If you, are anyone you know grows hearty tomatoes, your vegetable basket is probably overflowing with them right now. Tis’ the tomato season.
My father has a small garden, and the tomatoes are plentiful – so much so, that we cannot keep up with how many he has. Yesterday, I helped him make pots and pots of tomato sauce to freeze and use throughout the colder months. Lucky for me, I was able to have eight containers all to myself!

When we were finished with the sauce and saw how many more tomatoes we still had, he said that there must …read more

While over a friends house recently, she was cleaning out her kitchen and threw away some old fruit. She had an over-ripe banana, and I wondered why she did not dispose of that as well. She said that she was saving it to mash up and make her own Banana Face Mask.
Being totally interested, she mixed up a small batch and we used it on our hands, but she swears it is the best facial mask she has ever used.
To make this mask, simply take a banana, ripe or over-ripe, peel it, and mash it up in a bowl. Then …read more

Well, I am not. But I would like to be.
Why?
I would love to try some of these organic products from Nature Girl.
The looks of the bottles are just too cool, aren’t they? And I should point out that these products are not cheap. I would even consider this line to be more of a luxurious organic line, though it does not represent itself this way.
The facial mask pictured here, I Am Petal is $85. But just look at what it is made with:
Organic Rosa Damascena Oil
Organic Lavender Water
Wildcrafted African Shea Butter
Calendula Oil
Grape Seed Extract
And do you get why I …read more