Gouwens Gard

05/11/2025

30/10/2025

Some TikTok creators are saying that a tincture spray they make at home with avocado pits and alcohol can relieve pain. Laboratory studies have shown that avocado pits may have some anti-inflammatory properties
This tincture spray can help with just about any type of pain, one TikTok user claims in a video that has racked up millions of views. “Joint pain, neck pain, muscle pain, spasms. … Spray it on there and thank me later,” the user says.
This isn’t an entirely far-fetched idea. Avocados do contain some anti-inflammatory compounds that have the potential to ease pain
While there isn’t much evidence behind this TikTok trend, researchers have done some lab tests that suggest avocado seeds have potential as pain relievers.
“Evidence shows that avocado seeds contain anti-inflammatory properties and could potentially be used to produce pharmaceuticals,”

And although I'm not a fan of 'tiktok' I thought I'd give it a try anyway, because my house is already to ful with avocadoplants 🙈😜

1) One avocado pit cleaned and cut into chunks.

2) Place in jar with a lid and fill with 70% rubbing alcohol.

3) Let sit for a couple of weeks.

Dab, spray, or rub mixture into areas of arthritic pain or aches. Continue to use it every time the pain/ache returns. Once nutrients have had time to be absorbed into the affected joints, the area will calm, and you will use it less often.

30/10/2025

So many of our modern day festivals have become so far removed from the original essence and the roots of what the festival was about.

These points in the calendar, these moments of celebration, were always about connection to our soul, honouring the land and our journey upon it.
And yet, as I look on the modern consumerist versions, it seems to be the opposite.

Buying into practises and things that damage the earth and our bodies.

Increasing disconnection rather than connection.
So if on this beautiful day and night of death and rebirth, new beginnings and letting go.

This festival of honouring our deaths and the path of our ancestors, this festival of fire; you find yourself eating piles of deadening sugar, surrounded by plastic wrapped junk, with no thought of connection to life, to heart to soul.

I invite you to carve out just 20 minutes of your time, to either light a candle, walk in the woods or make a mandala or a shrine under a tree; made from leaves, nut casings, lichen, feathers; whatever feels right to you, that represents all you have been through and all that you are growing towards.

Or make time to sit in candlelight, firelight or moonlight and just listen and feel into what has been and what you wish to move towards.

Honour in some way your life and the life of those who came before you, especially the ones who touched your heart with love and grief and carved a space in your bones for life to fill you with it’s beauty.

On this day especially, honour the wise ones; the witches whose knowledge of plants, nature, birth, death, seasons and beauty have brought so much to this earth.

It is those ancestors who brought forth much wisdom, and yet we still degrade their memory and celebrate the terrible killings of our wise ones through mockery and hate.

Let the young girls and boys know, that a strong wise woman, ‘a witch’ is a wonderful being indeed.

Break down the distorted misunderstandings and break free of celebrating a hideous belief, that witches were devil worshipping baby eaters, but were instead, our earth based wisdom our strong women.

Just take a moment if you can to connect to something more beautiful, more real.

Reclaim your knowing and understanding.
Your heart and soul will thank you for it.

~ Brigit Anna McNeill

Art by Tijana Lukovic, “Samhain”

27/09/2025

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26/09/2025

Ærlighetsmarkedet er åpent igjen. Ikke glem å bestille brød, så får du hjemmelaget ferskt brød denne søndagen❤ 🍞 🥰
Åsemyrvegen 634, Bagn/Garthus
(bestillingsliste i kommentarfeltet)

the honestymarketstal is open again. Don't forget to order your bread, to have homemade fresh bread this sunday❤ 🍞 🥰
(order list in the comments)

19/09/2025

We're open again, and open all weekend 634, Bagn/ Garthus.
Come for your fresh eggs or other delicious fresh products. Bread can be ordered. You're more than welcome.

19/09/2025

Vi er åpne igjen, og åpent hele helgen. Kom innom for ferske egg eller andre deilige ferske produkter. Brød kan bestilles. Velkommen.

We're open again, and open all weekend. Come for your fresh eggs or other delicious fresh products. Bread can be ordered. You're more than welcome.

14/09/2025