Someday soon we’ll be offering a new kind of tending here as well as small batch, hand made natural care products, as we transition into our new location in Minnesota’s northland. We’re thinking of this new phase as a Bee Haven North, for our elder years, with more rest and play alongside our favorite adventures, better suited to our ages and bodies these days. Please come back now and again to check on the offerings to come.

Last summer’s Solstice day wildcrafting basket smelled both sweet and spicy ~ complex ~ with conifers, yarrow, three types of wild roses, lightly musky usnea, reishi mushrooms and more. These fresh bits brewed in a combination of organic, unrefined carrier oils in the sun for a few lunar cycles created a subtly-fragranced, straight to the heart, all-over skin tender with many uses and physiological benefits and nary a preservative, emulsifier or synthetic anything. It’s beyond strange when you think of it, that we’ve normalized using products all over our bodies on a very regular basis that contain hosts of synthetics, emulsifiers and more, designed to smell like candy or a certain kind of flower or a made up thing entirely, when what we have available to us that IS natural and smells heavenly and is far superior for our bodies and overall health has been demoted somehow, as less effective or practical or enjoyable to use. Absolute hogwash. Redefining our choices is such a majestic choice in empire times and one that actually becomes luxurious, grounding and healing as we pursue it.

One of many sources of favorite ingredients, garnered in long walks, with frequent stops, picnicking, deep breaths and sighs of ‘Oh, how glorious is this?’. It’s these times that retrain our brains and nervous system’s. That help us connect to what is truly real and begin to feel our roots in the ground again. It’s hard to pull away from all the distractions in today’s world but baby steps and simple moments of pleasure lead us in. Back in.