Enjoy the warmth of wild spices, not from overseas or around the world, but gathered from the Central Okanagan Valley. An aromatic spicy blend of local herbs. This is a limited-run tea due to ingredients we don’t easily find in our typical foraging zones. It may only be seen occasionally at our craft fair table. Net Weight: 21g Rare Tea: High Noon Spice $20.00 Buy now
Reminisce about life in a semi-arid desert as you enjoy a cup of tea. This is a limited-run tea due to ingredients we don’t easily find in our typical foraging zones. It may only be seen occasionally at our craft fair table. Net Weight: 21g Rare Tea: Arid Blast $20.00 Buy now
Enjoy the sensation of the sun above, the trail ahead, as you sip a tea in your hand. This is a limited-run tea due to ingredients we don’t easily find in our typical foraging zones. It may only be seen occasionally at our craft fair table. Net Weight: 21g Rare Tea: Sunsoaked Trails $20.00 Buy now
Dream of lakes, and sandy beaches under conifer forests and arid hills This is a limited-run tea due to ingredients we don’t easily find in our typical foraging zones. It may only be seen occasionally at our craft fair table. Net Weight: 21g Rare Tea: Northern Tropics $20.00 Buy now
Sip the fruity flavours of a mid-summer Okanagan Evening Bring the tastes and smells home from the orchards and gardens. This is a limited-run tea due to ingredients we don’t easily find in our typical foraging zones. It may only be seen occasionally at our craft fair table. Net Weight: 21g Summer Skies $20.00 Buy now
2025, the year that life for Ashtree Wildcrafting literally went wild! We’d begun the year having discovered the Rutland Flea Market happening every Sunday and figured, why not see how it goes? To begin with, it seemed we had every old guy in the place filing past our booth to see what we were about and I wondered if we’d joined an Old Guys’ Club! But it turned out earnings weren’t that bad over the winter months and by the time winter transitioned to spring breakup, we’d run out of several tea-making ingredients! Running out of the ingredients key to…
Here we grow again! The Spring foraging season has allowed us to get some teas back on the table at craft fairs, while deciding that we no longer need an ingredient in the house, has allowed us to put other teas back out as well. We have so much chokecherry juice concentrate, syrup and jelly, that we aren’t using our tubs of chokecherry leaf, and that leaf is the base of several of our teas. We had created several “stand-in” teas we had called them, to keep the table active at craft fairs while we began harvesting missing ingredients we’d…
A recent article published on Castanet, a local news site, erroneously has claimed that it is illegal to dig up Arrowleaf Balsamroot on crown land here in BC. When I asked for sources, they sent me this link, where I immediately noticed the reporter’s error: Collection 2 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person must not collect cones, seeds or vegetative material from Crown land unless in possession of a cone and vegetative material collection permit issued by the district manager, or person authorized by the district manager. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to (a) employees or agents of…
Spring greetings! It’s the beginning of April, and plants are growing again, some more quickly than others, but growing just the same. Spring markets are also happening, with two big ones on our doorstep! We will be at the Spring Shoparama event this weekend in Vernon at the Vernon Rec Centre on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday is from 10am to 6pm, and Sunday is from 10am to 5pm. We will then be at the Vernon Wellness Fair under Marilynn’s Biblical Natural Health Coaching banner the following weekend, 10-5pm on the Saturday and 10-4pm on the Sunday. These two fairs come…
2024 was an Amazing Year! We could also call it “The Year of Expansion”! Ashtree Wildcrafting began 2024 by introducing one new tea, and upscaling our table display with live edge risers. The tea we introduced back in January, was Snow Drift, our answer to everyone’s requests for something similar to Sleepy Time, without being that trademarked tea. Wouldn’t you know it, but we’d go on to sell 51 Snow Drift teas! We learned that most people want to buy medium-sized cloth reusable tea bags, or the large size, but very few smalls sold. Later in the Fall, I’d go…