Tools in My Apothecary
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I show up to Grandpa's house, and he says "I've got some jars in there on the counter for you." ❤
I have asked my family for "good jars" and chicken/turkey carcasses so often they are now trained. 😄 But seriously, I appreciate the effort of cleaning those good jars and handing over those carcasses. I like to share the bone broth back with them so we are all blessed.
I'm dog sitting for friends; when they brought her last weekend to get familiar with my place they brought 2-gal pails (free from the grocery store) and a product jar (they'd already given me a tote of product jars that he'd found in a box on the curb).
I have a small electric coffee grinder and an antique hand crank coffee grinder ( in case of power loss). I always keep a roll of clear packing tape so I can put labels on my jars, tags get in the way, and I don’t want to have to take jars out to read what’s written on the lids. I did invest in brown medicine bottles with droppers for tinctures, because I felt they were worth the cost. I bought large ones with caps and smaller ones with the droppers that I refill from the larger. I also bought a vacuum sealer from Patrick and I love it! Right now, I run 1 dehydrator but I am ordering 2 more because of the volume of food and herbs that I dehydrate. I’m getting 2 Cosori’s) 😊 Hopefully they will be here soon! I keep a basket with different sized corks, rubber bands, air locks and ph test strips. Off topic here- you put out about chicken health yesterday morning. Late afternoon, we had a rooster jump the fence into one of our goat paddocks. He has 1 tail feather and his back is missing feathers. We found out he was a neighbor’s and that their dog attacked him. They said they thought he had died, but they would come get him and dispatch him. We asked if we could keep him, so we have a new rooster that seems to have attached himself to our goat. Talk about odd couple! 😂 God bless!!
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Ya know....that might be an interesting subscriber collaboration...pictures of peoples' apothecaries. I know I'd LOVE to see pictures of what people have in theirs, how they set it up....all that stuff!
Great video! I found an old little box with two drawers. Then I made recipe cards to fit inside. This way, when I find a tincture recipe or balm, etc that works well I document it for the next time I need to make some. It’s an important tool in my apothecary.
I love all my jars--used, new, repurposed, and decorative! Great video 🙂
Ooooo.....just the title is SO exciting for me! 😍🤩 I have an apothecary....or as hubby says, "apocathary" 😄...and I'm reorganizing it right now! Thanks, Heidi!!!
That's so funny!! My fiancé calls it my "a pot he cary". 😂😂😂
I have about the same items u have,crazy huh? Anyways could u show and how to build an outside dehydrator,like a box type? I live in a very dry and hot place and would like to use something else then my cosori. I've tried the tieing up method for herbs,but I have a bunch of problems with bugs. Anyways have a blessed day!
I’m so excited for this video! I’m just starting my journey and am seeking all the knowledge. I thought I had messed up when I forgot my first tinctures and it had been 3 months. Now I know that they’re fine to use.
I have a lot of that and now I just need to start using it. We have so many dandelions in our yard and we do not spray any poison so I need to get out there and do something with them… Thank you for the inspiration. I also have a dehydrator the kids got me years ago I don't use it very often, but I need to start doing that as well.never quite sure what temperature to use so I will look in your videos to see if I can find details on that
Thank you Heidi.🙂
I love your approach to gathering these. With a bit of innovation, there's nothing to keep us or anyone from starting right now.👍
Blessings! 💜
Ooo yaayyy, I've been waiting for this video 😁 thanks for sharing! I love the tamper for filling your jars of herbs, that's a great idea
Thank you Heidi. I'm trying to build my apothecary, but am totally disorganized. I'm working on it. 😮
Every time I start adding new things be it tools, different foods to my food storage, you name it, I am always disorganized and it can take awhile before I can figure out a way to get it together again! haha
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I bought a Sams Club container of organic ginger. I do have a Cosori. However, I had things going on where I wouldn't be home to monitor drying them. I quickly peeled them and used my food processor to chop them and then stuffed the pieces into silcone molds to make 'pucks.' I froze those pucks of ginger and have them in ziplock bags in the freezer.
I do not even bother to peel them
@@RainCountryHomestead Thank you, I'll be skipping that step from now on.
Thank you Heidi! As usual I've learned something new. I've been using olive oil on my wood but coconut oil makes so much more sense. ❤
P.S. I absolutely love the bible verse you put at the end. Thank you for keeping God in it!!!
Home Goods has beautiful mortar and pestles. I bought 2 over a few weeks time
I save every glass jar. I need that vacuum sealer
I had never heard about putting oil on the wood cutting board like that. Thank you for that new information.
I like that she used coconut oil. I know you can buy a product "Butcher Block oil" I used to work at Ace hardware and we sold it there. It is for food use. I'm going with the coconut.
I love finding interesting jars and bottles that have been recycled!
Thanks for the tip on coconut oil, I have some old knives with wood handles that need treating!
Great video Heidi. I might add that I have a separate mortar and pestle for grinding up horse medicines that are a big pill and need to be ground up and given in a liquid in a big dose syringe. I like the marble ones. Also, we bought a Pittsburg pump for the vacuum sealer, my mechanic husband said I'd get tired using the hand bleeder one. Yes, it's electric, but 'saving' my hand energy is OK these days.
👍 Thanks, Heidi! Love your channel for all its good advice! Shalom!
I love recycling jars. I was just telling a friend about all the jars they could use.
Well there is the obvious. I got a nice set of stainless steel measuring cups and spoons, and a set of stainless steel mesh strainers. I use a huge collendar for when I'm collecting up a big batch of an herb so I can rinse toss it around as I rinse it. I had a coffee grinder but wanted something that held more so when my son asked what i wanted for Christmas, i told him a Magic Bullet. So all the budding herbalists should make a wish list and ask for your tools as gifts.
I tend to forget about measuring cups and spoons as I rarely use them, haha
🌻🤷♀️🙏many thanks Heidi 😊 great info. You inspire me
I bought flat stainless steel skewers to stir my ferments. They can tend to pierce the bits of fruit, but they work and were the least expensive option I found.
Thanks Heidi 😊 ❤❤
Loved this video Heidi & thank you very much & God bless 🥰💞🙏💞
I have bought the knives. They are great!! I got my son the nicer chef knife for Christmas. ❤
I love vacuum sealing. So easy…except my crappy Food Saver didn't last and is too $$ to replace. But, love it.
That is why I gave up on the foodsaver years ago. I have been using the same brake bleeder pump for over 7 years and it does great
Thank you very much! @@RainCountryHomestead
Heidi, I love my fever tree bottles. I have different mortar and pestle as well. I use recycled jars as well. I use Patrick's chamber for my recycled jars.
Azure Standard stopoed delivering to our area. I live in Salmon, Idaho and now to get from them one would have to drive to Dillon, MT. Bummer.
Is it that they actually will not ship at all or that there is no more drop point? We do not have a drop point here so in that case they ship UPS or USPS directly to my door. You do have to pay for shipping but in most cases when you figure in the cost of shipping, you still end up paying less or the same as some places that claim to offer free shipping
Tyvm🎉I learned alot and I even knew a few things already! Be safe
I’ve found dehydrators at the goodwill plenty of times. So, they can be cheap.
I have picked up a couple of like new Nescos over the years for only $3 and $5 each
I got my dehydrator at Goodwill also.
Hi Heidi, God is good all the time Hallelujah.❤🙏🏻
Great video!
Thank you.
It's fairly humid here (not the past year or two, but historically) but if I can postpone harvest long enough we're into heating season, and then the house humidity is lower. If I used AC the house humidity would be lower in summer too, but I seldom do.
Thank you for information. God bless.
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Maybe mesh strainers? Or funnels? Cheesecloth?
Yep, I use those too
He first knife you showed is the same as I bought a few years ago. It’s great. Also so glad to see someone else has usnea that hasn’t been strained. Can you tell me if there is an adverse issue for not straining it?
While I have never looked into it, I highly doubt there would be any problems with not straining anything until it is needed, I never strain out my extracts until I am ready for them. Some can sit for a couple of years before I get to them
I'm so excited! In my next Azure Standard order, I expect organic ginger and planning to dehydrate them. Thanks for the suggestion/ demonstration! I tried to grow ginger in a container last year and it looked awesomely successfully until it wasn't. As a dehydrator side note: In my first Azure Standard order ever last month, I did buy the #10 can of sliced olives and dehydrated them (it took 6 trays for the full can and ended up filling 2 pint size jars plus a 1/4 pint jar as I recall). Isn't dehydrating amazing! I have an awesome, healthy diabetic snack / salad topper all to myself now. Wish my family understood the delicious but ah well! Love them anyway.
I started out like you,Heidi,years ago. Is there anyway u could show us an outside dehydrator? I live where its dry and hot,and i know it will work well here. I like recycled glass containers,kinda like the butter tubs of long ago,which i dont use because of it being plastic. Anyways have a blessed day!
I have a lot of dehydrating videos through the years where I show using my Nesco outside plugged into our solar power, if that is what you mean but for here, because it is so wet that even on nice days we get a lot of humidity, dehydrating foods outside without the use of an electric dehydrator is often pointless,. Laundry usually does fine but not herbs and foods.
Thanks again for your time and I am learning every day I'm suffering from arthritis please help me with the oil how can I do them I am in South Africa Johannesburg God bless you
I'm just beginning, being serious about herbs. So far to go.
Good video thanks for sharing YAH bless !
It really humid in WV. Tried drying outside didn’t work lol. Molded.
It gets the same here. We are so wet the rest of the year that when we do get hot days, it gets very humid so things like that will not dry.
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Thank you for your recommendations. Please don't do like me. I tried to dehydrate plantain, in summer and in the greenhouse 😢 It was extremely hot and the plants lost their healing properties. Have a great weekend ❤😊❤
I tried that with herbs one time but the problem was not that it got too hot but that it was too humid and the herbs would hang there for days and never dry so I gave up on that
@@RainCountryHomestead 😯 ohhhh. Thank you for sharing.
Living in Israel now with very hot climate I am dehydrating on my porch hanging tied lavender upside down. Next is Melissa.
When did you move there?
I moved as soon as I retired in nov 2023. I had moved to Israel at the age of 11 with my family in 1968. I grew up in Israel and then moved back to the USA with my husband and two kids in 2000. I returned to Israel in 2023. Been “hopping continents”. My entire immediate family lives here.
All my culinary herbs are in olive jars. 😏
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What are the best herbal teas to drink on a daily bases. I'm getting into more herbal teas, and would love some recipes to try out. Thank you!. ❤
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@@RainCountryHomestead thank you so much 💓
Do you have a recommendation for how to clean inside swing-top bottles with skinny necks? I can’t get my kombucha bottles cleaned with any of my various brushes. None curve the right way and I’ve even soaked them in hot soapy water, for days.
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I have the gray marble one, it works wonderful!
What are good sinus herbs?
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Horse radish
I really enjoy and learn a lot from your videos. You mentioned again if you use a metal instrument with the herbs, that it has to be Stainless steel. Where did you find the information supporting that. I have heard several others make that claim but never justify it. Was there a study or research project done on the various use of metals with herbs, Or is it just a preference thing?
I will not remember all the places I found it but mostly that is in reference to using it with raw honey, bentonite clay and ferments.. People are always freaking out about using metal with these things and telling me how wrong I am but if they took time to look a bit further instead of just listening to those who only speak in general terms, they would find that because stainless steel is non reactive, it is a safe metal to use with any of those and will not damage any benefits.
I wasn't telling you how wrong you were, I was wondering where this information comes from and if you had access to it. I have researched all over and I either get Ads for Stainless Steel instruments and equipment or referrals to influencers who only use Stainless Steel gadgets. If you don't know that's fine!
@@buckbuchanan4851 O I did not think you were telling me I was wrong, I was explaining how others do that when they see me using stainless steel because it is a metal. But again, it is really only in reference to certain things as far as damaging their benefits and the other factor is staying away from aluminum because we are already over exposed to it so avoiding it in our kitchens, deodorant and more is important.
I have done the research over the years but will not remember all the places I learned this from
Can you use the chamber for the used jar? Can you show using it on used jars. Thanks
Heidi does have videos showing that. Take a look and I'm sure you'll find it. 🙂
Yes, you will find the video linked in the description box just as promised
@@RainCountryHomestead ok old pasta and pickle jars, Kool thanks.
Can I make hydroçhloraquine from organic lemons and grapefruit in a tincture or dehydrated?
No but you CAN extract quercetin from them. Hydroxychloroquine is synthesized quine but there is no quinine in citrus peels, contrary to what many have tried to convince people. Quinine is extracted from Cinchona bark. However, quercetin, even though it is a flavonoid and not an alkaloid like quinine, serves the same purpose as a zinc ionophore.
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I used the peels a few years ago w/ iver and I swear it saved my life. I have arthritis also and it helps with inflammation.
I'm a bit confused about your answer?
@@lupeacosta9369 The question was can you may hydroxychloroquine from citrus peels, the answer is no, you cannot make a synthesized pharmaceutical from citrus peels. That does not mean you cannot make a good remedy for illness from them. I did not say it would not work, but it is important to understand what you are actually making. Too many people are saying they are making this synthesized pharmaceutical drug but they are not the same thing.
So here is an example, you can make all kinds of effective pain remedies from various different herbs that can work as well as ibuprofen but that does not mean you are making Ibuprofen which is a highly toxic over the counter synthetic pharmaceutical
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My question should be what is the best way to store the lemon/grapefruit potion? Boil the peels and add alcohol?
Thanks for your knowledge ❤
@@lupeacosta9369 You can simply dry the peels and vacuum seal into jars until you are ready to use them for whatever. I have many jars of peels I use for multiple things from making vinegar and natural sodas to teas and using as flavoring and more.
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Heidi. Can you do a video on how to use the vacuum seal with the tube? I’m not sure how that works.
As I promised I would in the video above, I provided the link on how to use the chamber and to adapt it in the description box just below the video screen. Make sure to click on the word "...more" to open it and find that and the other links I provided
Thank you (so embarrassing I didn’t see it?
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What plants do you recommend? I have a dog so I am not sure about growing lavender am Thank-you
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We are making our own vaccum chamber but can you use abs pipe instead of pvc?
Patrick says yes
How can I buy Patricks container air compressor for canning. I'm not savvy so much on searching sites. 😒
All you need to do is email me at raincountryhomestead@gmail.com and I will send you the product list
Did you change brands of coconut oil? Is it a better price than Costco?
I still use the Kirkland brand virgin coconut oil but for the refined (no coconut flavor or smell) I get it from Axure Standard
How do you clean your large glass bottles?
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@@RainCountryHomestead Thanks, especially for the link to get the brush set.
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