Blossomwood Botanicals newsletter archive
Want to catch up with Blossomwood Botanicals? These past newsletters are full of beautiful images and updates! Each title link will take you to the full content.
02/20/2026 – Travel Tales and a big announcement! ✨🌿🌸✨
Reflections from Leland’s recent travels through Argentina and Uruguay — including botanical garden visits, Yerba Mate culture, making flower essences abroad, and meaningful encounters that deepened her connection to animist herbal traditions – including meeting a practitioner of Ásatrú!
Big announcement: launch of in-person classes at Blossomwood Farmstead in Yachats!
11/20/2025 – New herbal musings + updates! ✨🌿🌸✨
Huge update about the Blossomwood Farmstead herbal studio’s progress, personal healing and reset time, family apple harvesting, autumn plant harvests (usnea, black walnut, gotu kola, hawthorn berries, spilanthes, amanita mushrooms), and teaching remotely Berkeley Herbal Center.
07/17/2025 – Happy Summer from Blossomwood Farmstead! ✨🌿🌸✨
Celebration of summer’s magic on the farm with an enchanting first sighting of ghost pipe (Monotropa uniflora) and reflections on its lore and cautions, updates on garden work and harvesting goldenrod, yarrow, mullein, self-heal, and wood betony, intentional slowing and pausing of new client work, plans for future herb gardens, chickens, bees and apitherapy spaces, and joyful stories from teaching a plant walk with a botany author.
06/10/2025 – Spring blooms and the dark moon! ✨🌸🌑✨
Honeysuckle, rose harvesting, and honeybee updates, bee hive birthday gift, Leland’s painted contribution to the Yachats banner project, Hekate book recommendation, and a flower essence created for the Gemini new moon.
05/05/2025 – Spring is my favorite season! ✨🌸 ✨
Celebration of spring’s blossoms, hawthorn blossom reverence, foraging three-cornered leeks, wild greens pesto recipe, teaching through Berkeley Herbal Center, creative herbal formulation work, and celebration of spring vitality.
04/04/2025 – Welcome to Spring! ✨🌸 ✨
Happy Spring! The ultimate herbalist’s aquarium, two trips to the desert (Sedona, Arizona and Anza Borrego,) details about ocotillo, Herbs for Sleep class, updates on the Blossomwood Botanicals Oregon herbal dispensary.
02/06/2025 – Blossomwood Botanicals – exciting update! ✨ 🌿 🌲 🌿 ✨
Pink peppercorn harvest! Deep dive into great info about willow. Updates about Blossomwood Botanicals’ development, expanded product offerings and progress toward establishing the herbal studio space. Book recommedation: Frugal Hedonism.
01/06/2025 – Happy New Year! ✨ 🌿 💚 🌿 ✨
New Year reflections, mushroom hunting, witches butter gummy recipe, intention-setting for herbal study and personal growth, updates on consultations and classes, feature on usnea, a beautiful willow harvest, and encouragement toward gentle winter nourishment practices.
12/07/2024 – Happy December! 🌲 ❤️ 🌲
Fire Cider recipe! New stickers that say “I heart herbal broth.” Winter herbal recipes: spiced cranberries, saffron oatmeal, and kabocha squash pie. Shared client feedback related to complicated care along with Leland’s perspective as an herbalist. Book recommendation: Botanical Curses and Poisons: the Shadow-lives of Plants by Fez Inkwright
11/08/2024 – Turning inward for the season. ❤️ 🍂 🍄🟫 ❤️
Focus on slowing down and nourishing the body with mushrooms like reishi and turkey tail, root medicines for deeper restoration, and encouragement toward reflective seasonal practices as daylight decreases.
10/04/2024 – Welcome to the beauty of fall! ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Visit to Blossomwood Farmstead. New dispensary set up in Oregon. Current daily tea blend: hibiscus, tulsi, cinnamon, rose, plantain, and nettle. New post: how to sit with a flower essence. Herbal embroidery project. Herbal bone broth recipe. An audiobook recommendation about: How to Read a Tree.
09/05/2024 – Big news! New flower essence blends. Herbs for anxiety. ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Announcement of new flower essence blends including formulations. Big news! New job at Herbal Content Cottage. Discussion of herbs for anxiety featuring skullcap, tulsi, and wood betony. Updates about availability of custom essence consultations and the dispensary.
08/07/2024 – Happy August! Exciting new project! ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Goldenrod harvest! Spotlight on a lavender farm in Hood River, Oregon. Introduction to a new flower essence project in the works: creating an essence kit of 108 essence, along with new written descriptions. Work on product photography, with a shared image.
07/08/2024 – July updates! Seaweed trip and Blossomwood Farmstead! ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Stories from a seaweed gathering trip in Bodega Bay highlighting many types of seaweed, updates on the farmstead’s summer abundance, willow, passionflower, violets, and new flower essences: evening primrose, elecampane, and the Solstice full moon.
06/01/2024 – Happy Summer! Plus exciting news! ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Blossomwood Botanicals flower essence blends are going to stores! Spotlight on hawthorn. Upcoming class offerings, reflections on seasonal rhythms, and gratitude for community connection. New essences: Northern lights, meadowfoam, and fringe cups. Goddess podcast recommendation.
05/01/2024 – In the flow of spring! ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Highlights of spring plant life including a deep dive on California poppy (medicine and essence), news from the Sonoma County Herb Exchange where fresh herbs are available, reflections on opening client work in herbal practice, a report back from an April herb walk with wild plant identifications, updates on teaching herbalism classes at the Berkeley Herbal Center (including upcoming courses), experiences crafting flower essences (like baby blue eyes and opium poppy), a spring salve offering, local practitioner spotlight, and a podcast episode recommendation about hunter-gatherer lifestyles.
04/03/2024 – Desert trip update, my books are open, and upcoming classes! ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Updates about opening herbal practice to new clients, a plant highlight on Oregon grape (roots and lore), a report from assisting with a field trip to the Anza Borrego desert with flower essences (like desert lily, datura, salt heliotrope, ocotillo), announcements about herb walks and classes in the Bay Area, and a podcast recommendation for plant-centric ethnobotanical learning.
02/28/2024 – Root remedies, winter herbal cleanse, and more! ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Toad trip to Oregon! Reflections on the hard stretch of late winter, a family roadtrip and fresh harvesting yellow dock and blackberry roots to make herbal tinctures. New flower essences: cyclamen, hellebore, and black pussy willow. A detailed herbal winter cleanse decoction.
02/05/2024 – Welcome to my first herbalism newsletter! ❤️ 🌿 ☀️
Introduction to Blossomwood Botanicals and L. Leland’s herbal path, her heart-centered approach to plants, offerings (tinctures, essences, classes), and connection with community and Berkeley Herbal Center. Spotlight on wild rose. Images of a wild rose essence. Herbal bone broth recipe. Podcast recommendation: The Emerald.