Spring CSH Box - 2023 Season
Restless Ravens Homestead’s Herbal CSA 2023: Spring
Time to emerge from hibernation like the bear, unfurl like a leaf and sprout like a new seed. As we move into spring we awaken to new life - new energy. Time to release the stagnant, dark energies of winter and move into the brightness of spring. This spring box will help you move into the season with ease as the plants offered to us at this time seem to be just what we need.
We are excited to offer you your first box of the season: Spring. Everything in the box has been grown and made here on our homestead. The content in these boxes is solely ruled by nature and the seasons. Majority of the items you will find inside are best harvested or only available in the spring season. Please find below more detailed descriptions of what you can find inside. Enjoy what the season has to offer!
Small Box#1
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Hand Dipped Candles
Our candles are carefully crafted with locally sourced beeswax, hand pressed flowers, homegrown herbs and wick that has been dipped repeatedly to make beautiful tapered candle sticks. Each candle takes hours to make and are done only in small batches at a time. They contain no harsh chemicals or additives that make it safe for you and your pets. Enjoy the natural scents of mother nature and please burn responsibly.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Poplar Bud Elixir
1 oz bottle of poplar bud and bark elixir. Made with fresh poplar buds and bark extracted in brandy and sweetened with local maple syrup. Poplar buds and bark are a bitter that help to aid in digestion and heal the gut. They also lessen inflammation and pain within the body especially the urinary tract. Poplar buds also help to reduce coughing, sore throat and lung infections.
Uses for Elixir:
sore throat and coughing
pain and inflammation
digestive bitter and aid
candida infections
gut healing
lung infections
urinary support
Small Box #2
Spring Cleaning Detox Tonic
This Spring Tonic is a mixture of nourishing, detoxifying, diuretic, spring herbs used to support your lymph, liver, kidneys and digestive system. The cooling, sweet yet bitter taste will help stimulate secretions from your salivary glands and digestive organs to remove waste from the body while the nutritious herbs replenish. This blend contains homegrown or foraged herbs of dandelion root and leaf, red clover, horsetail, nettle, milk thistle seed in raw apple cider vinegar and sweetened with local maple syrup. This is a great blend to use at or after times of low energy, sickness, disease or injury. Use to detox or aid and balance your body after a still winter to get ready for the busyness of spring. Keep in a cool dark place or refrigerate.
Uses:
hair, skin, nails, teeth and bones health
iron support
thyroid support
liver, gallbladder and kidney health
detox
promote lymph movement
reduce inflammation
reduce allergies
digestive support
recovery from injury or sickness
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Red clover & Parsley Lard Soap
This layered soap contains nourishing and sensitive skin loving herbs for a gentle clean with extra exfoliation from the parsley powder and matcha powder layers. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, red clover infused olive oil, sunflower oil, parsley powder, matcha green tea powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Large Box
Spring Cleaning Detox Tonic
This Spring Tonic is a mixture of nourishing, detoxifying, diuretic, spring herbs used to support your lymph, liver, kidneys and digestive system. The cooling, sweet yet bitter taste will help stimulate secretions from your salivary glands and digestive organs to remove waste from the body while the nutritious herbs replenish. This blend contains homegrown or foraged herbs of dandelion root and leaf, red clover, horsetail, nettle, milk thistle seed in raw apple cider vinegar and sweetened with local maple syrup. This is a great blend to use at or after times of low energy, sickness, disease or injury. Use to detox or aid and balance your body after a still winter to get ready for the busyness of spring. Keep in a cool dark place or refrigerate.
Uses:
hair, skin, nails, teeth and bones health
iron support
thyroid support
liver, gallbladder and kidney health
detox
promote lymph movement
reduce inflammation
reduce allergies
digestive support
recovery from injury or sickness
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Red clover & Parsley Lard Soap
This layered soap contains nourishing and sensitive skin loving herbs for a gentle clean with extra exfoliation from the parsley powder and matcha powder layers. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, red clover infused olive oil, sunflower oil, parsley powder, matcha green tea powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Garden Markers
You may notice some fancy looking spoons in your box and you are maybe wondering how you are supposed to eat with a flat spoon. Well they are actually up-cycled garden and plant markers we have made from old unused spoons. Each spoon is hammered flat then each letter is stamped into the metal one at a time. Each garden marker is unique. Place in your garden or pots for some fun flare.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Hand Dipped Candles
Our candles are carefully crafted with locally sourced beeswax, hand pressed flowers, homegrown herbs and wick that has been dipped repeatedly to make beautiful tapered candle sticks. Each candle takes hours to make and are done only in small batches at a time. They contain no harsh chemicals or additives that make it safe for you and your pets. Enjoy the natural scents of mother nature and please burn responsibly.
Poplar Bud Elixir
1 oz bottle of poplar bud and bark elixir. Made with fresh poplar buds and bark extracted in brandy and sweetened with local maple syrup. Poplar buds and bark are a bitter that help to aid in digestion and heal the gut. They also lessen inflammation and pain within the body especially the urinary tract. Poplar buds also help to reduce coughing, sore throat and lung infections.
Uses for Elixir:
sore throat and coughing
pain and inflammation
digestive bitter and aid
candida infections
gut healing
lung infections
urinary support
Restless Ravens Homestead’s Herbal CSA 2023: Spring
Time to emerge from hibernation like the bear, unfurl like a leaf and sprout like a new seed. As we move into spring we awaken to new life - new energy. Time to release the stagnant, dark energies of winter and move into the brightness of spring. This spring box will help you move into the season with ease as the plants offered to us at this time seem to be just what we need.
We are excited to offer you your first box of the season: Spring. Everything in the box has been grown and made here on our homestead. The content in these boxes is solely ruled by nature and the seasons. Majority of the items you will find inside are best harvested or only available in the spring season. Please find below more detailed descriptions of what you can find inside. Enjoy what the season has to offer!
Small Box#1
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Hand Dipped Candles
Our candles are carefully crafted with locally sourced beeswax, hand pressed flowers, homegrown herbs and wick that has been dipped repeatedly to make beautiful tapered candle sticks. Each candle takes hours to make and are done only in small batches at a time. They contain no harsh chemicals or additives that make it safe for you and your pets. Enjoy the natural scents of mother nature and please burn responsibly.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Poplar Bud Elixir
1 oz bottle of poplar bud and bark elixir. Made with fresh poplar buds and bark extracted in brandy and sweetened with local maple syrup. Poplar buds and bark are a bitter that help to aid in digestion and heal the gut. They also lessen inflammation and pain within the body especially the urinary tract. Poplar buds also help to reduce coughing, sore throat and lung infections.
Uses for Elixir:
sore throat and coughing
pain and inflammation
digestive bitter and aid
candida infections
gut healing
lung infections
urinary support
Small Box #2
Spring Cleaning Detox Tonic
This Spring Tonic is a mixture of nourishing, detoxifying, diuretic, spring herbs used to support your lymph, liver, kidneys and digestive system. The cooling, sweet yet bitter taste will help stimulate secretions from your salivary glands and digestive organs to remove waste from the body while the nutritious herbs replenish. This blend contains homegrown or foraged herbs of dandelion root and leaf, red clover, horsetail, nettle, milk thistle seed in raw apple cider vinegar and sweetened with local maple syrup. This is a great blend to use at or after times of low energy, sickness, disease or injury. Use to detox or aid and balance your body after a still winter to get ready for the busyness of spring. Keep in a cool dark place or refrigerate.
Uses:
hair, skin, nails, teeth and bones health
iron support
thyroid support
liver, gallbladder and kidney health
detox
promote lymph movement
reduce inflammation
reduce allergies
digestive support
recovery from injury or sickness
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Red clover & Parsley Lard Soap
This layered soap contains nourishing and sensitive skin loving herbs for a gentle clean with extra exfoliation from the parsley powder and matcha powder layers. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, red clover infused olive oil, sunflower oil, parsley powder, matcha green tea powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Large Box
Spring Cleaning Detox Tonic
This Spring Tonic is a mixture of nourishing, detoxifying, diuretic, spring herbs used to support your lymph, liver, kidneys and digestive system. The cooling, sweet yet bitter taste will help stimulate secretions from your salivary glands and digestive organs to remove waste from the body while the nutritious herbs replenish. This blend contains homegrown or foraged herbs of dandelion root and leaf, red clover, horsetail, nettle, milk thistle seed in raw apple cider vinegar and sweetened with local maple syrup. This is a great blend to use at or after times of low energy, sickness, disease or injury. Use to detox or aid and balance your body after a still winter to get ready for the busyness of spring. Keep in a cool dark place or refrigerate.
Uses:
hair, skin, nails, teeth and bones health
iron support
thyroid support
liver, gallbladder and kidney health
detox
promote lymph movement
reduce inflammation
reduce allergies
digestive support
recovery from injury or sickness
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Red clover & Parsley Lard Soap
This layered soap contains nourishing and sensitive skin loving herbs for a gentle clean with extra exfoliation from the parsley powder and matcha powder layers. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, red clover infused olive oil, sunflower oil, parsley powder, matcha green tea powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Garden Markers
You may notice some fancy looking spoons in your box and you are maybe wondering how you are supposed to eat with a flat spoon. Well they are actually up-cycled garden and plant markers we have made from old unused spoons. Each spoon is hammered flat then each letter is stamped into the metal one at a time. Each garden marker is unique. Place in your garden or pots for some fun flare.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Hand Dipped Candles
Our candles are carefully crafted with locally sourced beeswax, hand pressed flowers, homegrown herbs and wick that has been dipped repeatedly to make beautiful tapered candle sticks. Each candle takes hours to make and are done only in small batches at a time. They contain no harsh chemicals or additives that make it safe for you and your pets. Enjoy the natural scents of mother nature and please burn responsibly.
Poplar Bud Elixir
1 oz bottle of poplar bud and bark elixir. Made with fresh poplar buds and bark extracted in brandy and sweetened with local maple syrup. Poplar buds and bark are a bitter that help to aid in digestion and heal the gut. They also lessen inflammation and pain within the body especially the urinary tract. Poplar buds also help to reduce coughing, sore throat and lung infections.
Uses for Elixir:
sore throat and coughing
pain and inflammation
digestive bitter and aid
candida infections
gut healing
lung infections
urinary support
Restless Ravens Homestead’s Herbal CSA 2023: Spring
Time to emerge from hibernation like the bear, unfurl like a leaf and sprout like a new seed. As we move into spring we awaken to new life - new energy. Time to release the stagnant, dark energies of winter and move into the brightness of spring. This spring box will help you move into the season with ease as the plants offered to us at this time seem to be just what we need.
We are excited to offer you your first box of the season: Spring. Everything in the box has been grown and made here on our homestead. The content in these boxes is solely ruled by nature and the seasons. Majority of the items you will find inside are best harvested or only available in the spring season. Please find below more detailed descriptions of what you can find inside. Enjoy what the season has to offer!
Small Box#1
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Hand Dipped Candles
Our candles are carefully crafted with locally sourced beeswax, hand pressed flowers, homegrown herbs and wick that has been dipped repeatedly to make beautiful tapered candle sticks. Each candle takes hours to make and are done only in small batches at a time. They contain no harsh chemicals or additives that make it safe for you and your pets. Enjoy the natural scents of mother nature and please burn responsibly.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Poplar Bud Elixir
1 oz bottle of poplar bud and bark elixir. Made with fresh poplar buds and bark extracted in brandy and sweetened with local maple syrup. Poplar buds and bark are a bitter that help to aid in digestion and heal the gut. They also lessen inflammation and pain within the body especially the urinary tract. Poplar buds also help to reduce coughing, sore throat and lung infections.
Uses for Elixir:
sore throat and coughing
pain and inflammation
digestive bitter and aid
candida infections
gut healing
lung infections
urinary support
Small Box #2
Spring Cleaning Detox Tonic
This Spring Tonic is a mixture of nourishing, detoxifying, diuretic, spring herbs used to support your lymph, liver, kidneys and digestive system. The cooling, sweet yet bitter taste will help stimulate secretions from your salivary glands and digestive organs to remove waste from the body while the nutritious herbs replenish. This blend contains homegrown or foraged herbs of dandelion root and leaf, red clover, horsetail, nettle, milk thistle seed in raw apple cider vinegar and sweetened with local maple syrup. This is a great blend to use at or after times of low energy, sickness, disease or injury. Use to detox or aid and balance your body after a still winter to get ready for the busyness of spring. Keep in a cool dark place or refrigerate.
Uses:
hair, skin, nails, teeth and bones health
iron support
thyroid support
liver, gallbladder and kidney health
detox
promote lymph movement
reduce inflammation
reduce allergies
digestive support
recovery from injury or sickness
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Red clover & Parsley Lard Soap
This layered soap contains nourishing and sensitive skin loving herbs for a gentle clean with extra exfoliation from the parsley powder and matcha powder layers. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, red clover infused olive oil, sunflower oil, parsley powder, matcha green tea powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Large Box
Spring Cleaning Detox Tonic
This Spring Tonic is a mixture of nourishing, detoxifying, diuretic, spring herbs used to support your lymph, liver, kidneys and digestive system. The cooling, sweet yet bitter taste will help stimulate secretions from your salivary glands and digestive organs to remove waste from the body while the nutritious herbs replenish. This blend contains homegrown or foraged herbs of dandelion root and leaf, red clover, horsetail, nettle, milk thistle seed in raw apple cider vinegar and sweetened with local maple syrup. This is a great blend to use at or after times of low energy, sickness, disease or injury. Use to detox or aid and balance your body after a still winter to get ready for the busyness of spring. Keep in a cool dark place or refrigerate.
Uses:
hair, skin, nails, teeth and bones health
iron support
thyroid support
liver, gallbladder and kidney health
detox
promote lymph movement
reduce inflammation
reduce allergies
digestive support
recovery from injury or sickness
Poplar Bud Rub
A warming and moisturizing rub to help sooth sore muscle aches and pains. Crafted from foraged poplar buds infused into olive and grapeseed oil paired with cayenne and cinnamon infused oil, locally made and harvested emu oil, local beeswax, clove and vitamin E oil. Gently rub this balm onto problem areas and then massage into the skin a little goes a long way with this balm. Can be used for arthritis, sprains, muscle aches, inflammation, cuts and joint pains.
Cautions: and avoid while using aspirin or other salicylate containing substances, barbitutates/sedatives, NSAIDs, anticoagulants, methotrexate, spironolactone, phenytoin, valproate medications.
Digestive Tonic - Spring Tea Blend
Loose leaf tea blend of homegrown and foraged dandelion root, angelica seed, catnip, wild mint and ginger. This warming , aromatic, bitter blend helps to maintain good gut health, liver, kidney, gallbladder health, aids the digestion process & provides relief for digestive issues like upset stomach, gas bloating and cramping. This blend can be brewed as tea or even as an additive to homemade soup or bone broth. Best enjoyed before a meal to help with digestion. Safe and gentle enough to use daily.
Cautions: with nettle if taking medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, or any sedatives. Careful when using catnip if you're allergic or sensitive to it or members of the Lamiaceae (mint) plant family.
Lard Soap
Handmade, cold processed soap made in small batches with our homegrown mangalitsa lard and herbal infused oils. Mangalitsa lard is a healthy fat with benefits not only for the inside but the outside of your body too. Your skin is your largest organ on your body so why not feed it something good for it? Our soap will leave your skin feeling silky smooth and is incomparable to modern day fat free soaps. All of our soaps are dye and essential oil free.
Yellowdock & Cleavers Lard Soap
This fun pink coloured soap is a product of the anthraquinone in yellow dock reacting with the lye and saponification process. It features sensitive skin loving herbs of yellow dock root, cleavers and charcoal powder. The charcoal in this soap will not stain your shower or sink. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, yellow dock root and cleavers infusion (water), hydrosol, cleavers infused sunflower oil an charcoal powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Red clover & Parsley Lard Soap
This layered soap contains nourishing and sensitive skin loving herbs for a gentle clean with extra exfoliation from the parsley powder and matcha powder layers. Contains: Homegrown mangalitsa lard, coconut oil, red clover infused olive oil, sunflower oil, parsley powder, matcha green tea powder. Our soap is essential oil, dye and chemical free.
Garden Markers
You may notice some fancy looking spoons in your box and you are maybe wondering how you are supposed to eat with a flat spoon. Well they are actually up-cycled garden and plant markers we have made from old unused spoons. Each spoon is hammered flat then each letter is stamped into the metal one at a time. Each garden marker is unique. Place in your garden or pots for some fun flare.
Seeds & Soil Pucks
Your box contains various types of flower, herb or vegetable seeds that we have grown and cultivated here on our homestead. Some of the plants have practical uses like medicinal or edible but some have more ornamental type uses like attracting pollinators. Just add water to the soil pucks and plant some of your seeds! We encourage you to research your seeds and learn about all the lovely benefits they carry. We also encourage you to plant, care for and harvest them all while building a relationship together. Get to know them in all their forms: seed, sprout, plant, root and decay and incorporate them into your daily lives and rituals.
Seed Packet Symbol Key
Skull & Crossbones: Poisonous
Bee: Pollinator Friendly
Medical: Medicinal Properties
Snowflake: Cold Hardy
Knife and Fork: Edible/Culinary Uses
A: Annual
P: Perennial
Hand Dipped Candles
Our candles are carefully crafted with locally sourced beeswax, hand pressed flowers, homegrown herbs and wick that has been dipped repeatedly to make beautiful tapered candle sticks. Each candle takes hours to make and are done only in small batches at a time. They contain no harsh chemicals or additives that make it safe for you and your pets. Enjoy the natural scents of mother nature and please burn responsibly.
Poplar Bud Elixir
1 oz bottle of poplar bud and bark elixir. Made with fresh poplar buds and bark extracted in brandy and sweetened with local maple syrup. Poplar buds and bark are a bitter that help to aid in digestion and heal the gut. They also lessen inflammation and pain within the body especially the urinary tract. Poplar buds also help to reduce coughing, sore throat and lung infections.
Uses for Elixir:
sore throat and coughing
pain and inflammation
digestive bitter and aid
candida infections
gut healing
lung infections
urinary support