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Welcome to the Growing Up Herbal Journal where you'll find information on herbal education, recipes, tutorials, natural living tips and tricks, and behind the scenes glimpses of how I live life naturally.

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So it’s official! We’ve sold our home, and we are now homeless in a sense. We close on our new house on October 2nd, so until then, we are essentially homeless. It feels a bit strange not to own a home! Thankfully, though, once we do own our home, we don’t have to live there […]

No “Instaworthy” home photos here today. Nope. Today you get the real deal—the bare walls, dirty floors, and cluttered room look because this is what real life looks like for us right now. We have packed half of the house so far. If you look at some rooms, it looks like we’re making a dent […]

We have a little over a week left of life as we know it here on the mountain, and that’s a really weird thought to me. I mean, in eight days, this will no longer be my home. I will not be free to roam these woods looking for herbs or doing nature walks with […]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a blog post about the random things on my mind, and I’ve had this one sitting in my drafts folder just waiting for me to add some photos and hit publish, so I decided tonight was the night. The boys are watching a show before bed (not great… […]

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