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 […]
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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
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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.
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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
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🌸⚗️ 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
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