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🌿Helping you to create premium healing herbal oils
🌸Teaching herbal medicine since 1988
🌿Author: The Herbal Kitchen
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Is your apothecary winter-ready? Start now so it’ Is your apothecary winter-ready?  Start now so it’s ready when you need it.
I learned this Tamari Garlic recipe from Rosemary Gladstar and I have been making it since 1987. It is one of the remedies I reach for more than elderberry syrup when my family starts to feel unwell and the reason it works so well is because it has had months to infuse and mellow before it is ever needed.
Garlic, tamari, and honey. Three ingredients that come together into a savory-sweet remedy that is as good in a winter stir-fry or soup as it is for keeping colds and flu at bay. The flavor is nothing like raw garlic. It softens and deepens over time in a way that makes it easy to take and easy to love.
Start a batch now and it will be ready when the season asks for it.
🧄 Comment TAM26 to get the recipe so it is ready when you need it most.
✅ Save this and make a batch before winter.
💚 Share it with someone who always gets caught without remedies when cold season hits.
#tamarigarlic #winterremedy #homeremedies #herbalkitchen #herbalmedicine
Living with herbs goes deep. It starts with a cup Living with herbs goes deep.
It starts with a cup of tea or a jar of infused oil or a handful of herbs you grew yourself. And then slowly, without realizing it, the way you think about your kitchen changes. The way you think about your body changes. The way you think about what it means to take care of the people you love changes.
What we create from the Earth’s harvest helps shape who we are and what we love, and I have watched this happen in thousands of families over 35 years of teaching. The woman who starts with one herbal salt and ends up with a kitchen full of condiments she made herself. The grandmother who learns one remedy and becomes the person her whole family calls when someone gets sick. The mother who starts making herbal tea for her kids and realizes she is passing something down that nobody can take away from them.
This is what home herbalism really is. Not a trend or a supplement or something you buy at the health food store. It is a practice that grows with you and becomes part of how you live and what you leave behind.
I would love to know what your Earth’s harvest looks like. What are you growing, gathering, or making this season?
#herbalism #herbalkitchen #harvest #homeremedies #herbalhealing
What I make when the air is full of smoke. Wildfi What I make when the air is full of smoke.
Wildfire smoke dries and irritates respiratory tissues, puts extra demands on the body, and can leave the nervous system feeling the strain of days or weeks spent breathing smoky air. I'm feeling it right now with nearby fires...
This is when I make my Firestorm Tea. Combine moistening herbs to soothe and support the respiratory tissues, herbs used to support the liver, and calming nervines for the stress that we live through in fire season.
When the smoke is here day after day, this is your reminder that A Pot of Tea is one simple way to support yourself through it.
🌿 Comment FST26 and I’ll send you my full Firestorm Tea recipe.
💚 And please share this with someone who is breathing smoky air right now. 
#firestormtea #herbalkitchen #wildfiresmoke #lunghealth #homeremedies
Your rose bush has been trying to tell you somethi Your rose bush has been trying to tell you something all season.
I’ve worked with rose as medicine for decades, and it’s one of those plants I never tire of finding new ways to use. I harvest the petals from my own garden knowing exactly how much medicine is there.
Rose can be infused into oil, made into tea, added to food, or distilled into a hydrosol, and each preparation gives me a different way to work with the plant. When I want something cooling, gently astringent, and soothing that I can mist directly onto the skin, I make rose hydrosol.
I make enough during rose season to keep it in my home apothecary year-round. Over the years, I’ve come to appreciate how much the preparation matters, and how choosing the right one can bring forward different qualities of the same plant.
Here is another way to enjoy the power of Rose!
🌹 Comment HYDRO26 and I will send you the full rose hydrosol recipe.
✅ Save this for your next rose harvest.
❤️ Share it with someone who grows roses and has no idea what they could be making with them.
#rosehydrosol #gardenherbs #herbalkitchen #rosepetals #homeremedies
When making herbal oils, does it matter if your he When making herbal oils, does it matter if your herbs are fresh or dried?
It matters more than most people realize and it is one of the decisions most oil makers make out of habit rather than intention. Fresh herbs bring more of certain compounds into the oil, but they also bring moisture and moisture is what leads to mold. Dried herbs remove that risk, but for some plants, the drying process makes it harder to access the very compounds you are trying to get into the oil.
The answer is not the same for every herb, and I will tell you the whys behind every step and help you to make the most potent, shelf-stable oils for your home apothecary or for use in your herbal oil products to take to market.
Today is the last day to join the Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils course and this is one of the first decisions I walk you through for every herb you want to work with.
🌿 Comment HHHO26 to join the course before enrollment closes today.
💚 Share it with someone who makes herbal oils and has never stopped to ask this question.
#herbalinfusedoils #handcraftedherbaloils #herbalkitchen #homeremedies #herbaloils
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