Welcome to ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine.
ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine is dedicated to approaching and honoring nature first. Nature in the form of plants as medicine and nature in the form of our bodies. Our bodies are constantly speaking to us. It speaks in sensations and symptoms as part of a exquisite design to simply call our attention to our own tending. Learning this language helps us understand ourselves and our needs health. Honoring this a step further and learning the language of the plants as ancient medicine keepers and Earth as our original healer is our next natural step. Welcome.
COVID-19 Statement from ELDERMOON School
The well-being of ourselves and customers is everything. Our business is supporting wellness by offering high-quality herbal products that benefit our customers' health while nurturing the plants, the pollinators, and our planet in the process too. ALL are considered in everything we do here.
It gives us great joy to make herbal products in small handmade batches using the purest organic ingredients from plants we grow or get from other small herbal farms. We know how much you celebrate the vitality of our products and the growing offerings here at ElderMoon's Apothecary. In the past few weeks, you've shown us how much you've come to rely on us to contribute to your family's wellness in stressful times. We're committed to meeting your needs and doing whatever we can to have our products be of benefit to you and your loved ones.
At this time with the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, there is an important balance between our internal efforts to protect the health and safety of ourselves while we minimize disruptions to our customers. So there a few, and yes at times changing, things happening here at ELDERMOON:
We have your back and hope/ask that you'll consider practicing good self-care and spending quality time with your families while social distancing in stores, wearing a mask anytime you leave your home, and honor staying quarantined at home as the single most important action to slow and stop the spread of the microbial world at this time.
Some ideas while at home:
It gives us great joy to make herbal products in small handmade batches using the purest organic ingredients from plants we grow or get from other small herbal farms. We know how much you celebrate the vitality of our products and the growing offerings here at ElderMoon's Apothecary. In the past few weeks, you've shown us how much you've come to rely on us to contribute to your family's wellness in stressful times. We're committed to meeting your needs and doing whatever we can to have our products be of benefit to you and your loved ones.
At this time with the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, there is an important balance between our internal efforts to protect the health and safety of ourselves while we minimize disruptions to our customers. So there a few, and yes at times changing, things happening here at ELDERMOON:
- LINK HERE: CDC Guidelines - to ensure that our team is on-call and available to respond with quickly shifting concerns and risks we are monitoring the Health Department and CDC recommendations daily for disinfection and isolation practices, and at times taking this a step further for your safety.
- Shipments are packaged and shipped on our order filling days 2 days/week. We ask the receiver to hold for one day once received unless it's imperative that you have the remedies immediately. If this is the case, open the box and wash hands. Retrieve remedies and wipe down bottles. Wash hands again. Currently it's known that this virus lives outside the body 24 hrs on cardboard, 3 days on plastic and metal, and it's easily wipe away with soap and water and 65% Rubbing alcohol. Stay diligent folks.
- 2 Days/Week Order Processing: Being an OR Nurse comfortable and well-trained with how the microbial world moves, I'm restricting remedy and whole order preparations to two days per week. I make all remedies and I hand-wash before and after, plus wear gloves and a mask during this time just to be safe. The apothecary is otherwise behind closed doors.
- In keeping up with increased demand, staff support is increased as needed. This means Jay, my partner and 25 year cohort in apothecary managing is also well-trained in sterile and clean technique and is helping with orders to expedite them faster for you. We love working together and this is our second herbal business together! We'll increase to 3 and 4 days if needed but for now we've got things all covered in 2 longer days with 2 people. The apothecary is cleaned after our work (in the OR this is called a 'terminal clean'). Thanks for all the support. Our focus is on small businesses thriving and creative entrepreneurship.
- We have restricted visitor pickup to curbside only for locals who need remedies quickly or need to save on shipping during these challenging economic times.
- We've LOWERED our 'Shipping and Handling Fees' for our continental US customers to share the burden of postal delivery so we can connect with getting the healing remedies you need to you.
- All herbal classes are on-line only until further notice. Yes, we can cover a lot of terrain this way so that when we're lifted from such times, your imprinted brain is ready for in-person classes.
- FREE educational-purposes-only talks on COVID-19 happened for 5 weeks during the first wave and recorded with 6+ hours of support with herbs and more - LINK HERE -
- LINK HERE for our FREE Health Clinic Consults - these are offered weekly on a first come first serve basis and limited to 45 minutes per session. This offering is through our local "Catskill Mountain Herbalists - An Herbalists Without Borders Chapter" and we're currently working on a time log to post for transparency on how we're serving our community through this time.
We have your back and hope/ask that you'll consider practicing good self-care and spending quality time with your families while social distancing in stores, wearing a mask anytime you leave your home, and honor staying quarantined at home as the single most important action to slow and stop the spread of the microbial world at this time.
Some ideas while at home:
- Go for frequent walks outside and enjoy the sunlight with fresh air deep breathing into your lung bases. Visit or create a favorite sits spot in Nature where you go often to just sit in one spot for some time alone and feel your rightful place in Nature where inspiration and understanding can flow to you.
- Visit your spice rack in your kitchen if you're new to herbs for healing. Take time to make a cup of tea with Rosemary, Thyme, Sage, or Oregano and sip each one slowly at night while dedicating 15 minutes to learning the back story of how these strong medicine plants ended up in your kitchen. If absent, get some! Rotate through and learn to love them.
- Read a good book and trust that this down time is needed by your heart, body, and soul.
- Cook something delicious. Learn wild food foraging and cooking and begin anyway. Lawn forage. Recipe share!
- Commit to a chemical free property and home, now and always. I'm looking at milk paints for our interior painting needs. I'm pondering and researching all things sustainable. Start making your own household cleaning products with biodegradable non-toxic ingredients. There's lots of good recipes out there!
- Commit to bamboo tree fiber reusable menstrual products (sustainable due to it's rapid growth ability - and let's shout out to hemp products!). Saves money and trees + our blood heals and nourishes the soil.
- Start that creative outlet project that you've been meaning to. Pick up the pen, paint brush, musical instrument, sewing needles, learn cooking, or get the garden shovel in hand and create beauty as part of your nourishment and medicine cultivated with your own hands. Start a garden for you and the BEES. Plant SEEDS!
- Movie binge with your tribe flopped like a pile of puppies together. We also have taken to eating favorite things at weird times. Dinner for breakfast in not new around here! Nor is dessert for dinner and breakfast for the day.
- Study herbs! Start your apothecary. Tend it well. We have a great on-line course for all of this called"Birthing an Herbalist in 13 Moons" LINK HERE or support another herbalist you LOVE.
- Try daily journal writing or voice-message-to-self practice to flush the stagnant and hard to feel feelings out of the body. Begin, resurrect, or continue a daily meditation or journey practice.
Jennifer Costa, Herbalist, BS, RN, EM-CST
ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine
ElderMoon Apothecary
ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine
ElderMoon Apothecary
