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.

Friday, August 22, 2008

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$5 shipping sale!!!! Head on over to our website . Any size order shipped for only $5! (In the US only. sorry, international folks....)
Monday, August 11, 2008

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Fantastic food blog - Zoe Bakes . (Thanks Jill for pointing it out to me!) Also. When my computer blew up a few months ago, apparently I lo...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

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Our neighbors at Picket Fence Creamery are holding an old-fashioned bean-walking party. Here's what they say: "..It became too ...
Monday, August 04, 2008

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Our friend Tina, of the Essential Herbal Magazine (great magazine, go subscribe if you haven't already! ) has a wonderful blog post up ...

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Last week, our fantastic farrier, Kim, came to trim the horses' hooves. This is a regular occurrence, for their health and safety. She...
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Sunday, August 03, 2008

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It's here, it's here, it's here! The August Luxury Soap of the Month - Moroccan rose. *swoon* If you love florals - REAL florals...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

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I spent 5 minutes walking around the farm yesterday getting pics. So here is a 5 minute tour of the farm! Go was having a nap by the doggie ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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We've been getting emails about our violet jelly , lately, so I'll answer some of the common questions about it here. :) 1) what doe...
Monday, July 28, 2008

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ARGH. STORMS. We had HUGE storms here last night. I don't know how much it rained, but it seems like it rained for hours. When donna che...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

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As promised - pictures of the storm damage from last weeks 80-100 MPH straight line winds. This is donna's deck, which basically just di...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

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Folks have been walking in the store lately going "hmm. why are the shelves so empty"? Well THIS is why. we've just been quite...
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Another great hydrosol article! Courtesy of the Aromatic Plant Project. Hydrosols and 101 ways to use them
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Check out this great article on using eucalyptus hydrosol to soothe the symptoms of hay fever . We distill our eucalyptus hydrosol from fre...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

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We had some interesting weather last night - not tornadoes, but "near-tornadic activity". (For those of you that don't live in...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

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2 of the babies! Baron on the left, and Delilah on the right. They're a few months apart in age. Random grasses Purple coneflower in the...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

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Oh, gads. We're going to be at the Downtown Des Moines farmer's market tomorrow - and the weather forecast is a predicted 70% chance...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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More new pictures, for our new picture project. I really love this picture of our body scrubs . Also, I really love our salt scrubs. Both Do...

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*swoon* We distilled the fresh lavender (see post below). Can i just say - WOW?! We used fresh, locally grown lavender - "fat spike...
Monday, July 14, 2008

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Sample sunday yesterday was FANTASTIC! Thanks to all of you that showed up. I hope you had as much fun as we did!! We are in the process (it...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

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There is a lady in Ames, IA that grows great lavender. We at Prairieland herbs do NOT grow great lavender. If we are lucky, we have a few sp...
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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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