Rosevear Apothecary

Write down your 2024 wishes (things to release and things to attract) roll them up and tuck them in your waxed pinecone. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, throw the pinecone into the bonfire as it burns, and the smoke rises to the stars, the manifestation begins. *t

ID a tree in the winter months.

“Yule” became a name for Christmas about the 9th century, and in many languages yule and its cognates are still used to describe that holiday—jul in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish; joulud in Estonian ; joulu in Finnish; and jol in Icelandic. The Christmas holiday is still referred to as Yule in the Scots language. *t

How to Read Your Spread:
1st House/Aries –Self image, identity. This card represent your physical body, image, your look as well as the image you have of yourself.
2nd House/Taurus –Value or your resources. Your self worth, money and earnings, possessions.
3rd House/Gemini –Communication and knowledge
4th House/Cancer –Home and family. Your domestic life, your roots. This indicates where you live
5th House/Leo – Creativity.Things we give birth to, from children to projects.
6th House/Virgo –Productivity. Work and Service
7th House/Libra –Relationships. Where you interact with others whether romantic partners or perceived enemies.
8th House/Scorpio – Inheritance. Death, taxes, other people’s money.
9th House/Sagittarius – Philosophy. This house deals with your belief system, expanding your knowledge. It deals with stuff we want to learn.
10th House/Capricorn –Ambition. Career
11th House/Aquarius –Community
12th House/Pisces –Inner Self. This house deals with spirituality. Us in the most private. What we know subconsciously.
The 13th Card is placed in the middle and is used as an overall indicator for the spread.

Sunset is a little later every day, soon the snow will be gone and a new growing season will start.

**kyou

Anyone local interested in getting a bucket of paydirt, we will be bringing them back again this year. (I’m cringing at how much gas we’ll burn hauling buckets of rocks through the mountains🤣)

Here is our ad, text me if you want one (limited numbers available due to space constraints):

Taking pre-order pails of raw paydirt from our gold claim. Unsearched, unpanned, straight from our placer gold claim to the bucket.

5 gallon pail of unclassified, unpanned, unsearched, direct from creekbed to bucket paydirt. $50

We always bring back pails of dirt from our placer claim to pan at our leisure during the long Alberta winters. It makes for an exciting break to the monotony to find a nugget in the middle of December.

Our claim is near the gold rush ghost town called Leechtown, just outside of Sooke, B.C. (Google Leechtown history)

Delivery Saturday September 10 to Edson and September 11 to Hinton.
Pre-order only.
Text for more information or to order you pail of paydirt! (780) 723-1727

Any herb or plant which is given the name “officinalis” is recognized as having significant medicinal benefits. It means “used in medicine”.

Spruce tips are being harvested today. Absolutely delicious!

It’s a gorgeous sunny day to fire some pottery. On our way to a big pile of coals, I’ll keep it stoked for about 15 hours and voila! Pottery like our ancestors made.

Rhubarb is peaking up and trees are sprouting new leaves! Winter is over and the gardens are planted!!!

Balsam Fir oil harvest today. It smells magical! 🌲

Balsam Fir oil harvest today. It smells magical! 🌲

Spring is here and the spruce pitch is running! 15 degrees celsius and blue skies! Our first harvest this season and it’s a good one!

It’s that time of year. Our little cabin in the woods is now over-run with grow-lights and cute little emerging sprouts.

We are down to our last ounces of raspberry leaves, calendula, and lemon balm. This season we are expanding the gardens on the East tree line and have partnership harvesting agreements for Fireweed with a super awesome couple just North of us.

We will be adding plantain, fireweed and balsam fir oil to our store this season!

It’s an exciting time of year, full of hope, longer days, happiness and the aroma of potting soil.

They are turning out pretty awesome!

What does a goldsmith do when it’s too snowy to take a break and go out and play in her garden?

I’m making wee copper herb spoons that will fit in the mouth of small jars. (Made from recycled Canadian Pennies.)

Perfect for loose incense too!

Today was a bench day. 🌲 Crafting a Balsam Pickway. I think I MacGyver-ed a pretty good one out of furnace tin.

The blisters on a Balsam Fir tree are filled with anti-microbial liquid sap. So you put this contraption under a blister, poke up into it and push down from above the blister to empty it into the tin cup. 🌲

We will be going up North to harvest some in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for traditional medicine coming here. 😊

It’s almost time to see those beautiful yellow dandelions popping up through the grass announcing spring’s arrival.

This gorgeous gift from a sweet customer of the apothecary. How lucky are we?!?! I can’t articulate how loved and supported we are by people in our community. It is appreciated and I hope we give this same beautiful vibe to those who we meet.

We made a fabulous trade. We sent a package of Calendula to trade for a package of Icelandic Moss.
It was harvested from the lava field near Kirkjubæjarklaustur.
The health benefits are many and we are over the moon to stock this on our shelves.