I’ve been busy putting together a new project…
Aa botánica – which is typically a Latin American folk medicine and magic shop. These shops are wonderful places full of witchcraft supplies and implements for genuine practitioners. So I’ve decided to open a little online botánica botanica of my own for the Pacific Northwest and sell some of my items through local metaphysical stores as well. I’ve named my new business “Forest Grove Botanica” after the area I live in and love – it really is grove after grove of forest. The shop will be a combination of folk medicine remedies (handmade balms, salves, oils, cough syrups, and teas) and folk magic items (amulets, charms, prayer beads, clay statuary, altar candles, seven day candles, magical oils, and incenses). Something for everyone, whether you’re of a magical persuasion or not.
I’ve been buried up to my elbows in books for the last couple weeks creating recipes for folk remedies and searching for ideas. I’m trying to use as many local medicinal plants as I can in my recipes and charms as well as organic ingredients of course! I have some guinea pig volunteers already. I just made a batch of balm for sore muscles, like a homemade tiger balm. It’s football season again for hubby so he comes home very sore and achey. I also whipped up a yummy smelling incense blend last night which I’ve named “West Coast Smudge”. It’s a combination of local plants and some resins. It smells of the evergreen forests of the West coast. Just sniffing it makes me want to go for a walk in the woods.
