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Make your own Fire Vinegar (aka Fire Cider)

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Pear Vinegar Recipe – made with fruit scraps

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Herbal Uses for Chamomile

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Freezing Chickweed for Later

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How to make Ginger Tea

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Blackberry Mead: A One-Gallon Recipe

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Honeysuckle Wine: One Gallon Recipe

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Wild Fermented Dandelion Wine Recipe

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Recipe Box: Strawberry Pineapple Wine – 1 Gallon

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Elderberry Mead: Make Your Own One Gallon Batch!

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Make your own Ginger Wine: One Gallon Recipe

About

Welcome to Pixie's Pocket!  I am Amber Shehan, and I am a hobbit-like, tipsy fae creature who resides in Western North Carolina - herbalist, author, educator, brewer of wines and meads, and a lazy gardener.

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Recipe Box

Make your own Fire Vinegar (aka Fire Cider)

Fire Cider (or fire vinegar) is an herb and veggie-infused vinegar. The spicy tonic is rich in vitamins and nutrients, and really easy to make!

Pear Vinegar Recipe – made with fruit scraps

Next time you make something with apples or pears, save your peels and cores to make your own batch of homemade vinegar out of fruit scraps!

Vanilla Bean Chamomile Mead – One Gallon Recipe

Vanilla bean blends with chamomile beautifully – the bitter apple tones of chamomile flowers make magic with the rich, luscious aromatics of real vanilla.

Blackberry Mead: A One-Gallon Recipe

Summertime means berries, and berries mean jam, wine, and mead. There’s nothing like having a bottle of summer to warm you in the middle of the winter!

Honeysuckle Wine: One Gallon Recipe

Honeysuckle is an invasive plant with some of the most lovely, ephemeral flowers – their heavenly aroma lends itself nicely to this wine.

The Magic of Mimosa: Cordial and Tincture Recipes

Ah, it is late June, and the Mimosa trees are blooming! These pink, fluffy trees are cartoonish but beautiful, looking like “truffula tuft” trees from Dr. Seuss books!

How to use Garlic Mullein Ear Oil for Earaches

There are many guides that explain how to use ear oil, but I noticed that none of them included one of the most important parts: encouraging nurturing touch and creating a soothing environment.

Soapwort Recipes: Green Cleaning from your Garden!

Soapwort is a versatile plant that is easy to grow, harvest, and use around the home. It can clean skin, lace, quilts, hair, bodies, even household cleaning can be done with a strong enough brew.

How to Make Lemon-Infused Honey

Sharp, sour lemon blends perfectly with sweet wildflower honey. Versatile enough to be both a syrup for sore throats and a perfect cocktail mixer.

Wild Fermented Dandelion Wine Recipe

Make the most out of an abundance of dandelions with a wild-fermented wine or mead. It’s easy, exciting, and worth trying – what are you waiting for?

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