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Meet Jessica

Hey there! I'm Jessica Holoka. I work with the seasons to create easy homemade recipes, DIYs and crafts, and tips to tricks to help your home and garden thrive and flourish.

I also craft simmer pot kits, home fragrance items, and more for my shop. I try to make my products with as many herbs and flowers from my garden (or local sources) as I can.

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Collage of cold hardy herbs including lavender, thyme, oregano, parsley, mint, cilantro, dill, sweet woodruff, lavender, and hyssop.

Cold Hardy Herbs for Early Spring Planting

Ready to garden in April? Get a head start on planting with these cold hardy herbs perfect for New Jersey (zone 7). They thrive in cool weather and have time to grow strong before the summer heat arrives. This post...
Tropical Strawberry Coconut Pineapple Yogurt Salad in white bowl sits on wooden board. Gold spoon, strawberries, mint leaves, pineapple top, and halved lime also in partial view.

Tropical Strawberry Coconut Pineapple Yogurt Salad

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Fairy garden is planted in shallow flower pot. Garden includes Irish moss, woolly thyme, Frizzle Sizzle pansies, sweet alyssums, fairy garden decorations, and a mini bee bath made out of a tiny terracotta saucer and rocks. Bleeding heart plants in partial view in background.

Pollinator-Friendly Fairy Garden

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Decorative Garden Stakes from Etsy

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Collage of Beltane brooms and new simmer pot kits from Holoka Home on Etsy. White text in center reads "April Etsy Shop Update" on a semi-transparent sage green square.

April Etsy Shop Update

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Fiesta container garden sits on deck near. Large black pot in partial view in background.

Fiesta Pollinator Container Garden

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Clear quartz and amethyst crystal garden stakes sit in potted rose planter.

Easy DIY Crystal Garden Stakes

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