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Simple, natural completely fragrance-free shampoo bar soap, great for hair or face (this is the only soap I use on my face). NOTE: This shampoo bar uses local non-GMO lard from Pig Mountain farm, and I have just started making it with local grass-fed beef tallow from Dayspring Farm as well - the tallow results in a slightly harder bar that will last longer in your shower! I do have a vegetarian bar on request, just send me an email about substituting that one. This bar is a plain square, with no picture or shaped image. Why use a shampoo bar? Partly to avoid all those disturbing ingredients in commercial shampoo! Then wouldn’t any nice, handmade bar soap work? Well, I’ve tried it, with my own goat milk soap, and it was not what I wanted! Hair, and even more importantly our scalp, needs ultra-moisturizing treatment, and this bar is specially made to do that. Hair gets oily because we wash off all our natural oils, prompting the scalp to make more. But that makes our hair oily, so we wash it again, further stripping our scalp of natural protective oils... And because we’re stripping everything off our hair - and scalp - we need a conditioner to make it soft and smooth and healthy (everything the natural oils were trying to do, incidentally). Then, since we used a heavy conditioner, our hair is weighed-down and needs washing... Or, we can both clean and condition with a natural soap that gets out dirt and oils but doesn’t strip our hair, and simultaneously conditions it - and our scalp - with the naturally-occurring glycerin, as well as the goat milk and vitamin-rich egg yolks. Treating the scalp well is so important to healthy hair - if your skin is nourished and moisturized, it doesn’t need to produce more oils, and so your hair actually stays clean longer, and the whole cycle is healthier for hair and skin! This luxurious bar soap contains moisturizing olive, avocado and almond oils, and lots of castor oil which is great for hair, and local lard from pastured, non-GMO-fed pigs from Cove Creek Farm, hand-rendered here at Solace Farm, to give the shampoo stability and firmness. I also use my goats milk and some of my duck egg yolks for even more moisturizing. This bar doubles as a spectacular facial cleanser, in addition to being an amazingly conditioning shampoo, definitely the most moisturizing soap I've ever made. When using as shampoo, follow with an apple cider vinegar rinse (I use a small spritzer bottle) if you have harder water, and if you have soft water you probably don’t need anything, and there's no need for conditioner, although I sometimes use a teeny bit of diluted commercial organic conditioner as a leave-in detangler for my kids hair. Since I started making and using bar shampoo 10 years ago, this is all I use and I love it! Scented with only natural essential oils. Molded square bars are 4 oz, complete ingredients also on label, hand-wrapped in brown paper. 
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Simple, natural completely fragrance-free shampoo bar soap, great for hair or face (this is the only soap I use on ... more

This is my exact same shampoo bar recipe, but absolutely fragrance-free. This bar is molded in the shape of a branching Tree of Life. NOTE: This shampoo bar uses local non-GMO lard from Pig Mountain farm, and I have just started making it with local grass-fed beef tallow from Dayspring Farm as well - the tallow results in a slightly harder bar that will last longer in your shower! I do have a vegetarian bar on request, just send me an email about substituting that one. Why use a shampoo bar? Partly to avoid all those disturbing ingredients in commercial shampoo! Then wouldn’t any nice, handmade bar soap work? Well, I’ve tried it, with my own goat milk soap, and it was not what I wanted! Hair, and even more importantly our scalp, needs ultra-moisturizing treatment, and this bar is specially made to do that. Hair gets oily because we wash off all our natural oils, prompting the scalp to make more. But that makes our hair oily, so we wash it again, further stripping our scalp of natural protective oils... And because we’re stripping everything off our hair - and scalp - we need a conditioner to make it soft and smooth and healthy (everything the natural oils were trying to do, incidentally). Then, since we used a heavy conditioner, our hair is weighed-down and needs washing... Or, we can both clean and condition with a natural soap that gets out dirt and oils but doesn’t strip our hair, and simultaneously conditions it - and our scalp - with the naturally-occurring glycerin, as well as the goat milk and vitamin-rich egg yolks. Treating the scalp well is so important to healthy hair - if your skin is nourished and moisturized, it doesn’t need to produce more oils, and so your hair actually stays clean longer, and the whole cycle is healthier for hair and skin! This luxurious bar soap contains moisturizing olive, avocado and almond oils, and lots of castor oil which is great for hair, and local lard from pastured, non-GMO-fed pigs from Cove Creek Farm, hand-rendered here at Solace Farm, to give the shampoo stability and firmness. I also use my goats milk and some of my duck egg yolks for even more moisturizing. This bar doubles as a spectacular facial cleanser, in addition to being an amazingly conditioning shampoo, definitely the most moisturizing soap I've ever made. When using as shampoo, follow with an apple cider vinegar rinse (I use a small spritzer bottle) if you have harder water, and if you have soft water you probably don’t need anything, and there's no need for conditioner, although I sometimes use a teeny bit of diluted commercial organic conditioner as a leave-in detangler for my kids hair. Since I started making and using bar shampoo 10 years ago, this is all I use and I love it! Unscented to be gentle on even the most sensitive skin. Molded square bars are 3.5+ oz, complete ingredients also on label, packaged in a brown kraft box with window.
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This is my exact same shampoo bar recipe, but absolutely fragrance-free. This bar is molded in the shape of a ... more

An invigorating citrus-herbal blend of rosemary, orange, lime & grapefruit essential oils. This recipe is vegetarian (but not vegan) with my usual goat milk, duck egg yolks and honey, but with the lard and tallow swapped out for sustainably grown red palm and palm kernel oils. Also contains almond, coconut, olive and castor oils. This 4 oz bar comes wrapped in handcut brown paper. Why use a shampoo bar? Partly to avoid all those disturbing ingredients in commercial shampoo! Then wouldn’t any nice, handmade bar soap work? Well, I’ve tried it, with my own goat milk soap, and it was not what I wanted! Hair, and even more importantly our scalp, needs ultra-moisturizing treatment, and this bar is specially made to do that. Hair gets oily because we wash off all our natural oils, prompting the scalp to make more. But that makes our hair oily, so we wash it again, further stripping our scalp of natural protective oils... And because we’re stripping everything off our hair - and scalp - we need a conditioner to make it soft and smooth and healthy (everything the natural oils were trying to do, incidentally). Then, since we used a heavy conditioner, our hair is weighed-down and needs washing... Or, we can both clean and condition with a natural soap that gets out dirt and oils but doesn’t strip our hair, and simultaneously conditions it - and our scalp - with the naturally-occurring glycerin, as well as the goat milk and vitamin-rich egg yolks. Treating the scalp well is so important to healthy hair - if your skin is nourished and moisturized, it doesn’t need to produce more oils, and so your hair actually stays clean longer, and the whole cycle is healthier for hair and skin! This luxurious bar soap contains moisturizing olive, avocado and almond oils, and lots of castor oil which is great for hair, and local lard from pastured, non-GMO-fed pigs from Cove Creek Farm, hand-rendered here at Solace Farm, to give the shampoo stability and firmness. I also use my goats milk and some of my duck egg yolks for even more moisturizing. This bar doubles as a spectacular facial cleanser, in addition to being an amazingly conditioning shampoo, definitely the most moisturizing soap I've ever made. When using as shampoo, follow with an apple cider vinegar rinse (I use a small spritzer bottle) if you have harder water, and if you have soft water you probably don’t need anything, and there's no need for conditioner, although I sometimes use a teeny bit of diluted commercial organic conditioner as a leave-in detangler for my kids hair. Since I started making and using bar shampoo 10 years ago, this is all I use and I love it!
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An invigorating citrus-herbal blend of rosemary, orange, lime & grapefruit essential oils. This recipe is vegetarian (but not vegan) with ... more

Unscented, absolutely no added fragrance of any kind. There is of course a hint of a natural scent of "soap" but nothing added (sadly, some commercial products sold as "unscented" are literally scented that way, thus the need for the term "fragrance-free"). This recipe is vegetarian (but not vegan) with my usual goat milk, duck egg yolks and honey, but with the lard and tallow swapped out for sustainably grown red palm and palm kernel oils. Also contains almond, coconut, olive and castor oils. This 3.5 oz round bar is molded in the shape of a chrysanthemum. Why use a shampoo bar? Partly to avoid all those disturbing ingredients in commercial shampoo! Then wouldn’t any nice, handmade bar soap work? Well, I’ve tried it, with my own goat milk soap, and it was not what I wanted! Hair, and even more importantly our scalp, needs ultra-moisturizing treatment, and this bar is specially made to do that. Hair gets oily because we wash off all our natural oils, prompting the scalp to make more. But that makes our hair oily, so we wash it again, further stripping our scalp of natural protective oils... And because we’re stripping everything off our hair - and scalp - we need a conditioner to make it soft and smooth and healthy (everything the natural oils were trying to do, incidentally). Then, since we used a heavy conditioner, our hair is weighed-down and needs washing... Or, we can both clean and condition with a natural soap that gets out dirt and oils but doesn’t strip our hair, and simultaneously conditions it - and our scalp - with the naturally-occurring glycerin, as well as the goat milk and vitamin-rich egg yolks. Treating the scalp well is so important to healthy hair - if your skin is nourished and moisturized, it doesn’t need to produce more oils, and so your hair actually stays clean longer, and the whole cycle is healthier for hair and skin! This luxurious bar soap contains moisturizing olive, avocado and almond oils, and lots of castor oil which is great for hair, and local lard from pastured, non-GMO-fed pigs from Cove Creek Farm, hand-rendered here at Solace Farm, to give the shampoo stability and firmness. I also use my goats milk and some of my duck egg yolks for even more moisturizing. This bar doubles as a spectacular facial cleanser, in addition to being an amazingly conditioning shampoo, definitely the most moisturizing soap I've ever made. When using as shampoo, follow with an apple cider vinegar rinse (I use a small spritzer bottle) if you have harder water, and if you have soft water you probably don’t need anything, and there's no need for conditioner, although I sometimes use a teeny bit of diluted commercial organic conditioner as a leave-in detangler for my kids hair. Since I started making and using bar shampoo 10 years ago, this is all I use and I love it!
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Unscented, absolutely no added fragrance of any kind. There is of course a hint of a natural scent of "soap" ... more

This variety is about 14" tall. Shasta Daisies are all-time favorites for the perennial border. The cheery flowers begin to appear in late spring and continue on for several months if faithfully deadheaded. Shastas mix so effortlessly with other perennials that no garden should be without them! This is a plant that is easily grown in average, well-drained soils in full sun. It's a good cut flower, attracts butterflies, is suitable for dried flowers, and serves as a butterfly nectar sources. In spring, remove all dead foliage; and cut back to basal foliage in fall. Cuttings can be done in summer; and division can be done in the spring and is recommended every 2-3 years. Fertilize with Holly-tone or a water soluble fertilizer as recommended.
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This variety is about 14" tall. Shasta Daisies are all-time favorites for the perennial border. The cheery flowers begin to ... more

The iconic shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) is known worldwide for its meaty, smoky flavor and wonderfully chewy texture. This variety has been adapted for its delicious and comparatively tender caps, as well as for its striking speckled adornment! If you've only previously eaten shiitake from the supermarket, prepare yourself for a perhaps unexpected flavor dropkick straight to the tastebuds! Fresh, young shiitakes picked hours before off raw hardwood sawdust should be compared only metaphorically with the dried-out, imported specimens common in many American grocery stores. Native to eastern Asia and cultivated since ancient times for its culinary and medicinal properties, shiitakes are rich in protein, fiber, niacin, and a number of novel chemical constituents: the polysaccharides Lentinan and KS-2, for instance, have shown promise as potentially tumor-regressing, while the compounds arabinoxylane and eritadenine are suspected, respectively, to boost the immune system's natural killer cells and to help lower cholesterol. Shiitakes grow saprophytically, that is, on dead and dying trees, (especially on the "shii" tree within its native habitat! Aha!). At Midway Mushrooms, we simulate these natural conditions within a climate-controlled indoor environment. Our mycophile growers load nutritionally enhanced sawdust substrate into polypropylene bags for sterilization before inoculating bags with live mycelium hand-selected for quality and vigor. Inoculated bags are carefully incubated before fruiting under parameters tweaked for healthy, happy mushroom growth! Midway Mushrooms is a certified Produce Safety Alliance farm. Our gourmet mushrooms are grown from recycled agricultural and forestry byproducts.
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The iconic shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) is known worldwide for its meaty, smoky flavor and wonderfully chewy texture. This variety ... more

The iconic shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) is known worldwide for its meaty, smoky flavor and wonderfully chewy texture. This variety has been adapted for its delicious and comparatively tender caps, as well as for its striking speckled adornment! If you've only previously eaten shiitake from the supermarket, prepare yourself for a perhaps unexpected flavor dropkick straight to the tastebuds! Fresh, young shiitakes picked hours before off raw hardwood sawdust should be compared only metaphorically with the dried-out, imported specimens common in many American grocery stores. Native to eastern Asia and cultivated since ancient times for its culinary and medicinal properties, shiitakes are rich in protein, fiber, niacin, and a number of novel chemical constituents: the polysaccharides Lentinan and KS-2, for instance, have shown promise as potentially tumor-regressing, while the compounds arabinoxylane and eritadenine are suspected, respectively, to boost the immune system's natural killer cells and to help lower cholesterol. Shiitakes grow saprophytically, that is, on dead and dying trees, (especially on the "shii" tree within its native habitat! Aha!). At Midway Mushrooms, we simulate these natural conditions within a climate-controlled indoor environment. Our mycophile growers load nutritionally enhanced sawdust substrate into polypropylene bags for sterilization before inoculating bags with live mycelium hand-selected for quality and vigor. Inoculated bags are carefully incubated before fruiting under parameters tweaked for healthy, happy mushroom growth! Midway Mushrooms is a certified Produce Safety Alliance farm. Our gourmet mushrooms are grown from recycled agricultural and forestry byproducts.
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The iconic shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) is known worldwide for its meaty, smoky flavor and wonderfully chewy texture. This variety ... more

The iconic shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) is known worldwide for its meaty, smoky flavor and wonderfully chewy texture. This variety has been adapted for its delicious and comparatively tender caps, as well as for its striking speckled adornment! If you've only previously eaten shiitake from the supermarket, prepare yourself for a perhaps unexpected flavor dropkick straight to the tastebuds! Fresh, young shiitakes picked hours before off raw hardwood sawdust should be compared only metaphorically with the dried-out, imported specimens common in many American grocery stores. Native to eastern Asia and cultivated since ancient times for its culinary and medicinal properties, shiitakes are rich in protein, fiber, niacin, and a number of novel chemical constituents: the polysaccharides Lentinan and KS-2, for instance, have shown promise as potentially tumor-regressing, while the compounds arabinoxylane and eritadenine are suspected, respectively, to boost the immune system's natural killer cells and to help lower cholesterol. Shiitakes grow saprophytically, that is, on dead and dying trees, (especially on the "shii" tree within its native habitat! Aha!). At Midway Mushrooms, we simulate these natural conditions within a climate-controlled indoor environment. Our mycophile growers load nutritionally enhanced sawdust substrate into polypropylene bags for sterilization before inoculating bags with live mycelium hand-selected for quality and vigor. Inoculated bags are carefully incubated before fruiting under parameters tweaked for healthy, happy mushroom growth! Midway Mushrooms is a certified Produce Safety Alliance farm. Our gourmet mushrooms are grown from recycled agricultural and forestry byproducts.
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The iconic shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) is known worldwide for its meaty, smoky flavor and wonderfully chewy texture. This variety ... more

This azalea is a more established plant in a three-gallon pot. It has soft pink flowers with deeper rose-pink throat markings. It is easy to grow in light to medium shade, and is cold-hardy and weather resistant. Its growth is vigorous but disciplined, and it will reliably cover itself with color in early spring. Then in September it will produce a second flush of color, perhaps not as prolific as in spring, but very welcome at a time of year when not too many flowers are in bloom.
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This azalea is a more established plant in a three-gallon pot. It has soft pink flowers with deeper rose-pink throat ... more

This azalea has large white flowers streaked a very little with pink. It is easy to grow in light to medium shade, and is cold-hardy and weather resistant. Its growth is vigorous but disciplined, and it will reliably cover itself with color in early spring. Because the bushes are the same size as the rest of my azaleas, I have chosen to show you a closeup of the color of a "typical" bloom.
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This azalea has large white flowers streaked a very little with pink. It is easy to grow in light to ... more