Decanting Calendula – liquid sunshine!

Today, Maggie is decanting oils for making luscious products like body butter, salve, and lip balm for our plant sale coming up in May. These oils have been brewing, extracting all sorts of plant goodness, for several weeks and are looking mighty potent and gorgeous:

Calendula oil, from flowers sown, grown, harvested, and dried right here at FloraVerdura in Lincoln, on soil that has been growing herbs for medicinal purposes for over 35 years… today it is our liquid sunshine:

This, sunny lovely oil is welcome amid the snow. What it looks like outside today:

(photo: David Elmes)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *