Herbal Outlander

01/20/2024

“Strong minds Discuss ideas, Average minds Discuss events , weak minds Duscuss People”

Who said this first

Hint it was not in English

06/11/2023

I gained 2 followers and received 3 reactions from March to June! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

01/12/2022

We would like to thank our mail order customers for their patience. During the massive changes to the Alaska shipping process and the reduced amount of carriers and shipments being picked up in rural communities from twice a day to sometimes once a week, we are sending shipments that take twice as long and almost never show actual shipping info until the delivery has been made. The post master for Alaska claims now that the holidays are over the system will improve. If I still have any packages that haven’t arrived either to me or to a customer by the end of next week then I can escalate my issue and have each package I sent investigated. Once again thank you for your patience and if nothing arrives by the end of next week please contact me to let me know. Tyvm.

07/16/2021

06/22/2021

Chocolate Mint salve. 2 & 4oz tins!

04/21/2021

Menthol has a cooling and anesthetic (or pain killing) effect. This also decreases the cough reflex and can soothe the dry throat feeling that many smokers have. As a result, menthol smokers may inhale more deeply, hold the smoke in the lungs longer, and get more exposure to the dangerous chemicals in cigarette smoke.

*Don’t smoke To***co ci******es of any kind*

04/16/2021

There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition.

Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out to the hives and tell the bees of the terrible loss that had befallen the family.

Failing to do so often resulted in further losses such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying.

Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as “telling the bees”.

The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message.

The typical way to tell the bees was for the head of the household, or “goodwife of the house” to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news.

Little rhymes developed over the centuries specific to a particular region. In Nottinghamshire, the wife of the dead was heard singing quietly in front of the hive,

“The master's dead, but don't you go; Your mistress will be a good mistress to you.”

In Germany, a similar couplet was heard,

“Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress”.

But the relationship between bees and humans goes beyond superstition. It’s a fact, that bees help humans survive. 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination.

Without them, these plants would cease to exist and with it all animals that eat those plants. This can have a cascading effect that would ripple catastrophically up the food chain.

Losing a beehive is much worse than losing a supply of honey. The consequences are life threatening.

The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect.

Art: The Bee Friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924)

04/07/2021

Come soon test sizes to a store in all 50 states

02/23/2021

Chocolate mint or Fire & Ice. Our most popular salves. Available in 2oz tins or 4oz jars.