• “Avena Botanicals healing gardens are about 6 miles from the sea and sometimes I can smell the sea and hear the fog horn while working in the garden. The salty sea Maine air is a gift to breathe in. Breath is Life.” 🌊🌊
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    “Avena Botanicals healing gardens are about 6 miles from the sea and sometimes I can smell the sea and hear the fog horn while working in the garden. The salty sea Maine air is a gift to breathe in. Breath is Life.” 🌊🌊
  • 🍁Immune Tune is a deeply strengthening and building tonic for keeping the immune system vibrant and functioning optimally. 🌿 It is best taken over several months, 1-3 times daily, especially during the colder months. Herbal tonics maintain and enhance our overall health and vitality. (Take a break from Immune Tune if health issues arise that need other kinds of herbal support.) 🌿 Avena has been offering Immune Tune for over 30 years. Matt Becker, a skillful herbalist, introduced Chinese tonic herbs to Deb in the late 1980’s, and formulated Immune Tune for Avena. 💓 “Astragalus and Codonopsis roots are like sister herbs to me, offering a synergy that supports immune, lung and digestive health from deep within the body. Whereas Echinacea is a more quick-acting surface immune herb, these 2 roots, alongside the adaptogenic herbs Eleuthero, Schisandra berries, and a tiny bit of licorice root for harmonizing, have been carefully formulated to nourish and not overstimulate the immune system. Cinnamon and prickly ash bark offer a tiny bit of warmth to this formula, creating a balanced blend.” 💕 Deb Soule 📷by @alysonflemming (from Avena’s apothecary✨)
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    🍁Immune Tune is a deeply strengthening and building tonic for keeping the immune system vibrant and functioning optimally. 🌿 It is best taken over several months, 1-3 times daily, especially during the colder months. Herbal tonics maintain and enhance our overall health and vitality. (Take a break from Immune Tune if health issues arise that need other kinds of herbal support.) 🌿 Avena has been offering Immune Tune for over 30 years. Matt Becker, a skillful herbalist, introduced Chinese tonic herbs to Deb in the late 1980’s, and formulated Immune Tune for Avena. 💓 “Astragalus and Codonopsis roots are like sister herbs to me, offering a synergy that supports immune, lung and digestive health from deep within the body. Whereas Echinacea is a more quick-acting surface immune herb, these 2 roots, alongside the adaptogenic herbs Eleuthero, Schisandra berries, and a tiny bit of licorice root for harmonizing, have been carefully formulated to nourish and not overstimulate the immune system. Cinnamon and prickly ash bark offer a tiny bit of warmth to this formula, creating a balanced blend.” 💕 Deb Soule 📷by @alysonflemming (from Avena’s apothecary✨)
  • 🌿This special woody perennial grows wild on open ledges in Maine. Each autumn we hike up a special nearby mountain to hand collect Uva Ursi from rocky ledges. Here’s one of the beautiful creeping vines. Uva Ursi supports urinary tract health. 🌿
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    🌿This special woody perennial grows wild on open ledges in Maine. Each autumn we hike up a special nearby mountain to hand collect Uva Ursi from rocky ledges. Here’s one of the beautiful creeping vines. Uva Ursi supports urinary tract health. 🌿
  • “The beautifully red and abundant hawthorn trees offer their gifts, inspiring us to tend our emotional and spiritual hearts, cultivating compassion and love for our self and others. I keep hawthorn plus on my counter for daily support. Late fall is a time for bowing to the trees and collecting berries and seeds with songs of gratitude and joy.” 🍁Deb Soule
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    “The beautifully red and abundant hawthorn trees offer their gifts, inspiring us to tend our emotional and spiritual hearts, cultivating compassion and love for our self and others. I keep hawthorn plus on my counter for daily support. Late fall is a time for bowing to the trees and collecting berries and seeds with songs of gratitude and joy.” 🍁Deb Soule
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  • “These next 2 weeks, as we head towards the second full moon in October (October 31), is a powerful time, the time when the veil between the physical and spiritual world is thinner, the time to offer our Ancestors gifts and to ask for their guidance. This Libra moon cycle invites us to pay attention to balance, and non-reactivity, to light candles with our prayers for justice, equality and healing for everyone, everywhere.”🕯🌎🙏🏽🕯Deb Soule
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    “These next 2 weeks, as we head towards the second full moon in October (October 31), is a powerful time, the time when the veil between the physical and spiritual world is thinner, the time to offer our Ancestors gifts and to ask for their guidance. This Libra moon cycle invites us to pay attention to balance, and non-reactivity, to light candles with our prayers for justice, equality and healing for everyone, everywhere.”🕯🌎🙏🏽🕯Deb Soule
  • “From Avena’s fall garden, I send 🌜new moon🌛greetings to you. New moons are considered a time of new beginnings, a time to awaken, to create, to take up a new project, to listen deeply to what is inspiring you and to act. ✨💫 In western tropical astrology this new moon is in the Air sign of Libra. For me as a gardener and herbalist and an observer of the lunar phases and constellations, Libra represents ✨balance, harmony and beauty.✨ In the midst of the pandemic, nation wide and worldwide chaos and challenges, I remind myself again and again to turn toward the beauty of Nature, art, music, nourishing food and prayer. ✨🙏🏽 May we each create, or strengthen, a simple, daily morning practice of greeting the light of each new day with gratitude. Something as simple as placing both hands over your heart and breathing deeply 3-10 times while speaking aloud your gratitudes, is a rejuvenating way to begin your day. This same practice can be done before bed. Wishing each of you a blessed new moon time.” 💓 Deb Soule ✨ 🎨 by @maiautumn
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    “From Avena’s fall garden, I send 🌜new moon🌛greetings to you. New moons are considered a time of new beginnings, a time to awaken, to create, to take up a new project, to listen deeply to what is inspiring you and to act. ✨💫 In western tropical astrology this new moon is in the Air sign of Libra. For me as a gardener and herbalist and an observer of the lunar phases and constellations, Libra represents ✨balance, harmony and beauty.✨ In the midst of the pandemic, nation wide and worldwide chaos and challenges, I remind myself again and again to turn toward the beauty of Nature, art, music, nourishing food and prayer. ✨🙏🏽 May we each create, or strengthen, a simple, daily morning practice of greeting the light of each new day with gratitude. Something as simple as placing both hands over your heart and breathing deeply 3-10 times while speaking aloud your gratitudes, is a rejuvenating way to begin your day. This same practice can be done before bed. Wishing each of you a blessed new moon time.” 💓 Deb Soule ✨ 🎨 by @maiautumn
  • Harvest Story: 🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂 Today Anna dug Avena’s biodynamic, three-year-old Echinacea purpurea roots. 🌱 Katie went on to chop the roots into smaller pieces. This is done in the garden so more of the soil embedded in the roots can be shaken off back into the garden. Avena’s biodynamic soils are alive with microorganisms, organic matter and compost, vitality, and spirit of gratitude.✨🙏🏾✨ 🌱 Gardeners Anna, Brittany and Katie then washed 25 pounds! of the freshly dug Echinacea roots. 🌱 The roots are now being prepared into fresh tincture.🌿 Avena’s tincture ✨tingles✨ when you taste it, a sign of high quality. We love growing, tending, digging and preparing Echinacea tinctures and glycerites!!! 💓
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    Harvest Story: 🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂 Today Anna dug Avena’s biodynamic, three-year-old Echinacea purpurea roots. 🌱 Katie went on to chop the roots into smaller pieces. This is done in the garden so more of the soil embedded in the roots can be shaken off back into the garden. Avena’s biodynamic soils are alive with microorganisms, organic matter and compost, vitality, and spirit of gratitude.✨🙏🏾✨ 🌱 Gardeners Anna, Brittany and Katie then washed 25 pounds! of the freshly dug Echinacea roots. 🌱 The roots are now being prepared into fresh tincture.🌿 Avena’s tincture ✨tingles✨ when you taste it, a sign of high quality. We love growing, tending, digging and preparing Echinacea tinctures and glycerites!!! 💓