Today we made some "Good Farm Hands" beeswax salve in Farmstead Arts. It is very easy to do. All you need is a hunk of bee's wax, some olive oil or other oil, and some essential oils. You take the bee's wax and cut it up into chunks, throw the chunks in a pot and melt them down to a liquid. Heat up some olive oil at the same time. When they're both hot mix together at a ratio of 3 parts oil to 1 part bee's wax and stir it up nice and good. Have some warmed jars handy to ladle the concoction into. When you get the stuff in your jar put in a few drops of distilled oil such as orange or peppermint to give it a nice scent. You can also not use oils and it will still smell pretty good. Mix it around in the jar a little and cap it. After a few minutes the mixture will reach room temperature and solidify into what looks like a jar of chap stick. it is good for dry cracked hands, blisters, lips, and whatever else needs some love.
Chopping up the wax
Don't get wax on your forehead it makes you go crazy
Melting down the wax
Mixing the oil and wax
Filling the jar
Adding essence of orange
Left jar is still cooling, right jar is done
At night I went to go visit our petting zoo - I mean the farm rather
I am going to miss reading this blog from Sterling! Wish I could take a Farmstead Arts course! If you think of it, I am interested in learning how to make rose hip jelly . . . I have two kinds of roses, Rosa Rugosa and Rosa Carefree Wonder ™ ‘Meipitac’ . . . but I am not sure how/when to harvest the hips and do not have a recipe for the jelly/jam . . . I would would prefer a recipe without white sugar, though agave or honey would be OK. Perhaps one of your teachers could refer me to an information source? Thanks!
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ReplyDeletethe little black lamb seems to be getting better. it doesn't stare at the wall anymore
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