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    Foraging Workshop Dates and Registration

    April 23, 2024 - By 

    Introducing Foraging Workshop dates with Ashtree Wildcrafting and Biblical Natural Health Coaching! Ashtree Wildcrafting will be present on May 19th and June 2nd, but Biblical Natural Health Coaching will be present on all four dates consisting of May 18th, 19th, June 1st and June 2nd. The workshop and tour will be held somewhere in the Central Okanagan, with locations to be announced as they are firmed up. Cost is $30 which gets you a reserved seat, a pen, a foraging notebook, and an in-person tour discovering and discussing various wild plants in the area and what they are useful for.…

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    Macerated Aromatic Oils, and the Discovery of Scented Lies

    April 20, 2024 - By 

    This week, we’ve been very busy foraging around the barn property each evening. Coming home with more purple deadnettle, yarrow, discovered quite a bit of desert parsley we need to grab, and began picking arrowleaf balsomroot flowers for Ashley’s aromatic oil by maceration experiment. Apparently according to old books from over 200 years ago, this was how perfumaries got their perfume oils before distillation became the rage for making essential oils. The arrowleaf balsomroot flower has an interesting scent. It first strikes you as having a quiet vanilla scent, continue sniffing, and you discover a sweet note reminiscent of white…

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    Introducing our Latest Wildcrafted, Looseleaf Tea: Snow Drift

    February 5, 2024 - By 

    Looking out across the small valley, trees look like they belong in a winter wonderland postcard. The fields’s various rises and hollows are rounded out in a fresh blanket of snow. The noise of cars going by on the nearby road is muted, somehow quieter. Cedar-tiled rooftops are dusted in snow as it collects in nooks and crannies, lending a gingerbread-style appearance to the slanted rooflines. Underneath it all, the plant kingdom sleeps. Bulbs that require overwintering are preparing for spring. Seeds that require freezing, are preparing to grow. Grass hibernates, as do various members of the animal kingdom who…

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    Tea: Snow Drift

    January 23, 2024 - By 

    Description: Want a good night’s sleep?  Ingredients in this tea have been selected to aid your mind and body in winding down, relaxing, and then sleeping. This tea is a nice warm, slightly sweet, slightly fruity, slightly minty flavour.  Best enjoyed hot, but the flavour notes carry into a cold cup as well. Net Weight: 29g Tea: Snow Drift $12.00 Buy now

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    Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids – a Lesson From the Caterpillar

    January 12, 2024 - By 

    Originally published over at Biblical Natural Health Coaching. Today’s article takes the concept of “One Health”, and turns it on it’s head. The string pullers want you to be scared of zoonotic diseases, also known as diseases that spread from critter to human, and they have plans to use these diseases to create pandemics to feed an agenda that turns up the heat on climate change while following established paranoia around depopulating the earth of mankind. However, it appears so far, that those who began working on “One Health” over a decade ago, may have forgotten that while the animal kingdom does…

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    Breaking the Silence in 2023

    December 6, 2023 - By 

    The last time we shared anything on this blog was late 2019!  Our best craft fair season yet had just closed and we had no idea what was about to land on everyone’s head in 2020!  For better or for worse, everything ground to a halt that year, and it wouldn’t be till early 2023 that we at Ashtree Wildcrafting finally felt we could get back into the craft fair scene selling our wildcrafted, locally foraged loose leaf tea.  Our first craft fair this year was in March, which led to two more craft fairs and Marilynn’s first holistic fair…

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    Tea: Pine Garden

    June 10, 2021 - By 

    Description: Give yourself a balanced, calming boost with this relaxing tea high in many vitamins and minerals, most notably Vitamins A and C. The scent is equal parts warm, sharp, and mellow. Has a sharp, bitter taste unsweetened after only 3 min steep time, and a more enjoyable warm, mellow flavour unsweetened after 10 min steep time. Net Weight:  22+g Tea: Pine Garden $12.00 Buy now

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    I’m Pregnant, Is Your Tea Safe?

    December 12, 2019 - By 

    The Fall and Christmas 2019 Craft Fair season is behind us, and what a season it was! We sold 55 teas, some selling in groups as people bought more than one together or came back to buy more. We were asked where people could find us as the craft fairs came and went and brochures flew off the table at every fair. We were asked about plants that we have not yet discovered in the local area. Considering there are well over 300 wild edible plants in Okanagan and in 4 years of foraging we have only made positive identification…

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    Tea: Orchard Rose

    October 17, 2019 - By 

    Description: One sip will transport you to the middle of your favourite orchard among the roses and sage of the Okanagan. Why the Name: Gathered from local orchards, wildlands, and our local rail trail, enjoy this one-of-a-kind fruity flavour. Net Weight:  37+g Price: $12 + shipping Tea: Orchard Rose $12.00 Buy now

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    Tea: Morning Frost

    October 17, 2019 - By 

    Description: Fall in the Okanagan features warm days and frosty nights.  This tea perfectly captures warm skies and frosty bite. Why the Name: Harvested while the frost was still on the leaves, this tea got its name from the beautiful fall mornings where we live. Net Weight:  37+g Price: $12 + shipping Tea: Morning Frost $12.00 Buy now