Herban Moonshine

09/18/2024

Our friends did a thing 🌱 😍🥳🤩
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It’s official yall! Book drops may 6th! Make sure you ask for it at your local book shop - meanwhile it’s up for presale on Amazon already! Trevor and I have been joking that it’s - my grandma Anna Mae however woulda read the s**t out of this one. - you’ll be hearing more about it from us on the lead up to the release - we can’t wait for y’all to read it!

09/13/2024

08/11/2024

August means our gardens are bursting, and we are busy preserving the harvest 🌱🌱🌱 Elderberry syrup is a popular natural remedy known for its potential health benefits. Packed with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, elderberry syrup is often used to support the immune system, particularly during cold and flu season. It’s also high in Vitamin C and makes a refeshing mocktail when mixed with sparkling water! Ingredients

$15/8oz
Local pick-up/delivery - DM for more info!

06/21/2024

We’re harvesting Calendula for a full moon solstice tallow balm ☀️☀️☀️

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🍄Happy♥️Full🍓Strawberry 🌝 Moon!
Throughout history, our ancestors recognized the capacity for the full moon to draw up tides, bring on growth spurts in plants, and alter fluids in the brain and body that make some people ‘lunatic’, and others go into childbirth. The Strawberry Moon in June is know for bringing on the late spring harvest of strawberries, and a season of good old fashioned strawberry festivals and summer picnics. Among gardeners and farmers, each full moon was seen as a time to harvest seasonal herbs, seeds and produce that would be laden with juice, sap and essential oils that could make them more potent when preserved for later use. The full moon offers a perfect time to hang and dry overgrown herbs and botanicals to make full moon herbal teas that you can use throughout the seasons. As for me, I am gathering and drying abundant tea and culinary herbs including: mint, lemon balm, lavender, roses, rosebuds, thyme, sage, lovage, calendula.
...and don’t forget to get out and celebrate under the light of the full moon on this first full summer night! What will you be gathering?

05/31/2024

We have harvested and dried so much nettle! DM for porch pick up 🌱🌱🌱
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Last week, we harvested lots of Nettle for you in the Avena gardens. Here Tanvi and Pratt prepare to weigh a big sheet full of fresh nettle while Rose cuts nettle for Avena’s fresh nettle tincture and drying for tea.

Nettle (Urtica dioica) is one of the most nourishing herb and food sources on the planet, and a powerful teacher and healer for people who have experiences trauma and for folks who are highly sensitive. We like to drink a quart of fresh nettle leaf tea daily in spring for about a month as a favorite tonic for renewing energy.

This herbaceous perennial is hardy to USDA zones 2-10 and thrives in moist, fertile soil high in organic matter and in old compost piles or barnyards. Nettle improves soil fertility, adding nutrients to soil and improving soil texture. Prefers partial to full sun. On our farm, we place tree bark chips between rows of nettles to maintain walking paths.

You can read more about growing, preparing and using Nettle and many more plants in Deb’s newest book, “The Healing Garden”, available on our website.

04/05/2024

Thank you Staunton Winter Market for letting us be a part of your market 🙏🙏🙏 We had so much fun connecting with everyone each week and are already missing it ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you everyone for making our second Indoor Winter Market season a success! This Saturday, April 6, the outdoor regular Staunton Farmers' Market opens so your veggie intake will not be interrupted. We look forward to seeing you next winter. Thanks again to our vendors, including Poplar Ridge Farms Simone & Tuesday Mill Gap Farms Thorny Bottom Bees 1 Sweet McGee Herban Moonshine Dickie Brothers Orchard Anathallo Acres Ballerino Creamery Wild Altar Farmstead Jones Gardens PrePOPsterous Razumova Bakery Happ Coffee Roasters Rachel Jane's Jam and Berries Wild Yeast Bake Shoppe Quince & Burdock Lavender Fields at Tantivy Farm Oath to Origin Susanna's Confections Bake haus Santiago Chocolates and especially thank you to Emmanuel Episcopal Church Staunton for offering us such a special space. Lettuce eat more lettuce!

04/05/2024

We have been busy harvesting and drying nettles 🌱🌱🌱 4oz/$10

01/09/2024

It will be sweet, like local honey, to see you at the Kick-Off of our Winter Farmers Market this Saturday Emmanuel Episcopal Church Staunton. Market runs from 9 to noon. Vendor lineup includes: Wild Altar Poplar Ridge Farms Ballerino Creamery Santiago Chocolates Wild Yeast Bake Shoppe Quince & Burdock Herban Moonshine Happ Coffee Roasters Rachel Jane's Jam and Berries PrePOPsterous Susanna's Confections Simone & Tuesday

09/16/2023