Where do you source your plants from? I harvest as many plants as possible, locally, from parks and riversides in the Twin Cities area or from my personal garden. For plants I can’t find or grow here, I source them from reputable organic and sustainable herbal farmers, like StarWest and Mountain Rose.
What kind of herbal products do you make? I make tinctures and elixirs for sublingual consumption. Vodka is the main alcohol I use and raw honey or maple syrup for elixirs. I also make herbal infused oils external use. Depending on what I have at any given time, I can also blend tea, but tinctures and elixirs are the main way I administer my herbs.
Do you make any tinctures without alcohol? No. I will occasionally make herbal vinegar, but the plant compounds that are extracted with water based preparations are different than with alcohol. *Note: that the amount of alcohol you’re consuming in a tincture so so minimal that your body metabolizes it almost instantly.