12/31/2025
Good morning beautiful people!! I am Sharon, just one part of Hay River Homesteading! There are many parts - My Husband Tim, our beautiful children and myself for now! I am a clinical herbalist (I use the herbs - yes, even those in our kitchen cupboard - and the often called "weeds" around us to help people with wellness). We desire to assist people on their health and wellness journey by using the knowledge that God has given us through first-hand experience with our own personal health and our family's health! We use foods, herbs, and supplements to help the wellness in our family and in others around us!
Now that the introduction is out of the way, let's jump into something really helpful that I do every day!! Fall and winter are usually when we see cold and flu season and we usually need something to help our system through this time.....I have great news!! This is the wonderful and power packing health food - GARLIC! Yep, I said it - Garlic! It is loaded with allicin which is where all the amazing health benefits come from. It may be helpful for heart health and is a super antioxidant and anti-inflammatory! It is also known for its antimicrobial properties - antibiotic, antiviral, and antifungal properties too!! It may also help with blood sugar! For real - IT'S AMAZING!!! One catch though......raw crushed, fermented, in tinctures, but not cooked. When you cook it, it takes the medicinal properties out of it!! **But, please be cautious if you are on blood thinners, blood pressure medicine, and blood sugar medicine as it may affect the efficacy of the medication!**
Honey garlic is amazing because it has all the benefits of garlic AND it now contains the antimicrobial and healing effects of the honey AND it now provides probiotics for our gut health and the prebiotics to feed the probiotics!! It's a WIN-WIN in my book!!
So, just a heads up - This video is double time, I do not actually move that fast!! But, I will say even though it takes a while, the opportunity for some amazing conversation while sitting still and family passing by and sitting by you is totally worth it!!
Now, a good question is how do you make it??? Well, the reason this video takes a while is because the process takes a while - but again, it's totally worth it! First you gather organic ingredients!! This one is important because you don't want to put things in your bodies that have been altered or sprayed with chemicals. Your body will absorb them and it will mess with our wellness causing the opposite reaction of what we want.
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Fermented Honey Garlic:
-Organic Garlic: whole cloves you can peel.
-Raw Organic honey
That's it! Really simple! Peel the garlic cloves and place them in a jar. Cover the garlic cloves with honey. Cover the jar using a lid and ring or one of the plastic lids I used works best! Then, invert your jar to make sure the garlic cloves get covered. Next, place it on the counter somewhere, preferably out of sunlight, and check it every day. I usually "burp" the garlic by unscrewing the cap to allow the fermenting gasses to escape, recap the jar and invert a few time to cover the garlic again. For the first few days I will burp it once in the morning and once in the evening then once a day for the next 10 days. It will be ready to use after 2 weeks. It keeps for a long time because of the fermenting process and the properties of the honey! Ours usually doesn't make it too long because we use it every day!!
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So many things God has put around us to help our bodies to function like they're supposed to!! Garlic is a Super herb!! It has amazing healing properties!!
