I just wanted to give everyone a head’s up. If your looking for a gift that’s green, fun and teaches edible and medicinal plants you should check out this great board game. Wildcraft! includes a 20×20 inch game board, instructions, 4 player pieces, 52 plant cards, 52 trouble cards, 25 cooperative cards, and a spinner. It also comes with a downloadable story to enhance the story of the game.

Learn while you play with the Wildcraft board game.

Winner of Dr. Toy’s Best Green Product of 2009 and Mothering Magazine Best Natural Toys of 2008, Wildcraft! is

• Made in the U.S.A.

• Box/board made with 100% recycled chipboard.

• Printed with vegetable oil based inks.

• Water based coating on paper, no varnish.

• Forest Stewardship Council certified paper.

• All material is 100% recyclable

Wildcraft! is a great introduction to the world of edible and medicinal herbs for children of ALL ages.

They’re also giving away SEVEN highly prized bonus items.

* Bonus 1: Herbal Remedies for the Cold & Flu Season (PDF)

* Bonus 2: The Dandelion Activity eBook (PDF)

This 20 page children’s activity book is a nice
companion to the Wildcraft game.

* Bonus 3: Kids, Herbs and Health 90 minute mp3 Audio! (mp3)

A wonderful 90 minnute audio eClass on using herbs safe and
effectively with kids. Includes PDF transcript.

* Bonus 4: Herbal Medicine Chart

This 10 inch by 10 inch medicine cabinet sized chart is
from the Home Remedy Secrets Video eBook. It is located inside
the game box.

* Bonus 5: Herbal Roots Zine: Full Issue! (pdf)

This amazing magazine has over 20 pages of information,
games, activities, and recipes for the herb Calendula. Calendula
is an herb featured in Wildcraft. A great opportunity to learn
more about this easy to grow and versatile herb.

* Bonus 6: Herbal Gifts eBook  (pdf)

A 14 page eBook with many herbal gift ideas including, sachets,
herbal eye pillows, facial scrubs, oils, bee pollen candy, honey,
syrup, chai and more!

* Bonus 7: Understanding H1N1 and our Remedies from Nature (mp3)

This informative special edition HerbMentor Radio episode
covers h1n1, herbal prevention, and natural treatments.

That’s nearly $140 worth of goodies …and you get it all FREE
when you order Wildcraft at $19.99, nearly 50% off.

Learn while you play with the Wildcraft board game.

There’s alot going on here at The RiverRest this spring. We’ve been busy getting the garden ready, preparing the soil and starting transplants. It seems like every year it gets bigger.

We had to find ways to keep the chickens out of the garden. All of the Bamboo that Charley and Tony cut and hauled here really came in handy. We used it to build a fence around the main garden and the Potato Patch. So Far So Good. We’ll be publishing our stick fence building experiences as soon as we get around to writing it. In the meantime, here’s some photos of our new bamboo fences.

Last year we built a primitive stick fence around the new Strawberry Patch. We used sticks, limbs and twigs from the woods. It lasted the Winter but was in need of some repairs so we decided to try something new with the bamboo.

Probably the most exciting thing to happen is with the chickens. Red, one of our hens, went broody. She started sitting on a few eggs so we jumped at the chance to let her hatch them.

I’ve got many things I want to tell you all about. Like about how our dog Pearl has become an egg retriever, making Dandelion Jelly and what to do with KnotWeed. So, please bear with me. I’ll get around tuit, soon, I promise!

A dear friend of ours planted a butterfly garden outside her kitchen window. The flowers bloomed and the butterflies were her delight. She told everyone about her beautiful garden and the abundance of wonderful butterflies that it attracted. It was refreshing to see someone, who in her sixties, get so excited about something so simple.

One day my mother stopped by to pay our friend a visit. Immediately she noticed that the butterfly garden was gone, destroyed, she said it looked as if a tornado had touched down and left the flowers strewn about in heaps all over the ground. [Read more →]

As I was enjoying my morning coffee, listening to the birds, chickens, and the creek as it tumbled across the rocks I began to feel a bit poetic. Susan and Tony suggested that I post it so here it is. I hope you enjoy it. [Read more →]

What would you do if in the morning when you awoke there was no electricity, if in the morning electricity as we know it no longer existed, what would you do then? There would be no lights, radios, televisions, computers, or telephones. Gas pumps, elevators, cooking stoves, nor vending machines would operate, what would you do then? [Read more →]