Edit: Giveaway has been won! Post with answer to the question this week. And the flowers are happy....Taken a few days before our first frost. I thought most of the blooming plants would succumb, but, instead, it’s been positively Springlike this past week, with a pure freshness in the air, green grass and growth on plants, lilacs blooming since October and, today, a fragrant jonquil! This may have been the most exhausting year ever, not only from all the world tumult, but the garden.. normally abundant.. produced at least double, if not triple, the amount of plants. Many plants to catch and tend, to make all the things! I often felt both grateful and.... tired. In the second photo is a large copper globe thingy... do any of you ever wonder what this is? The first person who can tell me will get receive a bottle of aromatic Bright Spirit room mist, made from a distillation of marigold, lemon verbena, fragrant tinctures and artemisia eo! ( US only, please) #flowerlove#plantmagic#happydance#distillation#spaceclearing#roommist#aromaticlife#hydrosol#biodynamicgarden#plantpower

Hydrating & nutrient dense facial mist for an esthetician’s (holistic, of course!) practice and retail. I combined my artisanal hydrosols with in-house potent fruit and mushrooom extracts. Hydrosols alone are great for healthy, mainly problem free skin, ie for maintenance and hydration ( always followed with a lipid treatment of balm or serum). However, extra help is needed in cases where there is barrier damage from dehydration, sun, stress, city living and the natural course of aging. The scent is spicy, rosey and resinous, and no essential oils were used, just beautiful distillations and plant macerations. They provide both the delightful aroma and skin therapy. #biodynamicskincare #holisticesthetician #facialmist#plantsonmyface#hydratedskin#greenbeauty

A classic Tender Product: Apricot-Lip Repair Balm. This rose and fruit imbued soft balm is a luxurious little lip treat, made with Biodynamic plants from the TF gardens and beautiful cold pressed raw oils, including apricot and pomegranate. I don’t use absolutes, a perfumery product of aromatic plants, in my skincare, as typically they are extracted with toxic solvents. Instead of a far less expensive, chemical rose absolute, this lip balm contains the most costly certified organic rose damask otto, for all the therapeutic affinities rose has for skin, as well as its sublime scent. Soft, supple lips and pretty pink balm poised for rose kisses!

Private label skincare formulation. Formulating excites me! Ever since I was a kid, mixing up potions was almost a primal need. I wanted them to be magical and fragrant. Now, I get to do this for real, and satisfy that mad scientist/ wizard urge with gorgeous botanicals instead of kitchen ingredients and random, unidentified plants, lol. You’re looking at a facial serum, part of a small capsule line for a holistic esthetician/ foot & facial reflexologist. Last year we began talking about the project and I formulated everything, based mainly on fruits, with supporting roots and resins. Then Covid happened. By late summer the green light was given to produce, enough for her soft launch to existing clients. It’s a really fulfilling bit of work, to collaborate and create for someone else’s brand. #greenbeauty#biodynamicskincare#biodynamicherbs#plantsonmyface#farmtobottle#wholeplantskincare#holisticesthetician #artisanskincare#plantmagic

Plant powers for the season, for stress, for support? All of those! Without naming the events that are provocative, at the moment, for we all know, here are some suggestions for strengthening, coping, and softening. I think of Wild Rosebud Gemmo Elixir for grief, but also for shock, a kind of rescue remedy, which helps bring you back into your body and inhabiting the heart center. Flower Bliss elixir is a mellowing, softening potion, with adaptogenic tulsi, plus rose and oenothera. Adapt is a deft blend of adaptogens plus nervines, to lower stress hormones, support adrenals, & calm anxiety. I have found nervines to be important inclusions to adaptogens, so that we’re better able to integrate what these plants offer towards resilience. Digestive issues affect mood and sleep, also cognition and immunity. We “ eat” and process not only food, but images and thoughts: external influences. These two bitters assist with these important activities. Flora Bitters, including chamomile & rose, calms irritable stomachs and moods, also shifts stagnation. Clarity Bitters with deep reaching burdock, lymph & liver supporting herbs helps you to clear the excretory functions & skin, but also helps you free from old ways of doing and thinking. Not pictured, but coming soon to the Limited Edition page of the shop, a flower essence for sudden shock, distress & gloom. We may not like the news or events in these times, but we do have the capacity to respond differently! I personally “prove” ( homeopathic sense) all the remedies myself, as Dr. Bach did, btw. It gets real!