🌿🪴🤱🏻🪻DIY Floral Drying Rack for Postpartum Herbs
Let’s romanticize postpartum prep for a moment, shall we? 🧺✨ Because there’s something sacred about taking the time to hang herbs and flowers to dry knowing they’ll soon become medicine for the body, mind, and womb.
This week, I made a simple DIY outdoor drying rack using foraged sticks, colorful string, and a bit of creative rope work. Nothing fancy. Just materials I had around the house and in my garden—and it turned out so beautiful and functional. 🌿
Here’s what you’ll need to make one yourself:
🪵 Materials
– 1–2 sturdy sticks or branches (look for ones about arm’s length)
– Colorful string or yarn (for a whimsical, feminine touch)
– Natural rope or jute to hang the rack securely
– Scissors + twine for bundling herbs
– Clothespins or extra string to hang flowers upside down
– Optional: hooks or nails to secure your rack outdoors
🌼 Herbs + Flowers I’m Drying for Postpartum
– Calendula (anti-inflammatory + skin healing)
– Chamomile (calming + digestive support)
– Lavender (nervine + wound healing)
– Rose petals (heart-opening + gentle toning)
– Mugwort (deep womb work + energetic clearing)
– Lemon balm (uplifting and antiviral)
🌞 How To
1. Find two branches or long sticks—these will be your frame.
2. Use rope or twine to tie them together into a ladder-style rack or hang one horizontally from a shaded outdoor beam.
3. Add colorful string between the branches or along the stick to create “drying lines.”
4. Tie small bundles of herbs/flowers and hang them upside down with string or clothespins.
5. Let them dry in the breeze and shade for 7–14 days.
This little project is more than a DIY—it’s a ritual. Each bundle you hang is a future herbal sitz bath, v. steam, or warm tea for a postpartum mama’s healing body. It’s part of the cocooning. Part of the slowness. Part of remembering that nature has always held us through transitions.
💗 I believe every mama deserves a postpartum season filled with healing, nourishment, and beauty—and it starts with small, meaningful steps like this.
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Wishing you all the healing,
mEGAN lIMON
