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From The Soil Herbal, Margaret River (2025)

27/07/2025

NEW WORKSHOP 🌼 Herbal Salve & Infused Oil Making

Sunday 14th Sept 10-1pm at in Cowaramup, in the new herb shed and garden. 🪴🌿

A Sunday morning exploring the simple, yet slow, seasonal and quality processes behind topical herbal infused oil and salve making. 🍵

🌼You’ll learn the step-by-step processes to make your own medicinal herbal oil and herbal salve using homegrown herbs for topical use. �
🌼 We’ll start with a walk through the herb garden, identifying common safe and suitable herbs for salve and infused oil making, and explore their medicinal application and constituents for topical use.

🌼 Exploring the basics of harvesting, drying, and storing herbs, plus run through the solvent and extraction methods involved in processing these herbs to yield a quality, safe and effective herbal-infused oil or salve for your herbal medicine first aid cabinet at home.

🌼 A casual learning environment suitable for beginners or those with experience who want to improve their processing and hang out with other herb-curious folks.

Sliding scale tickets $40-80
Duration: 3 hours

Includes: Take-home recipes, 50ml herbal salve, herbal monographs, herbal tea and light snacks.

Plants, seeds and other herbal products will be available for purchase on the day.

https://events.humanitix.com/herbal-salve-and-infused-oil-making-workshop-sept2025

06/07/2025

Lately things for this dumb fk algo

1. Oats are up! They’ll be medicines in springtime harvest milky and seed stage.
2. Candle dipping so I can read by candlelit and drink wine
3. Walking places
4. Trying red clover again after 2 fails oops
5. My fave times are bottling up and making medicines while listening to dry ass lectures.
6. Posing with my long await 550ml bottle of Ashwagandha tincture that was a seed 8 months ago.
7. Chamomile friend which will be a spring time harvest and lots of fun to make medicines with again. Lucky I got a harvest rake this year.
8. Nice book
9. Nice rainbow and kid
10. Nice friend
11. Me to Chelsea “turn compost but make it sexy”

24/06/2025

Rose tincture and alc fee glycerines are on s@L3 for a hot minute.

Here if you need.

22/06/2025

Back after a loooong time with a new cute ass label. 🍃

Lemon Scented Gum salve + body oil

Made with farm grown Lemon Scented Gum, Albany extra virgin olive oil, and beeswax (salve only) from the farm.

The oil: A beautifully soft application massage oil, perfect for massaging over the entire body for relaxation and ease.

The salve: Gently soothes and supports skin healing with itch, cuts, scrapes, bites, stings or redness. A beautifully soft application, perfect for massaging over the entire body for relaxation and ease.

Can be used as an ‘all-purpose’ salve, lip balm, or massage balm.

Always test on a small patch of skin before applying.

These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease and have not been evaluated by the TGA.

17/06/2025

Studying herbal medicine slowly the past 3 years has been one of the greatest privileges, and greatest conflicts for me personally.

Studying ‘health’ in a university setting has indeed not quenched my desire to critically evaluate what health, wellness and being ‘well’ looks like for individuals.

Yesterday, in a lecture on ‘stress’ the content lept entirely over what so many know are the key drivers of nervous system related stress including; work-related burn out; inaffordable housing; climate collapse; racial inequality and the almighty system of capitalism we all find ourselves existing in.

There’s no quick fix to any of this.
And sitting in the nuance and “no one way” to be well has become increasingly clear.

An antidote to the disillusion where I can critically evaluate health, unpack a lot of the BS that is taught in the institutions, or that permeates into my psyche through the capitalist/wellness culture I previously prescribed to is: The Root Network.

The Root Network is a place where studying or qualified herbalists, naturopaths and nutritionists can join forces, collaborate on their clinical work, and have critical and curious conversations about how we can co-create a version of wellness that is accessible, inclusive, BS free and rooted in relationship.

I’ve been a member of The Root Network since the early days, and have gained a bucket load of incredible connections here.

I’ve been in deep conversations that have deeply moved and challenged me in my student journey; asked questions that couldn’t be asked in a university setting; received handy medicine making troubleshooting tips; received in-person mentoring and more thanks to this space.

This is a beyond valuable community to join.

If you love the sound of this community, but aren’t a qualified or studying in this world, head over to Miriam’s page for some excellent conversation starters where you can join the convo too.

I got the 🔗 you know where.

🌹❤️‍🔥

18/05/2025

My home apothecary is growing. 🌿🍵🫚

My next seasonal medicine herb box is out July 1, so if you’re wanting a fresh, seasonal box of herb remedies to support you through the cooler months, hop hop on it.

You can pay between $60-90, everyone gets the same box regardless of what they pay.

Expect rooty lung medicine, tasty warming herbal infusion, soft herbs for the skin to nurture and more elixirs for your heart (still deciding). ❤️‍🔥🫚🔥

There’s 9 boxes available now. This is round four and all previous boxes have sold out.

29/04/2025

Next Sunday 4th May is our FIRE CIDER MAKING day and FUNDRAISER in solidarity with Palestine. 🇵🇸🌿

Please see my previous post for all information if attending this event. If you cannot attend, & would like to support, please see links to Nagham and Shahed’s mutual aid campaigns in my bio.

How you can support:
🇵🇸If you would like to contribute funds to Nagham & Shahed, but can’t attend on the day, you can do so directly to their mutual aid campaigns in my bio.
🇵🇸If you would like a 100ml bottle of fire cider posted to you, send me a screenshot of your $20 min donations to Nagham & Shahed and I will send a bottle to you when these are ready in ~4 weeks

More about Shahed:
Before the genocide, Shahed just started studying a medicine degree in Gaza. She dreams of becoming a surgeon and helping her community. Her university was destroyed and now, she and her family are just trying to survive through the daily violence of this genocide.

“Unfortunately, we do not know what we will eat. The crossing has been closed for more than two months, and no aid has entered. The situation is very, very dangerous. Our lives and souls are in danger. We are very tired and exhausted. Thank you for standing by us and supporting us. It will be a wonderful and beautiful party. Send my love to all your friends there.” - Shahed

More about Nagham:
Nagham is 18 years old from Gaza. Nagham and her family are facing incredibly challenging circumstances. Like many, they are in need of financial support to secure the basic necessities for life and to find a way out of Gaza.

Your generous donations can provide Nagham and Shahed with the means to stay alive and safe. Even a small contribution can make a significant difference in their lives.

Nagham asks “Please, do not leave us alone in this difficult time. Your kindness and support are our only hope”.

15/04/2025

Community Fire Cider Making Fundraiser 🫚

HERBALISTS FOR A FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸  ⏰ Sunday 4th May 10-12pm 📍Cowaramup DM for private address 🌿By donation - 100% of funds collected will be donated to various mutual aid fundraisers going directly to families in Gaza. 💌RSVP to
 Inviting all to join in a morning of medicine making, fundraising, conversation, and solidarity with the people of Palestine who continue to face genocide daily. Here, we come together in solidarity to raise funds and enact hope for a Free Palestine.

📖 Please bring any reading materials or poems by Palestinians you wish to share on the day.  🫙 BYO - empty jar, scissors/knife, small chopping board.
🌿 Optional - BYO any excess onion, chilli, garlic, ginger, turmeric, lemons or anti-viral herbs from your home pantry/garden. 🍎 Apple Cider Vinegar will be provided.

You will take home a jar of Fire Cider at the end of the session.  This is the second year of running this community event. In 2024, called on the herbal community to support a Free Palestine, by calling for a ceasefire in Palestine and host medicine making events, to open conversations and encourage each other to stay present with Palestine throughout a devastating genocide. We hold this, whilst making medicine and connecting with one another and the plant friends. Thank you to for envisioning this event.
 Please share. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

07/03/2025

Root digging and processing made into fun thanks to some garden fairies for calling by today. 🫚🌿

Ashwagandha Marshmallow and Burdock popped out and cleaned, chopped and dehydrated in one morning.

Looking forward to turning these roots into some medicines in upcoming April herb boxes and beyond.

Gardens rock.

💗💗💗💗

23/02/2025

April Seasonal Herbal Medicine boxes are now available for preorder 🫚🍵

There’s 7 boxes remaining, and these sold out in January, so giving you a few extra weeks notice to get your order in.

A few hints on what herbal preparations you can expect in the images. April we enter the beginning of the cooler months and there’ll be 4 herbal preparations included with the aim of supporting you through these seasonal shifts. Expect some rooty medicine, warming and stimulating cold/flu herbal formulas, nurturing skin medicine and others macerating away, freshly harvested from my garden over the past two months.

Sliding scale prices - please pay what is accessible to you.

$12 delivery or free pick up March 27!

You know where to find all the info 🔗 🌲

Please tell your friends. 💕

10/01/2025

FEBRUARY WORKSHOP 🌼 Herbal Salve & Infused Oil Making

Sunday, February 9th 9am-12pm at in Cowaramup, in the new herb shed and garden. 🪴🌿

A Sunday morning exploring the simple, yet slow, seasonal and quality processes behind topical herbal infused oil and salve making. 🍵

🌼You’ll learn the step-by-step processes to make your own medicinal herbal oil and herbal salve using homegrown herbs for topical use. �
🌼 We’ll start with a walk through the herb garden, identifying common safe and suitable herbs for salve and infused oil making, and explore their medicinal application and constituents for topical use.
🌼 Exploring the basics of harvesting, drying, and storing herbs, plus run through the solvent and extraction methods involved in processing these herbs to yield a quality, safe and effective herbal-infused oil or salve for your herbal medicine first aid cabinet at home.
🌼 A casual learning environment suitable for beginners or those with experience who want to improve their processing and hang out with other herb-curious folks.

Sliding scale tickets $40-70
Duration: 3 hours

Includes: Take-home recipes, 50ml herbal salve, herbal monographs, herbal tea and light snacks.

Plants, seeds and other herbal products will be available for purchase on the day.

https://www.fromthesoil.com.au/workshops/herbal-salve-infused-oil-making-workshop-february

Tell ur friends will ya?

03/01/2025

Hey friends of from the soil 🌹

Here to let you know the shop has been updated with a few new additions, the main excitement for me being a fresh batch of Rose Tincture.

As you might have seen, this beautiful bright pink English shrub rose (Rosa canina) first flowered in early November and continued through early December, producing a beautifully aromatic and medicinal rose, bringing support and cooling to multiple body systems.

🌹I have worked with Rose tincture for three Summers in a row now, and take rose for their wonderful cooling and sour properties, and as a 'spirit' medicine that brings support in different forms each year. A gentle sweet herb that helps me through the very busy season and gives me a sense of familial support.

🌼 Calendula Sun-body oil is back after a long hiatus, with only three in stock. This oil is deep golden-orange oil, as usual, that gives the skin a nice layer of love to be used as after-sun care on dry and red patches. New label!

🫖 There's one Herbal Infusion 40g pack left over from CSH boxes - this is a cooling, nervine blend including Oat seed/straw, Rose, Lemon Balm, Chamomile, Motherwort and California Poppy. It's a really tasty and sweet herbal infusion to take during the day and evening. Only 1 available.

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