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We are so very honored that you selected us as Humboldt's Best Holistic Healthcare Provider for a 5th year, and as your favorite place to Buy Tea!
We love our community and feel blessed every day to be able to connect people with plants. We look forward to many, many more years to come serving you, your family and your friends.
Thank You, Humboldt Community, for trusting us with your health.
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Arts Alive Party!
Saturday August 5th from 6 to 9pm
Join us this Saturday for our August Arts Alive Party! We're featuring the abstract acrylic pour art by Candice & Makai Brunlinger, with live jazz by the dynamic duo, Blue Lotus Jazz. We look forward to seeing you!!
About our artists:
“Alchemical Surrender”
Abstract Acrylic Pour Art by Candice & Makai Brunlinger
My name is Makai and I just turned 10 years old. I started making acrylic pour art with my mom when I was 9. I love painting, coloring, drawing, and sculpting. I like Acrylic Pour Art because each painting is different and unique. I don’t know what to expect but it ends up looking cool. I like combining colors and moving the paint around, creating different patterns. Pour Art is very calming and relaxing.
My name is Candice and I am Makai’s mom. I always dreamed of becoming an artist but my other creative outlets as an herbalist, energy worker, and mom kept me busy. I also didn’t think I was “good enough” to be an artist. I recently discovered Acrylic Pour Art at a time when my life was transforming and changing. It became a new medium for my mindfulness and self-reflective practices. I created the time and space and immersed myself in art. I was going through a death and rebirthing process, shedding old versions of myself through ancestral healing, inner child healing, and using neuroplasticity to reprogram limiting beliefs. I became the phoenix rising from the ashes. The butterfly emerging out of the cocoon.
The art in this show, represents that transformation and the alchemical process of my growth. It also represents my pain and the integration of my grief. Pour art brought peace and balance at a time when I lost everything I had been fighting for. The loss of my relationship to the man I loved and was devoted to. The loss of my sense of self and rediscovering my worth. I also lost my brother during this process. All of my family was broken, in ways I never wanted to experience.
Pour Art soothed the wounds of grief into healing. This journey fulfilled me during a time of heart break and transition, allowing me to stay grounded and creative in all my feelings. These are a few of the lessons I was able to experience on a deeper and more intrinsic level.
Acrylic Pour Art is a Metaphor for Life....
Pour painting encourages me to slow down and feel the PRESENT moment. Experience it with all my senses. Noticing how my body feels and mind get lost in the colors and movement of the paint. How the paint moves with my gentle touch, breath, or by tilting and spinning the canvas.
Pour painting teaches me to work with the paint and how it FLOWS.
LETTING GO of expectations️ as I never really know how the paint will move as I maneuver it around. This is a lesson I have struggled with my whole life. Now, letting go is something I look forward to and the release brings a smile on my face and peace in my heart, just like painting does.
To have FORGIVENESS as the paint sometimes does not do what you want it to do. We can have the same forgiveness for ourselves when we make mistakes as well as others who disappoint us or distort the image we want to see.
To ADAPT as there are times to add more paint or take some away. To gently guide it while also encouraging and allowing it to flow where it naturally wants to go. In life, we can experience ease when we flow with life and adapt to our environment. I connect to grace, gratitude, and intuition to help me adapt in ways that serve me.
To SURRENDER into the process as sometimes a painting is not going as planned but something beautiful can transpire if we continue to work with it and not against it. In life, we can create and manifest beauty when we surrender into the possibilities. When we see life’s circumstances as happening for us, not to us, or against us.
To CLEANSE and have discernment. To trust my inner knowing of when to scrap a painting and scrape the paint off or repaint over it again. If life really is not working out, we can always clean the slate (or canvas) and start over. We can do this in all areas of our lives when we cleanse the limiting beliefs, reduce the emotional charge, and begin reprogramming our neuropathways. Then we can re-paint and re-create an experience that is in alignment with our higher purpose and joy.
Pour Art reminds me to keep an OPEN MIND and TRUST as I SURRENDER and ADAPT into the unknown possibilities with infinite LOVE and GRATITUDE for myself and the process.
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Opportunities to Learn & Grow |
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Be part of an in-person class community filled with laughter, deep insight, creativity, and copious amounts of plant wisdom!
NEW OFFERING
Friday Afternoon Herb Walks
Soak in the beauty of the late summer garden where we'll learn about and taste both wild & cultivated herbs. Learn about the medicinal properties of your favorite culinary herbs such as fennel, parsley, and cilantro! $30
Our Herbal Allies are growing underfoot even in the most paved over spaces of our lives. Meet them in Arcata on this fun and informative Urban Herb Walk! $25
So much plant diversity can be found even in the smallest greenspaces. Meet a wide variety of medicinal plants in Eureka’s Cooper Gulch! $25
Beginning With Herbs
with Allison Poklemba + Jessica Shepherd
The place to start for beginning your herbal journey, deepening your understanding of medicine making, or inspiring your continued work with our plant allies!
- Location | Humboldt Herbals Classroom
- Class meets eight Wednesday evenings 6-8pm
- Plus two 10am-Noon Saturday Herb Walks
Learn the foundations of making and using your own herbal medicine.
This class engages all your senses in a hands-on approach to learning:
- Medicine making techniques
- Herbal First Aid
- Identification and use of common wild herbs
- Herbal remedies for common imbalances
- The art of creating herbal formulas
- How to enjoy wild foods
Limited scholarships are available for BIPOC, students, elders, and/or those experiencing economic hardship. Email allison@dandelionherb.com for details.
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FREE Webinar from ONE
As I Tend the Garden, the Garden Tends Me
with Lisa Estabrook
Wednesday August 8th
12PM-1PM PT via Zoom
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Join us in conversation with Lisa Estabrook, artist, author and creator of Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck as she shares her journey with her plant spirit mentors. We will explore the power of intentions, living body wisdom, restoring imagination as a super sense, and conscious creation with the elemental realm.
It has always been Lisa’s intention to grow herself which means that the plant spirits have continually helped her stretch her comfort zone! Over the last year or so her gardens have been calling for a new “blueprint" and she is leaning into that and what it can mean for our work in the world.
Feeling empowered and listening to and following the wisdom of our own hearts is an ongoing thread that Lisa is sharing with others as she remembers with the help of the plants. Lisa encourages us all to give ourselves permission to create a life from the inside out rather than the outside in, as so many of us have long been conditioned to do.
Lisa Estabrook is an artist, mother, way shower, author, home herbalist and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years figuring out how to live a meaningful, heart-led, healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing which also launched her heART based Soulflower business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet. Lisa's belief is that the more we learn about ourselves, and take responsibility for our own healing (wholing) journeys, the more we will empower and support ourselves and by extension our families, our communities and ultimately the Earth herself. The founder of the online CommUNITY Garden, Lisa lives in Yarmouth, Maine.
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Join ONE and Humboldt Herbals owner Julie Caldwell for a very special Journey to Mount Shasta, Thursday September 28 through Sunday October 1st!
The Journey is almost full, but a few spots are still available.
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About Lavender
As an herb, lavender (Lavandula angustifolia or Lavandula officinalis) has been in documented use for over 2,500 years. In ancient times lavender was used for mummification and perfume by the Egyptians, Phoenicians, and peoples of Arabia.
By Roman times, lavender had already become a prized commodity. Lavender flowers were sold to ancient Romans for 100 denarii per pound -- equivalent to a full month's wage for a farm laborer -- and were used to scent the water in Roman baths. Romans used lavender oils for bathing, cooking, and scenting the air, and they most likely gave it the Latin root from which we derive the modern name (either lavare--to wash, or livendula--livid or bluish). The flower's soothing "tonic" qualities, the insect-repellent effects of the strong scent, and the use of the dried plant in smoking mixtures also added to the value of the herb in ancient times.
Perhaps first domesticated by the Arabians, lavender spread across Europe from Greece. Around 600 BC, lavender may have come from the Greek Hyeres Islands into France and is now common in France, Spain, Italy and England. The 'English' lavender varieties were not locally developed in England but rather introduced in the 1600s, right around the time the first lavender plants were making their way to the Americas. In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, the washing women were known as "lavenders" and they used lavender to scent drawers and dried the laundry on lavender bushes. Also during this time, lavender was grown in so-called "infirmarian's gardens" in monasteries, along with many other medicinal herbs. According to the German nun Hildegard of Bingen, who lived from 1098-1179, lavender "water,"--a decoction of vodka, gin, or brandy mixed with lavender--is great for migraine headaches.
Its reputation may have increased during the Great Plague in London in the 17th century, when it was suggested that a bunch of lavender fastened to each wrist would protect the wearer against the deadly disease. Furthermore, grave-robbers were known to wash in Four Thieves Vinegar, which contained lavender, after doing their dirty work; they rarely contracted the disease. In 16th-century France, lavender was also used to resist infection. For example, glove-makers, who were licensed to perfume their wares with lavender, escaped cholera at that time.
European royal history is also filled with stories of lavender use. Charles VI of France demanded lavender-filled pillows wherever he went. Queen Elizabeth I of England required lavender conserve at the royal table. She also wanted fresh lavender flowers available every day of the year, a daunting task for a gardener if you consider the climate of England. Louis XIV also loved lavender and bathed in water scented with it. Queen Victoria used a lavender deodorant, and both Elizabeth I and II used products from the famous lavender company, Yardley and Co. of London.
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Lavender is a unique fragrance produced by the combination of 180 different constituents and is widely used in the perfume industry to add a top or middle note to commercial products. In the world of professional sniffers, it has a green, hay-like sweetness and gives "fruity aspects" to perfumes and other scented products. Lavender is widely grown in England for commercial use, and the Provence region of France is renowned as a world leader in growing and producing lavender.
In the United States and Canada, the Shakers were the first to grow lavender commercially. A strict sect of English Quakers who most likely had little use for lavender's amorous qualities (they were celibate), they developed herb farms upon their arrival from England. They produced their own herbs and medicines and sold them to the "outside world." Later a New York advertising firm picked them up and sold the simple products worldwide.
As an herbal medicine, lavender is widely utilized. For soothing, relaxing qualities few herbs can be claimed as effective. Constituents of the oils found in lavender can treat hyperactiviety; insomnia; flatulence; bacteria, fungus, and microbial activity on gums, airborne molds, and (in mixture with pine, thyme, mint, rosemary, clove, and cinnamon oils) Staphyloccus bacteria. Lavender may even be useful against impotence. In a study of men, the scent of pumpkin and lavender rated as the scent found most arousing.
Herbal remedies made with lavender are effective in the treatment of prolonged anxiety, chronic and persistent nervousness, as well as in alleviating the physical symptoms induced by excessive stress such as tension headaches, persistent migraine, cardiac palpitations and sleep disorders like insomnia. Lavender brings the emotions into balance to elevate flagging spirits, help relieve depression and help to overcome inner disharmony and mental problems. It also has a tonic effect on the nervous system, helping to restore vitality to individuals affected by long term nervous exhaustion and mental trauma.
Lavender is also very effective as an external disinfectant in the treatment of all kinds of cuts, wounds, burns and bites, making it an excellent first aid remedy. The tissue repair and restoration process in the body is stimulated by lavender, which results in the minimization of scar formation from bites, stings, and especially burns. It provides almost instant relief for pain and inflammation caused by insect stings. Chronic headaches can be eased by massaging or rubbing the forehead and temples with a few drops of the essential oil. Muscle tension can be relived by adding five drops to a bath or footbath at night ~ this also tones the nervous system, and helps you get a good night's sleep.
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Lavender is also used in cuisines. Dried leaves and flowers are used as a seasoning for many kinds of meat and vegetable dishes in Europe. The freshly chopped leaves and the diced flowering tips can be added to dressings, vegetable salads, to wines, to honey, and to vinegars of all kinds.
Deserts including cakes, ice cream, jellies and fruit (especially berries) can be flavored with the blossoms of the lavender. It is best to use the seasoning sparingly as the sweet lemon floral flavor of lavender can be rather potent.
is made from a mixture of lavender blossoms and other common fragrant European culinary herbs, and is one of our all-time favorite seasoning blends.
Want to learn more? Click Here for body care ideas and lots of delicious recipes using lavender ~ Bon Apetit!
(sources: Lavender by Elen Spector Platt and Lavender: Practical Inspirations by Tess Evelegh)
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Herbaria is a FREE monthly magazine of all things herbal. Sign up and receive your free copy each month in your email inbox. Want to check one out first? Click here to download the June 2023 Herbaria.
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Humboldt Herbals
300 2nd Street
Eureka, CA, 95501
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Store Hours:
Mon-Sat 10:30am-5:30pm,
Sun 11am-5pm
Call us at (707) 442-3541
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