First Day of Windsong Homeschool

Wet Felting Flowers

The Colors of Our Budding Homeschool

Lemon Balm

Lemon balm infusion for tea and to freeze for popsicles.

Coffee Filter Butterflies

Butterfly

Elderberry

Vinyards... Not Just for Grownups??

Eucalyptus

We harvest the leaves from some fallen branches out back...



We cut them up into small pieces and made a tincture...



...and some eucalyptus-infused honey. Maybe tomorrow we will dye wool and silk with the dried leaves.

While we cut the leaves I told the girls some eucalyptus stories. We talked about what kinds of remedies we could make and what ailments they would cure. They retain more than I imagined they would: yesterday Isla had a splinter in her foot and she said, "We need plantain! I have to make a poultice to pull the splinter out of my foot!" Today she said she had a stuffy nose, "But I don't want to breathe in eucalyptus steam!"