Honeyvine Homestead and Botanicals

03/24/2026

Redbud & Violet Jelly! Available in 4oz jars at Across the Prairie & Friends: Native Plants & More, beginning this Thursday, March 26th!

Redbud Jelly is an Oklahoma specialty jelly, highlighting our state tree, the Eastern Redbud. I also added Oklahoma native wild violets to this mix, for extra color and sweetness. This tastes slightly floral, slightly sour, and quite sweet. It’s usually a thinner jelly that almost disappears on toast, but boy is the flavor there! This is a great jelly to serve at a tea with friends, or to slop on a buttermilk biscuit come Sunday morning.

Each jar is $5️⃣, or 2 for $8️⃣.

This is it until next spring for Redbud Jelly, so be sure to swing by ATP or our homestead soon if you’d like some!

If you’d like pre-pay to reserve yours:
at Venmo $HonyevineHill on CashApp.

03/24/2026

Any guesses on what I’m making?!?

03/23/2026

Good morning, neighbors!

This is a throwback post, but maybe it will help someone. Not all tinctures are created equal! When we make poor quality herbal preparations, the medicine suffers, and the craft gets a bad name even though many times it’s a user error thing rather than the herbs being ineffective.

Happy to answer any questions! Okies, enjoy the cooler weather today!

03/22/2026

We don’t have to cook from scratch. We don’t even have to garden. And we can still claim a purposeful life of slow living. In the middle of a high rise in a large city, one can choose this life. Welcome.

To all the women building slow, meaningful lives with their own two hands, you're my people.

03/22/2026

ETA: Thanks all for your kind words and responses, and for sharing. I think we are full up on new customers now, until I can make sure we can meet current demand. God is good.♥️

Lately I’ve had an over-abundance of eggs. An abundance is good! 👍 And overabundance is not good.👎
I’ve been concerned because although selling eggs will *never* result in a profit in small-scale chicken-tending (promise!), money from eggs can help provide what’s needed to raise the chooks you love.

Our goal for Honeyvine Hens is that they someday cover all 💯 of their own care costs. Right now we are grateful to cover half.

I have 40-something birds outside (don’t make me count!). They ensure my family *always* has a free (in the moment) protein source (both chicken and eggs) if the grocery budget is tight. And our eggs are so much better tasting and looking than even the fancy store-bought eggs, it’s never a sacrifice to “eat eggs again.” Yum!

But we pay hundreds of $$$ a month to feed and care for our chickens. When we don’t sell all of our available eggs, it gets stressful because then my chickens aren’t coming close to paying for themselves, and my husband gets grumpy about keeping them. Can’t have that!

Yes, things get tight sometimes, but on this Sunday I just want to give honor to the Lord God* above for His provision. A new weekly egg customer (that I adore) started at 1 dozen eggs a week. Then she asked to go up to 2 dozen eggs a week. And this morning, to 3 dozen a week! Although I never expect customers to pay more than asked, this angel has always paid me more than she owes, and won’t even take credit for free eggs when offered. Plus I really like her (you can just tell if you meet a person you would be friends with).

God doesn’t just toss egg customers my way when I feel I need them, but this is an example of how He still provides. Through this one customer, He is providing what we need to help make the chickens reasonable to keep, PLUS an extra helping of friendship. Isn’t that always His way though, providing not only what we need, but even beyond that.

🥚🐣We currently have a few spots open for Honeyvine Reserve customers (my regulars that always take priority and sometimes get extra eggs, plants, or homestead goodies for free). We also have beautiful hatching eggs at a very reasonable price, available upon request.

✝️☦️☯️🔯🕎🪯🕉️🛐☪️☸️
*Blessings to all, no matter your spiritual beliefs. You will only find love and acceptance here. ♥️

03/22/2026

Good morning, neighbors! This is your reminder to get out and harvest (hopefully before noon) your spring medicinals like henbit, deadnettle, chickweed, Shepherd’s Purse, and cleavers!

This very warm weather is speeding up their normal lifespans. Watering won’t really help, as these plants always grow, bloom, seed, and die by late spring. Gotta get out and enjoy them while they are here!

We gathered Chickweed and Cleavers yesterday. 🌱

03/21/2026

What a lovely thought!

There’s something magical about waking up to birds singing at dawn.

It’s more than just a beautiful sound—it’s a quiet sign of trust. Those birds chose your garden as a safe place to rest through the night… and their morning song is their way of saying they feel at home.

03/21/2026

Good morning, neighbors!

I had to laugh as I came across a post on an OK gardening group this morning, six days later. It was a person very worried the 20° temps would kill her donut peach blossoms and had created quite the contraption to save them from the cold. Six days later we are expecting 95°. Nothing like a 70° swing within a week. The plants are so confused, some dead from cold and some dead from hot, in the same week! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Stay safe and cool down when needed this weekend, friends! Our bodies aren’t any more “hardened off” to this kind of heat in late March than the tender seedlings wilting in the sun alongside us. ♥️

03/20/2026

Oklahoma gardeners be like…

03/20/2026

Good morning, neighbors!

When the 10-day forecast looks like this, it sure is tempting to go ahead and start planting all those annual seeds they say to wait until after last frost to plant! I just may go for it. According to the Mesonet our soil temps are around 55°. It will be interesting to see what the next few days in the freaking mid-90’s 🥵 will do to raise that further.

Any other rebels?

P.S. It’s a big fat NO for me when it comes to putting out hot weather veggies like tomatoes and peppers no matter how tempting. We have such a long growing season here, there’s no reason not to wait a few more weeks. 😊