Thoughtful little things that help in a rustic way of life

Our house is on a ravine and surrounded by forest. We often visit the fields, meadows and woods, and bring out the various gifts of nature. We collect mushrooms, berries, apples, sloes, linden blossom, fragrant balm, carotid mint, pine needles. But most of all we love the willow-herb.

When this beautiful plant is entering a period of rapid flowering rose, we all gather together long stems with bright buds, and then in a certain way treat the leaves and flowers. Of course, there are certain family secrets tea, so it turned out a useful and very tasty. Yes, and general activity brings family.

An important point - it is fermenting and drying of leaves and flower weight. You can, of course, bought dry in special drying. But we try to use electricity economically. Together, we came up, drew the drawing, and constructed a homemade drying. In appearance - a barrel, assembled from veneer cutting, which is sealed with hoops made of soft but durable metal. Within this structure - shelves, which splits willow-herb. There you can dry the mushrooms and berries.

But for mushrooms, we have a box with shelves. Both drying - and for grass and mushrooms - are placed on the shelf in the bath. Bath we often drown and all the natural gifts are dried very quickly and efficiently. Electric dryers we removed in the niche between the first and second floor. use homemade. When in the bath dried plants and fruits, the delicious smells. Bath room we rebuilt many times, yet have a uniform heat.

To save electricity to heat water for bathing, and to receive hot water substantially free, we suspended in a bath tank of 150 liters (tank with a tap, which is filled with water). Heated water bath, too eagerly. Of course, the wood is also cost money, but we use a lot of dead wood collected in addition to the purchased wood. Therefore, the hot water is really an almost free.

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