Prairieland Herbs Blog - Adventures from the Farm

Randomness about our life, work, and stuff that happens on our herb farm. Our business is prairielandherbs.com, a mother-daughter team with a 2 acre farm and shop in Central Iowa.

Monday, November 06, 2006

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WOW! The fiber classes this past weekend were AWESOME! We had SUCH a good time. This pictures shows what John dyed during the Sunday "...
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And this kitty lives at our neighbors, at P icket Fence Creamery . I don't know her name, but we just happened to see he cuddled up in t...
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Sorry, guys, I've been really bad about posting lately. Ill try to make up for it! This is "Go", which is Japanese for "f...

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So - it's that time of year when the garden is put to bed, so, we spend time now (october and early Nov.) really stocking up for the hol...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

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Here's a lovely recipe to warm up your November day! Thank you to Betty, who let me post it! Betty's Chocolate Chai Betty says ...
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Monday, October 16, 2006

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I am experimenting and playing with natural dyes, and, have saved the leftover "tea" from our last few batches of hydrosol. The wa...
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FROST! We had our official hard freeze on Wednesday night. *sigh* I had some lemongrass, lemon verbena, and a bit of lemon eucalyptus that h...
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Friday, October 06, 2006

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Here's a lovely recipe from our website - perfect for fall. :) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Recipe courtesy of Kristine Farley of herb...
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It's soo quiet out there - what's everyone doing?? To get things moving, we're doing a $5 flat-rate shipping sale over the weeke...
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Thursday, October 05, 2006

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I love it when so many things intersect so beautifully! Since I'm starting to learn about natural dyeing, I'm extra-glad that my sti...
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Sunday, October 01, 2006

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Anyone interested in natural dyeing? (It's herb-related, right?) :) That's what I'm doing at home today, for fun. :) I posted mo...
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Friday, September 29, 2006

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This is Moe, doing what he does best. Relaxing. And guarding his precious catnip stash! (I mean, we only have dozens of catnip plants....th...
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This is Sassy. Originally, we named his Sasquatch, because he has BIG feet, with extra toes! (Yup, he's a polydactyl. a dinosaur cat, he...
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Skeezix , you crack us up! What a cool cat you are! We dont' have vishus deer here, but yesterday Mo and Violet had to deal with somethi...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

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Mo and Violet, two of our shop kitties, being super-cute, sleeping in the sun. :) They give a big shout out to Missy Blue Eyes and all the o...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

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Here's a shout out to all our cat-blogging friends, and a big thanks to ML and Missy Blue Eyes for sending them our way! Our FOUR shop ...
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Friday, September 22, 2006

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This is Toby - Maggie's nephew, Donna's grandson. He's 5, and loooove to "help" us in the shop. He was helping to make...
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Thursday, September 21, 2006

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Okay! We're down to ONE space in our sopamaking class. And I've had OODLES of people tell me they want to sign up for this Saturday...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

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A quick bit of news-ey stuff. We have only TWO spots left in our Sept. 30th Soapmaking 101 class, so if you're interested, sign up quick...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

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WHEW! What a week! We had the Midwest Travel Writers tour through on Thursday. They were GREAT! They were only on the farm a half hour, but ...
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Dallas County, Iowa, United States
Donna (the mom), and Maggie, (the daughter) co-own Prairieland Herbs. We have 2 acres of land in central Iowa, and grow our own herbs and flowers, which we use to make herbal bath and body products. We both run our retail store and website full-time.
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