Nimhue's Root Connection
a blog about all things good and green, living with the land, & loving with the whole heart
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COOKING:
How to Cook Over a Fire
Non-Toxic Cooking Equipment
Mise en Place
How to Cook Organ Meat
Cooking with Water
How to Steam Vegetables
BAKING:
All-Purpose Gluten Free Flour
Making your own Yeast Starter
How to make Frosting Flowers
Gluten Free Basic Bread
How to Crumb Coat a Cake
Cake Troubleshooting
How to make Royal Icing
Homemade Crackers
GARDENING:
How to Grow Garlic
How to Grow Strawberries
Starting a Vermiculture
Finding a Natural Nursery
Reducing Soil Plastic
What is Permaculture?
Why Organic?
Organic Gardening Tips & Tricks
Assessing Your Soil Type
Making a Dried Flower Crown
How to Make a Bouquet
Growing Cut Flowers
How to Prune Apple Trees
Why you (usually) can't Grow a Plant from Store Produce
COMPOSTING:
Black Gold and the Art of Composting
How to Build a Pallet Compost Bin
Composting 101
Vermiculture
Can you Really Compost "compostable" Packaging?
NATIVE PLANTS:
Identifying Native Plants
Why Native Plants are Important
Saving Native Plant Seeds
What can we Consider as Native in a Changing Climate
Growing Native Plants
Native Plants for the Shade Garden
Native Plants for Wet Soil
Native Plant Books
BIODIVERSITY:
How to Promote Biodiversity in your Yard
Learning to Love the Creepy Crawlies
Why you should STOP Spraying (and what do do instead)
Why you should STOP Mowing (and what to do instead)
HOUSEPLANTS:
Natural Houseplant Care
Best Houseplant Sourcing
How to Prevent Root Rot
Houseplant Books
Successful Cuttings
Houseplants from Seed
When you need Grow Lights
When you need a Green House
How to Convince your Friends not to Kill their Plants
Houseplants for Kids
NATURAL SKILLS:
How to Build a Fire
How to Make Shelter
How to Purify Water
How to Navigate by Stars
How to Find North
Context Clues
What the Trees Tell You
What the Rocks Tell You
Observing Wildlife
Tracking
Making Cordage
How to Eat a Tree
How to Find Water
How to Find Society
How to Not Get Lost
SEED LIBRARY:
How to Start a Seed Library
How to Maintain a Seed Library
Funding your Seed Library
How to do Germ Tests
How to get Kids Involved
Making your own Stamp
BIRDWATCHING:
The Merlin App
Audubon Society
Best Birdwatching Trails
How to Photograph a Bird
Feather Identification
Books about Birds
BIG NIGHT:
How to Host a Big Night Party
How to Participate in a Big Night
Common Amphibians Identification
Infrastructure to Help Amphibians
Free Downloadable Signs
How to Make a "Toad Abode" for your Garden
Books about Amphibians
NATURALIST:
SUSTAINABLE LIVING:
How to Start Composting
Good, Better, Best System
Moving away from Plastic
Bulk Buying
Why Glass is Great
Natural All-Purpose Cleaning Spray
Natural Wood Polish
Natural Laundry Soaps
Homemade Lip Balm
Why Buy Organic
Using the Whole Animal
Making Scrap Broth
Making Bone Broth
How to Buy Fish
Castile Soap 101
Alternatives to Soda
The Real Cost of Eating Out
How to Make a Zero Waste Travel Kit
Sustainable Commuting
Labels to Look For (and which are bologna)
Sustainable Living Resources
Why you Don't Need Cooking Spray
Alternatives to Bug Spray
HOMESTEADING:
Making your own Cheese
Ways to use up Milk
Darning Socks
Mending Clothes with Style
How to Make Buttons
How to Sew Throw Pillows
How to Make a SCOBY
How to Brew Kombucha
Flavoring Kombucha
What is Kombucha?
How to Start a Farmstand
Raising Chickens 101
How to Remove Stains
The Benefits of an Apron
What to Stock
How to Barter and Trade
FORAGING:
How to Preserve your Foraged Foods
Fiddleheads
Ramps
Establishing a Ramps Patch
Wild Greens
Foraging Books
Spring Foraging
Summer Foraging
Fall Foraging
Winter Foraging
Foraging Mushrooms: Basics
Black Trumpet Gravy
Shaggy Mane Ink for Writing
How to Draw on an Artist's Conk
All About Chaga
The Lesser Known Tree Syrups
Maine Maple Sunday
How to Tap a Maple
Making Maple Syrup
FISHING:
How to Start Fishing
Ice Fishing
Is it Safe to Fish Anymore?
Pan Frying Fish
Stuffed Fish
Using the Whole Fish
Fish Identification
Understanding Fishing Laws
How to Engage Kids while Fishing
Ocean Fishing
Fly Fishing
How to Tie Flies
Fishing Guides
HERBALISM:
Tea Blending
Starting an Herb Garden
Herbalism Resources
Herbs for Immunity
Herbs for your Moon Cycle
Herbs for Promoting Fertility
Herbs for Anxiety
Herbs for Depression
Herbs for Headache
Herbs for Digestion
Incorporating Herbals into your Diet
Herbal Safety
Foraging Herbs
WELLNESS:
Why You Should Avoid Sugar
Why You Should Avoid Gluten
Avoiding Toxins
Do a Toxicity Test
What is your Circadian Rhythm?
Natural Flu Prevention
Eating for Pregnancy
Weight Loss the Natural Way
Weight Gain the Natural Way
All About Candida
FIBER:
Growing Dye Plants
Foraging Dye Plants
How to Make Dye
How to Dye Wool
Why you should use Real Wool
Sheep / Alpaca / Llama / Rabbit: Differences
How to Spin
Growing Flax for Fiber
Spinning Flax
SEWING:
Making Flax Packs
How to Make Balsam Pillows
Threading a Bobbin
How to set up a Sewing Machine
How to Hand Sew
How to Embroider
Embroidering Clothes
BASKETRY:
Foraging Basketry Materials
Growing Basketry Materials
Types of Baskets
How to Make a Pine Needle Basket
How to Make a Picnic Basket
Selling your Baskets
Basketry Techniques
Basketry Books
LEATHER WORKING:
Leatherworking 101
How to Sew Leather
Tools of the Trade
Making a Small Pouch
Sourcing Leather Sustainably
Tanning your own Leather
WOODWORKING:
How to Whittle
How to make a Wooden Tool Handle
How to Build a Bookshelf
How to Carve Animals
How to Carve a Necklace
PAINTING:
Making your own Paint
Alternative Canvases: Painting on things that Aren't Paper
How to Paint on Birch Bark
How to Compose a Painting
Hosting a Paint Night
WRITING:
How to Start Journaling
Don't Lose Your Ideas
The Power of Drafts
Expression through Poetry
COMMUNITY:
How to Host a Clothing Swap
How to Host a Seed Swap
How to Host a Potluck
How to Protest
How to Get to Know your Community
Beyond People: The Community of Life
How to Have an Open Door
The Art of Letter Writing
STORYTELLING:
How to host a Story Circle
Best Classic Stories
Best Greek Myths
Best Fables
Best Fairytales
Making up a New Story
READING:
How to Start a Little Free Library
Why you Should Use the Library
How to get Kids Reading
How to Incorporate Reading into Your Life
Best Books for Young Adults
Classic Books
Best Non-fiction Works
MINDFULNESS:
How to Calm Down
How to Let it Go
How to Accept What Is
Books on Mindfulness
How to Stop Hating
How to Stop Carrying a Grudge
There is no Right or Wrong
How to Love your Body as it Is
The Process of Deattachment
Working with Grief
COMMUNICATION:
How to Be a Good Listener
How to Disengage an Argument
The Hidden Message in What They're Saying
When to Stop Talking in a Fight
How to be Persuasive
How to Ask for What You Need
How Not to Gaslight
What is the Right Thing to Say
Speaking with Integrity
Speaking with Purpose
How to Improve your Vocabulary
Public Speaking 101
SABBATS AND HOLIDAYS:
Natural Egg Dyeing
Celebrating the Sabbats
History of the Sabbats
Sabbats for Children
CONCEPTION, BIRTH, and PREGNANCY:
What is a Doula?
What is a Midwife?
Herbs to Aid Conception
Best Guides to Pregnancy
Breastfeeding 101
RAISING CHILDREN:
What is Montessori
Woodland Scavenger Hunt
Making Faery Wings and Wands
How Not to Be Controlling
The Mud Pie Kitchen
Never Resort to Bribery
What Screens are Doing to Kids
How to Raise Kids Differently (and how to talk about it)
How to Get Kids to Like Veggies
How to Have non-Materialistic Holidays
It Takes a Village
What if I Don't Want my Child Around (certain family member)?
How to Cloth Diaper
How to Homeschool
A New Way to Look at Naming Kids
MENSTRUATION:
How to Menstruate in the Woods
Natural Period Care
How to Make your own Pads
Soothing Itching During your Period
How to Know your Cycle
What is Menstruation?
How to Talk about Menstruation with Kids
How to Talk about Menstruation with a Spouse
Honoring the Cycle: How to Have a Moon Ritual
How to Clean Stains
Things I wish my Mother taught Me
CONTRACEPTION & ABORTION:
Abortion Laws
Miscarriage vs Abortion
Herbal and Natural Contraception
Cycle Syncing
How to Talk About Abortion with a Spouse
How to Talk About Abortion with a Parent
How to Make the Decision to Have an Abortion
What is an Abortion Doula?
Debunking Abortion Myths
DEATH:
What is a Death Doula?
Green Burials
How to Write a Will
Why You Should Write a Will
Preparing for the End with Grace
Is the End Really the End?
Burial and Funeral Customs Around the World
Why we Need to Stop Embalming
Burial Ethics
Leaving a Legacy
ETHICS & ENVIRONMENT:
Waterbodies as Living Beings
Respecting Animals While Eating Them
Why Generative AI is Bad News
How to Prevent Ticks
Outdoor Cats
Should I Have a Child?