We are diversifying our animals, and we welcomed in 2 little pigs! Meet Lucy and Ethel!
Finn and Chester are buddies
Warm sunny day at the farm! Giving our Alpacas some yummy apples from our trees
Fall Harvest Season is upon us. It has been a wonderful year for cherries and apples on our farm! We made several different pies and deserts. We are hoping to start making more ciders with our fruit!
Alpacaca
Alpaca have long been redeemed for their luxurious coats of fiber. The alpaca fiber is very easy to process and work with, and creates some of the highest quality wool yarn in the world. Having extreme warmth and water resistance of wool, without having the lanolin of sheep, which requires more extensive cleaning, alpaca wool is the best wool for felting or making yarn.
One less redeeming aspect, but underestimated value, of the alpaca is that if it’s poop. Alpaca “beans” are highly prized fertilizer with the benefit of direct application without burning plants. They provide a very balanced fertilizer that is slow releasing and good for water retention.
Since we began using alpaca in our gardens in 2010, we have seen amazing results repeatedly and now we depend on the alpaca beans for our successful harvest. It is amazing to now have access to our very own Alpacaca from our best dudes at the ranch! We love our alpaca and are happy to give them a good home with lots of fruity treats! The apples, plums, and blackberries make our alpacas beans extra sweet!
Get yourself some alpacaca!!
Natural Earth Potions at Flowering Farms!
We finally have the land ready to build our herbal gardens and sustain our demand for quality, organic medicinal herbs and flowers! Flowering Farms has allowed us the opportunity to grow our own medicinal herbal garden. We will be able to grow The bulk of the herbs used in our infusions.
We have been dreaming up our plan for our garden for years and now we can finally put our plan into action!
Thankfully, we have been saving seeds in our small home garden each year, and will be able to start our nursery mostly from our own reserves. We are fortunate to be in the Williamette valley, home to many quality seed companies and nurseries, that will provide local, and native species to our garden.
We look forward to sharing our experience with you and honoring the earth through our practices and methods. We only use organic means of production, and utilize the principles of biodynamic growing, and truly respect the soil and honor what it enables all life thrive within.
Essential Aroma Sprays
Aromatic essence from herbs and flowers are concentrated through steam distillation process that heats water and herbs creating steam that is captured, cooled, and condensed back into liquid, or what we call hydrasol. The hydrasol has slight aromatic properties but if you look carefully, suspended on top of water surface, you will notice oil floating. This is the most potent essence of the plant.
These potent, essential oils are used in aromatherapy and have therapeutic and healing properties. Essential oils from certain plants like tea tree, lavender, rosemary, and eucalyptus have antibacterial and antifungal properties making them perfect candidates for disinfectant or sanitizer.
"Sanitize" our new essential oil hand sanitizer
We have been studying and using essential oils for over 5 years and have developed blends that work well together and enhance the healing and therapeutic properties. We have created a line of essential aroma sprays to provide easy application of essential aromas.
Aroma sprays are perfect to spray in stale air or on musky fabrics to refresh and awaken. Spray your pillow and bedding with lavender essence to enhance sleep, good dreams, and ultimate relaxation.
Awaken, refresh, sanitize, memorize, & relax
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Read moreHealing Mama
Natural Earth Potions has been making and selling Healing Mama for nearly 3 years now. It is one of our favorite and most widely used potions. It is made of Coconut oil, Shea butter, Hemp oil, Beeswax, Honey, and Lavender essential oil.
Our hemp oil is infused with medicinal herbs that soothe, nourish, and heal the skin. Healing Mama features chamomile, calendula, and lavender flowers. It is perfectly baby safe and wonderful to use for diaper rash or other cuts and scrapes on your little ones. Mothers can benefit from the balm by rubbing big bellies to prevent stretch marks, or heal sore cracked nipples from breastfeeding.
I am excited that Healing Mama has been enjoyed by so many people, and I am proud that it has given 7 people relief from eczema, when nothing else had worked!
Organic herbal healing salve!!!
Please share your thoughts and experiences with us!
Athens Farmers Market
Natural Earth Potions will be at Bishop Park every Saturday, from 8am - 12 pm.
Come out and support your local farmers and artisans! Great food, good music, and a handful of artists and crafters, all from our community here in Athens!
The farmers market is a family friendly environment where are community members and business owners can all come together! It is wonderful to be part of this town and share ideas and passions that continue to strengthen the fabric of our community!
Athens farmers market at bishop park every saturday!!!! Can't wait to see you here!
Is modern medicine disconnected from its’ roots in herbalism?
The use of plants as medicines predates any written history. Our ancestors have been teaching the uses of plants as medicines through oral tradition and practice. We have evolved with nature in a way that we are not separate from but a part of the whole. Without the healing powers of plants, we would not have survived on earth this long. Many would be surprised to know that nearly all of our modern pharmaceuticals are derived from plants and naturally occurring life. It is this same life that supports our life, and all of our ancestors knew this. It is only in the last 100 years that we have really begun manufacturing pharmaceuticals. We have quickly forgotten where we came from and have thus lost the knowledge of our ancestors. Our modern doctors only prescribe the latest invention published in medical journals and sponsored by the chemical pharmaceutical manufacturers. Our medical society is disconnected from its’ roots, our roots.
Modern medicinal herbalism exists in the fringes. The dominating opinions our fueled by an industry of capitalism, which seems to consistently put profits ahead of people. How can we put our health in the hands of shareholders bottom line? The pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors are flooding the markets with so called “cures” in competition with each other and with firm orders of executing the bottom line. What has our medical system become? How have we come to be so disconnected from our healing remedies that we trust corporations to have our best interest in mind? Too many pills being pushed upon the ignorant as a quick fix, get rich quick scheme. Those ignorant of the earths’ natural remedies are too easily frightened into taking whatever the doctor prescribes. We cannot blame the doctors. The drug companies simply send in a sales force that is vastly equipped with a repertoire of pitches and punchlines to “educate” the doctors on the newest and best drug. Little medical tests are conducted and those which are have biased results being funded by the companies selling the drug. Our doctors’ educators are teaching books written and sold by drug manufacturers!
Now of course there will be those who fervently hold to the new age of medicine. There is a mountain of evidence supporting the healing benefits of our modern medical field, and the improvements in quality and longevity of life have helped millions of people. I think the problem is in the immediate response of our doctors to administer a prescription drug, rather than take a holistic approach and consider changing habits first or other less dramatic approaches at first to see if the problem will go away naturally. If you are deficient in vitamin c the doctor won’t prescribe an orange, in fact they are not allowed to prescribe dietary changes, only medications.
I would love to see doctors take a holistic approach to healing and not only assume medications are the solution to problems, but look closer at the whole body system, food, habits, exercise, environment, stress, and mental state of the person. If we try to treat symptoms as separate problems that require multiple medications, without seeing the bigger picture and identifying causal connections. The holistic approach is less intrusive and allows the body to naturally respond and achieve health. The body’s main function is to achieve health, often all we need to do is remove a negative stimulus that inhibits or blocks the body’s natural response.
When you look at the body as a whole system, it is impossible to separate the body from all the life that is within and around it. The food we eat feeds the bacteria in our gut which provides us with fuel and nourishment to achieve health. Naturally our bodies thrive in symbiosis with our environment. Our culture and diet today is far from the natural evolution of our body system. Our health is intricately tied to the health of our environment. We suffer from so many health issues one can only wonder if many of the plumes of cancer, diabetes, digestive disorders, heart conditions, and leading health problems for all our organs, are not connected to the processed, preserved food, the chemical agriculture residues, and the every mounting list of prescriptions we seem to collect like Halloween candy.
For me it is simple, the natural healing our body’s strive to achieve, is bound to flourish with a rich diet in plant based foods and natural fermentation, kept in balance with help of medicinal herbs. Our herbal allies can be found in every culinary culture around the world. Just look at the digestive benefits of rosemary and oregano, or ginger and turmeric, and it is easy to see how our ancestors’ practice of herbalism is still entrenched in our culture today. As we come to realize the connection we have to nature, it is my hope that we will value our connection and find ways to keep it strong, accessible, and affordable. We can never have too many organic farmers of food, health and wellbeing of our whole body, including the whole earth.
Magic of Mullein
The soft succulent leaves of Mullein soothe the skin of rash and rawness. With anti microbial properties, Mullein makes a wonderful addition to any healing salve or balm.
Especially good in treating the lungs of infection and congestion, make mullein tea or tincture relieve cold symptoms. Also used as an affective treatment for asthma. We add Mullein to our smokers blend to heal the lungs
Mullein is one of our garden staples keeping it green all year round! A perfect companion for any garden with shallow roots and minimal needs the large leaves provide shade for the soil and microbial activity and also keep the weeds from spreading.
Excited to see spring upon us in Athens, Georgia! Our Mulleins are glistening in the early morning dew so sweetly divine I could fall to the dirt and quench my desire to taste this beautiful essence
East Atlanta Strut
Greetings Atlantians! We are stoked to be downtown at flat shoals and glen wood in the heart of the city selling our Natural Earth Potions! Today is the release of our new Skinsational Honey Creme, a potion of Shea butter, Hemp and Coconut oil, whipped with locally sourced Honey!
Come downtown on this beautiful cool fall day and check out all the vendors, music, food an drinks! Free admission from 10-9pm !!!
Protect yourself from ultra violet light with coconut and shea butter
Did you know?
All of our potions are made with coconut oil and shea butter, both of which help protect your skin from Ultra Violet Rays. In addition to protecting you from getting poison ivy, to keeping the bugs away, or maintaining a radiant glow, your skin is always protected from the sun when you use Natural Earth Potions!
Valentines Day Fair!
Natural Earth Potions will be set up with all our potions on Friday, February 14th at the Indie South Valentines Day Craft Fair!!
We hope all of you will come out and enjoy socializing after being hunkered down in all this snow and ice!
Visit the event page on facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/events/273780009441541
We have moved!
Hello everyone! We have relocated to Athens, Georgia and plan to be creating our potions here for the next few years! We look forward to sharing our new ideas with the south east, but are very thankful for the support and past home of humboldt county california!
Natural Earth Potions in Athens, Georgia!
We are so excited for this year to be on way in our new home in Athens, GA!
We have some great new products coming out this year.
First, we have an herbal infused massage oil line that can be used for deep tissue massage, full body massage, and reflexology. We have 3 blends targeting the nervous system and circulatory system, with warming, cooling, and relaxing.
We will also be releasing an all organic, herbal, metal-free sunscreen!
Keep posted on our website and on facebook for our release date specials!!!
We look forward to seeing you all at Athens Farmers Market, Indie South Fair, Hemlock Fest and many more!
Winter weather dried and damaged your skin?
We are selling our potions!
Offering 8 Recipes of Herbal Infused Salves!
Made with Coconut Oil, Shea Butter, and our Herbal Infused Olive or Hemp Oil!
Eczema, Migraines, Sinus Congestion, Insect Repellant, Diaper Rash, Poison Rash
Heal dry, damaged, cracked, chapped or burned skin with our Whole Body Balm, Hard Workin Hands, and Healing Mama!
Need a holiday gift?
Hey we've got you covered! We have 6 different medicinal salves available
Sevananda!
Yesterday we had wonderful demo opportunity at sevananda community coop in Atlanta and it went well!