Cedar and Moon Apothecary

Did you know we offer custom tea blends and care packages tailored to whatever ails you or the people you love?

Having surgery and need something to support your recovery? I got you! Looking for something deeply nourishing to sip on every day? No problem! Whatever the reason, I’ve got your back and can craft something just for you.

Custom tea blends are one of the perks of having a fully stocked apothecary brimming with vibrant herbs that are ready to go. If you’d like to place an order for a custom tea blend for yourself or someone you love, simply select the “Custom Tea Blend” option on the website. Just be sure to message me first so we can chat about your needs and create something that’s the best fit for you.

Happy Tuesday, friends!

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Morning sunshine’s! 🌞♥️

Did you know that we offer specially curated monthly subscription boxes delivered straight to your door? I don’t do a great job of telling y’all about this offering, so let me clue y’all in this morning!

Our subscription boxes are perfect for anyone looking to grow their home apothecary while treating themselves and their families to a little something special. Each box is thoughtfully crafted around the seasons, meaning every month’s offerings are inspired by what’s happening in nature. Spring boxes are filled with herbal goodies that support energy, vitality, and help move stagnation. Summer boxes are packed with offerings that help cool you down while supporting recovery and resilience.

The boxes often include things like herbal tinctures, infused honeys, seasonal tea blends, tallow soaps, special limited-edition herby hot sauces, salves, skincare, and so much more. You never know exactly what you’ll open the box to find, and I think that’s part of what makes receiving them so much fun! We offer two different sizes, a $30 box and a $55 box. No matter which one you choose, you’ll receive well over the retail value. For example, this month’s $55 box has a value of $75! 🥳 You can’t beat that!

The subscription boxes are also where I share limited offerings that I may not have enough of to list in the shop or online store, so subscribers get access to some pretty special goodies. If you haven’t checked out our subscription boxes yet, I hope you will!

If you’re already a subscriber, thank you so much! I truly love curating these boxes each month for y’all.

I’m going to link them in the comments! And if you don’t want to commit to a monthly subscription, you can always grab a single box whenever you’d like. Boxes ship out toward the end of each month!

Herbs you should know—
Broadleaf plantain, plantago major.
Very widespread and can be found in all sorts of varying environments and climates.
This herb is a valued ally for many maladies, but is most commonly used as a vulnerary to help heal wounds, soothe inflammation, and bring relief to itchy and hot conditions. Broad leaf plantain can also be used as a food and is an excellent source or vitamins, minerals, and fiber. The seeds especially are great to bring additional fiber and nutrients to smoothies, breads, and even just sautéed whole on the stalk with butter and garlic.

The herb herself possesses antibacterial, antiseptic, anti inflammatory and mildly astringent properties. Historically and presently, herbalist’s have used plantain for infection, gut health, wound healing, as a food source, and so much more. In the apothecary, you’ll see plantain on many labels but the most well loved is the Nature’s Healing Salve. Plantain makes an excellent remedy for itchy bug bites, skin rashes, and everyday irritations, even eczema.

First aid tip- pick the leaf from plantain, chew it, apply chewed plantain to bug bites, stings, poison ivy, etc and voila! Near instant relief.

I’ve seen plantain aid in healing brown recluse bites and even staph infections. Such a mighty healer for such a small unassuming plant. Perhaps that’s why creator allows them to grow in such varying places, us humans def need it.

Happy Summer Solstice, everyone.

We made it home from the mountains late last night. Being up there at the start of the season feels like magic for so many reasons. The summer rainstorms, the sound of thunder bouncing off the mountain range, the smoky mist that seems permanently suspended in the air until at least August. It’s the blackberry canes so loaded down they can’t stand up, sweet blueberries growing at your feet up and down every path you take, bright yellow St. John’s wort flowers that taste like sunshine and summer on your tongue. It’s the smell of a rainy oak bottom with a good 3 feet of leaf litter, so sweet and fruiting with chanterelles as far as the eye can see, looking like little golden embers scattered across the forest floor.

This time of year, the sun lingers a little longer over the fields, the gardens, the rivers, and the forests, and it’s usually 8 p.m. or later before I head in from the garden each night. I just can’t get enough of being outside, rainstorms and all. I wish I could fill a jar with this summertime feeling and save it for those heavy, gloomy winter days. I guess, in a way, that’s what I’m working on every time I gather medicine plants and make tinctures, teas, and other remedies. Many of these preparations won’t be ready until fall or winter, and I know that cracking them open will flood me with summertime memories.

Everything feels so full. Full of growth, full of life, full of endless possibility and abundance.

I pray everyone reading this is blessed beyond measure this summer season. Enjoy the sunshine on your face, say yes to adventure, spend time with wild waters, and drink your peach leaf and sassafras tea to stay cool. Take good care of yourself and tap into the well of energy this season brings. Stay open, follow your heart, and don’t forget to enjoy your life, okay?

XOXOXO 💛

We had 2 spots get donated for the sound bath and plant walk this morning. If you’d like to come, bring a friend and meet us at the Japanese Gardens at 10:30 ♥️

Another plant walk and sound bath with Ruth's Garden coming up on Sunday at 10:30! We can’t wait to see everyone 🥳🥳

Passiflora incarnata
With her intricate flowers that draw me in just like they do the bees. They send me buzzing around the garden from flower to fruit completely in awe of their strength, beauty, and simple wonder. I collect the flowers and the leaves and marry them in warm golden honey. A syrup for dream time and rest, for strengthening and settling my cyclical thoughts. I stare into the flowers crown of fine filaments spreading out in all directions and it reminds me of our nervous system. Despite her wild look, everything has a perfect and precise place, this aligns with how a simple syrup or tea of the leaves and flowers can bring about a feeling of calm and peace and a settling to those feelings of angst, turmoil, and worry. Inner chaos dissipates like soft bubbles rising up out of the creek along the water’s edge.

In the evenings before I sleep, I reach for this sweet elixir and take a few droppers under my tongue. Like clock work, I usually feel it first in my neck and shoulders where I carry more tension, a softening happens, my shoulders relax and the pain there begins to diminish. This is when I’ll usually read, write in my journal, pray, and begin to slow my mind down so that sleep can find me. Creator knows I be running from rest and my body and spirit needs extra support to make it happen.

Passiflora is gentle in her effectiveness, it’s not an all at once can’t keep my eyes open feeling, it’s more like all at once my body has relaxed and my mind feels quiet. A balm for tired muscles and tension stored within.

I admire her in the garden and watch the vines climb and reach to an endless height. Wrapping, grabbing, supporting and being supported. All day an army of little marching ants work dutifully to collect the sweet nectar from her vines. Every year I watch the ants move in for the first half of the season (this is when I harvest) and the second half in about another month, the butterflies will be back and they will begin their honorary ritual of life. Soon, the entire garden will be fluttering with gulf fritillary butterflies. Without the Passiflora, they would perish forever and without them, I think the same would happen to the Passiflora in time.

There’s this perfect balance found within the spirit and life of this plant and it’s something I always enjoy pondering and trying to embody myself. So many ways these plant and animal kin show us and teach us the big things, but they often come in such ordinary or small packages that we overlook them all together. Passiflora reminds me it’s okay to slow down and prioritize rest and recovery, these things are imperative and synonymous to vitality and balance.

Grateful for plant wisdom 🌀🙏🏽🌱

Good morning sunshine’s! We’d love to see you today up at the powwow grounds in Mount Vernon. We’ll be here til about 2:00 🥳 come check out all the vendors, support Choctaw youth in their endeavor to raise funds for a good cause, and grab some good food! Indian tacos are flying out the kitchen and going fast and I’ve got some wild food samples and an info table setup with wild plants and resources.

Hello sunshine’s—
It’s me, tuning in from the fields of flowers and sunshine 🧚. I’m just checking in for a few things. 1st up- don’t forget about the sound bath and plant walk that’s coming up next weekend. Tickets are on the website! 2nd- I’ll be up on the Choctaw Rez this weekend all set up with an info table, wild foods, herbs, books, etc. I’ll be doing free herbal consultations and blabbing about wild foods and medicines. My mama will be with me, yay! I hope to see yall up there for car show and color run!

This is the busiest season of all for us over here because if we’re not gathering every single day then we are already behind. Add to that running a house and chasing after teenagers and trying to keep up with life, family, community responsibilities, and everything else and honestly I just don’t find myself online as much these days.

This is a one woman show over here and I really appreciate all the patience, understanding, and support yall show my small business. I know some things (shampoo and conditioner anyone? 🫣) have been out of stock for a minute, but I’m trying to change that soon. There’s a ton of new inventory and summer offerings that I just haven’t been able to put on the website yet, but soon.

Bc I haven’t been posting much the algorithm has forsaken me so if you see this say hiiiii in the comments! How’s your summer going? Enjoy all the photos from life lately. Love yall!