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There’s something about lavender harvest season. 💜🌿From freshly cut stems… to bundles hanging to dry… the whole space sm...
10/02/2026

There’s something about lavender harvest season. 💜🌿

From freshly cut stems… to bundles hanging to dry… the whole space smells incredible.

Soft. Floral. Calming. Soothing. And honestly, just beautiful to look at.

This lavender is being carefully dried and getting ready for its next chapter: infusing into one of our botanical oils. 🌿

I’m working on a Lavender Botanical Body Oil for fall—made for those moments when your skin needs a little extra nourishment after days spent outside, in the garden, on the trail, or simply living life in motion.

I love being able to show you where our botanicals begin—not in a bottle, but as actual plants. Grown, harvested, dried, and prepared with intention before they ever become part of your skincare.

For now… the lavender is hanging, the room smells amazing, and fall production is officially underway. 💜

Lavender Botanical Body Oil — coming this fall.

Clean & Natural • Made for Life in Motion 🌿

A little late-summer memory as we settle into fall. 🌿🍂These photos were taken middle of summer, when our drying rack was...
10/01/2026

A little late-summer memory as we settle into fall. 🌿🍂

These photos were taken middle of summer, when our drying rack was absolutely overflowing with lavender, garlic, and herbs from the food forest.

We steward more than 500 plants here at Dirt to Nurture food forest—some we grow for food, some for the ecosystem, and many that eventually find their way into our botanical skincare.

Summer and late summer are busy around here: harvesting, bundling, drying, preserving…and somehow trying to find one more empty spot on the drying rack. 😄

But now fall is here, and this rack is about to change again.

Different plants. Different harvests. Different work for the season.

That’s one of my favorite things about growing many of the botanicals we use ourselves—we get to follow them from soil → harvest → drying rack → skincare.

The seasons change, the drying rack changes, but the purpose stays the same: steward what God has given us and make good use of the harvest. 🌿

From our food forest to your skin.

09/11/2026

What’s actually inside your facial toner? 🌿💧

For ours, it starts with plants.

Our Facial Toner Mist is made with botanical hydrosols—the aromatic waters created through plant distillation—not simply plain water with fragrance added. No we dont do that!

In this Reel, I’m taking you behind the scenes of how we make it, from plant to bottle… and finally, to that refreshing mist on your skin.

Why use a hydrosol toner?

💧 Adds a light layer of hydration after cleansing
🌿 Refreshes and comforts skin exposed to everyday elements
✨ Preps the skin for your facial serum and balm
🌱 Brings real plant distillates into a simple daily skincare routine

I especially love this step after cleansing because your skin doesn’t always need more products—sometimes it needs the right layers, in the right order.

Cleanse → Mist → Serum → Seal

Simple. Botanical. Made for life in motion.

Our Facial Toner Mist is also part of the 10-Day Healthy Radiant Skin Experience, where I show you how to use the complete routine while supporting your skin through simple daily FLOW habits.

🌿 Start with the 10-Day Experience — link in bio.

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Labor Day shenanigans… 🍐No helmet.No ropes.No backpack.No harness today.But we still had to climb…Climbed a pear tree. 😂...
09/07/2026

Labor Day shenanigans… 🍐

No helmet.
No ropes.
No backpack.
No harness today.

But we still had to climb…

Climbed a pear tree. 😂

And in return?

Something sweet, juicy, and delicious

And something that gives our bodies a little more than just a sweet treat.

🍐 Vitamin C — supports normal collagen production and helps protect cells from oxidative stress.

🍐 Fiber — supports digestive and gut health.

🍐 Plant antioxidants & polyphenols — compounds that help protect our cells from oxidative stress.

🍐 Plus nutrients like potassium and copper that support normal body functions.

A pretty good reward for climbing a tree, I’d say. 😂

And that’s today’s little F in our FLOW — Food.

Because caring for our skin isn’t only about what we put on it.

It’s also about nourishing the body that builds it.

Today, that nourishment just happens to be hanging from a pear tree. 🍐🌿

Happy Labor Day from Dirt to Nurture

08/31/2026

🌿 **God has a sense of humor… and the food forest keeps reminding me.**

Here at Dirt to Nurture Food Forest, we grow many of the botanicals that eventually make their way into our Outdoorsy Skincare products. But we don’t just grow skincare ingredients—we grow food for our table, too.

This year has been an interesting one.

We had frost and hail in late spring that affected much of our fruit, so we didn’t get the abundance of peaches and plums we had hoped for. Perhaps God knew we still had plenty of peaches in the freezer that we needed to use!

But then… the squash and other vegetables took over. 😂 And these are the very things we don’t have in the freezer and actually want to eat!

And the funny part? We didn’t even plant most of them this year. They volunteered from seeds left behind, and now they’re growing absolutely bonkers throughout the food forest.

It’s such a beautiful reminder that sometimes abundance doesn’t come in the form we expect.

We may have fewer peaches and plums this season, but God provided an abundance somewhere else. We have more berries, figs, and greens this year. And now we have fresh vegetables growing right outside our door—food we can harvest for our meals instead of buying from the grocery store or farmers market.

That’s one of the things I love most about growing a food forest.

🌿 Some plants nourish our skin.
🥒 Some nourish our bodies and souls.
🌱 Some simply show up on their own and surprise us.

And all of it reminds me that we can plant, tend, water, and plan…but ultimately, **God gives the increase.**

*"So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow."*
— 1 Corinthians 3:7

Another little lesson from the Dirt to Nurture Food Forest. 🌿

🌿 **God has a sense of humor… and the food forest keeps reminding me.**Here at Dirt to Nurture Food Forest, we grow many...
08/31/2026

🌿 **God has a sense of humor… and the food forest keeps reminding me.**

Here at Dirt to Nurture Food Forest, we grow many of the botanicals that eventually make their way into our Outdoorsy Skincare products. But we don’t just grow skincare ingredients—we grow food for our table, too.

This year has been an interesting one.

We had frost and hail in late spring that affected much of our fruit, so we didn’t get the abundance of peaches and plums we had hoped for. Perhaps God knew we still had plenty of peaches in the freezer that we needed to use!

But then… the squash and other vegetables took over. 😂 And these are the very things we don’t have in the freezer and actually want to eat!

And the funny part? We didn’t even plant most of them this year. They volunteered from seeds left behind, and now they’re growing absolutely bonkers throughout the food forest.

It’s such a beautiful reminder that sometimes abundance doesn’t come in the form we expect.

We may have fewer peaches and plums this season, but God provided an abundance somewhere else. We have more berries, figs, and greens this year. And now we have fresh vegetables growing right outside our door—food we can harvest for our meals instead of buying from the grocery store.

That’s one of the things I love most about growing a food forest.

🌿 Some plants nourish our skin.
🥒 Some nourish our bodies and souls.
🌱 Some simply show up on their own and surprise us.

And all of it reminds me that we can plant, tend, water, and plan…but ultimately, **God gives the increase.**

*"So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow."*
— 1 Corinthians 3:7

Another little lesson from the Dirt to Nurture Food Forest. 🌿

08/27/2026

Raw chocolate + fresh mint straight from the food forest… but which mint actually tastes best? 🌿🍫

Today I’m doing a very scientific experiment. 😂

I’m pairing 100% cacao with different varieties of mint growing in our food forest — tasting them one by one to find my favorite combination.

And there’s more to cacao than the chocolate craving.

Pure cacao naturally contains plant compounds like flavanols, along with minerals such as magnesium and iron. And when you pair something deeply chocolatey with fresh herbs you just picked outside? That’s a whole sensory experience. 🌱

For me, healthy skin has never been only about what we put on our face.

It’s also about how we nourish the body, spend time outside, slow down, and enjoy the good things God created.

That’s the heart behind FLOW:

🌿 F — Food that nourishes
🌿 L — Lifestyle that supports whole-person wellness
🌿 O — Outside Care for the skin
🌿 W — Water inside + out

Sometimes skin wellness looks like a facial serum.

And sometimes it looks like standing in the garden eating chocolate with mint. 😄

Now I want to know: which mint do you think would taste BEST with pure cacao chocolate? 🍫🌿

If you're new here, this is **Outdoorsy Skincare. 🌿**We believe skincare is about more than what you put on your face.Ou...
08/24/2026

If you're new here, this is **Outdoorsy Skincare. 🌿**

We believe skincare is about more than what you put on your face.

Our mission is to **promote God’s design for whole-person health through skin wellness.**

That’s why we created the **FLOW Framework:**

🌿 **F — Food**
Nourish the body and skin from within.

🌿 **L — Lifestyle**
Rest, movement, faith, relationships and the everyday habits that support whole-person health.

🌿 **O — Outside Care**
Simple, thoughtfully formulated, plant-based skincare for skin exposed to everyday life and the elements.

💧 **W — Water**
Support hydration from the inside and outside.

We create for **everyday active people — especially women — whose skin meets real life every day:** sun, wind, dry air, changing seasons, gardening, walking, working, exercising, traveling and everything in between.

Our Christian faith isn't something we hide.

We believe our bodies were wonderfully designed by God, and caring for them is an act of stewardship not vanity.

You don't have to share our faith to be welcomed here. ❤️

**Rooted in nature. Grounded in faith. Made with purpose.**

Welcome to Outdoorsy Skincare.

🌿 Save this post if whole-person skin wellness resonates with you — and follow along as we explore healthy skin through FLOW.

08/24/2026

First time making this lentil Israeli hummus. I must say this will
be another addition to our exotic food forest dining experience. Sooo yummy

08/22/2026

Maybe you needed this reminder today. 🤍

We live in a world that celebrates doing more, achieving more, producing more—and sometimes even our “wellness” becomes another list of things we have to accomplish.

But God designed a different rhythm.

Six days—and then rest.

Sabbath reminds me that whole-person health isn’t only about what we eat, how much water we drink, how we move our bodies, or what we put on our skin.

Sometimes wellness looks like stopping.

Putting down the work that can wait.
Being present with the people we love.
Stepping outside and noticing creation.
Worshiping.
Breathing.
Resting without feeling guilty about it.

That’s why Sabbath and rest belong in the L — Lifestyle part of our FLOW framework. 🌿

Because God didn’t design us for endless productivity.

He designed us with a rhythm.

“The Sabbath was made for man…” — Mark 2:27

Happy Sabbath. 🤍

If someone you love has been carrying too much lately, share this with them. Maybe today they need permission to put it down and rest.

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