Write a blog. Should be easy. I have a ton of ideas and yet when I sit down to write one they all seem to fade away on an elusive tendril of thought in my brain. Anyone else have this problem? My brain, for one, keeps telling me that no one wants to read what … Continue reading Spring
A repost from the retail website This is an introduction to our Bladder Health Tea. This tea is one of our more popular and beneficial teas. The flavor is so wonderfully citrusy and mildly sweet you will want to drink it every day. This tea was blended especially for me at a time of need … Continue reading Bladder Health Tea
Below is my New Year's blog that I posted on our online store site. I like our online store but the site itself doesn't actually work for blogs at the moment. YOU, our customers and friends, can't comment on anything I post there due to current limitations they are working on fixing, maybe. That kinda … Continue reading New Year 2023
"The Greatest Gift" ***Rod passed away on January 17, 2022. After 37 years of beating cancer and helping many, many people, Cancer finally had its way with him. I still considered him a walking miracle as did so many other people, including most of his Allopathic medical physicians over the past year. ~ Susan This … Continue reading A Repost of Rod’s Cancer Story
Fabulous article and recipe using Horseradish. As the author states I was not overly in love with horseradish when I was growing up, unless it was in cocktail sauce with a plate of cold shrimp to go with it, lol. Now, as an adult, I have grown to appreciate this root for all of it's … Continue reading Herbal Heatwave ~ Horseradish condiment recipe
Belfire Botanicals has recently moved our physical location to Eastern Tennessee in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. We now have our own place, Sassafras Ridge Farm, located on 25 beautiful acres close to Cherokee Lake. We can't say enough about how beautiful it is here and how wonderfully nice and helpful the folks are in … Continue reading We’re Back and Open for Business!
This Spring we started free ranging our small herd (20) Angora, and Pygora goats outside the designated fenced pasture area’s of the farm. Goats are browsers and not so much grazers like sheep, cattle and horses. Goats prefer to eat leaves off various trees, bushes and vines according to their preference (including poison Ivy). There … Continue reading Finding my new favorite herbal tea
Generally, the last Thursday of the month, I hold a free lecture series at the local library regarding Herbs, Herbalism, Shamanism, folk medicine, natural and alternative treatments to common health issues. Last week’s discussion was at the request of one of the participants. Requested was a discussion focused on natural treatments of high cholesterol and … Continue reading Using herbs and natural treatments for circulatory system problems
The medicinal and therapeutic benefits of Evergreens Pine: Pinus strobus, White Pine Parts used: Needles/ leaves, Bark, Cones/ seeds, Pollen Pine needles re loaded with vitamins A & C The story of French explorer, Jacques Cartier (cir 1535), who explored the new world for France in the early 16th century was said to have been … Continue reading Evergreens
Stomach virus and the 24 hour ‘Thingy’ What some people refer to as a 'stomach virus' is sometimes actually a mild form of food poisoning. You can most likely tell if it is food poisoning by the rapid onset, and when I mean rapid, it's like "here I go just a walking down the street --- … Continue reading Stomach virus and the 24 hour thingy
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