The At Home Apothecary

🌸Rose Geranium- a long used and well loved skincare botanical 🌸

Known for its antimicrobial, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory compounds, Rose Geranium has earned its place in a long history of skincare and perfume use. The mildly astringent herb is used for tightening pores, cleansing the skin, and providing a gentle uplifting aroma that is known to help us relax and lessen anxiety.
Not to mention, when it's used as a hydrosol, all those beneficial oils that hydrate the skin are combined with pure distilled water to create a nourishing topical mist that can be used before applying any other oils or creams. And since Rose Geranium is known to be photosensitive, a hydrosol like this is the perfect addition to your nighttime skincare routine, combining soothing aromatherapy with a night of hydration!

As always, you can find our full collection of farm grown Hydrosols on our website, or at Hub City Farmers' Market this Saturday and Sunday!

We've got fresh cucumbers and peppers, and our garlic is cured, so it's pickle time!!!

These diy pickle kits include, cucumbers, peppers, garlic, rosemary, our farm grown onion salt, and a recipe card, so the only other things you'll need is a little black pepper and white vinegar!

And luckily, this weekend is a double Hub City Farmers' Market weekend! This Saturday we'll be at the regular market location at Northside Harvest Park, and on Sunday we'll be at Morgan Square in Downtown Spartanburg!

☀️ Where to find us this July ☀️

How we're surviving this heat wave 🍑☀️

Infused with peach puree, mint, and mugwort, our non-alcoholic Peach Mint No-jito is all you need to beat this heat our at Hub City Farmers' Market this morning!!

All of our farm fresh lavender has been picked and dried, now we get to the fun part; turning all that lavender into the herbal remedies and self care products!

If you watch our stories, you know that our owners and herbalist, Chase, is always working on some kind of sewing project. So using some of this lavender in flax pillows (made by yours truly) that can be heated or cooled and used as an eye or sore muscle pillow, was a given.
They're a wonderful thing to add to your evening self care routine, or to just have around to enhance moments of meditation.

Lavender Eye Pillows are restocked on our website, or you can come by our booth at Hub City Farmers' Market any Saturday and grab one!

Our 'Guide to Seasonal Self Care' is officially available on our website!!

This guide is our way of helping you make choices in food and wellness that align with the changes of the season.

What's in this summer's guide?

☀️A little intro to our farm, and what we've been up to this summer.

☀️A deep dive into learning about a few herbs that can be used to cool the body, and we provide some mocktail recipes using said herbs!

☀️We turned our most popular in person class 'From Seed to Spice' into a step by step guide to help you grow your own culinary and medicinal herbs!

☀️ We created an in season produce and herb guide specifically for South Carolina, featuring all the goodies you'll find at the local farmers markets this time of year!

☀️There's been a lot of talk about herbs for repelling insects naturally this season, so we also included a list of the best insect repelling herbs, and made note of what they replel and how they're best used.

☀️ You'll also find a breakdown of our summer remedy line, with features for our seasonal culinary salts, vinegars, and more!

Find the link in our bio to download your copy today!!

I had the pleasure of stopping by purposeandplanet in Greenville this past week, and got our shelf loaded up with lots of body care products, seasoning blends, and our best selling Insect Repellent!

Stop by Purpose and Planet to shop our summer remedies, and restock on your homes goods sustainably!
I recently made the switch to their solid laundry detergent sheets and have been loving them. They're plant based, and smell amazing too!