Raising Healthy Homemakers

There are so many skills I’d like to teach my daughters as I equip them to manage their own homes someday.  To the basics of cooking, cleaning, organizing, financial wisdom, simple sewing skills, and gardening, I would add health, nutrition, and natural and herbal remedies.  

A homemaker can save time and money by learning how to treat basic ailments at home, using healing foods such as garlic and honey, and also herbs such as peppermint, Chamomile, and Echinacea (to name only a few!). 

The foundation for physical health begins with our food and what we put into our bodies.  I want my daughters to know how to prepare delicious-tasting, body-building, health-fortifying food.

I will be teaching them how to make basics like bone broth (something they’ve seen me make their whole lives) and homemade vanilla.  And I’ll also be using the recipes from Trim Healthy Mama as I continue to teach them how to cook.

This book is a dream come true for me!  I’ve been waiting years for it to be published!  (Read my full review of Trim Healthy Mama here.)

I want my daughters to have a basic understanding of growing and using herbs. I’ll be turning to this wonderful resource for that:  

My husband discovered Homegrown Herbs last year and gave it to me as a gift (he knows what I like!).  This book is packed with full-color photographs of many common herbs.  It includes growing and harvesting information for each herb, and also recipes.  It’s my newest favorite herb book.

Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health is another book that I plan to use to teach my daughters about herbs.  It’s currently on my wishlist.  It contains recipes for teas, tonics, oils, salves and tinctures.

Be Your Own Doctor is a newer favorite in the last couple of years.  Written by a Master Herbalist, midwife, and mother of nine children, it contains a wealth of useful information and also recipes for salves, tinctures, teas, and tonics.

And finally, I’ll also be passing down all the wisdom I’ve learned along my mothering journey from Shonda Parker in The Naturally Healthy Pregnancy, and Mommy Diagnostics.

These books were really the beginning of my journey into herbal health over 12 years ago.  They have been with me all of those years, and I still reference them regularly.

There are so many other books I plan to use along the way, but these are some of my favorites. 

Do you have any books or materials that you plan to use to teach your daughters about health and nutrition? If so, feel free to add them to the comments!