Ecozoica Apothecary

08/23/2026

We’re fast moving into autumn. Updated event schedule for the next few weeks. 🌱💫💗

08/21/2026

Turn bathwater into a botanical sanctuary. 🌿

There are few things quite as restorative as sinking into hot water at the end of a long day and letting the plants invite you to soften, slow down, and return to yourself. And as we move into the fall season, reintroducing baths are a fantastic way to help the body and mind transition.

Our Herbal Bath Salts blend mineral-rich Epsom, Dead Sea + Himalayan pink salts with lavender, rose, chamomile + wildcrafted escoba de la víbora—transforming an ordinary bath into something altogether more wild. ✨

💜 Lavender brings its familiar floral calm, traditionally treasured for relaxation and quieting the senses.

🌹 Rose petals lend their soft aroma and skin-loving touch, while chamomile is one of herbalism’s great comfort plants, traditionally called upon for gentleness and ease.

🌾 Wildcrafted escoba de la víbora (Gutierrezia sarothrae) brings the high desert into the bath. This beautifully resinous Southwestern plant has a long history of traditional use in herbal bathing, especially for tired, aching bodies.

Lavender, rosemary + eucalyptus essential oils rise with the steam—floral, herbaceous, cooling, and wonderfully alive.

And now, there’s a little more to luxuriate in. 🛁 Our bath salts have moved into new, larger 7 oz glass jars—up from 5 oz—while keeping the cork-topped apothecary packaging we love. More minerals, more botanicals, more time to disappear into the plants. 🌿

A soak for trail-weary legs, garden-tired hands, long workdays, cold evenings, overfull minds—or simply when you need a little sanctuary.

Sometimes tending ourselves can be beautifully simple:

hot water + minerals + plants + time. ✨ Shop our repackaged herbal bath salts at the link in bio.

08/04/2026

Behind the scenes - Ecozoica Apothecary: Forest Grade Medicine from Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains 🌱🏔️

07/23/2026

Looking forward to being a part of the 2nd year of this event! 🌱🍃Will be there with herbal goodies and representing the Off Grid Water Foundation. Come say hello and learn more about important work we’re doing here in the SLV. 🌱🥰💫

🌱 Vendors Wanted! 🌱

We’re looking for local growers, makers, artists, food vendors, businesses, and community organizations to join us for the San Luis Valley Seed Saving & Harvest Swap!

📅 Saturday, Augest 29
⏰ 10 AM–4 PM
📍 Antonito Spray Park
💲 Vendor fee: $20

This free, family-friendly event will include a seed and harvest swap, educational speakers, demonstrations, live music, a salsa contest, kids’ activities, a lamb roast, and a community harvest potluck.

Come showcase your products, connect with the community, and be part of a growing San Luis Valley tradition!

Message us for vendor information or to reserve your space.

07/21/2026

There is a rhythm to this life that I’ve been learning to trust. 💗🍃

Most weekends find me away from the homestead, spending long days at markets and events. It’s work that I genuinely love, but between the preparation, setup, conversations, selling, packing down, and waking up to do it all again, it can leave me feeling energetically drained and physically exhausted.

So whenever I can, I weave something else into the journey. A work trip becomes a harvest trip. A parking lot becomes a campsite. An overnight stay becomes an invitation to wander. 🏜️

This weekend, that invitation led me to an incredible riparian corridor just outside of Poncha Springs. The creek was running full and clear, the aspen whispered overhead, and the understory was bursting with life. As evening settled over the sound of rushing water, I could feel my own nervous system settling with it. 🧘‍♀️ 🏕️

I’ve come to believe that restoration isn’t something we find after the work is done—it’s something we intentionally weave into the work itself. 🌀🌱

This landscape is more than where I gather herbs. It’s where I remember why I do any of this in the first place.

And sometimes, all we need is a quiet creek, a night beneath the trees, and the space to remember ourselves. 🌿

(Images include additional camp spots, road stops & stellar sunsets from the weekend, as I realize I took very few pictures during my actual creekside reset 🙌)

07/17/2026

My happy place is in the forest. As an herbalist, work very often can mean play. 💗💫😊🌀🍃

07/04/2026

Plants are individuals—and the way we work with them should be, too. 🌿

Some are best tinctured fresh, capturing volatile compounds that disappear as the plant dries. Others develop their fullest expression after careful drying, allowing constituents to concentrate or become more accessible. Some herbs thrive in a high-proof alcohol extraction, while others release their gifts more completely in lower-proof alcohol with a higher water content.

Even the ratio of plant material to solvent changes depending on the species, the part of the plant being used, its moisture content, and what constituents I’m hoping to preserve.

Sometimes that means a traditional folk-style fresh plant maceration. Other times it’s a carefully calculated dried herb tincture. And for certain plants, a percolation extraction provides a more efficient way to capture delicate constituents that can be diminished during a long soak.

To me, herbalism isn’t about finding one perfect formula and applying it to everything.

It’s about learning the language of each individual plant.

Every species has its own chemistry, ecology, personality, and story. My role is to listen, study, and choose the extraction method that honors what makes that plant unique. 🌱🌀✌️

06/30/2026

When the world feels heavy, I often retreat to the forest—where the weight of it all seems to soften beneath the boughs of tenacious, storm-forged trees. 🌲

When I can’t physically make it there, sometimes the scent alone is enough to bring me back. 🧘‍♀️✨

That feeling is the heart behind the Woodland Nymph botanical fragrance roll-on—an invitation to carry a little piece of the forest with you wherever you wander.

Each bottle is handcrafted with piñon and juniper needle–infused jojoba oil, wildcrafted here on the Ecozoica homestead, then layered with organic essential oils of pine, fir, cedarwood, sandalwood, and frankincense to create a grounding, woodsy aroma that lingers gently on the skin.

Tucked inside every bottle is a small sprig of dried piñon and juniper—a quiet reminder of the landscapes that inspired it, and an invitation to reconnect with the wild, wherever you find yourself. 🌀🌿☀️

Woodland Nymph fragrance roll ons are available online and at every farmers market where Ecozoica pops up. As always, local delivery throughout the San Luis Valley is available. 🫶🌱💚

06/29/2026

July schedule of events is live! 🙌 Check out when & where you can find EcoZ out in the wild during the month of July. 🌱🌀💗

Come see us at the Foodshed Alliance & BV Makers Markets this month! We will have our standard line-up of salves, liniments, body care products, tinctures, and herbal first aid kits plus some seasoning offerings available only in person. 🫶 💐🌱

Wild plant walk workshop schedule coming soon!

06/19/2026

As the Summer Solstice approaches this weekend, I’m feeling especially grateful. ☀️ 🌱

Grateful for another season of living in these sacred mountains. For longer days spent frolicking among wildflowers in forests. For every lesson the plants have offered simply by growing where they do. 🌱🌀💫

The old traditions surrounding the solstice honored this season as a celebration of abundance—a time to recognize the sun, the earth, and the countless relationships that make life possible. I think there’s still something deeply meaningful about that.

Every plant tells the story of its home. The wind that shaped it. The soil that nourished it. The storms it endured. The pollinators that visited. The challenging elements that continue to teach it resilience in a fast-changing-world.

Before I ever gather a plant, I want to know the place that raised it.

This collection of thoughts is simply a small reflection of what this landscape continues to teach me.

Wishing you all a joyful Summer Solstice, and may you find a little time this weekend to step outside, feel the warmth of the sun, and remember that we’re part of this story too. 🌿☀️