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Fight off cold or flu while boosting your immune system with our locally sorted honey, garlic, ginger infusions.
And homemade Fire Cider.

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Local Blueberry, Raw Honey ,Fresh Organic Lemon Jam.

Garden fresh Zucchini Relish

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Fermented garden fresh carrots and cabbage( sourkraut) two flavors garlic and dill or garlic, jalapeños, sweet pepper, crushed red chili. Available Aug 14.

Yesterdays find. W***e Hound.

The parts that grow above the ground are used to make medicine. White horehound is used for digestion problems including diabetes, loss of appetite, indigestion, bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation, and liver and gallbladder complaints. Liver and gallbladder problems. Fluid retention, Coughs and colds.5 Health Benefits of Horehound
1. Cough Relief
Horehound is an ingredient often found in herbal lozenges and syrups used for the natural treatment of coughs. There’s a good reason why this herb is employed in these natural cough remedies. As I mentioned, it contains naturally occurring plant compounds called diterpenes. More specifically, its major active chemical compound is a diterpene called marrubiin. We can likely thank marrubiin for horehound’s expectorant ability. In other words, horehound can help cough sufferers to get rid of that nasty mucus that is clogging up their airways. (4)
Research has also shown that horehound has both antispasmodic and analgesic (pain-relieving) effects. These are two more good reasons why it is a great natural cough reliever. (5)
2. Digestive Aid
Researchers also believe that marrubiin is the reason that horehound has a bitter taste. Along with foods like endive and horseradish, horehound is believed to be one of the Bible’s bitter herbs. (6) It’s bitter flavor makes it an excellent choice for improving digestion since plants that taste bitter have been shown to help in managing dyspepsia also known as indigestion or upset stomach. (7)
Why are bitter foods helpful to healthy digestion? The taste of bitter herbs actually helps to increase the production of saliva and gastric juices. This is exactly what you want when you’re eating because these crucial bodily fluids help to break down the food you eat. “Over time we have developed a ‘bitter reflex’ which upon recognizing the taste on the tongue begins to stimulate and tonify organs of digestion including the stomach, liver, gallbladder and pancreas.” (8)
Bitter foods like horehound are a great choice if you struggle with poor digestion. When your food is broken down in optimal fashion, you’re much less likely to suffer from digestive complaints like indigestion and gas.
3. Motion Sickness Remedy
For some people, symptoms of motion sickness can result from the movement of travel by car, boat or plane. Horehound has been used as a traditional remedy for motion sickness. The recommended dosage is one to two milliliters as a tincture. Or use one to two teaspoons of leaves steeped as a tea, taken three times per day. (9)
4. Bronchitis As an expectorant herb, M. vulgare can be a really helpful remedy when it comes to the intense congestion of bronchitis. When you have bronchitis, the tubes that carry air to your lungs (bronchial tubes) are inflamed. This inflammation causes a cough, which can often be intense and persistent. Horehound can be helpful since it has been found to not only act as an expectorant (helping to get mucus up), but also to promote vasodilators effects. (10) Vasodilatation is when the smooth muscle within the blood vessels relax and the blood vessels widen. This results in a better flow of oxygenated blood.
5. Appetite Stimulant Sometimes people struggle with a lack of appetite for various reasons including stress, pregnancy, hypothyroidism, metabolic problems, liver disease and more. (11) Bitter herbs like M. vulgare have a long history of use as a digestive tonic as well as an appetite stimulant. Horehound’s ability to improve saliva and gastric juice output makes it very helpful for increasing the appetite.
Diabetes. Early research suggests that drinking tea prepared from white horehound before meals, in addition to taking medication for diabetes, for 3 weeks slightly slower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. However, drinking tea prepared from guarumo for the same duration seems to have a greater blood sugar-lowering effect.Horehound Recap
A cup of horehound tea may help to decrease the pain of a sore throat caused by cough and may boost digestion. The tea can be consumed using dried leaves or fresh leaves from plants in your garden. Just steep the leaves in boiling water for 5 to 10 minutes and add sweetener if desired. The flavor is best suited for individuals who enjoy strong, bitter flavors.
Pregnancy/Lactation
Information regarding safety and efficacy in pregnancy and lactation is lacking. Avoid use. Horehound has emmenagogue (to stimulate menstrual flow) and abortive effects.

Tea will be available mid August

T&T Off Grid journey started just over 3 years ago.
On a remote lake, totally off grid in Northern Manitoba our only utility is satellite internet.
We use solar, with back up generator for power.
We haul water 5g at a time for 6 months of the year.
We grow most of our own food, our soil hauled across 2 lakes, portage mixed with our own compost.
We've carried baby chickens, geese, turkeys, meat birds and rabbit's across those lakes, and even hatched out some of our own.

I do our laundry by hand, bake our bread and use only 100% natural cleaning products.

I've been a diligent student of herbal medicine, gardening, food preservation as well as essential oils.

I make medicinal teas, Tinctures , natural skin, injury and wound care products.

We forage or grow 80% of the ingredients we use.

We would like to share our knowledge, skills and products with those who see the value of going back to the old way of living, thriving , not dependent on the system or pharmaceutical industry.