At the start of the comfrey harvest 2014, we shot a little video to show you how untouched and rural the area in Aberdeenshire, Scotland is where we harvest the comfrey leaves each year to make our comfrey oil macerate. We then use the comfrey oil as a main ingredient in our comfrey ointment, gardener’s hand balm, herbal foot balm and the reflexology balm along with organic carrier, essential oils and beeswax.
We are delighted to announce that the first batches of the fresh new comfrey oil macerate from the 2014 harvest is ready to buy now.
It has been a fairly quick harvest season this year, and I love the quality of this macerate.
It is so green and full of goodness, which bodes extremely well for all the existing products that we use comfrey in – Comfrey Ointment, Gardener’s Hand Balm, Reflexology Foot Balm and Herbal Foot Balm.
PLUS a new exciting product that I am in the process of developing – more news on that very soon.
Comfrey plant May 2014
The comfrey harvest is going well this year, we have had a few days with the crop gathering and harvesting the comfrey leaves. This is done by hand, collecting only the best leaves, harvested at the optimum time – dry and using the younger plants. This happens in stages, mainly due to the fluctuating weather here (although we can’t complain too much this year!) and also the plants grow in some slightly different places – some are more up to the sun than others, and so they are ready first and the more shaded parts are harvested later
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With the milder winter and current weather the comfrey plants are really lush and coming on really well, it looks like it could be an earlier harvest. No competition with last year as it was so cold at the beginning of 2013 here that the harvest was the latest that I have seen it. We didn’t get finished until end of June. Every week it was a case of almost there – almost there….. Signs are that its certainly not going to be like that for comfrey harvest 2014
