Herbal Revolution

10/12/2026

10/07/2026

✨🌼What is a Hydrosol? How do you use a Hydrosol? How are Hydrosols made?💦✨

Our seasonal small-batch hydrosols are back in stock, and we wanted to tell you about them, the process, and why we are so obsessed with them!

✨A Hydrosol, also referred to as floral waters, is produced through a steam or hydro-distillation process that utilizes fresh plant material. This is achieved with a still. This material can either be suspended above or submerged in water, which is then heated to generate steam. This steam is cooled and subsequently condensed back into liquid form. This alchemical process captures phytonutrients and other complex, water soluble or hydrophilic compounds, along with volatile and lipophilic elements. That’s a lot of technical speak to say hydrosols contain hydrophilic (water loving molecules) as well as volatile elements (aromatic compounds) and lipophilic (fat-soluble molecules) that are suspended in water instead of dissolved. Hydrosols effectively encapsulate the essence, energetic, and phytomedicinal properties of a plant in a powerful and gentle manner. Maybe you’re thinking, “Ahh yes, similar to an essential oil, right?” And though both use steam distillation and fresh plant material, the short answer is: not really. Though hydrosols contain trace amounts of essential oils, they are not the same. Check out our blog post where we break down the differences between the two on our website.

💚Some of our favorite ways to incorporate hydrosols into everyday life is as a staple in mood support and a go to for aromatherapy. A spritz to the face or personal space can help center and invigorate any time when you’re feeling off or out of whack, or also to help clear and cleanse any energy that needs shifting. Hydrosols are also our go to for skincare routines as an amazing toner and pre-serum hydration element to help oils and serums absorb deeper and more effectively.

✨💦Hydrosols are a fun, fragrant, and gentle herbal product to introduce to any daily practice. So would you try a hydrosol?✨💚

09/22/2026

Today. I welcome in the day.

Today, there will be gratitude, abundance, joy and grief.

Today, I will harvest all of the Sweet Annie.

Sweet Annie is a powerful aromatic and bitter plant with a history of medicinal use for malaria, Lyme disease, and internal parasites. I work with it in many ways. For me, it is a ritual plant. A plant I work with internally, but also aromatically. When I experience its aroma, I experience a coming home. A grounding.

I can feel joy moving through my grief as I harvest it.

Whenever I harvest on the farm, I feel so much gratitude. But within that gratitude, there is also grief. Within the abundance, gratitude and joy, grief walks alongside us.

The emotions of the season and the act of harvesting are interconnected. We are complex, and the plants help me make room for that complexity. They help me honor being joyful and in grief at the same time. They also show me how to hold ritual and remain in relationship with them well beyond our time together in the fields.

As we welcome autumn, this is not only a time to honor the abundance and give thanks to the plants, the animals and the land. It is also a time to honor our inner knowing. Our ability to connect with the land, the plants, each other and, especially, ourselves.

As I harvest the Sweet Annie today, I will allow all of it to be present.

The gratitude.
The abundance.
The joy.
The grief.

Harvest is not the end of my relationship with this plant. It is a changing of form. What grew in the fields will continue as medicine, as aroma, as ritual and as memory.

The relationship comes with me.

Perhaps this is what autumn asks of us. Not to choose between joy and grief, or between holding on and letting go, but to make room for all of it. To honor what has grown, grieve what is changing and trust the cycles that carry us forward.

Today, I gather.
Today, I give thanks.
Today, I grieve.
Today, I welcome in the autumn equinox.

09/20/2026

Hey everyone! It’s been awhile since I’ve shown my face on here. For those of you that don’t know me, I’m Kathi. The founder, farmer and formulator of Herbal Revolution. I’ve been working with plant medicine for over 30 years!! And Sixteen of this years running Herbal Revolution!

I’m honored to do this work and have a farm to bottle business. And we’re heading right into my favorite week.

Next week is the 50th Anniversary of the Common Ground Country Fair.

I’ve been going to this fair since I was a teen and as a vendor I spent two years outside of the fair {RIP Coffee-man} and this will be my 14th year vending inside the fair.

We’re excited to showcase our new tea line this year at the fair, along with some new packaging and labels, an Unsweetened Fire C***r, and a new hydrosol!

Hope to see so many of you there, come find us in the Agricultural Section right behind Luce’s Maple!

09/09/2026

✨New small batch is about to drop! These new seasonal products have been crafted to evoke the plants we tend and capture the inspiration of the seasons. We wanted to distill what it feels like to stand in the fields and commune with the plants as an offering to you.✨
Stay tuned; these ephemeral offerings will be dropping tomorrow.👀✨🌼🌿💚

08/17/2026

Are herbs on your back-to-school list?🌱
We’ve got your back as you gear up for the new school year. Visit our website and shop our Back-to-School collection to find the support you need as you head into the new school year ahead!💚

08/10/2026

✨This is what farm-to-bottle really looks like✨
We harvest our herbs fresh from our certified organic, no-till farm, less than two miles from where we process and tincture them. That closeness is what matters. We harvest the plants by hand while their constituents are at their most vital, so we can extract the most potent compounds and deliver formulas that are both effective and true to the plant. And the whole process stays aligned with the land it comes from. The farm is the heart of Herbal Revolution. Everything else grows from there.💚

07/14/2026

During the farm season you can find Kathi out in the fields, out foraging, or creating in the kitchen. She’s always amongst the plants working so hard to formulate our farm to bottle products.💛🌱🚜

🌼✨In honor of our badass founder we are running a sale sitewide to celebrate Kathi’s birthday! Enjoy 20% off the entire site for today only. So if you see her out there amongst the plants don’t forget to say happy birthday!✨🌼

07/08/2026

✨In celebration of our founder Kathi’s upcoming birthday, we wanted to gift 3 copies of Kathi’s book to you!✨

💚THREE WINNERS will receive a signed copy of Kathi’s Herbal Revolution book, containing herbal knowledge and 65+ recipes for tinctures, teas, elixirs, syrups, food, and body products!💚

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07/01/2026

✨It’s time again to play Guess That Herb!✨

Our self proclaimed herbal game show is back to quiz you again and see if you know this herb! Can you name this week’s herbal contestant?

Here are your hints:

✨This plant is native here in Maine as well as Europe, North Africa, Western Asia and North America.

✨The delicate white blooms of this plant are categorized as corymbs, subtle and sweet, which, appear in early summer. Come fall these blooms transform into another coveted herbal forageable.

✨The berries of this plant are packed full of Anthocyanidin a pigment that creates the deep purples this plant is known for. They do also require cooking/processing as there are some toxic compounds found in them.

✨This plant can be found growing in damp areas often thriving along ponds, rivers, streams, and wetlands.

✨You’ll find this plant in one of our Elixirs and one of our tonics although we wont tell you which one….bonus if you can name them!😏

So, can you name this herb? The clocks ticking! (Insert game show music here)💜🌱👀✨