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Green Witch Urban Homesteading
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Green Witch Culinary Veggie & Herb Seeds and Their Practical Uses
Green Witch Apothecary Herbs
Green Witch Kitchen Tools
Green Witch Culinary Veggie & Herb Seeds and Their Practical Uses
The best varieties for Kitchen Magic
Pineapple sage is edible, with both the leaves and the bright red flowers being safe to consume and commonly used in culinary applications. The leaves, when crushed, have a sweet, pineapple-like fragrance and can be used to make teas, muddled into co...
Pineapple Sage Seeds
I love Chocolate Mint for the aroma and for mocktails.
Chocolate Mint Seed 100 Seeds
These radishes are easy to grow and spruce up salads. I haven't tried to grow them hydroponically, but I have grown them in 5 gallon buckets. Witchy tip: let some flower and go to seed and save the seeds. Then those seeds will be more acclimated to y...
Watermelon Radish Seed for Planting
Red sorrel is a nutrient-dense leafy green, providing high levels of vitamins A and C, fiber, and minerals like magnesium, iron, and potassium. It is particularly rich in Vitamin A and Vitamin C, with one serving offering a significant portion of the...
Red Sorrel
Lentils are a great source of protein and can be grown in containers in your kitchen. Lentils can be ground into a flour for baking or if seasoned properly for a ground beef alternative.
Growing Lentils: Protein-Packed Legumes
My Favorite Lentil Burger Recipe
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Green Witch Apothecary Herbs
Must Haves for General Health and Magical Workings
Really great for a calming tea
Pink Hardy Hibiscus
Rich in Nutrients: Moringa, also known as the "Miracle Tree," is packed with essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants—perfect for adding nutrition to your home garden.
Rare Moringa Seeds - 30 Non-GMO Heirloom
Mullien is a natural expectorant. You'll want to have this around for teas to clear the lungs during respiratory illness season.
Mullein Seed for Planting
Elderberry is good to have around for immune support. You can make it in tea just before you feel sick or after for a boost.
50 Blue Elderberry Seeds
Natural Aspirin and will calm a fever.
Feverfew Tetra White Seeds
Mugwort has both magical and practical uses, serving as a protective herb to ward off evil, a stimulant for dreams and divination, and a medicinal plant for various ailments like menstrual cramps and digestive issues. Magically, it's used in dream pi...
Common Mugwort
Rue, a potent herb, is used for spiritual protection against negative energy, curses, and the "evil eye" in various folk traditions, often by wearing it as an amulet or placing it near entrances. Practically, it serves as a flavoring in certain cuisi...
Rue Seeds
I love to have Belladonna around for spells and witchy ambience, but if you have a cat or dog familiar that is plant curious or eats plants PLEASE SKIP this one or put it far out of reach.
Belladonna
Chamomile is a must to have for drying and using in teas. I have a dicey gall bladder and this stuff calms it almost instantly and naturally. Plus the flowers look beautiful in bunches when you hang them to dry and it smells lovely.
Chamomile
Holy basil has many uses medicinally, it's just a powerhouse of good benefits. I bought these exact seeds last year and they all produced big healthy plants in hydroponic and moved well to the outside balcony garden. I've heard you can also use them ...
Tulsi Holy Basil
My favorite Herbal Tea for the Fall Season
Immunity Boosting Winter Tea Recipe
Green Witch Kitchen Tools
Most Green Witches are also Kitchen Witches. We grow the best ingredients for our cooking spells :)
Must have for any witchy kitchen
Forgotten Home Apothecary
Make your own Bread, the stuff in stores is not bread anymore. Plus there is nothing like the smell of fresh bread!
Bread Machine
Make your own Juice, packed full of nutrients and not over processed out.
Cold-press Juicer, perfect for turning your garden produce into healthy juice
This combination of pineapple, citrus, ginger, and lemon delivers a powerful dose of vitamin C, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory compounds, and hydration, all working together to bolster your immune system and give you an uplifting flavor burst and en...
Orange Pineapple Lemon & Ginger Juice an Energy and Immune Boost
Grow your own veggies and herbs. I have this system and I have found it works great for starting most herbs, self pollinating varieties of tomatoes and cucumbers and lettuces. And they can grow in the dead of winter. After they sprout I move them to ...
VEVOR Hydroponics Growing System, 72 Plant Sites
This is the nutrient I use for my hydroponic plants. It is the best I've found. I grow herbs and veggies in a system and in jars in my kitchen for use in cooking.
General Hydroponics FloraMicro 5-0-1 Plant Food
I was given sponges with my hydroponics setup. These clay pebbles will probably work better and not attract mold.
Expanded Clay Pebbles Hydroponics 2LBS
Make your own Alcohol, Eat, Drink and Be Merry :)
Alchohol Distiller
Store leftovers in glass, throw away and don't use plastic bags, they are poison.
VERONES 10 Pack 22 OZ Glass Meal Prep Containers
Dump the store made pasta, go unprocessed and use veggies instead.
Brieftons 10-Blade Vegetable Spiralizer
My favorite Italian Style Zoodle Alfredo Recipe, you probably already have all the ingredients and it's so delicious and good for you.
Easy Zucchini Noodle Alfredo
Make your own wheat, rice, almond or whatever flour. It still has nutrients, which the processed flour in stores don't have. It's also great for chopping up your dried herbs.
Grinder/Flour Mill
I have this tea diffuser and I love it, but I don't recommend you use it on the stovetop. I just put my tea herbs in the diffuser and pour boiling water from my electric boiler to this.
Diffuser Teapot
I don't know what I would do without my electric water kettle. It boils so fast and I love the blue light on it. When it's done it shuts off automatically. I get tummy aches frequently, so when I need my chamomile tea pronto this is a godsend.
Electric Blue Light Water Kettle
Tis the season, the season for preserving the Harvest!
Water Bath Canning Pot with Rack & 6 Tools
My Favorite Canning Book
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
This is a must have for every Green Witch Urban Homestead. You may not need it for kneading bread if you have a newer bread machine, but you will need it for making homemade butter, more economical than buying in stores. Also for cakes etc.
KitchenAid Deluxe 4.5 Stand Mixer, Contour Silver - Walmart.com
Stand mixer Butter recipe - Stand mixers make quick work of making homemade butter.
Easy DIY Stand Mixer Butter and Buttermilk » the practical kitchen