what they're good for. And then we're
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