My Top Sites With Relevant Health Information
Learning Herbs – So many do-it-yourself lessons here! This is where I bought our fun game Wildcraft for teaching herbs to my kids.
Green Smoothie Girl – Secrets on packing nutrition into your kids (& yourself) by delicious smoothies & other yummy creations. It gives me energy!
Dr. Christopher’s Herbal Legacy Newsletter – Get classic lessons in home medicine & use of herbs with this free newsletter. Free recipes too.
School of Natural Healing – Where I got my Master Herbalist Degree. They teach practical information on self reliance in health, based on solid principles. By using this link you can get $100 off their family herbalist course, so it would be $195 instead of $295.
Earth Clinic Folk Remedies – I’ve found many remedies here. Great resource!
Hallelujah Acres – A minister who cured himself of cancer solely through diet shares his tips & hundreds of similar stories.
Dr. Mom’s Healthy Living – A favorite mentor of mine, offering excellent do-it-yourself home medicine videos in a monthly subscription.
Doterra Catalog – Learn about effective home medicine from this company and it’s catalog. They offer the most potent oils I can find. I love them!
Order Doterra – Go here to order these high quality oils for home health self-reliance. If you want good discounts, click the Sign Up/Join link. For $10 you will get a 17% Preferred Customer discount. For $50 you can get 25% distributor discount. Their auto-ship gives generous rewards.
Giving Birth Naturally – Plenty of information here to help women make informed decisions. Evidence based, from a variety of reputable sources: peer-reviewed research & scientific journals, government statistics, and guidelines for evidence-based care.
Dr. Mercola – Timely, researched information on crucial health issues. I love browsing all his information. Worth signing in and taking a look!
Azure Standard – Where I buy large quantities of healthy food. They deliver to the western states and mail orders elsewhere.
Bountiful Baskets – A cooperative group in some western states that uses collective purchasing power to buy high quality foods at prices usually reserved for restaurants and grocery stores. I get a huge basket of produce each week for only $15 a time plus other amazing deals.
Environmental Working Group – I look here to find the safest sunscreens and other personal products. These folks work hard to keep toxic chemicals out of our family environment.
Blogs I enjoy reading
Center for Social Leadership – A think tank and action organization dedicated to healing society, preserving freedom, and ensuring peace and prosperity for humanity. Steve Palmer & Oliver DeMille are brilliant. I love reading their life-changing articles.
Heart-to-Heart With Diane – I read some of her articles and home-made curriculum when I first started homeschooling, and loved it. She’s classic.
Teaching Self Government – This woman has mentored me powerfully in the department of disciplining my children. I’ve heard her speak several times and watched some interviews of her by the BBC. She’s positively amazing.
Passionate Homemaking – Loving simple & natural living on a budget. This girl’s got some great articles on food and family. I love reading her thoughts.
Stephen R Covey – Wrote the classic Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I love the man. He motivates me to be better every day.
Forging Destiny – My youngest brother, Sam’s blog. His reflections while teaching English to teens in China. He’s a good thinker.
Heavenly Homemakers – Making our Homes Heavenly…Striving Toward our Heavenly Homes. Great articles on healthy food, preserving, menus and happy family living.
Kitchen Stewardship – A “mindful mama” who talks about her eco-healthy decision making. Her blog is very informative.
The Pioneer Woman – This girl is hilarious! She teaches photography and gives fun commentary on country life, food, and homeschooling. She inspired me.
Persnickety Clothing – Corinne is one of my best friends, and this is her own clothing line. Her stuff is so stinkin’ adorable!
Sue’s News, View & Muse – This lady is awesome! She was a teacher of mine when I was a teen. I loved her, and we have many crazy adventures together. She has a way with words.
Empowered Traditionalist – Great commentary on how classic values can still make us happy in today’s world.
Cause of Liberty – Restoring the American Republic, one citizen at a time. Politics used to make my head swim until I started reading down-to-earth information like what’s on this site. I’m finally understanding what constitutes TRUE freedom.
Mini Ag – Fostering the Art & Science of the Back Yard Family Farm. I’ve heard these folks do seminars, and they take self reliance and growing food seriously. They’ve expanded my vision and shared valuable insights with me.
Down to Earth – A wealth of information on home and gardening. I’ve learned much from this woman about raising chickens among other things.
Other Great Resources
Thomas Jefferson Education Online – “TJEd” is a philosophy and a methodology by which great individuals throughout history were educated. Thousands of families and professional educators are applying those same principles today, with astounding success.
TJED Marketplace – A one-stop support resource for homeschoolers, mentors, educators and parents engaged in leadership education.
Khan Academy – This guy’s personal mission is to provide a “high quality education to anyone, anywhere,” for free. There’s lectures on all kinds of topics, but heavy on mathematics, economics and science. He’s planning to add history, and other subjects in the future. He has many videos on YouTube.
Values Parenting – Joyschool & Alexander’s Amazing Adventures – Awesome values-based resources for teaching kids values from age 3 up.
Tom Chapin – My favorite music producer for kids. He is talented at incorporating great messages in FUN music!
Have Kids – Will Travel – A family guide on inexpensive or even free traveling with children anywhere in the world.
Scholastic Books – If you homeschool, you can sign up (by calling 1-800-scholastic) to order books and get some free directly from Scholastic at excellent prices. Just give them a formal name for your homeschool. It may take a couple tries, but it’s worth it.
George Wythe University – They offer an amazing model of learning, and are now doing many great courses online. It’s true leadership education.
Allrecipes.com – My favorite online recipe resource. I can look up recipes by the food I have or by ratings, and read what other people’s experiences have been with those recipes. It’s nice to know that 300 different people have rated something 5 stars before I try it.
My Causes
Shropshire Music Foundation – Liz Shropshire, a music graduate fresh out of college, went to Kosovo in the late 90’s to help war refugees. She ended up teaching them music. She saw how music changed people there and how it influenced the youth for good. Since then her organization has taught more than 10,000 youth not only in Kosovo, but also in war-torn Uganda and Northern Ireland. These youth learn through music that they can bring healing, hope, and peace to their communities. Is there a better way to teach peace? Her video makes me weep and want to go help her. Check it out.
Los Ninos Orphanage in Guatemala - A young girl named Mandy from Cedar City along with a young man from Guatemala started this orphanage to save abandoned babies. Mandy found a baby herself on the side of the road. Now the orphanage services children of all ages. Mandy had 2 businessmen paying all the expenses, but they both cut their funding summer of ‘09 because of the poor economy. Now she and the young man from Guatemala work full time and send their wages to the orphanage. If some of us who are so blessed, donate a little each month, this would ease their burden so much and keep the orphanage doors accepting more children.
