Natural-Living Mamas

Wouldn’t it be great if you had a close-knit group of like-minded friends you could go to when you need advice, suggestions, and encouragement any time of the day or night without having to leave your own home? Motherhood can be lonely and striving to live a natural[…]

Essential Oils Basics

A Toxin-Free Lifestyle If you’ve had a chance to take a peek around the blog you are probably already aware that we are pretty focused on health and wellness around here.  We’ve spent the past 8 years transforming the health of our family through diet and lifestyle changes. […]

Traditional Foods Basics

  Traditional Foods A Traditional Foods Diet is just what it sounds like.  It’s about growing, preparing, and eating food in a way that is consistent with how all people throughout all of history (until very recent times) have grown, prepared, and eaten their food.  No counting calories[…]

how to cook beans

Beans are a nutritious and affordable food, full of antioxidants, fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals, even omega-3s.  Unfortunately for most people, beans are also the cause of terrible, um.. digestive distress. The reason is that beans contain large complex sugars called oligosaccharides. We humans do not produce the enzymes[…]

Bone Broth

For a thousand years or more “chicken soup” has been prescribed by grandmothers all over the world to treat illness.  And for good reason!  Chicken soup – or a bone broth made from the leftover bones – is highly immune-boosting, soothes and heals the gut, relieves joint pain,[…]