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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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In this week’s vlog, we’re heading to the oldest community in Tennessee to explore the annual Native Heritage Days festival. Next up, I’m heading out of town to pick up some Aldi groceries and do some shopping to fill my autumn capsule wardrobe out. Lastly, the fish for our pond have arrived, and we’re all […]

Y’all know how much I love my seasonal Spotify playlists, right? Today, I’m sharing not one but two of my favorite Spotify autumn playlists with you. The first autumn playlist is instrumental, and I love listening to it when we’re doing homeschool work, when I’m reading, or simply when I want some background music that’s […]

If you like to read books that fit each seasonal as I do, here’s a list of good reads to put on your autumn reading list I’m not sure what it is, but there’s something about the season of autumn that calls for me to brew a cup of autumn golden milk or chai tea, […]

One of my favorite ways to use essential oils is to scent my home, especially during the autumn season. Not only do autumn essential oil blends make our house smell lovely and give us that homey fall feeling, but they can help prevent illnesses from spreading depending on the essential oils (EO) used as well. […]

Because I love the idea of living seasonally so much, I decided that instead of sitting around wishing and dreaming seasonal living into my life, that I would get busy and create a list of practical things I could do this year to live more fully during autumn. If you’re curious about what I’ll be […]

In this week’s vlog, I’m getting creative and refreshing some containers and hanging baskets with perennial plants for the autumn season (and hopefully longer!). Join me as I update some old hanging baskets and then fill them with two different blends of plants. Thanks for joining me this week at Wild Rose Cottage in East […]

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