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BLACK TEA • FOOD & FOUNDATION
Start your Kitchen Apothecary with something familiar: black tea. Explore Camellia sinensis as food, ritual, and an everyday herbal tool through the Treehouse Herbal Framework. Learn its uses, preparations, possibilities, and limitations while discovering why building an apothecary begins with understanding what you already have—not collecting more.
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Tea Phosphates: An Old-Fashioned Soda Shop Drink, the Treehouse Way
Tea Phosphates bring old-fashioned soda shop fun into the Treehouse with strongly brewed tea, sparkling seltzer, sweetness, and a crispy-tart finish. Use favorite teas or herbal infusions, experiment with flavors, and discover how a few simple ingredients can transform an everyday drink into an endlessly customizable, bubbly little possibility.
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Gluten-Free Sourdough Workshop | Build Your Own Brown Rice Starter
Build your own gluten-free brown rice sourdough starter from scratch with this free, practical workshop. Learn the 14-feeding framework, recognize what your starter is telling you, troubleshoot real-life variables, prepare for your first bake, and meet Brice—the starter that began Nicole’s fail-forward-and-find-out journey back to baking with confidence.
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Cultured Lemonade: Giving a Forgotten Ingredient Something Meaningful to Do
Cultured Lemonade turns leftover whey from cultured dairy into something worth remembering. With lemon, baobab, sugar, and a little microbial magic, this quirky fermented drink gives a forgotten ingredient meaningful purpose. It’s part kitchen practicality, part League of Extraordinary Microbes, and perhaps proof there’s a soda jerk in me.
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Reme-Teas: A Treehouse Definition of Tea
Reme-Teas are warming rituals from the Treehouse Kitchen Apothecary, where tea gets a generous definition. From true teas and herbal infusions to cocoa, coffee, citrus, and spices, these comforting cups are about hydration, nourishment, warmth, and making five quiet minutes feel a little more manageable when you need them most.
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It’s Always Soup Season
Soup doesn’t need a season. It needs a reason—and making dinner easier is reason enough. From stretching pantry staples and creating intentional leftovers to adapting for food boundaries and Fuel Flow, soup is more than comfort food. It’s a flexible household system for feeding real people through real life, year-round.
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Rooted Reme-Tea: Warm Lemon Comfort Tea
Warm Lemon Comfort Tea is a Rooted Reme-Tea—a warming ritual from the Treehouse Kitchen Apothecary. Chamomile, peppermint, lemon, baobab, and familiar pantry ingredients create a bright, comforting mug for cold days and long ones. Learn what makes a Reme-Tea, plus how to turn yours into a sparkling tea-phosphate.
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TRIM TRIVIA TUESDAYS • Come Play in the Treehouse
Trim Trivia Tuesdays are coming to the Treehouse! Join Nicole Burch for four free, live virtual game nights featuring Trim Healthy trivia, Recipe Bingo, prizes, attendee-only resources, lightning Q&A, and optional Foxy Mama After Dark. Come play, laugh, test your Trim knowledge, and spend Tuesday evening with women in the Treehouse.
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Uncooperative as a Mother
This is the story behind Uncooperative as a Mother—1,190 days of protecting my family while navigating the justice system after my daughters’ disclosure. It’s about motherhood, boundaries, advocacy, institutional failures, unexpected allies, and refusing to let titles outrank humanity. I believed them. I believed in them. And I stood between.
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When Justice Is Partial and Silence Is Easier Than Truth
This deeply personal reflection explores partial justice, emotional courage, and the cost of listening when truth is uncomfortable. Through my family’s experience with disclosure, trial, advocacy, and recovery, I examine what survivors need from us—and why raising children who can speak hard truths requires adults willing to hear them.
Wellness That Withstands 