Jess' Journal

All proceeds being donated to Nature Conservancy of Canada.  This collaborative project includes an all-natural bar of soap and recycled plastic soap dish.

I’ve been pondering the upcoming winter solstice, so I started to research this time of year more.  Naturally, I threw myself into reading all about the historical significance and ended...

On warm summer days when I am out foraging with my husband and kids, it’s easy for me to forget that our back country is different than a lot of...

Spring is around the corner now and with the warming weather, a taste of being outdoors more in our Northern land is a delightful thought.  One year into this global...

Vinegar Herbal Hair Rinse Update May 2024- I am still making this every Spring (five years in a row now) and I am using wild Violets and this year I...

Flower Facial Steam A steam is a quick and easy way to clean facial skin when you don’t have time to make it to your outdoor sauna in your woods. ...

  As a rural woman, fall is a busy time of year with harvesting.  Harvesting our grain crops, our vegetable garden & wild herbs.  Gathering the crops is one thing...

When I think about the Prairies and the most known native plants, I think of the Wild Rose (Alberta’s provincial flower), Silver Willow and its strong perfume and finally the...

Wild Gooseberries Ribes oxyacanthoides (Canadian Gooseberry) which is in the same family as currents.  Have you eaten them before?  Heard of them?  I feel like they’re a forgotten berry here...

What are Bitters? Ever heard of bitters before?  Bitters are bitter herbs infused into alcohol and used as a digestive aid, to be taken before or after a meal.  This...

By now we probably all have our garden seeds planted here in Alberta and our flower pots and planters looking fabulous on our decks.  Hopefully you planted some herbs being...

  To say 2020 has been a strange year is an understatement.  The devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected all our lives in many ways.  The part I want...