Green Muse Herbs

Fresh pressed Milky Oat tincture is here and it's one of the dreamiest preparations I've ever had the priviledge to taste 🥰

Thank you 💚

✨ Green Gold Card of the Day ✨

From comes an ancestral plant spirit oracle deck to help connect you with diasporic contemporary guidance rooted within the ancient wisdom of our oldest ancestors on earth- plants!

Today I pulled Mugwort 🌿

Africa, Asia, Europe | Leaf | Moon | The Dancing Mother of Night

𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘴. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭.

Trying for the largest selection of herbal pre-rolls + loose smoke mix offerings in the city...

We love herbal smokes as harm reduction and in addition to offering the selection above, we love making custom loose blends with you... give us a few words and let's see what we can make 💚

Currently available in pre-rolls:
🕯️ Viriditas Apothecary's honey rubbed & handrolled Dream Smokes (Mugwort, Lavender, Damiana, Passionflower, & Rose)
🕯️ Smokelore's Citrus Smokes (Lemon Balm, Lemon Sorrel, Calendula, & Mullein)
🕯️ Smokelore's Mint Smokes (20+ varieties of Mint, Bearberry, & Mullein)
🕯️ Smokelore's Plain Smokes (Nettle, Bearberry, & Mullein)
🕯️ Smokelore's Summer Shade Smokes (Raspberry leaf, Strawberry Mint, Lemon Balm, Rose, & Mullein)
🕯️ Smokelore's Friday Garden Smokes (Lavender, Mugwort, Pineapple Mint, Mullein, & honey spritz)

Coming later this week:
🕯️ Viriditas Apothecary's honey rubbed & handrolled Swimming Hole Smokes (Marshmallow leaf, Skullcap, Peppermint, Orange peel, & Lavender)

Almost all of the herbs mentioned above, by both & , are farm-grown and the Smokelore butts contain native wildflower seeds for planting afterward 🌱

Exciting news!!

After planting seeds many moons ago, Nigella is finally blooming outside our apothecary 🥰

Aaaaand introducing this incredible new Yemeni spice blend, Hawaij masala, from Diaspora Co. and sold-out favourites Pumpkin Spice + Popcorn Masala are back in stock! Just in time for beloved cobwebby samhain movie watching season 🕸️🍿🎥✨

This new masala blend is a collaboration with Yemeni/South Asian food & culture storyteller Nadir Nahdi and is a gorgeously fresh mix of Cumin, Cinnamon, Clove, Coriander, Turmeric, Cardamom, Black Pepper, + Nutmeg 🤤

Aaaaand since y'all are loving the Diaspora Co. spices so much in general and showing up near & far to come for them, we'll be transitioning to them as our main supplier of bulk spices as well 🥳

Going forward, they will be supplying our:
Fennel
Clove
Ginger
Black Pepper
Coriander
Cumin

Already available in bulk for tin refills:
Sumac
Chai Masala

You'll be able to ask us about harvest dates 😍

This is also great next step toward our ongoing commitment of boycotting Mountain Rose Herbs and all larger scale distributors actively participating in the displacement of peoples from their homelands and profiting off the labour of landworkers and not truly prioritizing the care of our plants & peoples in their decisions. Check out the work of fellow herbalists Layla Feghali of @ River Rose Remembrance & Shabina @ shabi_azaadi to find out more about this important movement 💚

Thank you so much for your continued support in building more equitable relationships with our plant medicine providers... here's to all plants (and peoples) flourishing as our awareness of them grows and our love for them deepens 🌿

Blue Hour tea & farm-direct tea blends from 💞

A dreamy Sunday visiting with .abortioncollective and learning more about their work 🥰

Pop-up tomorrow 💙

Featuring:
- hot by donation Blue Hour tea on tap (pictured above)
- extended apothecary hours from 11am to 5pm
- small batch aromatic medicine treasures such as infused oils + honey rubbed smokes (also last chance to sign up for her Hawthorne knowledge share happening tomorrow evening- visit her bio or our stories for more info 🌸)
- cupping + gua sha services by .acupuncture (check out heartandhands.janeapp.com !)
- .abortioncollective meet + greet (tickets available through their bio / eventbrite 🌹)

As always, masks are strongly encouraged in common areas and mandatory during any clinic treatments (we have extra if you forget!), as many of us are medically vulnerable and Covid is still here 😷💕

Hope you all had a pleasantly haunted Friday the 13th and that we'll get to drink tea together tomorrow 🍵🖤

Do you have any favourite music to listen to while you process herbs or blend teas or make medicine?

Here are a few of mine:
- Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy by Sequentia & Barbara Thornton and Hildegard von Bingen: The Origin of Fire by the Anonymous 4
- Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura
- Palace of Bones by
- Plantasia by Mort Garson
- 's Spotify playlists

What are some of yours?

13 offerings for the day:

1. one-of-kind altar by local ceramicist, Odette Jacquet, available by cash or e-transfer
2. red roses in the rain, taken while out delivering herbs
3. regeneratively grown Saffron, perfect for making Karak Chai -> check out the recipe recently shared by .herstories
4. hand-dipped charcoal beeswax pillar from for your upcoming samhain rituals with wheel of the year calendar hanging beside it
5. farm-direct refillable Rosemary hydrosol for misting your head before bed to encourage hair growth & health (or saining by water to honour your dead if your smoke detectors are too sensitive for saining by smoke/fire)
6. by donation abortion zines from .abortioncollective
7. handmade, sustainably harvested fresh Mimosa flower glycerite from for connecting with joy in dark times
8. delicious immune helper oxymel from
9. ode to mnemosyne housemade memory tonic
10. cult fave b***r magic tincture blend from beloved
11. songbird moods elixir from for uplifting sunken spirits
12. alc-free grief easing fresh hawthorn flower glycerite from
13. farm-direct Solsticewort tea in a Viola odorata decorated teacup

happy upcoming season of grief and pleasure and death and remembrance and tea drinking 🌹🖤🍵🔥

Ceramics by local artist available for sale, cash or e-transfer only 💚

Odette has added more altars, mugs, and plant themed decorations... come take a look!

I'll be posting some close-ups in our stories, as well as a video tour too 🍵

We'll be sharing samples of some of our freshest farm-direct tea blends here, come say hi!

We are excited to announce this years Victoria Tea Festival Revival!

Join us on Saturday, October 5th between 11am and 5 pm in Nootka Court (633 Courtney st.) for a grassroots farm-to-cup experience and community learning, presented by the International Tea Appreciation Society (ITAS).

Come see our farmer's market style Tea Fair throughout the court with tea educators and speakers from Vancouver Island, Vancouver, and elsewhere such as O5 Tea, Cloudwalker Tea, JagaSilk, The Chinese Tea Shop, , Green Muse Herbs, teakan.co

Teas will be prepared by merchant educators showcasing their teas, sourced from all over the world directly from the farm of origin in Japan, China, Bhutan, India, Taiwan, Korea and more both internationally and locally!

Every year we have our Tea Symposium, this time featuring a Japanese Tea Ceremony demonstration, .sinensis Kevin Gascoyne presents on the Nilgiris Studio, a talk on backyard tea by Pedro Villalon of o5 Tea and Paul Bradley.

The World Kung Fu Tea Championship is back, and last year's hit Tea Ceramics Galler. This year we will also have a screening of Tea Documentaries to make things even that much more fascinating.

Ambient live music from the inimitable Aidan Thorne!

Tickets $15-$25 sliding scale available at www.victeafestrevival.org

New medicines from have arrived 🥰

Pocket potions such as Mimosa flower glycerite, essence of Amethyst Passionflower, fresh tinctured Elecampane root, Honeysuckle & Rose nectar, and fresh tinctured Rosehips 😋

Plus more fresh tinctured 1:2 Lemon Balm and a single bottle of To The Heart grief remedy 💜

How lucky are we to live in community with a herbalist so skillfully crafting such thoughtful poetic remedies?

There's still one last container of their handprocessed roasted Burdock root... come grab it before I do 😈

Also still available: Star of Bethlehem flower essence for shock + trauma, a couple of their garden grown tea blends, and one last pelvic steam blend 🌿

Still not over how green and fresh and sweet smelling this 2024 harvest farm-direct Oatstraw is... thank you thank you thank you 😭🥰

Results from the story poll were inconclusive! Help me name this blend?

Chamomile
Hawthorn
Linden
Rosebud
Spearmint
Strawberry leaf
Sweet Woodruff

+ Fairy Slipper flower essence

Does this sound like any of the following to you?

Sweet Dreams
Cradle Song
Breakfast at Titania's
Pillow Power
Starlight
Sleepy Bear
Kiss From A Rose

Comment your favourite below!

Also currently 3/7 ingredients are farm-direct but soon it will be 5/7 and by next year 7/7 😍🎰🥀

Today at work:
- got to use a cat's paw (pictured) and a magnesium float
- started out aiming for a 1 o'clock slump, now it's almost getting to be tea time
- learned a lot... thanks so much keith
- grateful to for organizing + for pitching in
- bike racks will be ready for you all starting next week!!

A reminder that we offer a 5% discount if you bring your own container in!

Pictured here is a regular refilling their Chamomile jar with 2024 farm-direct Chamomile flowers from 💘

So grateful to Jesse for their medicine farming... coming soon is some of their farm-grown Passionflower & Tulsi 🥲

Relax into the arms of the months & the changing moon, with these blood flow regulating and highly nutritive herbs.

Raspberry leaf, Nettle, Yarrow, Lady's Mantle, Mugwort, Vitex, Rosemary, + Peppermint 🌿

Meant to be drunk leading up to and during menstruation, with the option to add a little Willow bark or Viburnum if there's more cramping.

As always, consult a healthcare professional before taking any herbs new to you, if you are pregnant or nursing, or if you are on any prescription medications.

This blend is meant as a nourishing supplement, to be integrated into your daily life for greater ease over time.

Come chat if you have any questions!

"Where is the space for our grief? Why must we rush to recover? Grief is part of being alive, part of having relationships. It is a necessary risk of connection, for to love someone is to risk losing them. The herbs in the above section do not numb or annihilate grief but support us as we move through that necessary process, helping to ensure that we don't get stuck there."

An excerpt from the Grief & Trauma section of Ease Your Mind by (Picture 1)

A collection of remedies + resources for the grieving heart:

Pictures 2, 3, + 4: Rosemary saining wand, Ode To Mnemosyne memory tonic, & Rosemary hydrosol.

One of the things I have found to be most supportive in my own grieving process is the ritual honouring of my grief through remembrance; giving my love somewhere to go, moving it through water or smoke... what is it I would say if they were here? I let my heart say it now, surrounded by the protective embrace of Rosemary.

Pictures 5 + 6: Hawthorn glycerite & Rose elixir.

These two have been supporting us through grief for a very, very long time. They know how to grow thorns and each spring, they know too how to flower among them.

Picture 7: Star of Bethlehem flower essence.

For when you are still in shock and your heart is shaking.

Picture 8: Heart of Hearts house tisane.

Food for the heart and support for circulation of nutrients within the body. Relaxing, anti-inflammatory, nourishing.

Picture 9: Some Things To Perhaps Consider When Someone Shares Of A Death In Their Life, zine by 🖤

This is a great resource to help you stay curious & compassionate in your conversations around death.

Picture 10: Rosa Pura and Mugwort & Lavender Massage oils.

Self-massage and consensual offerings of massage to others can be a powerful way to support healing with the help of herbal medicine. Rose oil massaged into the heart is a practice I personally treasure greatly.

Let's take good care of each other 🫶

Thank you so much for your online orders! I've been really enjoying packing up your herbs & printed treasures for to mail to you 🥰

If you ever see anything on our feed or in-person that's not on the web shop, feel to DM or email me about shipping it to you 📦💚

You can also call your order in or email ahead for pick-up in case there's a line up 📞💌

We also offer curbside pick-up + delivery if you aren't feeling well ❤️‍🩹

We've got some skillfully infused whole herb oils available right now from .artemisia 💚

Book in for a sliding scale massage with Brianna and bring along some even deeper relaxation!

Mugwort & Lavender oil rub down anyone?

Would be amazing for any cramping, muscle tension, or stress being held in the body 💆

Also great for skin health in general!

Farm-grown using regenerative methods by a trained herbalist 💚

Wow wow wow the Pu-erh cola is so good!!!
drink out here making my wildest tea dreams coming true along with stunning blooms, mouthwatering miso rice crispy squares made by Christina, doing some gorgeous floral flash, .acupuncture soothing our nervous systems with NADA ear acupuncture, & .acu offering incredible therapeutic massages 🥰

The apothecary is open and full of potent medicines! 2024 farm-direct Matcha and Ara-Sencha, full spectrum spagyric tinctures, gorgeously extracted herbal massage oils, over 400 bulk herbs (lots of them farm-direct!), half a dozen exquisite herbalist-crafted glycerites, and more!

We're here until 4pm at 2612 Quadra St under the blue Bluebird Cabs awning!!

Come say hi 👋

Slow down, lean in for a green kiss, & come get some much needed care as we transition through the seasons...

Our pop-up will run tomorrow from 11am to 4pm and we've got so many good things lined up for you!

Extended apothecary hours from 11-4pm 🌿

Come peruse some of the new medicines we're carrying and top up your home medicine cabinet 🫶

Farm grown bouquets & small-batch medicines from 💐

Hot pu'erh brewed gong-fu style on the sidewalk, cold brewed pu'erh with herbal cola syrup, & botanical soda cans from .drink 😋

Brown butter, miso, & black sesame rice crispy squares made by Christina 🤤

Dreamy floral-themed flash sliding scale tattoos by 🌸

Drop-in sliding scale NADA ear acupuncture from .acupuncture

And most exciting for last! Sliding scale massage (hot stone, gua sha, fire cupping, lymphatic drainage), facial rejuvenation, & spa therapies from .acu 💆

You can find out more and book ahead for our sliding scale healthcare offerings by going to for the link in their bio or by going to www.heartandhandscommunity.ca 💚

New to the shop 🙀💚

It's a dream come true... we now carry a small number of spagyric tinctures made by way of 𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘦𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢 thanks to Maureen (Mo) Judith of 🧪✨

Mo is a herbalist & laboratory alchemist deeply devoted to her craft. The herbs in these tinctures undergo 7 stages... including distillation, fermentation, + calcination which allow for the whole herb to come through in the extraction process, with nothing wasted. This is especially important for herbs with a higher mineral content, such as Raspberry leaf which contains more iron.

Because of their potency, these tinctures also have a much narrower dosage range, with guidelines such as 1-4drops up to 4x a day.

As always, let's have a chat to see if any of these are right for you, but here are some of the simples & blends we are starting with:

Ashwagandha
Hawthorn
Lemon Balm
Reishi

+ Moon Support (Red Raspberry, Vitex, Maca, & Lemon Balm)

We only have a few of each, but if folks are interested we can bring in more... comment below if there are any specific herbs you would like to try a spagyric of... ⚗️🌿

Thank you for having me!

So many great workshops and life-giving conversations... feeling big gratitude for the + their incredible first aid set-up... stoked I got to meet Mo of and hear them wax passionate about plant alchemy... still slightly stunned we get to carry her deliciously potent spagyric tinctures in the shop here... more on those tomorrow 😻🧪✨

I'd also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Montana of for sharing their centering wisdom, intentional sourcing practices, & enchanting schisandra berry electuary with me 💚

Looking forward to applying all that I learned this past weekend in the coming months and grateful to my mother for covering the shop for me so I could go to this at all!

Check out our stories for a sneak peak of the spagyric tinctures now on offer as well as my Northwest Herbal Faire 2024 top fave bumper stickered cars 🤠

Tried to eat a whole sun? Digestion suffering?

Brew up a cup of our Green Lion house blend!

A blend of 7 certified organic and/or farm-direct gut healing herbs, including: Calendula, Ginger, Meadowsweet, Nettle, Orange peel, Spearmint, & Yarrow 🌿🌼🫚🍊✨

This alchemical mix is aromatic, antacid, anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic, anti-ulcerogenic, carminative, & wound healing, plus will protect the mucous membranes of your digestive tract.

This tisane is a great choice for sluggish digestion, gas & bloating, and acid reflux (when part of a larger protocol.)

Personally I like to brew Green Lion when I'm looking to strengthen my digestion between meals, but also when I'm stuck in a feeling or need help chewing through a big dream that's still clinging to my spirit.

Please note: one of the ingredients, Meadowsweet, contains salicylates, so this blend is not for you if you have an allergy to commercial aspirin!

It's also important to consult a healthcare professional before taking any herb for the first time, if you're pregnant and/or nursing, or if you're taking any prescription medications.

Come chat with me if you want to know more ☺️

5 out of 7 of the herbs in this blend are now sourced directly from the folks growing them! Thank you Jessye of for the beautiful Meadowsweet & Yarrow and thank you Bela for the gorgeous Calendula flowers and thank you for the healthy Nettle & Spearmint 💚

💚😷 Please help us by wearing a mask 😷💚

We offer masks free of charge because we seek to value & protect life.

Because we yearn for a community that prioritizes those more vulnerable among us.

If you haven't been masking in other spaces or were masking earlier on but then stopped- it's ok! We're just looking to do better than we did yesterday and imperfection is better than inaction.

Let's take these little steps together today to protect, support, and show much we care about our immunocompromised kin.

Rosemary hand sanitizer is also provided 🌿✨

There are so many layers as to why we low-key beg for your support with this... despite knowing it has thus far been followed with a drop in sales for us... despite so many other small biz & healthcare settings that have returned to "business as usual" and deemed the pandemic as "over". We are a very very tiny biz, run by one tired herbalist with no one to cover if I am sick for more than a day (though my mom does help out and I'm eternally grateful) but if I got long Covid- that's it folks!!

We are also now sharing space with and every week they are seeing cancellations due to Covid or are treating folks debilitated by long Covid. Please reject the myth that this is not our reality... and know that many of the other staff in our shared space are also immunocompromised 🫶

If you feel called to support us further, please consider leaving us some kind words in the googlery or coming in to stock up on some fine farm-grown leaves... there is so much good medicine here and we do all this to be of loving service to you 🤲🍃

If there are more ways we can support you (other than access to hundreds of more sustainably sourced plants & their finest extracts) please comment with any herbal medicines you are seeking at this time ✍️⬇️

Let's take such gooooood care of each other 💞

Can you feel the next season leaning in? It's almost back-to-school time and we're bringing in more books to help you lean into learning...

Inspired by 's reading lists as well as my own yearning for learning, we've got some new extra special titles in!

We've got the go-to texts such as Medical Herbalism and Healing With Whole Foods. Personally I'm looking forward to diving into Chanchal Cabrera's Holistic Cancer Care which I've heard some very good things about! Then there's the classic Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide from Rosemary Gladstar. Because I know you just want a place to start...

We've got 's juicy Who Is Wellness For? and 's No Right Way To Meditate and 's Falling Back In Love With Being Human, all of which were, along with Layla Feghali's The Land In Our Bones and Shō Yamagushiku's Shima, some of the best medicine I took in this past year. (Along with that community acu & the plants themselves of course 🥰)

I think I'm most looking forward to reading Leah Pennimen's Black Earth Wisdom though. I wanted to get in Farming While Black, but apparently I need a different distributor for that! Either way I've long been inspired by all that's been growing at and encourage you to check out/follow/support their healing work. Recently they've been experiencing some hate too, and will likely have to relocate, so please redistribute what you can $. We all want to live in a soul fire world ❤️‍🔥

Anyway, lots to say about all of these titles, but for now- come take a look! Pick out a new book! Our windows are getting repaired as I write this and the light is already spilling in...

We'll be transitioning to carrying less hydrosols / floral waters, so if there's any you've been eyein come get 'em before they're gone!

We're making this change as we'll be focusing on those we can source directly from farms and medicine makers, and so as to continue to move toward a boycott of the larger distributors. If you'd like to know more about this boycott, feel free to come chat with me in person:)

So far we have access to Rosemary and Sage farm-direct which is why these two are now available refillable 😍

Currently available until supplies last:
Calendula (clean wounds with me!)
Chamomile (mist me on the pillows of your babies!)
Clary Sage (move those big feelings!)
Douglas Fir (breathe in the forest air!)
Lavender (mist me on your sheets before bed!)
Lemon Balm (brings sweet relief to cold sores!)
Lemon Verbena (we're in a higher garden now!)
Orange Blossom / Neroli (are there words...?)
Peppermint (keep me in the fridge + cool down quick!)
Damask Rose (there are a lot of words...)
Rosemary (grow your hair out long + healthy!)
Sage (there is stillness hidden in the inner gardens)

Mention this post and get $5 off 💸

Volunteers needed for tomorrow 🤲🌸🌿

Gorgeous farm-direct Oatstraw now available from 😍😍😍

Also from Jessye:
Meadowsweet leaf & flower
Yarrow leaf & flower