Avena Botanicals Lavender Glycerite is yummy-tasting and uplifts the spirit, calms the mind, and nourishes the nervous system. Lavender supports respiratory and digestive health.*
This aromatic and yummy-tasting glycerite delights the senses, uplifts the spirit, and helps support a calm mind. Lavender has been valued through the ages in Europe and more recently in North America for the flowers rejuvenating aroma and for the many gifts, Lavender so generously offers the human nervous, digestive, and respiratory systems. The potent essential oils in Lavender's purple flowers easily infuse into a sweet, organic glycerin base and have unique qualities that deeply soothe and elevate the spirit. Lavender helps us navigate emotional and mental stagnation, irritation, unrest, and tension. It is an appropriate choice for support during the day and night for children and adults.
Lavender is an accessible herb that has an incredible ability to support a healthy digestive system, especially when experiencing occasional tension related to feelings of nervousness. Our Lavender Glycerite is an alcohol-free and delicious way to support constricted energy throughout the body, mind, and spirit. As a rejuvenative herb and brain tonic, Lavender also encourages a healthy night's sleep and a balanced response to everyday stressors.
Garden Notes: The ideal time for gathering Lavender is when the flowers first open. Here at Avena, we gently hold several stalks in one hand and cut them just above the leaves, then carefully lay the bundles in baskets, facing the same direction. These bundles are immediately prepared into our incredible Lavender Glycerite.
Taste / Energetics: bitter, aromatic, soothing, cooling, drying, uplifting, calming.
Actions: relaxing nervine, aromatic bitter, carminative.
When to reach for it: With children and adults, during times of increased unrest and stress of any kind. When needing to help clear, comfort, and uplift body, mind, and spirit. Before or after a massage or foot bath. Before or near bed. During colder months to support respiratory health and vitality. To support healthy digestion, especially at times when there is occasional tension due to nervousness. During travel.
Ingredients: Certified Biodynamic and Organic Lavender, Certified Organic Vegetable Glycerin
Suggested Use: Add 10-20 drops (.5-1ml) to 1 ounce of water 1 to 3 times/day or as directed by your healthcare practitioner.
Avena Botanicals values simplicity and the traditional ways of hand-crafting herbal products. They use simple tabletop tools instead of large, mechanized machines and they do not mass-manufacture.
This holistic and spiritually alive system of organic agriculture enlivens the soil, water, and plants along with the soul, spirit, and consciousness of humans. Biodynamic preparations and practices create herbal products that can benefit body, mind, and spirit and connect individuals to the source of their sustenance.
Since their inception in 1985, they have used no synthetic ingredients, additives, or solvents of any kind in their herbal products or farming practices. Their on-site production facility only uses 100% biodegradable cleaning supplies.
Avena's products are produced on-site in their custom-built facility. You can take an herb walk through their gardens in the summer, while seeing smellIing baskets of herbs and flowers going into the facility, it doesn't get any more local than this.
Creating gentle, organic, high-quality herbal products that promote good health is their goal. They produce their products in small batches to ensure that their freshness and efficacy meet their high standards.
Avena's gardens are open to the public for a few select events each year. They are a peaceful sanctuary for people (and pollinators) to enjoy, learn in, and experience the gifts of nature. They host a handful of herb walks, classes, and retreats each summer, often accompanied by refreshing botanical sun tea.
These values remain constant in their thoughts, words, and actions. They care deeply about the health and well-being of the people and plants they serve and take extra care as they harvest the herbs and create products.
Despite the modern world's technological advances, many people around our planet remain unhappy and disconnected from nature. Avena's peaceful gardens, retreats, and hand-crafted herbal products assist people seeking to live in harmony with nature and with the spirit that connects all living beings.
They aim to create a working environment that embodies balance, health, and wellness. They ring a bell at noon for any staff who chooses to stop and meditate for 5-10 minutes. Their weekly staff meetings are held outdoors in summer and in a room overlooking the garden in winter. As a staff, they share yummy potlucks, birthday cakes, inspiring books, and garden walks.
Avena Botanicals is the first Demeter Certified Biodynamic farm in Maine. Biodynamic agriculture is a holistic and spiritually alive system of organic and ecological practices and philosophies based on the teachings of Dr. Rudolf Steiner. One of the core beliefs and practices of Biodynamic agriculture is to help heal the Earth.
Their hand-gathered herbs come into Avena's drying rooms and are immediately weighed and laid onto large screens. Most of these herbs are grown in Avena's three-acre gardens. They also collect a few herbs from nearby islands and meadows.
Over five hundred pounds of fresh, hand-gathered herbs come into Avena's apothecary annually and are thoughtfully prepared into herbal tinctures, elixirs, glycerites, and oils. Over 70% of these herbs come directly from Avena's Demeter Certified Biodynamic gardens. Their herbs are fresh, aromatic, sweet, bitter, pungent, and beautiful.
Avena's gardens have been purposefully planted with protective hedgerows and flowering plants that offer nectar and pollen to dozens of pollinators. Shimmering ruby-throated hummingbirds and various butterflies, honey bees and native bees fill our gardens with an array of colors, sounds, and personalities. The presence of pollinators fills hearts with joy and gratitude.
FDA Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.