Fifty Acre Farmacy

loaf was a success. A little denser because of the oil in the cheese, but delicious :)

More adventures.
Bread loaf was a and swirl and was done with onion and peppers. and onion loaf is proofing for later 🥰

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue..”
-proverbs 18 20

I feel it’s so important to place this reminder here. Aside from the Good Lord himself, There is nothing that can influence our course of our lives as much as the thoughts we carrying and the words we speak. Scripture tells us that the power is life and death, literally lies in the power of the tongue.

Let us remember this as we greet our days, let’s us intentionally and deliberately shift our perspective from believing we are ‘sick’ and using that kind of language, and let us remember that we are healing. Go deep into the places that need attention and intention and speak over it, pray on to it, let’s create and environment that allows for healing so the body can do what it was always meant to do.

.veitch.52 Thank you for helping me complete this space, even when it didn’t make sense to you at first.

For me, closed cabinets and drawers create spaces of chaos and limitation… much like closed doors, and I really aim to have an open and intentional home.

This allows me the space to , , run my , cook my and enjoy meals with my family… plus when we have company, others can feel at home and comfortable in accessing anything they might need, which is so important to me❤️

On top of completing this space in time for my birthday, Adam also helped me set up Van’s big boy bedroom space, all while on his Christmas holidays. I’m ever grateful for having a husband who faithfully believes in my and who is always willing tackle my wild ideas ☺️

This is love 💕

A friend graciously offered me a some of her 125 year old sourdough starter so I could get back on track with making our breads again.

I have one lucky and grateful crew that got to wake up to fresh, stone-baked sourdough bagels this morning 🥯 ❤️
And the levain is in the works for the bread next 🤗

We are listed 🙌🏼
51 acres of serenity and a new lower price.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/25876629/803-stephenson-1-road-e-bracebridge

My family and I are relocating and we are our in beautiful .

Conveniently located between Bracebridge and Huntsville, in the village of Port Sydney.

51 private acres, established trails, established vegetables, apothecary and herbal gardens throughout, maple syrup setup, dairy goats, chickens, ducks, quail etc.

Close to lakes/beaches, small public school (and large homeschool community), fibre optic internet -all privately contained on a treed , with most of the property free from even satellite views. Huge and potential, atving, xcountry skiing etc.

House has 4 bedrooms, 2 bath, fully finished basement, pantry/canning storage areas, everything updated. 40 foot quanza shop with hoist and other storage buildings on sight.

We just lowered our price as we are motivated to sell and start our new adventures. Not often that this kind of property comes up in this price range, come have a look.

Violet syrup colour variations. Our hand-prepared syrup makes the most lovely colour-changing lemonade 😍 it’s magical
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Fresh batch of comfrey+ healing and drawing salve made. $7 each, 4 available.

This salve is idea for minor wounds and cuts and particularly for insect bites, stings, sores and splinters.

Allatonin in comfrey helps promote healthy cell growth and draws out foreign pieces and infection from minor bites and wounds. Combined with plantain and other herbs that offer wound healing and inflammation-reducing benefits, this salve is a must have for any outdoors person, gardener, or homesteader.

It’s always foraging season ❤️.

Some lavender, liché, Turkeytail, usnea, rosemary, bitterdock, mullein, chilis, basil and some eggs from our faithful girls ❤️

Book club vibes 🙌🏼❤️🥰

Just a couple orders going out today, lol. This alway seems to be the busiest time. People want teas, they want the smell of herbs filling their homes and heart, they want to feel well and heal well, as we welcome more sunshine and warmer days.

Brand new line of intentional skin care products are in the works around here❤️
Using all of our foraged, grown and locally sourced herbs, I’ve carefully developed products that will work for a range of skin types and conditions.

I’m so proud of these products and can assure that love has gone into every single one.
Some items in the making include: cleansers and more 🥰 🌱

Every single item is carefully crafted with skins needs in mind, and at the root.

We are celebrating 1 whole year of this adorable little forager. What a wonderful year it’s been.
Happiest of Birthdays to our littlest little. We love you so much V! Our little winter bear 🐻

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has:

1 litre jar of Essiac Tea and 500ml jar of Elderberry Syrup available -overages from recent brews. All ingredients locally sourced, wildcrafted or grown on our own land and are brewed the correct way.

$25/1L Essiac
$15/500mL Elderberry

Customs orders are also open. Feel free to message here with questions or to inquire about other available teas, herbal mixtures, tinctures and skin care products.

We keep stock of mushrooms and mushroom mixes as well. Turkeytail, Chaga, Reishi etc (whole, ground and capsules)

will be taking a break for the holidays -we will be closed for orders from December 20th until January 9th.

Please make sure you have all required orders in by no later than Dec 15th, to ensure the orders can be filled and picked up/delivered by the 19th -I require a minimum 4 day notice for orders.🤗

We are hoping everyone has a wonderful and healthy holiday and we are excited to see you all in the new year 🎄🎉

*Please note that there will also be some changes coming to the shop, including product and price lists, and a few price changes and order requirements. We strive to be as fair as possible and as always, I operate on a sliding fee scale, so that everyone can access what they need, but I must keep up with the costs of production, time and fuel etc.

If paying for products is ever an issue, please reach out and we can make a plan, I am open to trading, goods and services etc -there’s aways options ❤️

Are you packing?… caster oil packing, that is!

Such a simple way to support your health, and can be done as much or as little as you choose.

It’s been a minute since we posted - , and late season has kept us busy… but we are always 🍁☺️

This weekend was spent re-organizing the , and making this beautiful kidney for a good friend who is having some .

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Wonderful comfrey. Got a bad rep for a while, because of its potential to cause liver issues when taken internally but it’s super power lies in its skin, tissue and bone healing abilities, as a salve, cream or compress!

An incredible healing herb, capable actually healing bones, -this is one green you don’t want to miss having in your herbal medicine cabinet. This salve is my recommendation for arthritis pain or joint pain, it works wonders, especially when combined with our ginger capsules to help combat internal inflammation.

Oh, Essiac 🤗

My first introduction to herbal and medicinal teas. This is ‘that tea’ that almost everyone has heard of. Such a cool history from my very own small town.
A nurse named Reneé Caisse, was said to have collaborated with local Ojibwa and was shown this recipe, to use in treating cancer and other ailments in her patients.
There is a very skilled and precise way of creating the decoction, and there are many retail manufacturers who have tried to develop their own version, but the ingredients are specific and are not to be added to or changed… even the utensils used, makes a difference in brewing this tea!
Make sure you check out the history of Reneé Caisse (Essiac is her last name spelled backwards) and if trying the tea, be sure that you’re getting it from someone who knows the importance of brewing it correctly.
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An ever-important reminder🌿

I haven’t posted in a couple of days, as I’ve spent some much needed time with the family. Of course, foraging is still a part of my daily life, so there’s been no shortage of wildcrafting.
These pretty piled fungi, are known as violet tooth polypores… they’re very often mistaken for Turkey tail, but are different. They do not contain the same medicinal polysaccharides, as the versicolor (Turkey tail)

The easiest way to tell them apart, is the very toothy looking purple hued underside, and the more muted top colours.

Turkey tail has very white underside that makes it quite distinctive because if it’s stark contrast to its dark deep multicolour top

🌿Herbalism is about so much more than plants as medicine. It’s realizing that the earth offers those plants to us and therefore knowing that the earth wants us to heal!

🌿It’s being grateful for the small things. It’s that indescribable feeling you get when you’re in your garden, in the forest or when seeing or smelling your very favourite flower.
It’s a soul-deep connection to the universe around us and the herbs are the lines that keep us attached to it.

🌿We are all human, we are all real, I’m far from perfect. I eat crappy food sometimes, I drink too much coffee, I often don’t get enough sleep etc… this is my real, the season of my life, but herbs, the forest, my garden, that has always been my grounding connection to my spiritual self, the part that reminds me to love and take care of me too!

🌿So even if it’s some small thing, connect today. I like to add my life mushrooms right to my morning coffee using a tea ball, maybe some day I’ll get to place of being able to ditch the caffeine, but for now, this is what brings happiness to my heart, so I’ll do that!

You can connect and be ‘real’ too! It’s all about balance. ✌🏼 ❤️ 😊

I got to spent the weekend celebrating one of my favourite people, during her bachelorette🥰

I rarely drink, especially not more than one or 2, but the odd time I do like to have a few and celebrate with friends….. I always pay for it. I get terrible headache from alcohol, headaches that can be ruthless and so persistent!

I’ve tried all the tricks, and nothing really works well, EXCEPT, this -hobblebush and lavender decoction, added to a compress, cooled and applied to my forehead!

I was so grateful for this mixture today 🥰

Rose hips 🌹
These fascinating seed pots are incredible for skin care and anti-aging. They form on rose bushes, after the roses have finished their bloom season, and are actually the seed pods of the roses.
We love they they look like little baby tomatoes 🥰
In addition to being a great skin plant, taken in tea form, rose-hips are packed with antioxidants and have shown great promise in helping to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease, thanks to its leucoanthocyanins and polyphenolic compounds.
At its sweetest after a first frost, we like to catch an early harvest and freeze them for 24 hours, before dehydrating. Some like the whole dried hips but we prefer to remove seeds.

Lady’s Thumb - (which gets its name because of the thumb print shape marking, that appears on its leaves) -the quiet ‘weed’ with the pretty pink flowers… that delivers a load of medicinal benefits!

All parts of this one, are edible/beneficial. Part of the buckwheat family, LT lends help to relive everything from stomach pain to poison ivy… it makes a wonderful bug repellant that is safe for both people and animals. Many farmers apply it to their horses to keep the flies at bay!

My favourite thing about Lady’s thumb (besides it pretty pink flowers and interesting name) is that it grows wild -just about everywhere!

We’ve always foraged with our kids, sometimes the bigger one get a bit annoyed because of frequent stops on walks and drives, but I know they’re learning as we go -and I think foraging is an extremely valuable life skill we are passing on to them.

On our last mushroom forage, my husband and I found this awesome haul… as soon as we lifted it, Our 5 year old said ‘oh mom, that’s lots of Turkey tail’!it made us so proud to hear that she’s absorbing what we’re teaching, and she was proud of herself for positively identifying this magical fungus!

Mullein collecting today. The lung herb, healing, relieving, a fantastic tea herb to help alleviate congestion. Leaves and flowers are primarily used. We keep this stocked at all times, all year, to help with pesky colds, congestion and bronchitis

🌼CALENDULA🌼
Beautiful, beneficial calendula. I call this the bath herb. Although it’s wonderful added to loose teas to aid with sore throat and cough, it’s real magic occurs in healing the skin, muscles and body inflammation -making it perfect to add to an herbal bath.
Usually, I make our herbal baths by boiling down and steeping the herbs for 20 minutes, straining and adding to the tub, but once in a while I like to soak with the herbs directly against my skin, to really extract and absorb their benefits.

If you’re someone who enjoys soaking in a bath to relive muscle aches and tension, may I suggest our epsom, rosemary and calendula soak. Made with our own grown herbs and locally sourced Epsom salts. Can be enjoyed boiled then strained, added to a mesh bag or stocking and placed in the tub, or as a loose leaf soak, added directly to bath water (strain before draining the tub)