Furze Botanicals

It's been a while ✨️

I've been navigating these past few years in a slower motion, tending to the heart and breathing in so much life, inspiration and wisdom from forming a deeper relationship with the herbs and the land and trying to attempt to live more seasonal.

One of the things that I've been sitting with alot is how much I personally need to work, create and share with other people. I thought self employment was going to be banging but it turned out that for me it lacked so many core values and after a while the lonely feeling, pressure, focus around livehood and making money killed my love of herbs and honestly I lost the passion and creativity that felt so vital for the work and expression i wanted to put into the world.

That came back the moment a good friend came to stay for a while and expressed an interest in learning more about herbs. Over a few weeks, our herbal chats became longer and more in-depth as we discussed all the amazing and beautiful avenues that plant medicine involves. Herbs came swiftly back into daily life again at the Follye, and just like that, we found ourselves donning baskets and boots, hedge riding and kitchen witchin ✨️

We realised we both wanted to share our findings and foragings with others and with the support of C + J have encouraged me to be brave to put some herbal magic back into the world again even in these very stange times. Now more than ever, I strongly feel that this isn't 'my' medicine, It's our medicine. It's our knowledge and our right to be able to access it. I'm still working in the background, dancing around what feels right and playing with ideas and new ways to share herbal offerings. Got any ideas or requests - we're all ears.

We're hoping the hedge medicine resonates deeply and tends to your hearts also ❤️

https://follyeandfurze.square.site/

So stoked to share my first collaboration ✨️

Sending kindness as always

Emily + J (and Chris!)

It was time for a change ✨️

Hand harvested botanicals and hedge herbal medicines crafted by J+E.

Seasonal herbal parcel offerings coming soon 🍒

Hedgeriding with my favourite allies (including the plants). Fully loaded with the heart-opening supplies ♥️ 🍒

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Decompressing after the last festival of 2023 with the wonderful festival medical herbalists and feeling a renewed love and reverence for the herbs and the people that work with them. Just wow.

I have a few wild crafted handmade small batch botanicals that I'd like to offer up for donation to the wider community. I'm asking for a donation for the botanical items plus £3.50 (or £4.20 2+ botanicals) postage per item to cover postage and packaging. I have limited availability of each, so do get in touch if you'd like me to put one aside.

1st image - Persephone herbal tea. Made in honour of my first beloved rescue hen after her passing earlier this year when I needed some herbal love. A nourishing daily tonic to support the nervous system and support the immune system gently.

2nd image - wildcrafted Hawthorne Flower essence. Harvested from our beautiful hawthorne tree at beltane. Vibrational essence - AS ABOVE/SO BELOW.

**Also available but not pictured is Furze and Wild Rose flower essences.

3rd image - wildcrafted Elderflower ACV. Harvested at beltane from our elder tree infused in organic apple cider Vinegar with the mother).

4th image - wildcrafted Hawthorne Flowers ACV. Harvested at beltane from our sacred hawthrone tree infused in organic apple cider Vinegar with the mother.

Any questions just send me a DM.

Big super picean blue moon vibes and blessings from a picean 🌞

With Kindness

Emily

Last weekend was pure magic ✨️

Some of you may know of my love for herbs infused in water and working with herbs in very simple ways. Whether that be a tea or a foot bath or how much I enjoy working with flower essences and sacred springs, water seems to be an integral part of my desire to work with the herbs.

I've been manifesting an outdoor bath in nature for years, and last weekend, it finally happened, and it was everything I imagined and more. But the best thing about the outdoor bath was sharing this and creating beautiful ritual baths for my nearest and dearest and then leaving them to enjoy the medicine of water, herbs and the magic or the natural world in their own privacy.

We worked together using simple questions to lead the questions of which colour, scent, and feeling (emotional and physical) we felt our bodies were calling for to create a bespoke ritual bath for three of us over the weekend and each one unique in its creation. I use alot of element work and intuition for my own baths, but I LOVE creating baths for others.

Working with natural items and not wanting to put any toxic chemicals into the ground, we used spirulina, charcoal, foraged flowers, and herbs and fruit (organic 🍊) and even included some essential oils for an added aromatherapy boost. B even felt called to use some wood from the fire to work some smoke medicine into his bath and was amazing at tapping into his needs (for example, one red petal and one white petal) and for me bathing with swallows dancing above me, watching the sunset and with Jinn by the side of the bath sleeping was for me the ultimate feeling of love freedom and bliss. I felt alive.

I've been wanting to create a space like this for a while now. I feel called to work with people and herbs again, but I do struggle with this online. In person and surrounded by herbs feels completely different to the ridgid and cold vibe of online appointments and emails. I'm not sure when but one thing I do know is that an outdoor bath under the apple tree will happen and when it does I hope to share this magic with others and work with herbs in a way that feels more aligned so if thats your vibe - watch this space ✨️

It's Elderflower season!

This wonderful herb has so many medicinal usages, and its floral flavour has made it very popular in many food and drink recepies. Im planning to make some Elderflower water soon as a facial toner as there looks like there was quite a lot of historical usages for it's benefit to the skin and even its leaves as a fly repellant.

Elderflower water (Aqua Sambuci) is an official preparation of the British Pharmacopoeia and is mostly used for eye and skin lotions but was used to ward off headaches (when applied to the temples). Also known as the Eau de Sureau, with Sureau being French for the Elder tree.

This is one of the herbs I always put in my cold and flu tea blends alongside other key herbs Great for children and safe in breastfeeding and widly abundant for the next few weeks! I also use it in my hay-fever blends!

I'm curious do you have this growing near you? What will you be making with your harvest for those planning on working work Elderflower this year?

Don't forget to leave a few blooms for the berries later in the fall and, of course, for the bees and insects and be sure to correctly ID this heaviky scented floral queen✨️

One of my fave medicinal mushrooms!

Little except from the wonderful Seed SistAs -Cultivating Change article post below;

"Pieces of its fruiting body were carried by Ötzi the Iceman. Modern research confirms the health-promoting benefits of F. betulina. Pharmacological studies have provided evidence supporting the antibacterial, anti-parasitic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, neuroprotective, and immunomodulating activities of F. betulina preparations."

Birch Polypore | Seed Sistas Seed Sista Karen waxes lyrical about her love affair with the eyes of the underworld…the mycelium medicinal wonderment autumnal wanderers, the mushrooms… It is Mushroom season, the woods are full […]

Santa and the 'Shrooms: The real story behind the "design" of Christmas A look at the probable origins of the Santa Claus myth and the colors and design elements associated with it.

Such a great exhibition if anyone is interested in local Lincolnshire folklore 🌿✨

Take a virtual look around the museum and discover the new exhibitions The New Folk and Together, Apart.
https://virtualtour.bee3d.co.uk/tour/north-lincolnshire-museum

Beautiful Furze 🌾

Gorse - A Foraging Guide to Its Food, Medicine and Other Uses You'll learn the parts of Gorse used as food and medicine, harvest time, nutrition and other ways humans use this amazing plant - Read more!

Plants Help Each Other. Are They Self-Aware? Can They Suffer? The elaborate communications systems in plants underline the fact that information is immaterial but they don’t imply individual consciousness.