Our Work with Native Plant Distillations in the Ozarks

A lady from the Bay area called me about packaging our witch hazel products. She spent a good deal of energy educating me about plastics. While I was grateful, it is heavy stuff. I promised the gal, I would blog about how making one own distillation unit from common kitchen tools. It is really pretty easy It is great for a small distillation. But, I am not the distiller. George is the distiller and a very fine one. He also works with Geodesic Design and most recently engineered and manufactured with a contractor, The American Pine Nut Sheller. He found a special medium in which shataki mycilium thrive, he designed a personal emergency shelter system for cold or damp climates, completely recyclable, and affordable for six to ten years. Also, designed his personal, sizable P.D.U. He is indeed, a most talented and wonderful man. I asked George to post,as he is the MAN...... Please , subscribe to our feed, or check back again soon. "George's Distillation in a Hot Pot - Essential Oils and Floral Water made on your kitchen stove."

A Wild Crops Farm is pleased to announce that we will be hosting workshop for home distillers during the summer of 2010 on our farm. We will cover the theory and mechanics of distillation, everyone will make their own distillation units as well as explore other simple tools for in home distillation. We will harvest native plants from either A Wild Crops Farm, or at one of the farms in our network, distilling whatever herb is in season. This is a tenative schedule distillations Workshops are limited to a max of 12 participants. May 22 and May 23 (5 partcipants) June 5-6 Yarrow (5 partcipants) June 5-6 - Mondarda Braderianna, (5 partcipants) June 26 - 27 July Elderflowers, July 10 - 11 Mondarda Fistulosa fallback harvests,in case of harvest failure: native pine wild mints witch hazel We will help participants learn about distilling native plant species, together with garden herbs. Everyone will do a hands on wild harvest of medicinal herbs, which will be distilled in the distillers participants have made earlier in the session. Proper handling of herbal harvesting, wild crafting ethics, plant identification, native plant restoration principals will all be taught at the certified organic wild crop distillary, in addition to distillation theory and mechanics. Everyone will leave having made a distiller, harvested plant material, distill using their own device, and wash up their glass ware. Two Day Workshop Price $245.00 Material Fee $50.00 Salem Mo please email wild@wildcrops.com for the more information.

#1. Somewhere there is still a willingness in me to bake bread and celebrate life through cooking. Susan Bellsinger, Tina Marie Wilcox

Need inspiration to get you back in the herb groove???

#2. The Ozark Folk Center - is that, a center for us folks. They let us make an awful mess, spread herb from one end of the place to the next, bay leaves and rosemary everywhere, certainly anointed the spring. #3. People who love herbs, love life, they are smart, creative, passionate, engage able and eager. Good grief - the spirit lives and I sure liked some of the people I met. Of course, there was no one I did not like, but one of my favorite was an older lady, mid - 60's who gave George a good "what for" when he started to explain about his bulbous pipette - "I had organic chemistry, and I know what that is." priceless!! There was also two ladies from MISSISSIPPI who were just awesome and I could go on. A wonderful community who came together for the weekend. Yahoo!!!! #4. I don't care how passionate we are about sharing, there are limits to time. Bless George, he wanted everyone to walk out his two hour work shop and go make some essential oil - so much so, that he loaded it with two distillations, bay leaf and rosemary, a power point, and a hoped "hands on demo - make your own condenser, during the break. I truely love this man! We decided that we are going to do some two day workshops here at the wild crops farm. That is the short scoop and I have to get the orders out today from being gone. But there is more to say.

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