Summer CSH Box - Large & Small Sizes - Custom Available
Ravens Homestead’s Herbal CSA 2022: Summer
The abundance of the year is upon us as the seeds we have sown start to come to life. Our bodies are like the season bright, cheery and full of energy. Now is a time to focus on maintaining that good energy and taking care of ourselves as so much work continues to lie ahead to prepare us for the dark nights of winter.
We are excited to offer our second box of the year: Summer. Everything in this box has been grown and made here on our homestead. The content in these boxes is solely ruled by nature and the seasons. Majority of the items you will find inside are best harvested or only available in the summer season. Please find below more detailed descriptions of what you can find inside. Enjoy what the season has to offer!
Large Box Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Sleeping Beauty Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of chamomile, California poppy, valerian root, hops and catnip. This combination of herbs was chosen for their abilities to calm and sooth the nervous system. They help promote relaxation and a good sleep. Not only will this blend help to calm your anxieties and nerves it will help to calm digestive upsets and mild pains. Drink when the body feels bloated, sore, stressed, before bed or when you just need to relax.
Cautions: Avoid during pregnancy. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Some individuals will react paradoxically to Valerian and will actually be stimulated by it. Valerian interacts with barbiturates consult with a doctor before use if you are currently on medication. Use caution with sedative and anti-depressant medications as valerian may theoretically potentiate effects. Caution with California poppy if on nervous system meds. It may have addictive effects when combined with other sedatives.
Rose + Lavender Butter
Light, whipped rose and lavender butter is made in a small seasonal batch, slowly with rose and lavender infused sunflower oil, cocoa butter, mango butter, coconut oil, magnesium hydroxide USP and arrowroot powder. This body butter is used as a devotion of love to ones self. Use to massage your vessel especially over the heart chakra and breasts to lather yourself with the love filled energies of wild rose with total nourishment. Like the plump, smooth flower of a rose It will provide hydration, calm irritations and help to diminish fine lines and scars. Lavender helps to promote relaxation as well as its antibacterial and anti fungal properties help with odour causing bacterias on the skin. The natural magnesium hydroxide in this lotion is a form of magnesium not absorbed by the skin instead it is used to help counteract odour causing bacteria that lives on the skin. Feel free to use this lotion on your armpits or to help with smelly body odours naturally. This body butter is free of harsh essential oils and smells faintly of lavender, rose and chocolate.
Sunshine Salve
Sunshine salve is a super healing and hydrating balm for the body or lips. Made of homegrown calendula flowers infused in sunflower oil, calendula tincture, local emu oil and local beeswax. Use this balm on cuts, scrapes, bug bites, wounds, chapped lips, dry skin or even to reduce the appearance of scars. Made with simple gentle ingredients you can actually pronounce.
Yarrow + Rose + Charcoal Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? This soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. This soap features yarrow leaf and activated charcoal infused lard topped with pink prairie salts and wild rose petals. Yarrow and Charocoal will help to draw out any toxins from the skin. This soap is super useful for acne, cuts, infections, rashes or removing makeup.
Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, hardwood activated charcoal, yarrow leaf infused mangalitsa lard, Canadian pink prairie salt, wild rose petals.
Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of mugwort and yarrow.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Wild Violet Sugar
Sugar infused with the essence & colour of early summer. Wild violet flower infused and ground into sugar is a fun way to incorporate herbs into your food that can be quite colourful and healthier than your average sugar. Use this sugar the same as you would any sugar. We prefer to use it for those fancier baking endeavours. Use it in a way that its purple hues will be noticed. Like as a topping or garnish on cookies or cakes. Wild violets are good medicine for the heart and lymphatic system. Use this sugar as an expression of love in your baking.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Itch Relief Roll On
Roll-on bottle of our itch relieving spray made to specially target rashes caused by poison ivy, oak and stinging nettle. Can also be used on bug bites or other itchy or irritated skin conditions. Made with jewelweed, giant yellow hyssop in a witch hazel distillate with a sweet fern alcohol extraction. For external use only.
Herbal Bath + Foot Soak : Sweet & Soothing
A combination of homegrown and foraged herbs blended into Canadian pink prairie salts to enjoy in a ritual of self care: the bubble bath. Contains skin healing and soothing herbs of sweetfern and calendula. Each soak comes with a reusable muslin bag. This soak is best enjoyed by adding a portion to the muslin bag then to a pot of boiling water to steep 10-20 mins. Then add the boiling water to your bath or foot soak. It can also be added straight to the bathtub but caution it will be messy! The herbs healing properties as best extracted with the higher constant heat. This soak can be used simply for its sweet smells or for its healing abilities to calm skin irritations like poison ivy or poison oak rashes, burns, bug bites, sunburns, eczema, psoriasis, acne and cuts. Perfect thing to have on hand in summer months when the bugs are out and the sun and fires are hot!
Tum-ease Glycerite: Peppermint, lemon balm & Catnip Extraction
1 oz bottle of homegrown herbs of peppermint, catnip and lemon balm extraction. Made with vegan & gluten free 100% vegetable glycerine making it safe for pregnant women and children. Tum-ease is used to help ease any digestive related issues. Take before or after a meal to help with digestion. As well as calming the digestive tract it also can help to soothe the nervous system. Tum-ease is especially great for those who store their anxieties in their guts.
Uses for Extract:
Aid in digestion
Indigestion
Gas Relief
Nervous stomach
Ease anxieties
Calming
Fever aid
Cautions: Avoid if allergic to anything in the lamiaceae family.
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
California Poppy Tincture
Homegrown California poppy tincture. Made with the whole california poppy plant; root, stem, leaves and flower extracted in gluten-free alcohol. A milder non-addicitve relative of the opium poppy, california poppy is a wonderful plant to help calm and relax you when tensions, stress or anxieties are at a high. It can help to promote sleep and a sense of calm as well as regulate your sleeping patterns. It also works to calm the nervous system to help ease pains within the body especially those nerve related
Uses For Tincture:
promote sleep
regulate sleeping patterns
aid with mild pains, neuralgias, migraines
stress
nervous bowel
depression
anxiety
hyperactivity in children
insomnia
nervous agitation
Cautions: use caution with nervous system meds. May have addictive effects when combined with other sedatives. Because of its sleep inducing and mild sedative effects do not take before operating machinery or driving.
Small Box #1 Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Rose + Lavender Butter
Light, whipped rose and lavender butter is made in a small seasonal batch, slowly with rose and lavender infused sunflower oil, cocoa butter, mango butter, coconut oil, magnesium hydroxide USP and arrowroot powder. This body butter is used as a devotion of love to ones self. Use to massage your vessel especially over the heart chakra and breasts to lather yourself with the love filled energies of wild rose with total nourishment. Like the plump, smooth flower of a rose It will provide hydration, calm irritations and help to diminish fine lines and scars. Lavender helps to promote relaxation as well as its antibacterial and anti fungal properties help with odour causing bacterias on the skin. The natural magnesium hydroxide in this lotion is a form of magnesium not absorbed by the skin instead it is used to help counteract odour causing bacteria that lives on the skin. Feel free to use this lotion on your armpits or to help with smelly body odours naturally. This body butter is free of harsh essential oils and smells faintly of lavender, rose and chocolate.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of wormwood and yarrow.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Herbal Bath + Foot Soak : Sweet & Soothing
A combination of homegrown and foraged herbs blended into Canadian pink prairie salts to enjoy in a ritual of self care: the bubble bath. Contains skin healing and soothing herbs of sweetfern and calendula. Each soak comes with a reusable muslin bag. This soak is best enjoyed by adding a portion to the muslin bag then to a pot of boiling water to steep 10-20 mins. Then add the boiling water to your bath or foot soak. It can also be added straight to the bathtub but caution it will be messy! The herbs healing properties as best extracted with the higher constant heat. This soak can be used simply for its sweet smells or for its healing abilities to calm skin irritations like poison ivy or poison oak rashes, burns, bug bites, sunburns, eczema, psoriasis, acne and cuts. Perfect thing to have on hand in summer months when the bugs are out and the sun and fires are hot!
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
Small Box #2 Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Sweetfern Lotion
Ceamy, antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory & astringent lotion crafted from natural ingredients. Respectfully foraged sweetfern and calendula flowers infused into olive oil for many moons. Whipped together with shea butter, local beeswax and sweetfern infusion. Emulsified with sunflower lecithin and sodium tetraborate. Sweetfern lotion is made to handle anything causing inflammation and irritation to the skin like rashes, burns, bug bites, itching, eczema, psoriasis, sunburns, acne etc. Sweetfern also helps to stimulate the lymphatic system and can be massaged onto the lymph nodes to promote healthy lymph movement. Asides from all its wonderful healing capabilities sweetfern is just that- Sweet! Use this lotion for its sweet smells and healing. Made with no harsh essential oils just simple plant infusions.
Yarrow + Rose + Charcoal Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? This soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. This soap features yarrow leaf and activated charcoal infused lard topped with pink prairie salts and wild rose petals. Yarrow and Charocoal will help to draw out any toxins from the skin. This soap is super useful for acne, cuts, infections, rashes or removing makeup.
Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, hardwood activated charcoal, yarrow leaf infused mangalitsa lard, Canadian pink prairie salt, wild rose petals.
Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of mugwort and wormwood.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Itch Relief Roll On
Roll-on bottle of our itch relieving spray made to specially target rashes caused by poison ivy, oak and stinging nettle. Can also be used on bug bites or other itchy or irritated skin conditions. Made with jewelweed, giant yellow hyssop in a witch hazel distillate with a sweet fern alcohol extraction. For external use only.
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
If you would like a customized box please message us or fill out the subscription box form on the events page.
Ravens Homestead’s Herbal CSA 2022: Summer
The abundance of the year is upon us as the seeds we have sown start to come to life. Our bodies are like the season bright, cheery and full of energy. Now is a time to focus on maintaining that good energy and taking care of ourselves as so much work continues to lie ahead to prepare us for the dark nights of winter.
We are excited to offer our second box of the year: Summer. Everything in this box has been grown and made here on our homestead. The content in these boxes is solely ruled by nature and the seasons. Majority of the items you will find inside are best harvested or only available in the summer season. Please find below more detailed descriptions of what you can find inside. Enjoy what the season has to offer!
Large Box Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Sleeping Beauty Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of chamomile, California poppy, valerian root, hops and catnip. This combination of herbs was chosen for their abilities to calm and sooth the nervous system. They help promote relaxation and a good sleep. Not only will this blend help to calm your anxieties and nerves it will help to calm digestive upsets and mild pains. Drink when the body feels bloated, sore, stressed, before bed or when you just need to relax.
Cautions: Avoid during pregnancy. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Some individuals will react paradoxically to Valerian and will actually be stimulated by it. Valerian interacts with barbiturates consult with a doctor before use if you are currently on medication. Use caution with sedative and anti-depressant medications as valerian may theoretically potentiate effects. Caution with California poppy if on nervous system meds. It may have addictive effects when combined with other sedatives.
Rose + Lavender Butter
Light, whipped rose and lavender butter is made in a small seasonal batch, slowly with rose and lavender infused sunflower oil, cocoa butter, mango butter, coconut oil, magnesium hydroxide USP and arrowroot powder. This body butter is used as a devotion of love to ones self. Use to massage your vessel especially over the heart chakra and breasts to lather yourself with the love filled energies of wild rose with total nourishment. Like the plump, smooth flower of a rose It will provide hydration, calm irritations and help to diminish fine lines and scars. Lavender helps to promote relaxation as well as its antibacterial and anti fungal properties help with odour causing bacterias on the skin. The natural magnesium hydroxide in this lotion is a form of magnesium not absorbed by the skin instead it is used to help counteract odour causing bacteria that lives on the skin. Feel free to use this lotion on your armpits or to help with smelly body odours naturally. This body butter is free of harsh essential oils and smells faintly of lavender, rose and chocolate.
Sunshine Salve
Sunshine salve is a super healing and hydrating balm for the body or lips. Made of homegrown calendula flowers infused in sunflower oil, calendula tincture, local emu oil and local beeswax. Use this balm on cuts, scrapes, bug bites, wounds, chapped lips, dry skin or even to reduce the appearance of scars. Made with simple gentle ingredients you can actually pronounce.
Yarrow + Rose + Charcoal Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? This soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. This soap features yarrow leaf and activated charcoal infused lard topped with pink prairie salts and wild rose petals. Yarrow and Charocoal will help to draw out any toxins from the skin. This soap is super useful for acne, cuts, infections, rashes or removing makeup.
Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, hardwood activated charcoal, yarrow leaf infused mangalitsa lard, Canadian pink prairie salt, wild rose petals.
Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of mugwort and yarrow.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Wild Violet Sugar
Sugar infused with the essence & colour of early summer. Wild violet flower infused and ground into sugar is a fun way to incorporate herbs into your food that can be quite colourful and healthier than your average sugar. Use this sugar the same as you would any sugar. We prefer to use it for those fancier baking endeavours. Use it in a way that its purple hues will be noticed. Like as a topping or garnish on cookies or cakes. Wild violets are good medicine for the heart and lymphatic system. Use this sugar as an expression of love in your baking.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Itch Relief Roll On
Roll-on bottle of our itch relieving spray made to specially target rashes caused by poison ivy, oak and stinging nettle. Can also be used on bug bites or other itchy or irritated skin conditions. Made with jewelweed, giant yellow hyssop in a witch hazel distillate with a sweet fern alcohol extraction. For external use only.
Herbal Bath + Foot Soak : Sweet & Soothing
A combination of homegrown and foraged herbs blended into Canadian pink prairie salts to enjoy in a ritual of self care: the bubble bath. Contains skin healing and soothing herbs of sweetfern and calendula. Each soak comes with a reusable muslin bag. This soak is best enjoyed by adding a portion to the muslin bag then to a pot of boiling water to steep 10-20 mins. Then add the boiling water to your bath or foot soak. It can also be added straight to the bathtub but caution it will be messy! The herbs healing properties as best extracted with the higher constant heat. This soak can be used simply for its sweet smells or for its healing abilities to calm skin irritations like poison ivy or poison oak rashes, burns, bug bites, sunburns, eczema, psoriasis, acne and cuts. Perfect thing to have on hand in summer months when the bugs are out and the sun and fires are hot!
Tum-ease Glycerite: Peppermint, lemon balm & Catnip Extraction
1 oz bottle of homegrown herbs of peppermint, catnip and lemon balm extraction. Made with vegan & gluten free 100% vegetable glycerine making it safe for pregnant women and children. Tum-ease is used to help ease any digestive related issues. Take before or after a meal to help with digestion. As well as calming the digestive tract it also can help to soothe the nervous system. Tum-ease is especially great for those who store their anxieties in their guts.
Uses for Extract:
Aid in digestion
Indigestion
Gas Relief
Nervous stomach
Ease anxieties
Calming
Fever aid
Cautions: Avoid if allergic to anything in the lamiaceae family.
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
California Poppy Tincture
Homegrown California poppy tincture. Made with the whole california poppy plant; root, stem, leaves and flower extracted in gluten-free alcohol. A milder non-addicitve relative of the opium poppy, california poppy is a wonderful plant to help calm and relax you when tensions, stress or anxieties are at a high. It can help to promote sleep and a sense of calm as well as regulate your sleeping patterns. It also works to calm the nervous system to help ease pains within the body especially those nerve related
Uses For Tincture:
promote sleep
regulate sleeping patterns
aid with mild pains, neuralgias, migraines
stress
nervous bowel
depression
anxiety
hyperactivity in children
insomnia
nervous agitation
Cautions: use caution with nervous system meds. May have addictive effects when combined with other sedatives. Because of its sleep inducing and mild sedative effects do not take before operating machinery or driving.
Small Box #1 Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Rose + Lavender Butter
Light, whipped rose and lavender butter is made in a small seasonal batch, slowly with rose and lavender infused sunflower oil, cocoa butter, mango butter, coconut oil, magnesium hydroxide USP and arrowroot powder. This body butter is used as a devotion of love to ones self. Use to massage your vessel especially over the heart chakra and breasts to lather yourself with the love filled energies of wild rose with total nourishment. Like the plump, smooth flower of a rose It will provide hydration, calm irritations and help to diminish fine lines and scars. Lavender helps to promote relaxation as well as its antibacterial and anti fungal properties help with odour causing bacterias on the skin. The natural magnesium hydroxide in this lotion is a form of magnesium not absorbed by the skin instead it is used to help counteract odour causing bacteria that lives on the skin. Feel free to use this lotion on your armpits or to help with smelly body odours naturally. This body butter is free of harsh essential oils and smells faintly of lavender, rose and chocolate.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of wormwood and yarrow.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Herbal Bath + Foot Soak : Sweet & Soothing
A combination of homegrown and foraged herbs blended into Canadian pink prairie salts to enjoy in a ritual of self care: the bubble bath. Contains skin healing and soothing herbs of sweetfern and calendula. Each soak comes with a reusable muslin bag. This soak is best enjoyed by adding a portion to the muslin bag then to a pot of boiling water to steep 10-20 mins. Then add the boiling water to your bath or foot soak. It can also be added straight to the bathtub but caution it will be messy! The herbs healing properties as best extracted with the higher constant heat. This soak can be used simply for its sweet smells or for its healing abilities to calm skin irritations like poison ivy or poison oak rashes, burns, bug bites, sunburns, eczema, psoriasis, acne and cuts. Perfect thing to have on hand in summer months when the bugs are out and the sun and fires are hot!
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
Small Box #2 Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Sweetfern Lotion
Ceamy, antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory & astringent lotion crafted from natural ingredients. Respectfully foraged sweetfern and calendula flowers infused into olive oil for many moons. Whipped together with shea butter, local beeswax and sweetfern infusion. Emulsified with sunflower lecithin and sodium tetraborate. Sweetfern lotion is made to handle anything causing inflammation and irritation to the skin like rashes, burns, bug bites, itching, eczema, psoriasis, sunburns, acne etc. Sweetfern also helps to stimulate the lymphatic system and can be massaged onto the lymph nodes to promote healthy lymph movement. Asides from all its wonderful healing capabilities sweetfern is just that- Sweet! Use this lotion for its sweet smells and healing. Made with no harsh essential oils just simple plant infusions.
Yarrow + Rose + Charcoal Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? This soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. This soap features yarrow leaf and activated charcoal infused lard topped with pink prairie salts and wild rose petals. Yarrow and Charocoal will help to draw out any toxins from the skin. This soap is super useful for acne, cuts, infections, rashes or removing makeup.
Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, hardwood activated charcoal, yarrow leaf infused mangalitsa lard, Canadian pink prairie salt, wild rose petals.
Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of mugwort and wormwood.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Itch Relief Roll On
Roll-on bottle of our itch relieving spray made to specially target rashes caused by poison ivy, oak and stinging nettle. Can also be used on bug bites or other itchy or irritated skin conditions. Made with jewelweed, giant yellow hyssop in a witch hazel distillate with a sweet fern alcohol extraction. For external use only.
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
If you would like a customized box please message us or fill out the subscription box form on the events page.
Ravens Homestead’s Herbal CSA 2022: Summer
The abundance of the year is upon us as the seeds we have sown start to come to life. Our bodies are like the season bright, cheery and full of energy. Now is a time to focus on maintaining that good energy and taking care of ourselves as so much work continues to lie ahead to prepare us for the dark nights of winter.
We are excited to offer our second box of the year: Summer. Everything in this box has been grown and made here on our homestead. The content in these boxes is solely ruled by nature and the seasons. Majority of the items you will find inside are best harvested or only available in the summer season. Please find below more detailed descriptions of what you can find inside. Enjoy what the season has to offer!
Large Box Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Sleeping Beauty Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of chamomile, California poppy, valerian root, hops and catnip. This combination of herbs was chosen for their abilities to calm and sooth the nervous system. They help promote relaxation and a good sleep. Not only will this blend help to calm your anxieties and nerves it will help to calm digestive upsets and mild pains. Drink when the body feels bloated, sore, stressed, before bed or when you just need to relax.
Cautions: Avoid during pregnancy. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Some individuals will react paradoxically to Valerian and will actually be stimulated by it. Valerian interacts with barbiturates consult with a doctor before use if you are currently on medication. Use caution with sedative and anti-depressant medications as valerian may theoretically potentiate effects. Caution with California poppy if on nervous system meds. It may have addictive effects when combined with other sedatives.
Rose + Lavender Butter
Light, whipped rose and lavender butter is made in a small seasonal batch, slowly with rose and lavender infused sunflower oil, cocoa butter, mango butter, coconut oil, magnesium hydroxide USP and arrowroot powder. This body butter is used as a devotion of love to ones self. Use to massage your vessel especially over the heart chakra and breasts to lather yourself with the love filled energies of wild rose with total nourishment. Like the plump, smooth flower of a rose It will provide hydration, calm irritations and help to diminish fine lines and scars. Lavender helps to promote relaxation as well as its antibacterial and anti fungal properties help with odour causing bacterias on the skin. The natural magnesium hydroxide in this lotion is a form of magnesium not absorbed by the skin instead it is used to help counteract odour causing bacteria that lives on the skin. Feel free to use this lotion on your armpits or to help with smelly body odours naturally. This body butter is free of harsh essential oils and smells faintly of lavender, rose and chocolate.
Sunshine Salve
Sunshine salve is a super healing and hydrating balm for the body or lips. Made of homegrown calendula flowers infused in sunflower oil, calendula tincture, local emu oil and local beeswax. Use this balm on cuts, scrapes, bug bites, wounds, chapped lips, dry skin or even to reduce the appearance of scars. Made with simple gentle ingredients you can actually pronounce.
Yarrow + Rose + Charcoal Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? This soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. This soap features yarrow leaf and activated charcoal infused lard topped with pink prairie salts and wild rose petals. Yarrow and Charocoal will help to draw out any toxins from the skin. This soap is super useful for acne, cuts, infections, rashes or removing makeup.
Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, hardwood activated charcoal, yarrow leaf infused mangalitsa lard, Canadian pink prairie salt, wild rose petals.
Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of mugwort and yarrow.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Wild Violet Sugar
Sugar infused with the essence & colour of early summer. Wild violet flower infused and ground into sugar is a fun way to incorporate herbs into your food that can be quite colourful and healthier than your average sugar. Use this sugar the same as you would any sugar. We prefer to use it for those fancier baking endeavours. Use it in a way that its purple hues will be noticed. Like as a topping or garnish on cookies or cakes. Wild violets are good medicine for the heart and lymphatic system. Use this sugar as an expression of love in your baking.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Itch Relief Roll On
Roll-on bottle of our itch relieving spray made to specially target rashes caused by poison ivy, oak and stinging nettle. Can also be used on bug bites or other itchy or irritated skin conditions. Made with jewelweed, giant yellow hyssop in a witch hazel distillate with a sweet fern alcohol extraction. For external use only.
Herbal Bath + Foot Soak : Sweet & Soothing
A combination of homegrown and foraged herbs blended into Canadian pink prairie salts to enjoy in a ritual of self care: the bubble bath. Contains skin healing and soothing herbs of sweetfern and calendula. Each soak comes with a reusable muslin bag. This soak is best enjoyed by adding a portion to the muslin bag then to a pot of boiling water to steep 10-20 mins. Then add the boiling water to your bath or foot soak. It can also be added straight to the bathtub but caution it will be messy! The herbs healing properties as best extracted with the higher constant heat. This soak can be used simply for its sweet smells or for its healing abilities to calm skin irritations like poison ivy or poison oak rashes, burns, bug bites, sunburns, eczema, psoriasis, acne and cuts. Perfect thing to have on hand in summer months when the bugs are out and the sun and fires are hot!
Tum-ease Glycerite: Peppermint, lemon balm & Catnip Extraction
1 oz bottle of homegrown herbs of peppermint, catnip and lemon balm extraction. Made with vegan & gluten free 100% vegetable glycerine making it safe for pregnant women and children. Tum-ease is used to help ease any digestive related issues. Take before or after a meal to help with digestion. As well as calming the digestive tract it also can help to soothe the nervous system. Tum-ease is especially great for those who store their anxieties in their guts.
Uses for Extract:
Aid in digestion
Indigestion
Gas Relief
Nervous stomach
Ease anxieties
Calming
Fever aid
Cautions: Avoid if allergic to anything in the lamiaceae family.
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
California Poppy Tincture
Homegrown California poppy tincture. Made with the whole california poppy plant; root, stem, leaves and flower extracted in gluten-free alcohol. A milder non-addicitve relative of the opium poppy, california poppy is a wonderful plant to help calm and relax you when tensions, stress or anxieties are at a high. It can help to promote sleep and a sense of calm as well as regulate your sleeping patterns. It also works to calm the nervous system to help ease pains within the body especially those nerve related
Uses For Tincture:
promote sleep
regulate sleeping patterns
aid with mild pains, neuralgias, migraines
stress
nervous bowel
depression
anxiety
hyperactivity in children
insomnia
nervous agitation
Cautions: use caution with nervous system meds. May have addictive effects when combined with other sedatives. Because of its sleep inducing and mild sedative effects do not take before operating machinery or driving.
Small Box #1 Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Rose + Lavender Butter
Light, whipped rose and lavender butter is made in a small seasonal batch, slowly with rose and lavender infused sunflower oil, cocoa butter, mango butter, coconut oil, magnesium hydroxide USP and arrowroot powder. This body butter is used as a devotion of love to ones self. Use to massage your vessel especially over the heart chakra and breasts to lather yourself with the love filled energies of wild rose with total nourishment. Like the plump, smooth flower of a rose It will provide hydration, calm irritations and help to diminish fine lines and scars. Lavender helps to promote relaxation as well as its antibacterial and anti fungal properties help with odour causing bacterias on the skin. The natural magnesium hydroxide in this lotion is a form of magnesium not absorbed by the skin instead it is used to help counteract odour causing bacteria that lives on the skin. Feel free to use this lotion on your armpits or to help with smelly body odours naturally. This body butter is free of harsh essential oils and smells faintly of lavender, rose and chocolate.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of wormwood and yarrow.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Herbal Bath + Foot Soak : Sweet & Soothing
A combination of homegrown and foraged herbs blended into Canadian pink prairie salts to enjoy in a ritual of self care: the bubble bath. Contains skin healing and soothing herbs of sweetfern and calendula. Each soak comes with a reusable muslin bag. This soak is best enjoyed by adding a portion to the muslin bag then to a pot of boiling water to steep 10-20 mins. Then add the boiling water to your bath or foot soak. It can also be added straight to the bathtub but caution it will be messy! The herbs healing properties as best extracted with the higher constant heat. This soak can be used simply for its sweet smells or for its healing abilities to calm skin irritations like poison ivy or poison oak rashes, burns, bug bites, sunburns, eczema, psoriasis, acne and cuts. Perfect thing to have on hand in summer months when the bugs are out and the sun and fires are hot!
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
Small Box #2 Includes:
Summers Garden Tea Blend
A loose leaf tea blend crafted from homegrown herbs of raspberry leaf, wild bergamot, cornflowers and calendula petals. Drink this tea to enjoy the sweet flavours and colours of summer. It has tastes of fruitiness and spicy mint. It can be enjoyed as a hot or cold brew tea or even a summer sun infused tea! This tea will aid in vitamins, digestion, lymph movement and maintenance of good health.
Cautions: Careful when using wild bergamot if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family. Avoid calendula during pregnancy due to its emmenagogue effects.
Sweetfern Lotion
Ceamy, antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory & astringent lotion crafted from natural ingredients. Respectfully foraged sweetfern and calendula flowers infused into olive oil for many moons. Whipped together with shea butter, local beeswax and sweetfern infusion. Emulsified with sunflower lecithin and sodium tetraborate. Sweetfern lotion is made to handle anything causing inflammation and irritation to the skin like rashes, burns, bug bites, itching, eczema, psoriasis, sunburns, acne etc. Sweetfern also helps to stimulate the lymphatic system and can be massaged onto the lymph nodes to promote healthy lymph movement. Asides from all its wonderful healing capabilities sweetfern is just that- Sweet! Use this lotion for its sweet smells and healing. Made with no harsh essential oils just simple plant infusions.
Yarrow + Rose + Charcoal Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? This soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. This soap features yarrow leaf and activated charcoal infused lard topped with pink prairie salts and wild rose petals. Yarrow and Charocoal will help to draw out any toxins from the skin. This soap is super useful for acne, cuts, infections, rashes or removing makeup.
Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, hardwood activated charcoal, yarrow leaf infused mangalitsa lard, Canadian pink prairie salt, wild rose petals.
Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Herbal Smoke Bundles
Crafted with 100% homegrown herbs of mugwort and wormwood.
These bundles are an essence of mid-summer. I wrapped these bundles with intentions to bring good energy, connection to source and ones higher self to whomever this smoke cleanses. When cleansing your self with the smoke it is great to act as if you are washing your body with it. Gently direct the smoke over your head, eyes, mouth, heart and feet. If you want to cleanse the space you can fan the wand around the room. You can also burn before a meditation or dream work for a sense of calm. Always hold love and good intentions in your mind and soul when burning smoke medicine. Please be careful and do not leave it burning unattended. It can be put out and saved for later by butting it out but make sure it is done smouldering before leaving it unattended.
Garlic Scape Seasoning Salt
Homegrown garlic scapes preserved as a seasoning salt to enjoy the short lived treat year round. Made simply of garlic scapes and kosher salt. Sprinkle this seasoning onto dishes for some garlicky flavour. We personally love to add it to potato or egg dishes.
Itch Relief Roll On
Roll-on bottle of our itch relieving spray made to specially target rashes caused by poison ivy, oak and stinging nettle. Can also be used on bug bites or other itchy or irritated skin conditions. Made with jewelweed, giant yellow hyssop in a witch hazel distillate with a sweet fern alcohol extraction. For external use only.
StJohns Wort Tincture
1 oz bottle of wildcrafted St. John’s Wort tincture. Made from sustainably foraged fresh St. John’s wort flowers from our homestead property in Northern Ontario, extracted in alcohol and natural spring water collected by myself. This beautiful tincture is like a ray of bottled sunshine. It’s a good way to help keep anxiety & SADS away. Made in small batches with special care and attention. St. Johns wort is a powerful antiviral and antidepressant so much so that it can interfere with or render pharmaceutical drugs useless.
Uses For Tincture:
Depression
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Mood disturbances associated with menopause, OCD, ADHD, SADS
Nerve pain
Cold sores
Viruses
Shingles
Use care when working with all forms of St. John’s wort. Consult with your doctor before use if you are currently taking medication. St.Johns wort should not be taken with other mood affecting medications. St.John.s wort can alter the efficacy of oral contraceptives so use caution.
If you would like a customized box please message us or fill out the subscription box form on the events page.