The actual aroma of Moxie is wintergreen, though early on it was used in combination with sassafras however the FDA banned its use in the 1960s and had to be removed. Some recipes from the late 1800s use sarsaparilla. Moxie is basically a root beer with a bitter finish, not particularly ...
Prepare a half batch of the recipe below, but leave out the scoby (obviously!). Cover with a double layer of a tightly woven napkin or tea towel secured with a rubber band and leave the jar somewhere out of the way. Try not to move it or jostle it since this can make the scoby t...
You don’t want a hedgerow full of plants that need to be babied because you are growing them where they don’t belong. The point of having a hedgerow is to benefit the farm and lessen the workload. Prepare Your Site Take the time to prepare your site. Sometimes it’s easiest to do...
So it was that the remaining stash of this underappreciated groundcover—which feeds bees and shelters many other creatures—ended up back in my yard, though not in its rightful place in the ground. Putting the plants aside under some sassafras trees by our driveway, I intended to give them...
Root beer gets its name from the oil extracted from the root of the sassafras tree. If you live in a region where this tree grows in the wild, you may be able to make your own drink from this same plant. Here is how to make sassafras tea. Ingredients Sassafras roots, dried Water...