Honeyvine Homestead and Botanicals

06/11/2026

There is a lot of bogus info about natural healing methods on the internet. The information below is excellent. I think I will always remember S.K.I.L.L.! This info says to work on opening up detox pathways two weeks before a planned detox. I would instead suggest you do things daily to keep those pathways working beautifully. I know it’s easier said than done (believe me I know), but everything is going to run better in your body when it’s able to eliminate toxins and waste effectively. ❤️

⬇️🛑▪️Detox Pathways▪️🛑⬇️

🦠Terrain - why are they there in the first place?

The short answer is our toxic environment. The herbicides, pesticides, microplastics, heavy metals, mold, candida, fungus.. the growing list goes on. Couple that with poor diet, mineral deficiency, never ending tech, lack of proper sunlight.. the body can only handle so much..

That’s when the clean up crew comes in. Sweep that, encase this, a swollen node here, a fibroid there, and suddenly the burden is too much to bear.

Our in-build innate detoxification pathways clog with the growing toxicity. That is why we have to be proactive in today’s world.

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✨If you aren’t actively detoxing, you are actively storing.

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💢Open detox pathways for minimum 2 weeks (4-6 weeks ideally) prior to beginning a detox.

🔻🔺What does that mean?

* The biggest one is daily bowel movements
Ideally 2-5.
* Supporting and cleansing the liver.
* Facilitating kidney filtration and good
output.
* Daily sweating through exercise, sauna, or
hot baths.
* Rebounding, dry brushing, and deep
breathing to stimulate the lymphatic system.

🔺🔻How do you open detox pathways?

* Diet changes to include fasting, fibrous and astringent fruits, fresh pressed juices, raw foods as much as possible. Try to have one cooked meal per day.

* Eliminating processed foods as much as possible. Refined white sugar and breads, baked goods, pastas, alcohol, oil-heavy foods and seed oils, pasteurized dairies.

* Hydration, with trace mineral support. Minerals can come from mineral or sea salt, bentonite clay, fulvic/humic acids, tinctures, herbal teas, and hydrating fruits.

* Supportive herbal teas and tinctures that support the elimination organs in preparation for the burden they will bear.

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✨ For more information on parasite cleanses, visit the website 🔗 link in bio

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⬇️🛑▪️DISCLAIMER▪️🛑⬇️
As with anything, start slow, see how your body responds.

The information provided here is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before using any herbal products, especially if you have a medical condition, are taking any medication, or are pregnant or nursing.
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06/11/2026

I’m hearing a lot from other herbalists that ticks are absolutely terrible this year across the country and even the natural minded folk are suggesting one have doxycycline ready to go for tick bites. Many infected bites never make a bullseye rash so that isn’t a reliable metric. If your doctor is open to writing a script that you can have on hand in the event of a tick bite, it would be good to have ask. If they aren’t open to that, they may be willing to write a script for the needed doxycycline if you call 📱 once the tick bite has occurred. I know my doc wouldn’t hesitate to write a script if we told her there was a tick bite, no appt needed.

This is one area that I rely on western antibiotics immediacy. There are good homeopathics as well, but I admit I don’t rely on them when a tick bite actually occurs. I use natural remedies along with the antibiotics, not instead of, with a deep tick bite.

06/11/2026

Tiny things, living things I don’t notice without making myself slow down. Here are some of the tiny bugs and blooms I’ve captured the last few days. I love learning from nature. The opportunities never stop.

06/11/2026

Good morning, friends. Got out to greet the sun today. It’s starting off warm and breezy here at Honeyvine Hill. Here’s some early morning flower power, courtesy my mama’s garden. I’m so thankful for our three-generation homestead.

06/11/2026

Love this!!

06/11/2026

Is your Coreopsis mostly done blooming? Now is a great time to either deadhead all the finished blooms manually or give the entire plant a chop to remove spent flowers. Deadheading will give you an entirely new flush of blooms to enjoy. Sometimes I get three or four flushes!

06/10/2026

This article is super interesting, and the comments under the article are fascinating to me. I fully admit that I heard “glyphosate is bad” a long time ago and have never really looked into it deeply for myself. I don’t count this one article and the attached comments as “looking into it deeply,” but I sure tend to listen to the actual people growing our food over huge lobbyist-backed government agencies. And a lot of our farmers are saying “glyphosate-free oats” on a label is about like saying “gluten free rice” on a label. They are only labeling what already was, not saying they did anything different to the product in any way from the one that isn’t labeled glyphosate-free. It’s a scam.

Being more involved in the world of herbalism and (to a lesser extent) canning, I see bogus science used as a scare tactic to keep folks fearing that which is free and simple. One bogus study on comfrey has been used to propagandize an entire generation of people into thinking drinking a cup of comfrey tea is going to destroy your liver. In America canners have been conditioned to think some food absolutely requires a pressure canner, when the great majority of the rest of the world that cans only use waterbath canners (including in America before the 1960’s).

Could they have done a similar thing with glyphosate, making a huge deal about one study, neglecting to mention that one would need to intake a much, much, higher dose of glyphosate than we could get through food in order to cause danger? Maybe so. I know it’s been done before.

I’m thankful we live in a time where the small guy can speak out and be heard, even against a raging propaganda machine. Joanna Farmer can go live and reach a hundred million people. We don’t have to know a farmer personally to hear their side of the story. Just read what they say, or watch their videos. Or—gasp—go visit them! I’ve never met a farmer yet that didn’t openly welcome me to see how they do things (with proper pre-arrangements, of course).

Eat your oats, friends! They are one of the few good, wholesome foods that fill a belly for long hours and are still very inexpensive (if you don’t get the gluten free, non-gmo, glyphosate-free varieties, at least!). I do not have celiac disease but am highly reactive (as in I get boils that can require antibiotics) but I have never reacted to any “cheap” oats.* Oats heal the body and the spirit. They are one of my favorite and most used healing plants, from oatmeal in the morning, to milky oats tincture in the afternoon, to a tulsi and oat straw tea in the evening, a true plant friend.

P.S. When I made my milky oats post recently someone mentioned how “dirty” oats were with glyphosate, worried about the medicine I was making. I grew my own anyway, but I hope she happens to see this article as well, so she can rest easier.

*If you have CD do please buy gluten free oats to be safe.

“Glyphosate Free” oats? I was an oat grower for many years, and never met anyone that sprayed glyphosate on oats. I’m sorry, but this is just another fear based MARKETING narrative to sell you more expensive food products. Labels labels labels! They never end! 💸🤑 There is plenty of evidence that glyphosate does NOT cause cancer. Organic uses pesticides, too.

FYI - oats are NOT “roundup ready.” They are Non-GMO. Don’t believe the fear based marketing that it’s everywhere. The people telling you this are NOT farmers and don’t understand actual food production and how it works. The testing methodology is also usually quite flawed and detects false positives. These profitable labels are designed to scare you into their pockets.

Glyphosate happens to be the safest herbicide that farmers have ever had access to, which is what makes it so popular and available at any Home Depot or Walmart. The law firms are the ones making bank, while it’s pretty much impossible to end up in your food. In the US, we cannot and do not spray glyphosate on oats. I was an oat farmer for many years, and our family were oat buyers for Quaker.

In Canada, oat desiccation is a rare practice and oats (and other crops) are protected by husks, pods, shells, etc. The methodology that’s used by these very profitable “No Glyphosate” labels is generally flawed and can detect false positives.

While BS labels like Non GMO project, organic… and now glyphosate free are the latest food label boogeyman designed to sell you more expensive food. I don’t buy into any of it. I only buy GMO/conventional. Even IF glyphosate would be found in food (highly unlikely) the dose makes the poison. You’d need to eat thousands of servings in a single sitting in order to negatively impact you. When we sprayed it on our farm, it was one day a year…maybe 2. At a rate of 22 ounces per acre, which is like 2 beer cans on an area of land the size of a football field… long before the edible part is present.

Let’s not forget a lot of this is politically driven. Politicians want to give themselves a health halo by sharing false narratives like this to get elected (I am looking at YOU, Texas.) despite the fact this was never an issue to begin with. Follow the money - it’s easy to make billions off of convincing a jury or selling you something 🤑

Go ahead and destroy me in the comments and hate me if you want. This post is not sponsored, FYI. I do not make any profits by sharing this info with you.

But I DO share the truth on farming practices and what it ACTUALLY looks like to supply the entire world with constant food, and I’m proud of helping people to learn the facts and not FEAR FOOD. Farmers are 1% of the population and feeding everyone is complicated. It’s hard. Oats are very good for you, and I encourage people to eat them - without fear. If you understand food and farming practices, you should feel extremely comfortable asking questions and consuming oats!

Okay. Off to my conventional oatmeal breakfast now. Thanks for being here and learning about farm facts! 🥣

06/09/2026

The first version is pretty. The second version is medicine. Chop those herbs finely!

06/09/2026

Grape growers, my vine was a tiny Walmart thing last year but seems to be happy now. Do I just let it grow up and do its thing now or do I keep trying to have it trellis on the fence? Seems like it wants to grow up.