🥵Sept 7/22🥵UPDATE🥵 With record temps of 117F yesterday, we are in rolling blackouts until late Friday evening – Sept 7/22 PM. To protect aromatics from extreme heat, we will resume shipping on Saturday Sept 10//22 when the weather returns to a more seasonal 90F. All orders will leave our apothecary that day so while we …
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15% off everything in the store including the stainless steel still we use in our YouTube distillations. Sale prices will reflect checkout. The distillation course in October is our only exclusion. Our sale ends Tuesday September 6th. We hope you have a wonderful long weekend and stay cool! It’s record temps out there!
I’m very pleased to announce a new class I will be offering this October in a stunning setting thanks to the generous support of Julie Sandino-Areias, owner and host of The Bird Ranch at San Luis Creek. The Bird Ranch, a designated monarch butterfly sanctuary, is a breathtaking boutique event venue and farm stay that …
Wild Card Distillation: Pandanus Leaf The first time I worked with frozen pandanus leaves I bought from a filipino market, I knew they were eventually going to land in my still, particularly after considerable effort to find live plants locally or on line turned out to be a big fail. $1.69 a bag for frozen …
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Wild Card Distillation: California Pink Lotus How To Harvest And Distill Pink Lotus Flowers.Nelumbo nucifera 🌸⚗️ I stalked a local pink lotus pond for three years, plotting and planning to distill these big, fragrant flowers. I didn’t know what might be the outcome but I knew when the time was right, I would be packing …
It’s 12:05 am. I want to mark this night because for months, I have worked past midnight, rebuilding my website – story by story, photo by photo coupled with weekly zoom meetings to address the technical issues that arose every time I worked on EOA. It almost broke me. Made me rethink what I’m doing. …
How To Harvest And Distill Wild Bronze Fennel I truly did this week’s wild card distillation on the flipside. I hadn’t been home eight hours after my Lavender festival event and I was on my way to San Francisco to pick up some rare Yemen Mocca for my roastery and stopping by a beautiful area …
🌸⚗️ This week’s Wild Card distillation involves a plane, a cute cat and a still. We are headed to a lavender festival in Oregon and I’ll be taking “Stilly”, my trusty travel still and Oudy, the apothecary mascot. I plan to harvest and distill some lavender on the road for this weekend’s distillation and will …
