The Hedge's Fresh Homestead

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04/09/2023

🌱Bird's Eye Speedwell is edible but a bit bitter, it is good for the liver, skin, and wound treatments.

🌿Creeping Charlie is edible, it is an anti-catasrrhal, astringent, exceptotant, diutetic, vulnerary and stimulant.

🌱Johnny Jump Ups blossoms are edible with a mild wintergreen flavor, they are anti-fugal and anti-inflammatory.

🌿Purple deadnettle is edible, it is an astringent, purgative, diuretic, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial.

🌱Common Chickweed is edible, it is used for healing and soothing purposes, such as reducing inflammation and fighting germs.

🍃Field Madder's leaves are poisonous and should be handled with care. Chinese medicine used it for kidney stones, menstrual disorders, urinary tract disorders, wound healing. The root used for these practices.

☘️White Clove is edible, it is used to boost the immune system and treat fever, coughs, and colds

🌱Common Blue Violet is edible, uses have included treatment of the common cold, headache, cough, sore throat and constipation, it is also high in Vitamin C.

🌱Commom Dandelion is edible, it promotes and stimulates digestion, heals minor skin injuries, liver support, female health, reduces inflammation.

☘️Hop Clover is edible, most just use it as a field feed for livestock and replenishing the soil

🌿Mock Strawberry is edible, but not all the tasty. The leaves are known have been used for wound treatments.

🌱Yellow Wood sorrel is edible and has a sour flavor, it has been used to cool skin, soothe the stomach, as a diuretic, and astringent, It is also used to help fevers, urinary tract infections, sore throats, nausea, and mouth sores.

04/06/2023

The newest members of the Hedge's Homestead

04/06/2023

The hens have been laying incredibly large and beautiful eggs! Wow! 🥰😍🐣

03/28/2023

03/26/2023

😂🤣🌱🌿🪴I'll take one of each, please!

03/23/2023

Here are some interesting facts about the dandelion flower:

The dandelion is the only flower that represents the 3 celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars. ☀️ 🌙 ⭐️. The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moon and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars.

The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep. 😴

Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine and dye for coloring.

Up until the 1800s people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva, and chamomile.

The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves. 🦁

Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant.

Dandelion seeds are often transported away by a gust of wind and they travel like tiny parachutes. Seeds are often carried as many as 5 miles from their origin!

Animals such as birds, insects and butterflies consume nectar or seed of dandelion.🐦 🐛 🐜 🦋 🐝.

Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seed.

Dandelion can be used in the production of wine and root beer. Root of dandelion can be used as a substitute for coffee. 🍷 🍺

Dandelions have sunk their roots deep into history. They were well known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and have been used in Chinese traditional medicine for over a thousand years.

Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as diuretic.

If you mow dandelions, they’ll grow shorter stalks to spite you.

Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist, masters of survival worldwide. 💪

A not so fun fact: Every year countries spend millions on lawn pesticides to have uniform lawns of non-native grasses, and we use 30% of the country’s water supply to keep them green.

Bee Happy Gardens 🐝

03/19/2023

Natural dye for eggs! 🐣 🐰

03/18/2023

Already started some of my herbs, veggies and fruits inside!!

03/17/2023

Brown Eggs, Blue Eggs, and Green Eggs

When you crack a brown egg open, the inside of the shell will be white. When you crack a blue egg open, the inside of the shell will be blue. The color or "dye" is applied by the hen depending on the breed. Brown egg layers apply the brown color fairly late in the egg laying process and, therefore, it doesn't pe*****te the shell. It takes 26 hours in total to form an egg. A brown egg layer will apply the color in the last 4 to 6 hours of the laying process. Blue egg layers apply the color early in the process, therefore, the blue pigment pe*****tes to the inside of the shell. Green egg layers are a result of a blue egg laying breed and a brown egg laying breed, thus, creating a green exterior shell that is blue inside.
Amazing stuff :)