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Champagne Hill Botanicals

Wildcrafted herbal remedies, botanical body care, herbal teas & edibles & more. Open by appointment

My name is Jain Alcock-White and I am the founder and owner of Champagne Hill Botanicals, my plant passion project. I live on Vancouver Island where I have been fortunate to live and ramble through the forests near my home. Everything I do is instilled with a deep love and respect for nature. I harvest only what is abundant and in season, and I employ ethical harvesting practices. My two children

are an integral part of my practice; we seek to nurture our relationship with nature and to bring that same relationship to you. Here at Champagne Hill Botanicals, I offer nature-based education, herbal remedies and skin care products for optimal health and a grounded spirit. What you might see in the shop depends on the season but the shelves will always be stocked with products directly inspired by and crafted from nature. I offer seasonal foraging and feasting events and workshops; these range from plant walks to foraging and preparation workshops where you can learn how to make your own herbal pestos, herbal oxymels, or wild teas. The list is always changing and the workshop topics are fairly diverse – again, it depends on the season as I craft my offerings around the plants that are growing around me. My background and trainings are as diverse as my offerings; I have considerable education and experience in botany, ecology, holistic nutrition, and herbalism. I have a Diploma in Recreation, Fish and Wildlife Technologies, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Management, I am a Certified Holistic Nutrition Practitioner (CHNP), and I am a student of Kami McBride (Handmade Healing Herbal Oils at Living Awareness) and Sajah Popham (Vitalist Herbalism at the School of Evolutionary Herbalism). While my trainings in herbal medicine are on-going, I wish to bring the joy that plants have brought into my life, into yours. I offer 1:1 consultations which you can find on the services tab or go to https://www.champagnehillbotanicals.ca/work-with-me

1:1 clients will work with me over the course of twelve weeks, during which time we will customize a holistic nutrition plan for whole health. Reconnecting with nature is the cornerstone of my practice; you can expect to receive nutritional recommendations with a focus on eating foods that are in season in your bio-region, as well as guidance on how to achieve mental, emotional, and spiritual peace through connecting with nature. You have tried diets and exercise programs as an attempt to achieve "health" but you have either not reached your goals or you have felt unsatisfied at any point along the journey.

- You have come to realize that health is more than just food and you want to learn how to eat in accordance with the seasons, integrating a nature-based flow into your life.

- You are interested in discovering how cultivating a relationship with nature can help you achieve a healthier outlook beyond traditional diets.

- You are interested in attaining a sense of health that is holistic and that brings health to all parts of your self - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual.

- You want to feel healthy, vibrant and grounded.

12 Week Package Includes:
* 15 minute initial call to set up calendar
* 5 - 30-60 minute zoom sessions
* Protocols outlining nutritional and lifestyle
recommendations
* 2 - 60 ml personalized tincture formulas
* Unlimited DM support throughout 12 weeks
* 30% off your next formula refill

HINT HINT: there will be another larger service-based offering coming soon! Learn more and become part of the exclusive private community here https://www.facebook.com/groups/2806295486138453, where we focus everything on Nurturing our Natures, Holistically. Please make sure you answer the two group questions and click the "agree" to the group rules button so that I can add you!

04/09/2026

My birthday is less than a month away.

I’m usually the kind of person who lets it pass quietly - turning a page without much mention. But this year feels different. I keep reflecting on this upcoming date.

I am, realistically, somewhere around halfway through this life.

It may sound a bit morbid, but it’s also true, and it feels worth sitting with.

There’s sadness in that. So many things I wish I had done differently. So many moments I’d go back and reshape if I could. Regret has a way of surfacing when you start to feel time like this.

And yet, alongside that, there is so much gratitude.

I get to be here. On this Earth. In this life that is messy and hard and also breathtakingly beautiful. There is still so much joy, so much to experience, and I feel like I’ve barely even begun.

The wind moving across my skin, stirring the leaves and spring blossoms - such a quiet, simple delight.
The pull of the mountains, asking more of me, pushing my body higher, exhilarating - something I crave.

Being alive isn’t meant to be easy.

And maybe that’s why I keep returning to the land - to the soil, the plants, the water, the sky. The more-than-human world that steadies me, teaches me, calls me deeper.

I wish I could share what it truly feels like -
to hug a tree when you really know it,
to touch a boulder and feel it speak back through your skin,
to keep climbing when your body is tired and fear is present,
to make medicine from plants that feel like family.

There’s a kind of knowing there. A connection that keeps pulling me forward.

It’s a beautiful thing.

And if you’re here, walking your own path through all of this
through the beauty and the ache, the effort and the wonder
I hope you keep going.

There is still so much to feel.
So much to become.

I’m here for it. I hope you are too.

03/17/2026

These videos aren’t new, but they caught my attention and my memory. They feel poignant somehow, and sad.

Memory lives inside us, but also in places. In moments that have come and gone.

The medicine of a place may be lost, but the memory remains.

Do memories become specks in the universe when they are released from our bodies?

How do they transform and transcend the myth of time?

02/24/2026

It still feels like winter.

And yet….the light has changed.

You can see it in the way it filters through the forest, in the subtle softening of the air, in the quiet stirring beneath the soil. Most of the plants pictured here aren’t in bloom yet but I know they are waking. Their emergence will feel sudden, almost miraculous, as it always does.

If you know where to look, there are already pockets of wildflowers opening - small, brave blossoms reminding us that hope is never absent. It is simply waiting for the right conditions.

Spring is not only about what bursts forth.
It is about tending.

Tending to the earth.
Tending to the slow greening.
Tending to our own bodies as we re-emerge alongside the plants rooted in this land - plants that carry real nourishment for our living cells, and beauty for the spirit.

I hope to see you at the spring markets just around the corner. The first two are this weekend - one at Holden Lake Farm, and one at Nanaimo Seedy Sunday (at NDSS). Details are in my previous post.

Let’s welcome the light together.

02/20/2026

✨ Spring is stirring…and I’m stepping back out into the world. ✨

I’ll be vending at two beautiful local gatherings to welcome the growing season and I would love to see you there.

🌿 February 28 | 10–2
Join me at the grand reopening of Holden Lake Farm & Garden

https://facebook.com/events/s/locals-in-bloom-market-at-hold/861626336846684/

One of 13 local vendors celebrating this beloved greenhouse, produce farm, and garden centre - dedicated to locally grown plants suited to Vancouver Island gardens, spray-free produce you can feel good about, and a warm, welcoming space to browse, learn, and connect.

It’s the perfect place to begin dreaming your garden awake.

🌱 March 1 | 10–3
Find me at Nanaimo Seedy Sunday at NDSS

https://facebook.com/events/s/nanaimo-seedy-sunday-2026/1213660123942954/

A vibrant community event where you can purchase locally produced seeds, participate in a seed exchange, and gather the knowledge and inspiration to grow a thriving garden of your own.

I’ll be bringing botanical remedies, skin care, and seasonal plant magic crafted on Snuneymuxw territory with deep reverence for the land and the turning season.

Come say hello, stock up for spring, and reconnect with the medicine of growing things. 🌸🌿

02/13/2026

The quiet resilience, softness, and persistence of moss growing through seasons, holding moisture and memory, and binding the forest and the medicines it offers together.

02/12/2026

You may have noticed that my presence here has been a little scattered - divided between nature immersion and adventure, plant medicine, and the thoughts and offerings woven between them. I’ve often wondered if I should separate these into two accounts, but that wouldn’t be an honest reflection of where Champagne Hill Botanicals draws its inspiration.

Champagne Hill is a real place, but I find pieces of it everywhere - in mosses growing in distant forests, in breathtaking alpine views, and in the flowers blooming in my own garden. So this space continues to reflect all of my passions, because they are deeply intertwined.

As my kids get older and life grows more complex, I’ve realized how necessary it is for me to step away and spend time in the mountains. Doing physically demanding things that push my mental and physical limits feels deeply rewarding. Being afraid of something real - like climbing a steep snow slope - feels more grounding than being stuck in traffic, helpless and stressed. One kind of cortisol can be worked with. The other just floods the body while we sit still.

The plants and the land remain my anchor. Their medicine is abundant - from place-based connection, to remedies in bottles, to full body immersion. I am deeply grateful for all of it.

Lately, I’ve also been experimenting with supporting the performance of my aging body as I continue to demand a lot from it - while navigating parenting and working in these intense times. I’ve been consistently incorporating certain herbs, while also exploring newer supports rooted in nutrition and exercise science, like creatine and bio-active peptides. A little bio-hacky, maybe - but I’m also a registered holistic nutritionist with a science degree, so I genuinely enjoy nerding out on optimizing my biology.

Maybe I should share my starting point and journey of bio-optimization - alongside the plants, the land, and the mountains that continue to call me and expand this space.

01/31/2026

I don’t show my face here very often.

These are some remedies I’ve been leaning on lately, alongside the plants and places that continue to teach me about this land.

This work has always been less about promotion and more about relationship - with the landscape, the medicine, and the lives we’re living right now.

If you’re curious, these remedies do live on my website too - quietly, like everything else.

01/28/2026

We saw this sun dog the other day (1st pic), and it got us talking about the second (brocken) spectre (2nd pic) we witnessed last June. That conversation led us deeper, into shadows, rainbows, earth magic, mystery, and the profound way these moments can shape the psyche.

When I was a child, I saw a ghost girl, and a part of me has felt entangled with her ever since. I think of her often and wonder what mists she’s wandering through - the mists of this world, another one, or maybe just the mists of my own mind.

There is so much hope in not having answers for everything, in being able to look out and simply wonder.

Life has been difficult for me for a while now, and it’s these spectral moments that keep me going. They remind me that magic still exists, and that something beautiful might be waiting just around the corner.

01/24/2026

🌀 Existence is an experience.
We are bombarded with information from vast networks of technology, all held at our fingertips, tapped into constantly through the devices we carry. Endless streams of knowledge make our world wider and more expansive, and yet, with all of this access, we become susceptible to overwhelm. Existence itself can feel overwhelming.

It is hard to hold space within ourselves for so much input. Our senses become heightened, overloaded, saturated. This is why grounding is important - learning how to open ourselves to information, to experience, and then to let go of what is not needed. To touch the Earth and allow the weight of wide-open awareness to drain out through our fingertips as they brush against soft moss. To step outside and let sunlight wash over our eyes after they have absorbed far too much online.

🌿 Simplicity.
We all need to find a way of being that is less complicated. Simplicity does not have to be easy; it only needs to be practiced - a way of allowing the body to move, to be, to engage in something deeply human. Something rooted in the land.

Whether that is touching a moss-covered rock, listening to wind and water as they blow and flow, climbing mountains and sitting on their summits, staring out across the sky. Lately it has been cold and crisp, and I’ve been savouring the night air, breathing it in while looking up at the sparkling stars.

Remember: you are of this Earth. You carry the stars within you. The universe is complex and vast, yet it moves with a quiet, organic simplicity.

I’m not sure what I’m trying to say. This post itself feels complicated, but I just feel deeply that we all need to reconnect with our wild nature.

01/12/2026

I’ve been thinking about rocks lately. The problem is I don’t know how, or what, it is that I feel I need to say. It’s nothing new, it has been said before, but people forget, or don’t notice (the rocks/stones/mountains).

The world, or at least the humans upon it, are well within a state of upheaval. If there ever was a time to walk away and remember what it is to be a part of nature, it would be now. The plants have wisdom to convey to us, as do the waters of the Earth, but the rocks, the stones, the mountains, they really hold the wisdom of time.

I was always fascinated with rocks (it could just be a kid thing, but maybe the kids actually “know”), searching for the most glittery stone, the smoothest round pebble on a beach - they hold so much potency.

I’ve had a few numinous experiences, the first one that made me really aware that rocks were not just rocks was when I was in Australia (in Australia, they are an ancient beyond ancient).

This summer, I was climbing down the backside of Mt Argus. My climbing partners were scrambling down a gully ahead of me, and I was waiting my turn. I had my hand on the mountain (last photo). The mountain spoke to me in vibrations, deep and resonant. My hair stood on end and I cried. It wasn’t sadness, it was gratitude and awe, and a vast glimpse of perspective.

It’s like seeing the scale of time, feeling all of the things the mountain has seen in a matter of seconds, having a flood of emotions that conveys at all.

I read a book recently, after I explained this experience to a friend. He said the only other time he had ever heard someone talk about what I was talking about (the mountain) was in a book he had read called Sand Talk, by Australian Aboriginal author, Tyson Yunkaporta. In that book he described putting his hand on the ancient stones and hearing/feeling them say “DOUM”. (that’s not quite the right way to spell what he said - what you want to hear is the sound of a drum, booming and echoing). The rocks were speaking to him in their ancient language. A language we have much forgotten and need to learn again, before everything goes to hell in a handbasket.

12/11/2025

Here’s another selection of treasures available in the Champagne Hill Botanical shop.

It’s hard to capture the intricacy and whimsical quality of the woodworking and earrings. You have to see them and touch them to appreciate it.

There are so many herbal offerings - what you see in the cabinet is just the selection of formulas alone, 28 to choose from! There are also a wide range of salves and balms for skin care and lip care and everything in between. Flower essences for your subtle body. Hand made soaps, essential oil, free, infused only with whole plant material. *I should note that a frequently asked question by people who come into the shop is do I sell diffusers - I think many people just assume that everything in a dropper bottle is any essential oil but I don’t use any essential oils, I just do whole plant infusions and and extractions.*

There are bushels of dried flower bouquets, and the pomanders, they are adorable, and we can’t understand why they aren’t more popular! They are all filled with freshly dried, rose petals, and are the cutest thing. The one I’ve shown here with Lily of the Valley is my favourite. And so much more!

The shop will be open from 10 to 5 this Saturday and Sunday, Dec 13 & 14, for the last two days of the . Once the tour is over, the shop will be open by appointment and I will also be vending at the Island Roots Christmas market at Beban Park on Dec 21 from 10 to 2:30.

12/08/2025

A beautiful day out rambling yesterday with the . Moody skies, the greenest of mosses, enchanting lichens, a rainbow, and exotic but native cactus (brittle pricklypear). Plus so many Arbutus trees and ferns and waterfalls - such a beautiful place to live and explore! A well-deserved break in between Christmas markets.

Address

2083 Furn Road
Nanaimo, BC
V9X1J4

Telephone

+12507144246

Website

http://www.champagnehillbotanicals.ca/

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