Sweet Birch Herbals

10/24/2025

Autumn Apothecary CSA Boxes are shipping next week, learn more about how to sign up in the bio. This season we’re highlighting Sweet Annie, artemisia. Each box is packed with our products grown and made on the farm. We ship and offer pick up.

10/21/2025

Offering workshops and apprenticeships in 2026. Stay in the loop by signing up for my newsletter. Learn outside, in the gardens, with your hands. Classes are in person, real time. We dive deep into herbalism, foraging, ethical practices, sustainable harvesting, plant spirit journeys, science, wisdom and formulations.

Comment STUDY and I will send you a link to learn more. Reach out with any questions!

We have a few spots available for next year and they’re filling quickly so sign up soon if you want to immerse yourself in the plant world.

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10/21/2025

Embrace Autumn: Ayurvedic Tips and Herbal Remedies to bring Balance during Vata Season: https://www.sweetbirchherbals.com/post/embrace-autumn-ayurvedic-tips-and-herbal-remedies-to-bring-balance-during-vata-season
New blog post today!

As the leaves turn vibrant shades of orange and gold, we feel the coolness of autumn in the air. This transition brings not just beauty, but also specific challenges for our health. In Ayurveda, autumn is linked to the Vata dosha, which is marked by qualities such as dryness and irregularity. Unders...

10/19/2025

Before and After. The annual garden beds have been put to rest. Thanks to the UMass NRCS volunteers for all your help today. Many hands make light work. 🪏🧑‍🌾💐🌸🍂🌾

10/14/2025

Wild Edibles & Medicinal Herbs Apprenticeship has a few spots left so sign up soon if you’re feeling called to learn the basics of medicine making, ethical foraging, gardening, and building a home apothecary. Link in bio to learn more. Applications close in December.

Spread the word if you know someone who may enjoy wandering the forests and fields with other plant lovers.

10/13/2025

Ashfield Fall Festival on the town common was the best one yet! Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the autumn season. I saw so many old and new friends, familiar faces and neighbors. This is such a special place to live. I left Sunday night feeling grateful for our community. We’re lucky. Ashfield and the surrounding hilltowns are filled with wonderful people and beautiful spaces. 🥰🍂🥰🍂🥰🍂🥰

10/07/2025

Newsletter Drop Today: https://sweetbirchherbals.com/so/78Pc_uq09?languageTag=en
- Last Day for us at the Tuesday Market 1-6pm
- Ashfield Fall Festival this Weekend
- Castor Oil Pack Benefits for Digestion & Womb
- Apprenticeship Applications Open
- Sleepy Bees in the Flowers
- Farm Store Open Every Day

10/07/2025

Sleepy bees and autumn gleans before the frosts tomorrow. From 75 to 35 degrees, the weather shifts so fast. Cherishing all the herbs and flowers in this golden light. We hung up lemon verbena and vana tulsi in the tunnel until we have room to put it in the herb dryers. So much abundance! 6 years on this generous land in Ashfield and the plants have never looked so lush. The hum of bees in the gardens calms my spirit despite so much to tend before tomorrow’s cold temps.

The farm store is glowing and stocked with herbal wellness.

Find me at lots of events this fall/winter:

🍂Tuesday Market TODAY! 1-6pm downtown Northampton

🍂Ashfield Fall Festival Oct 11-12 (this weekend)!

🍂FESTIVE At Greylock Works- North Adam’s, Ma Nov 22nd

🍂Northampton Winter Market (before the new year)

🍂 Wintergreen Herbstalk, Somerville Ma November 29

Always an honor and privilege to grow and make herbal remedies for our community 🍂✨🥰🌿🍄‍🟫🌞🌼

10/03/2025

Peach Tulsi Oxymel Recipe:
Fill a jar half way with ripe peaches
Add chopped tulsi to the top of jar
Pour raw apple cider vinegar 2/3 of the way up the jar
Stir and mash together to get juices going
Add the rest of the way with raw honey
Stir well, cover and label
Let sit for 2-4 weeks out of sun
Strain and bottle!

Best to keep this Oxymel in the fridge as it’s made with juicy fresh fruit.
Add 2-3 TBL to seltzer, tea, water or mocktails.

OXY - means vinegar
MEL - means honey

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Preserve the fall harvests for the winter ahead with herbal recipes. More on my blog. Link in bio 🐝

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09/30/2025

What a great weekend with Towner, my Apothecary Assistant working the herbal booth. We put in solid 12 hour days, early mornings, and still managed to get the calendula harvest in by dark.

Here we are Sunday night all packed up and ready to head home after a fabulous

Made these garlic bundles at 4am in the dark with a headlamp outside under the stars. Watched the sunrise and prayed for peace, love, and garlic.

Thank you, Towner for your dedication to quality hand crafted herbal medicine, stellar customer service, wisdom of the plants and always being ready for a good laugh.

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09/25/2025

Free Webinar Tonight! herbal wellness through the seasons: fall. https://rivervalley.coop/event-details/herbal-wellness-fall-9-25-25 hope to see you there! Attendees get 20% off the shop.

09/25/2025

Garlic & Arts Festival in Orange this weekend! We are busy prepping to fill up our booth with herbal medicines and beauty bundles. It is one of our favorite events of the year, not to be missed if you’re in the area. Such good food, high vibes, and amazing craft vendors.


Chestnut hill road orange Ma
Sept 27-28