Harvest Days Revisited, A taste of a small apothecary
The harvest season waxed & waned this year with some cold days freezing the ground a bit, but then a few warm ones where we were digging horseradish, dandelion & evening primrose roots. And then suddenly, snow.
It’s at this time when the focus changes from outside harvest to the processing of all the spring, summer & fall bounty. Dried herbs are brought out to mix together for teas. Jars are opened for bottling elixirs. In each bag & jar there is a story of the harvest. Of the friends & family who helped. Of the places visited. Of the herb’s scent, vibrancy, healing & story.
Healthy Heart Tea
Each herb I open brings a nostalgia for those warmer days, but simultaneously a healing & comfort of that memory.
From up high in a European Linden by the bay.
European Linden by the bay. A long abandoned dairy farm, where bits of milk bottles are found as sea glass.
Rosa rugosa by the ocean.
Harvesting roses.
Rose Elixir
When I opened the rose elixir last week the whole house seemed of rose, as if I had my nose deep in a flower.
Rose Elixir
Violets
Chest Massage Balm
Heartsease
Heartsease flower skeletons
Heart Elixir
Milky Oats
Winter Well Being Tea
Ache Relief Salve, a local tiger balm
Elderberries
Looking for Bald Eagles
Fresh Ginger
Elderberry Ginger Elixir
Calendula Oil for Healing Salve & Chest Massage Balm
Rest Sweetly Tea
Thyme Flowers for Infusing into Raw Honey
Late Sumer Oxymel
Late Summer Oxymel Herbs
Borage Flowers for Heart Elixir
Lemon Balm Glycerite
White Pine Resin for Drawing Salve
White Pine Resin for Drawing Salve
Calendula drying for tea.
Harvesting: Horsetail, Balsam Fir tips, Hemlock tips, White Pine tips & Balsam Fir resin
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Autumn Oxymel
Enough
Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
Until now
David Whyte, Where Many Rivers Meet
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