Jess' Journal

As featured in the Spring 2023 Trailblazer magazine... Foraging, also known as wildcrafting, is the act of gathering wild plants; a means of survival in the past. Today you can learn...

Part 3 in our Garden Series Blog where we share our experience with having a permaculture style garden in zone 3b central Alberta. This blog discusses tending to your garden...

Part 2 in our Garden Series Blog where we share our experience with having a permaculture style garden in zone 3b central Alberta. This blog discusses seed starting and planting...

Part 1 in our Garden Series Blog where we share our experience with having a permaculture style garden in zone 3b central Alberta. This blog post explores planning a garden...

An interview for Jess from another maker, Janine at Wheat & Wildflower Handmade.

We were recently interviewed on "The Rural Woman Podcast" with Katelyn Duban where we talk about running our business, living rural and our love of the prairies.

Prairie Soap Shack's origin story and how our business has evolved over the past five years.

My top three ways to have a natural home start with reading every label!

We celebrated winter solstice this year by adapting an old family sugar cookie recipe to include spruce needle.

A look into our fall article titled "Leaning on our Sisters" for the magazine TrailblazHer.

Autumn is a beautiful season to be outside foraging for fall's last offerings to us. Read what I will be wildcrafting this autumn.

We have recently switched our packaging to a new look with custom boxes and sleeves for each bar of soap.  This is the back story of why we did this.