We’re looking forward to sharing and enjoying our passions and gifts again as the transitions of our move to Minnesota become more settled.

Gen will be offering an intuitive guidance practice later this 2026 year. It will be an online resource for one on one support and guidance. As an eco-spiritual, eco-feminist, magically-inclined elder who practiced psychotherapy for years, is a minister in the Universal Church of Life, was a Justice of the Peace in a rural Vermont community honored to perform Civil Unions there in it’s first years of legality, I’ve dreamed of being a bird flying out of a cage able to create wildly individualized spaces for one on one support that includes spirituality, acknowledges the immense grief and challenges of our times and honors the longing many of us feel to create a new world. Once this is up and running, you’ll find a link there to connect with Tea at the Lost and Found Department. She’ll also be offering natural body care products gleaned from wildcrafting walks and organic gardening to foster full and nurtured senses and to enhance times of ritual and wonder. This will come in the form of an online shop with decidedly different values then your conventional green beauty offerings.

Rick will be wrapping up the closing bee work and clean up at Bee Haven in the warm months this year and determining the best future for the farm. Yup, we’ll be starting some hives here in northern Minnesota next season. Not many, but just enough.

This website will remain up and around until we can share these new ventures.

In the meantime, the space below will share old recipes and tips to commemorate the old and inspire some new.

Notes on infusing Honey: Ever so wonderful to have around. Easy to get into children or medicine -avoidant adults, Use it in tea and coffee, in hot water and lemon juice, in cooking, drizzled on toast, cheese plants, charcuterie boards, on pizza. When making it the most important to know is to go gently, gently and not very hot, if you choose to use heat at all. Simmer a mason jar filled with the honey and herb/s in a water bath at the very lowest setting you can manage. The trick, if you do it this way, is to do it when you’re in the kitchen doing meal prep or making something more elaborate that has you there for a while. This way you can turn the simmer bath on for a bit and then turn it off for a while and do this repeatedly. The very lowest setting on a crockpot is also a good way to capture this long, barely heating route to heaven. Burnt honey and herbs is useless. Don’t go there. You’ll be so mad. You don’t have to use heat at all, my favorite method ~ combine your honey with your herb/s and letting them sit for a long time, close to a wood stove or radiator if you have them, or in a sunny location, for a month or more. It won’t go bad. Don’t be afraid to use fresh herbs, especially if you have them on hand from your garden or a friend’s and you have fresh summer honey. Let the herbs wilt a bit, then add them to the honey and make sure to not put a lid on it. Instead cover it with a paper towel you use a rubber band to afix onto the jar’s mouth. This helps the moisture from the herbs be released from the honey without letting the bugs in. Don’t rush it. Let it be. Consider the medicinal effect you’re going for. Do you need nervous system support? Are you wanting viral protection and immune support? Are you recovering from a virus that left with a particular systemic weakness? Do you want a honey you can use in your bedtime cuppa? A sexy honey? You get the idea. Some favorites for us are clove honey, tulsi honey, schisandra berry honey ~ so utterly delicious, or do a savory honey riff on herbs de Provence or a sleepy time lavender and passionflower honey. So many ways to love them and absolutely, people love getting them in little jars as gifts. They also make amazing facial masks when there’s just a little bit left in the jar and you an scoop it out with your fingers. Life is so much better with pleasures like these.

Baby Face Facial Oil:

A facial oil that does wonders for sensitive and reactive skins, for people with hot, inflamed acne, for folks with rosacea or for mature skins in general. This is also a great oil for oil cleansing. Use a bit to cleanse and then add another few drops afterwards as your moisture and treatment. Keeping it simple like this is WAY better for your skin then the roller coaster of barrier harming weirdness the natural skin care industry is peddling these days and is also ultra cost- effective.

Use an organic, unrefined jojoba oil as your base along with a combination of soothing carrier oils of your choice you’ll add to the jojoba oil after you’ve infused it. Good options are one or any combination of borage, meadowfoam seed, avocado, argan and/or rosehip organic oils. Using organic and unrefined carrier oils is much better for you and the earth, for a myriad of reasons, but efficacy is one. Fill a mason jar with dried herbs. You don’t need to be precise. Use what you grow or have on hand or buy a few herbs in small quantity to use in the ratios you feel drawn to try. You can make a batch as small as a pint jar for just yourself for very little $. Our version of this oil used licorice root, marshmallow root, yarrow, calendula, fenugreek seeds, chamomile, elderflower, lavender and rose petals. Whatever size mason or any old glass a jar you use, fill it most of the way with a combination of these herbs. Then fill it with the jojoba oil, covering them up. Seal your jar and keep it in your sunniest window for a lunar cycle or more. Shake it a lot and give it some intention and love. You can also very gently heat it for an hour or so by simmering it in a water bath, but be very careful not to scorch the herbs and oil if you do this. Strain out the herbs when you feel your oil is ready. You can compost them, use them as a fire offering at your next campfire or scrub yourself with them as a gentle exfoliant in a bath, letting yourself soak in the tea bath afterwards. Finally, you’ll add about an equal amount of a combination of the other carrier oils, or a single one, to the infused jojoba oil you’ve strained the herbs out and your facial oil is complete.

Bitter Hounds of Hell Elixir:

A medicinal syrup you ingest for softening and expelling phlegm and supporting healing from a nasty cough and inflamed lungs. Very effective and really speeds up healing.

You’ll be using about equal parts brandy, apple cider vinegar and honey for your final product with this recipe.

Start by infusing apple cider vinegar strongly, with herbs like oregano, sage, hyssop and horehound, lemon balm and lavender, some lemon or orange peels, dried or fresh. Use what you have. Don’t get hung up on specific ratios. Use the knowledge you have already. If you want to be extra fancy add some gotu kola or horsetail or both for tissue healing, if you could use this. Then add equal parts brandy and honey to the infused ACV. I’d used lemon balm and lavender infused honey when I made it and the alcohol portion was infused with blackcurrants and/or elderberry. You end up with a sweetish potent dose of medicinal wonder you can take by the tsp. to break up your cough, heal your lungs and give a punch to the virus that got it all going. Add it to a cup of herb tea or hot water, squeeze in some lemon juice, or not, or just take it straight or drink it in your water bottle.