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Added by Jopie, at 26 April 2019
Opening Hours
- Monday 12:00 - 17:00
- Tuesday 12:00 - 17:00
- Wednesday 12:00 - 17:00
- Thursday 12:00 - 17:00
- Friday 12:00 - 17:00
- Saturday -
- Sunday -
Description
Since Avena's beginning, we have been carefully handcrafting our herbal remedies from the freshest and highest quality organic, biodynamic and wild-harvested herbs available. Nearly 70% of the herbs used in our products come from our own certified biodynamic gardens and from nearby islands and meadows which we harvest from annually. What we cannot grow we purchase locally from other certified organic and biodynamic farms.
A visitor on a sunny day in summer will see large baskets of fresh, hand-harvested herbs being carried by the gardeners into the apothecary. Throughout the summer the gardener’s baskets are overflowing with fresh sacred basil leaves, orange calendula flowers, yellow mullein blossoms, red rose petals, purple bee balm flowers and the green leaves of lemon balm and comfrey. The aromas that fill Avena’s drying room and medicine making room are sweet and pungent and alive with the goodness that nature provides.
Once inside the apothecary our freshly harvested herbs are quickly processed into herbal extracts, oils and alcohol-free glycerites, ensuring that the freshness and potency of each herb is preserved. Herbs gathered for Avena's teas and salves are immediately placed upon drying screens in our temperature controlled drying room where they are monitored daily. Our processing equipment is simple: stainless steel commercial blenders for macerating the herbs, oven roasters for preparing our infused oils, and a 12 ton hydraulic press for separating the blended herbs from their liquid bases. Our jars of salves and crèmes and bottles of oils and herbal extracts are mixed, poured and labeled by hand. The recipes we use have been perfected over the past 26 years.
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17 Reviews
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23 May 2019
🌿In our Sanctuary garden, we have a designated pollinator habitat bed where cultivated herbs and wild flowers intermingle together, attracting and feeding a variety of bees, butterflies, and ruby-throated hummingbirds. 🐝🦋 Today, we are assessing which plants are here, weeding out grass and vetch, and making a clearer path so it's easier to weed this garden in summer. 🌸🌼🌸 Some of our plants include bee balms (Monarda fistulosa), Echinacea purpurea, violets (Viola canadensis), Pleurisy (Asclepias tuberosa), New England Asters, and Great Blue Lobelia.
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21 May 2019
An herbalist's favorite sight! A field flush with nettles and a few playful dandelions. 🌿🌼🌿 The return of nettles makes our heart skip a beat. There are so many wonderful things we can do with nettles, make teas, tinctures, herbal vinegars, pastas, or cooked with ramps and fiddleheads for a real spring treat! 🌿🌿🌿 As Matthew Wood writes: “It’s one of the plants highest in proteins and helps all protein pathways in the body- digestion, immune function, and elimination.” 🌿🌿🌿 High in minerals and macronutrients, like iron, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, nettles offer a boost to ones overall energy and vitality. 🌿🌿🌿
#springgreens #nettles #dandelions
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18 May 2019
Hand-crafted, the way it's always been, and always will be. 🌿 📷 Sue Dorfman
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17 May 2019
When planting seeds we offer a prayer of healing.
"May all beings everywhere be safe and protected, May all beings be happy and peaceful, May all beings be healthy and strong, May all beings know the joy of their own true nature, May all beings everywhere live in peace, May beings everywhere live in ease."
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15 May 2019
While checking on the health of our hive we noticed our bottom tray was covered in bee pollen. 💛This time of year, when the bees are bringing in so much pollen, much of it will fall to the bottom of the hive. 🌼The wide array of colors give a good indication of the plants and flowers our bees are collecting from. Our best guess, is that the yellows are coming from dandelions, magnolias, coltsfoot, and other vibrant spring blooms. While the greens coming from the willow trees and poplar trees that are budding profusely. 🍯The real fun comes in tasting the two pollens. The yellow pollen was slightly sweeter and more honey like, where as the green was more vegetal with a slightly bitter finish. 🐝It takes one honey bee an entire month, gathering for eight hours a day, to collect enough pollen to make one teaspoon of pollen. And, one little pellet- like those pictured- contains over 2 million flower pollen grains. That means every teaspoon contains over 2.5 billion single grains of flower pollen! To put it into perspective, the average worker bee will make only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime! 💛🐝💛
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14 May 2019
May in Maine finds farm fields covered in the brilliantly yellow flowers of the infamous dandelion. Hungry ruby-throated hummingbirds and honeybees delight in the sweet nectar of dandelion blossoms. Avena's gardeners, thrilled that spring has arrived, love hand-digging buckets full of fresh roots and leaves which are immediately tinctured in organic alcohol. 🌼 🌱 Dandelion is one of the most remarkable and common weeds for enhancing the health of the liver and gall bladder, supporting the body’s detoxification pathways, promoting healthy digestion, and encouraging healthy excretion from the urinary tract. 🌼 🌱 #dandelion
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13 May 2019
Our beloved hummingbirds have returned to the gardens!💚
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12 May 2019
ANNUAL MOTHER'S DAY PLANT SALE & GARDEN WALK 🌱🌸🌱🌼🌱 TODAY!! 12 pm to 3 pm ~ Hosted by Deb Soule 🌱🌼🌱🌸✨🌱 Bring your mother, daughter, grandmother (and whole family!) along for this beautiful Sunday afternoon event. We will be offering organic perennials by Rebel Hill Farm as well as organic vegetable and flower seedlings by Villageside Farm. 🌱🌱🌱🌱 Deb Soule will also be offering a complimentary garden tour ($7 donation suggested) from 1:30 pm to 2:30pm to speak about medicinal herbs and pollinators. 🌼🌼🌼 Our shop will be open from 1pm - 3pm for all your shopping needs! ✨✨✨ We look forward to seeing you
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11 May 2019
Discover herbal remedies that can support a woman's body throughout her pregnancy, nourish her body after birth, and quiet the mind and nervous system of new parents.❤
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10 May 2019
As we begin to harvest our first plants of the season, I am reminded of how beautiful and magical each moment of gratitude is before the harvest. I am reminded of sitting with my grandmother Katherine. She never spoke to me about prayer, but I just felt her quietly praying and offering gratitude as we sat and observed the emerging flowers and migrating birds. As a child, I was still connected with the world of fairies and flowers, and my grandmother's silent and sacred pauses easily entered me. 🌿 Praying with plants became familiar and natural and I am so grateful to my paternal grandmother for inviting me along on these excursions. Sitting with the plants now, I am transported to those early childhood memories of that unspoken connection with the natural world and I feel her presence. ~ Deb
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09 May 2019
As we begin to get our hands in the earth and demand more of our bodies physically, it's always good to have a few herbal allies in our cabinet to aid us throughout the season.
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08 May 2019
Warmer days are calling for lighter, more colorful meals. Throughout the growing season, embrace the beauty and nourishment of these delightful additions to salads, sprinkled on soups, blended in your favorite smoothies, hummus or guacamole, as a garnish atop a cool and refreshing afternoon beverage and as an easy, colorful infusion in your water bottle.
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07 May 2019
Beautiful bloodroot.
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06 May 2019
A sweet sight of spring; the delicate violet. We love nipping these flowering tops to create colorful, nourishing spring salads with dandelion greens, and chickweed. 🌱 #foodismedicine 🌿🌺🌼🌿
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05 May 2019
What an incredible look at the "stinging hairs" of the nettle plant! #nettle
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04 May 2019
In this modern world of ours, travel is inevitable. Travel brings excitement, joy, and oftentimes, disruption to our normal routine. Deb shares a few of her favorite herbs that allow her to feel grounded, well-rested, and ready to embrace the adventure ahead.
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03 May 2019
For many of us, pollen season can be one of our least favorite times of year. In this video, Deb shares some of her favorite herbs to begin before this “golden time” of year begins.
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