Description
6 items delivered to your door for Summer Solstice
Handmade Wild harvested and organically grown items from The Sacred Gardener Farm
Nourish your good health and well being as we transition from Spring to Summer
Here’s what’s in the box:
Roses and lavender incense: Handmade cones created with rose petals, lavender flowers, oak sawdust and guar gum. Enjoy the uplifting,soothing love of these flowers without any toxic additives.
Bliss blend (tasty hot or cold): Like the summer sun, these herbs purify and balance our system, restoring our immunity, health and sense of ease. Ingredients: Oshwago (also known as Bee Balm or Red Bergamot), lemon balm, holy basil, anise hyssop flower tops, rose flowers, chamomile and calendula.
Tulsi Rose & Hawthorn elixir: Nervous system support for tumultuous times. Rose petals, Tulsi (or holy basil) and Hawthorn herb infused in vodka, brandy and local wildflower honey, heart centering medicine to enjoy on it’s own or add to bubbly water as a refreshing drink!
Wild blossom toner: Refreshing floral toner spray for face and body. Astringent but not drying and nourishing for your skin. Wonderful to cool you down on a hot day (especially nice on the back of your neck and armpits, just sayin’).
Witch Hazel distillate infused with astringent and emollient herbs from our gardens and fields: lemon balm, chamomile, roses, calendula, comfrey leaf, lavender, sweetfern, red clover, mallow flowers, lemon peel (from our greenhouse lemons), rosemary, sage
St. John’s wort, Plantain, Calendula and Lavender salve to soothe sore muscles, ease sunburn and bug bites, helps with would healing, reducing scarring.
Herbal vinegar (with my go to salad dressing recipe): a mix of medicinal and culinary herbs to infuse in raw Apple Cider Vinegar
Infused with: thyme, basil, oregano, rosemary, marjoram, sage, bee balm, chives, lemonbalm, tarragon, yarrow, parsley, bergamont, sumac berries, shepherd’s purse, chickweed, motherwort, nettles, raspberry, angelica, horsetail, red clover, calendula, alfalfa, wild carrot tops, fireweed, heal-all, yellowdock, cilantro, dandelion tops and roots, burdock root, bladder campion, catnip, pine, garlic, horseradish, thistle.
What was in the Spring Equinox Box:
Balm of Gilead Incense cones: Hand harvested poplar buds, oak sawdust & guar gum. In the early spring, these buds start to swell, preparing for new growth. The smell is divine and bring the energy of hope, possibility and new beginnings.
Maple Syrup Cream: Our maple syrup boiled down to a creamy spread, which can be used in your morning tea or coffee. Or on toast!
Chaga, Dandelion, Burdock & Star of Anise Decoction Blend: A delicious, nourishing, cleansing blend of herbs to support your digestion, immunity and liver. Made by decoction which is a slow infusion simmered on a stovetop, strained and enjoyed.
Wild Herbal Salt Blend: Italian herb seasoning blend (Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano, Marjoram) blended with dried garlic scapes and wild mushrooms. Excellent as a marinade for meats or veggies, as an instant soup stock or as a finishing spice.
Dandelion Flower, Plantain & Violet Serum: Herbs infused in jojoba oil for a light, absorbent face serum, bringing a natural glow of sunny dandelions to your face.
Bitters blend: Dandelion Root, Burdock &Yellowdock roots infused in vodka. Take a couple of drops before meals to support digestion. Bitter herbs help get your guts going when ingested before meals, creating better digested food, absorption of nutrients and a happier belly.
Optional Addition of a Tick Kit! Herbal treatment for tick bites.
What was included in the Winter Solstice Box:
Bath soak (cedar/eucalyptus/pine)
Cedar, White Pine & Eucalyptus bath soak: Make a strong herbal infusion to add to your bath. Helps when you’re feeling sick or to support general health and well being. Wild harvested Cedar and White pine, Eucalyptus grown in our year round greenhouse.
Chaga elixir
Smudge Spray: A smokeless smudge spray that can be used anywhere. Sweetgrass and White sage infused in Witch Hazel. Can also be used as a refreshing facial mist.
Balm of gilead salve
Enliven your achy self. We love this one for our sore backs after a hard day’s work. Sometimes we put it on just for the smell, which evokes early spring energy, a return to life. Poplar buds in Olive Oil & Beeswax.
Warming the centre tea blend
Plain & Simple Tallow soap from Handmade Herbology
What was included in the Fall Equinox Box :
Spruce Tip Salt: Excellent for adding to soups, seasoning meats and veggies, adding to salads.
Elderberry Aronia Elixir: Support Your Immune system with this antioxidant rich blend. Elderberry and Aronia berries infused in Brandy with Cinnamon and Sumac berries infused in local raw honey
Bulb of our organically grown garlic
Calendula flower skin cream: Nourish your skin as we move into drier weather
Comfort Tea Blend: lemon balm, marshmallow, nettle, oatstraw, reships, yarrow, lab tea, bee balm
Soup Stock Blend: Shitake, Birch Polypore, Turkey Tail, Reishi, Dandelion leaf, Nettle & Horsetail. Create your own nourishing soup stock to enjoy as a base for soups or drink on it’s own or with miso.
