Calendula – new 2014 organically grown flowers from Aberdeenshire

I have been lucky enough this year to get some beautiful calendula flower heads from organic farmer, John Fraser ,from Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  I am preparing them for macerating the petals in organic sunflower. Calendula for websiteThey are just a stunning colour and brimming full of lovely summer goodness.  I know they will make a fantastic macerate for using in my calendula ointment – hopefully the final macerate will be a rich orange colour – I can’t wait to see.

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15% off all Organica J stock for 48 hours

Reflexology Foot BalmTo celebrate the end of comfrey harvest this year, and our new website all our subscribers can enjoy a whopping 15 % off Organica J stock for 48 hours – starting tonight, 6pm Tuesday 17th June.  All you have to do is subscribe to Organica J and you can benefit from this great offer and many others that will come in the future.  The 15% off  includes all our fabulous comfrey products made with the new comfrey oil.  This current offer is open to all our subscribing customers (except wholesale).  Hurry this offer must end midnight Thursday 19th June.

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Meet The Maker Day at Roots, Fruits and Flowers in Glasgow

Roots, Fruits and Flowers, GlasgowA massive thank you to everyone at Roots, Fruits and Flowers in Glasgow.  The Owner Garth, Manager Lynsey, the staff, and the customers made it a really fab day on Saturday.  I talked to so many interesting people, who had come to Glasgow from all over the world.  It is truly a cosmopolitan city, and its citizens clearly do love to shop and eat at Roots, Fruits and Flowers – and I can certainly understand why. (more…)

This Year’s Comfrey Harvest

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 in 2014

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