Avena Botanicals Rose Petal Elixer is gently uplifting, sweet, and delicious. It is handmade from Avena's Biodynamic roses.*
In the peace and magic of our aromatic rose gardens, buzzing with bees in the early morning light, the gardeners at Avena gently harvest large baskets of fragrant Rose Petals daily over a 2-week period each year. These vibrant and delicate petals are immediately placed in organic glycerin and organic alcohol solution, where their soft pink color and medicinal properties are infused into this extraordinary elixir.
Rose has uplifted the human spirit and inspired the human heart toward joy, inner peace, compassion, and love for a very long time. Avena's Rose Petal Elixir helps to relax the nervous system, comfort sadness, and grief, and fill the heart with harmony, joy, and peace. These delicate flowers soothe and support the digestive and nervous systems and the heart.
Roses are well-suited for most people in the modern world, and we look to them to cool emotional heat, ease feelings of low self-esteem, impatience, or agitation associated with PMS and menopause, settle the spirit, and encourage peaceful sleep.
Garden Notes: The lovely Rose garden at Avena's Biodynamic farm is a peaceful and magical place to work. The flowers are filled with buzzing bees, busy collecting sweet nectar and rolling around in the yellow pollen. It's such a joy to watch these special pollinators and to breathe in the fragrance of the flowers, which dispel physical and mental weariness and uplift the spirit. Retreat and workshop visitors enjoy this meditative space to sit and soak in the stillness of the garden.
Taste / Energetics: sweet, cooling, aromatic, opening, soothing, diffusive, moistening.
Actions: nervine, emotional heart tonic, astringent, reproductive tonic, digestive tonic.
When to reach for it: Anytime you're feeling hot and bothered. As a way to calm, center, and connect with self and others. To celebrate life. During transitional times of life and rites of passage. During yoga and meditation. Anytime you feel called to bring some special, even devotional, energy into your day. As an ally during childbirth and postpartum. Children love Rose Elixir too!
Ingredients: Certified Biodynamic and Organic Rose petals, Certified Organic Pure Grain Alcohol, Certified Organic Vegetable Glycerin
Suggested Use: Add 10-20 drops (.5-1ml) to 1 ounce of water 1-3 times/day or have a few drops directly into your mouth. Is a lovely addition to teas, spritzers, mocktails, and herbal milks.
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 ingreidents, 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 their 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.