This week, we've been very busy foraging around the barn property each evening. Coming home with more purple deadnettle, yarrow, discovered quite a bit of desert parsley we need to grab, and began picking arrowleaf balsomroot flowers for Ashley's aromatic oil by masceration experiment.
She's gathering other ingredients as well, such as cedar trimmings from the hedge being chopped down to size outside our home. Cedar oil is another aromatic people love. But it is also an example of an industry that to this day, is outright lying to buyers who seem more interested in the final scent, than in the reality of the herb that created the scent.
Click through to read what's been happening for well over 200 years! https://naturalhealthgodsway.c....a/2024/04/20/macerat
