Cedar and Moon Apothecary

Cedar and Moon Apothecary Cedar and Moon is an Indigenous ran apothecary utilizing traditional ancestral knowledge.
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I’m so excited to be back at the Gulf Coast Fungi Festival with everyone this year! This has easily became my favorite a...
08/26/2025

I’m so excited to be back at the Gulf Coast Fungi Festival with everyone this year! This has easily became my favorite annual event. This festival is centered around community, education, and family fun. There will be so many incredible speakers throughout the weekend giving lectures on a variety of topics! This is a wonderful event and opportunity for those in our region who are wanting to learn more about herbalism, fungi, foraging, seasonal living, etc.

There’s also going to be an entire ‘vendor village’ with some of the best makers and crafters in our region. You will find the most beautiful and unique offerings here! The location for this festival is the pristine Weeks Bay Plantation in Fairhope, AL. -Lightful Botanicals and I will be doing plant walks everyday. There are camping and day passes available, too.

I believe there are still opportunities to win weekend passes so make sure you’re following the Gulf Coast Fungi Festival page so you don’t miss out on any future updates.

📣🍄 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🍄📣

🌺 Melissa is an Indigenous herbalist belonging to the Mvskoke Creek Nation with a deep passion for bioregional plant medicines. As a master gardener and community educator, she shares her expertise through engaging classes on foraging, gardening, and herbalism as well as through guided community plant walks and foray's. Melissa also runs Cedar and Moon Apothecary, where she creates seasonal remedies, teas, and self-care items that celebrate the gifts and abundance of nature.

Guided by her love for wild, seasonal foods, holistic health, and a life lived in harmony with the rhythms of nature, Melissa is committed to supporting others who wish to embrace the same path. Her mission is to immerse people in the fascinating world of plants and help them form a meaningful, reciprocal connection with the land around them. Whether someone is a seasoned forager or just beginning their journey, she offers guidance every step of the way. Deeply rooted in community responsibility, Melissa treasures the opportunity to share her passion for plants, wellness, and the living world with all who seek it.

Cedar and Moon Apothecary

Whew, I love making kombucha! Have I mentioned that lately? 🥰🥰 I’ve been making a lot of simple syrups lately out of my ...
08/24/2025

Whew, I love making kombucha! Have I mentioned that lately? 🥰🥰 I’ve been making a lot of simple syrups lately out of my fav seasonal fruits and tea blends so this next round is going to be so delish—I can’t wait. This one was mountain mint, passion fruit, kiwi, and oranges. Look at all those bubblezzzzzz 🫧🥰🥹

“My freezer’s full of fish” has always meant wealth + security for coastal families like mine. 🌊🐟 But now, we have to qu...
08/23/2025

“My freezer’s full of fish” has always meant wealth + security for coastal families like mine. 🌊🐟 But now, we have to question if the fish—who’ve been here millions of years before humans even evolved—are even safe to eat.

If the waters are poisoned, what does that say about the land, the plants, the animals… and the people living here? It says everything.

Our coastal communities face some of the highest rates of disease + rare cancers, not by chance, but because one of the most biodiverse places in North America (ALABAMA) has been used as a dumping ground for industry, greed and corporations.

Some families turn to their local waterways to put supper on the table as a necessity, not as a choice or family value. Nearly 22 percent of anglers surveyed in the Coosa River basin are subsistence fishermen, and 83 percent are feeding it to their families. Many families are completely unaware of the hidden dangers lurking in their favorite fish because you cannot tell if a fish is safe to eat with a naked eye. That is why our state-issued fish consumption advisory program is essential. Families should not have to fish for answers when it comes to understanding how the fish they consume impact their long-term health.

In Alabama, our state motto is “We Dare Defend Our Rights.” Yet, you are denied the right to know where the fish are unsafe to eat, where pollution is discharged into the river, and where sewers overflow in your neck of the woods. And as my family likes to say, “That just ain’t right!”

We need more folks like you to talk about these issues with your loved ones around the dinner table or on the dock.

Read the full CURRENTS article by Justinn Overton at https://mobilebaykeeper.org/blog/when-we-pollute-our-waters-we-pollute-our-bodies/

🍇✨ Elderberry Syrup is almost here! ✨🍇We’ll have fresh batches ready by the middle of next week—so now’s the time to pla...
08/23/2025

🍇✨ Elderberry Syrup is almost here! ✨🍇
We’ll have fresh batches ready by the middle of next week—so now’s the time to place your preorder! 🌿

Elderberry syrup is a long-loved seasonal ally, rich in antioxidants + vitamin C. It helps support the immune system, eases seasonal sniffles, and is the perfect daily ritual to keep you and your family well—especially as we head into back-to-school season. 🎒🍎

💜 Limited batches always go fast, so secure yours today! We’ve been getting daily messages asking when it will be ready, so now’s your chance friends!

👉 Preorder now at:
https://www.cedarandmoonapothecary.com/product-page/fresh-elderberry-syrup-for-local-pickup-only

Good morning, friends 💛This work continues to grow, and I’m so grateful to share it with you. I’ve been tending to our w...
08/23/2025

Good morning, friends 💛
This work continues to grow, and I’m so grateful to share it with you. I’ve been tending to our website like a little garden, adding new offerings and resources to help us stay connected.

🌿 A Community Connect page is now live—a place for local folks to find resources, opportunities, and ways to get involved. I’ll be adding more resources here as time allows.

🌿 A new page for Special Offerings—private plant walks, herbal lessons, native landscaping + restoration, educational talks, and field trips. Now, Instead of sending messages here on Facebook for private inquiries, you can connect via my website.

🌿 Fresh herbal creations have also been added to the shop. Get em’ while they’re there, friends!

As a thank you for your continued support, you can use code SAVE15 at checkout for 15% off your order.

Your encouragement, presence, and love help keep this work alive—it’s more than just business, it’s community healing & connection. I’d love for you to explore what’s new and share your thoughts. 🥰🙏🏽

🌙 Visit here: www.CedarAndMoonApothecary.com

Out in the meadows or prairies and along quiet streams, you might spot a tall, graceful stalk crowned with tiny violet-b...
08/20/2025

Out in the meadows or prairies and along quiet streams, you might spot a tall, graceful stalk crowned with tiny violet-blue flowers. This is Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata), a native wildflower with a beautiful story to tell.

For generations, people have turned to Blue Vervain as a gentle healer of the spirit. Her medicine helps soften worry, calm a restless mind, and ease the weight of tension carried in the body. She’s a plant that whispers, “Let go, rest, and return to balance.” She works miracles on an overran nervous system and tired, achy body.

But Blue Vervain isn’t just medicine for us, it’s medicine for the land, too. As a native plant, she plays an important role in the ecosystem. In bloom, her delicate blossoms hum with bees, butterflies, and pollinators of every kind. Later in the season, birds gather to feast on their tiny seeds. With deep roots, she helps nourish the soil and waters, weaving herself into the health of the land. This lovely gal can tolerate our scorching summers without batting an eye, too. Definitely a must have for any pollinator gardens!

Blue Vervain reminds us that healing is never separate, when the land is cared for, the people are nourished too. A true medicine of reciprocity, beauty, and balance. 🌀

You can find blue vervain in our sleepy time elixir, our digestive bitters, and in our seasonal cold and cough remedies. This is my second big harvest of the season & I’m hopeful she’ll give us one more. 🥰

Hello lovelies! 🌿 I’m working on getting caught up on orders after all my summer travels. After this past weekend, I’m o...
08/18/2025

Hello lovelies! 🌿 I’m working on getting caught up on orders after all my summer travels. After this past weekend, I’m officially home for the rest of the season—and so thankful for it. I’ll be restocking at and Bacon’s Country Market ASAP, and I’ll be updating the website soon with upcoming events, plant walks, and classes—so be on the lookout!

I truly appreciate everyone’s patience with me this season as I’ve been on the go so much. I love running my very small business, but I have to remind myself that it’s okay to go at my own pace and that this isn’t a race. As a full-time mama to three kiddos, there never seems to be enough hours in the day. Add in everything it takes to keep it all afloat & you’ve got a recipe for a never ending to-do list. Thanks for understanding I’ve only got one set of hands, friends. The good news is, I’ll be bringing in some help soon, and that’s really exciting! 🥰

Love y’all!

PS. I’m working on updating the inventory on the website too friends. Shampoo and conditioner are on their way! Also just restocked the Allergy Tincture and the Moon Time Support Tincture 🥳

Calling all tree sitters, Alabamians, and defenders of the wild: It’s time to speak out against oil and gas leasing on o...
08/11/2025

Calling all tree sitters, Alabamians, and defenders of the wild: It’s time to speak out against oil and gas leasing on our public lands and national forests. Say NO to new wells in the Conecuh and let’s tell them to get out of our forests all together.

This forest holds over 85,000 acres of rich, delicate biodiversity. It’s home to endangered animal relatives like the Eastern indigo snake, the gopher tortoise, and the red-cockaded woodpecker. Here grow rare, endangered plants found nowhere else on Earth. The Conecuh River Basin spans 3,848 square miles in Alabama, and already 1,000 acres are under active oil and gas leases — with one well already pumping in the forest.

The long-term damage from more drilling will put these wild, sacred spaces in grave danger. What happens to the land, the water, the animal and plant nations, happens to all of us. Whether you’ve hiked these trails or never stepped foot in a forest. This fight is about clean drinking water across state lines. It’s about the fish that fill our rivers and bellies, the deer and rabbits that fill our freezers, the trees that give us shelter, food, and clean air. This is about our grandchildren and their children.

Today is the last day to leave a comment. It might feel like a small action, but every voice adds weight. This is our first step in telling politicians, oil and gas companies, and their bureaucratic backers: we will not surrender our forests or wild spaces without a fight. And they’d better be ready for it.

Below, you’ll find my favorite quotes that keep me fighting, links to learn more about the project, the comment submission link, and information about this precious, endangered ecosystem.

Thanks for standing up, friends.

PS. please follow Rewild Alabama : Native Plant Conservation, the Native Habitat Project, Mobile Baykeeper, and South Alabama Land Trust + join our local native plant groups. There will be a lot of community organizing happening in the future.

🌲Leave your public comment here:
https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=63294

🌲Read more about their project project and details here:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/alabama/projects/63294

🌲Learn more about the endangered longleaf pine ecosystem here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19WAL1p4me/

“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees."
- Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody), Nuxalk Nation

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."�- Chief Seattle, Duwamish

"Hold on to what is good, Even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, Even if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, Even if it's a long way from here. Hold on to your life, Even if it's easier to let go. Hold on to my hand, Even if someday I'll be gone away from you."
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 - 1890 Calling all tree sitters, Alabamians, and defenders of the wild

I love getting to be an adult with free will because what do you mean I’ve made it my entire job and became a whole prof...
08/03/2025

I love getting to be an adult with free will because what do you mean I’ve made it my entire job and became a whole professional at frolicking in the forest, ranting about plants, protecting wild spaces & crafting whimsical potions, tonics, and elixirs? Curating the subscription boxes every month is my favorite thing. I’m just feelin’ extra blessed this morning for real. Love yall. Happy Sunday!

I’m so excited to be teaming up with Mimi & Poppy's Place Community Homesteader Workshop for this incredible homesteadin...
07/30/2025

I’m so excited to be teaming up with Mimi & Poppy's Place Community Homesteader Workshop for this incredible homesteading event! They’ve been working so hard to make this all come together and I can’t wait for the day to come so we can all be in community together sharing what we know. If you are local and curious about farming, planting, animal husbandry, herbalism, sustainability, preserving your own food, etc. this event is going to be PERFECT for you! And best of all, it’s FREE to attend all the lectures, classes, and presentations. Make sure y’all save the date! Can’t wait to see everyone there 🥰

Good morning, beloved! How are things? I know it’s been quiet around here, but I’ve been reserving my energy lately for ...
07/29/2025

Good morning, beloved!
How are things? I know it’s been quiet around here, but I’ve been reserving my energy lately for my family, spirit, and loved ones. I turned 33 two days ago and have felt the rush of so much love and gratitude to be here in this space. I’ve been really leaning into the current of my life and enjoying the flow of it all. This summer I’ve made it a point to unplug more and I’ve enjoyed the subtle reminders that life keeps pushing us forward. Don’t let the algorithms and interwebz brainwash you and poison you into believing that your mundane life isn’t pure magic and whimsy. I see the whimsy everywhere, especially when I’m online less. I hope you’re all enjoying this sweet, humid late summer we’re in. I’ve been feeling so inspired by the plants, the water, the wind, the rain… oh to be here in this beautiful place. We are all so blessed. For the first time since starting my subscription boxes, I’m running a little behind schedule. July’s box will be delighting you via USPS the first week of August instead. I’m so sorry for the delay, but I promise the wait will be worth it. I’ve got some really special, seasonal goodies coming your way. 🥰

I’d love to hear how your summer is going, friends. Drop a line or a photo below. Whatcha been up to?

Holy moly, I just went outside to the garden for the first time since being home. I tinkered back there briefly before I...
07/16/2025

Holy moly, I just went outside to the garden for the first time since being home. I tinkered back there briefly before I left this last time, but I’ve been traveling pretty much since June. My wild little garden has been left to do what she does best, explode with abundance and blooms. I was very surprised to come home to my tomato plants still setting fruit. Nothing beats a sun warmed bright red tomato fresh off the vine. There were a couple ripened ones on the ground beneath them & the sun had split them right in two. All those warm moist seeds will germinate & I’ll have fresh plants in the fall. So dependable these plants are, so forgiving too.

I had to swim my way through tangles of passion flower and goldenrod to even get back here. This may be my most abundant year for passion fruit! Total secret garden vibes back here. Every garden path is being guarded by a matriarchy of bright yellow and black spiders. I love them so much. Gosh they’re pretty.

The backyard smells so sweet, like unbelievably ripe. Mint, hyssop, yarrow, pennywort, salvias and rosemary plus so much more. I wish I could bottle this summer smell and save it to bask in for when the cool season comes around. The wild lettuce plants are about 3 ft taller than me and getting ready to bloom, I pulled a leaf and the milky medicinal sap came pouring out like I’d opened a dam. I’m just in time to gather them for tinctures, resin, and maybe a honey.

The saint John’s wort is putting on a show too, hundreds of bright yellow blooms are bunching and sprawling through the garden bed. I remember when I started those seeds in the green house 3.5 years ago. The plants were so tiny when I moved them into the garden. The butterfly pea flowers are climbing to the heavens and so brightly blue and purple that I feel like I’m seeing a whole new color! I’m truly so blown away by nature and so thankful for these eyes and an able body that allows me to partake in the ceremony of raising and tending my little garden and the land.

TLDR: I really really really love plants 🥹🥰😭

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