Heartsong Herbs

Have a burning herbal question? We’d love to hear from you! You can call or text us anytime and a real live HSH herbalist will get back to you. We’ve had this posted up on our website for a bit and it’s been fun communicating with folks in this way. 💚

Fun fact: Lion’s Mane is a type of tooth fungus! The fruiting bodies are saprotrophic, meaning they consume the decaying bodies of trees. Their beard-like hanging spines contain the spores of the mushroom, and also lend to their Latin name, Hericium erinaceus, which means “hedgehog.” A precious but powerful medicinal fungus that also doubles as a delicious “steak” dinner - it’s hard to beat!

Lion’s Mane is a cerebral tonic that increases focus and cognitive ability, but it also reduces inflammation throughout the body, increases immune function, and is regenerative and healing to our nervous systems. If there’s one mushroom to rule them all, this might be it 😉

Here at Heartsong Herbs we double extract the fruiting body so that you can get the maximum benefits from this powerhouse ally. We have Lion’s Mane available on its own as a single tincture, but you’ll also find it in our Brain Boost formula as well. Whether you’re looking for daily tension and pain relief, to awaken your mind, or all of the above, we’d encourage you to get some of this ‘shroom magic in your life!

You can read even more about Lion’s Mane in the Musings section on our website ✨

The back-to-school sniffles, sore throats, and coughs are here in full swing! Seems like our bodies will never get used to the level of exposure that we suddenly encounter this time of year. I’m grateful that we have allies to help our bodies navigate this pesky season. And common as they may be, their abilities to boost and strengthen our bodies makes them some of the superheroes of the plant medicine world.

Elder berries and flowers are who we call on for fevers and flu, while echinacea is an all around powerhouse for the immune system - think sore throats, ear infections, colds and flu, and more! Ginger not only boosts the immune system but also helps other plant medicines move through our bodies, acting like a true zinger to get things going.

Our Stay Well is a combination of elder berries and flowers, whole plant echinacea, and ginger root that wakes up the immune system and gives it an extra powerful leg up over viruses and bacteria. You can also find echinacea on its own in our single extract tincture. Potent and uncommon medicine from the most common of our plant friends!

Feeling the need to toot our own horn✨ Got a basket of fresh Gotu Kola here, one of the most powerful herbs for the brain! You don’t often find it in supplements in its fresh form. It’s mostly only available dried from India. Same goes for Bacopa, one of the other cerebral stars in our Brain Boost formula. These 2 are paired with Tulsi (also tinctured fresh) and US grown Certified Organic Lion’s Mane. I am so very proud of this formula.

Brain Boost is a cerebral stimulating formula that moves stagnation, clearing brain fog, improving memory, and enhancing focus. The positive side effects of improved cerebral circulation are an uplifted mood and a renewed sense of creativity. I’m obviously a fan of all our formulas but this one is extra special💚

I know it doesn’t look like much but that field right there, in the grand scheme of things, is 20+ years in the making. Over the weekend we sowed the cover crop on the first field at the new farm. Feels so very good to be sowing seeds on this land.

You can see from the photo that went with a 3D deer fence. Its a 5 strand double fence thats supposed to throw off the deer’s depth perception and in their confusion they won’t jump it🤞🏼 It’s also baited and electrified so there’s a bit more protection. I’ll let you know how it goes.

On the home side of things, we have drywall! Floors coming soon! Between running a business, building a farm, a house, and parenting, life has been full. A little too full at times, but this is what I signed up for and this is the work I love. Immensely grateful for it all💚

Next up, building the greenhouse!

The mind body connection is something that we will likely never fully comprehend. This part of our selves where the immaterial and the scientific overlap is confounding, a key part of our realities that can’t ever quite be grasped or, if it is, held for long. What we do know is that stressors on our mind can cause great malaise to our physical body and that the manifestations of external pressures have a real impact on our physical bodies, particularly on our nervous and immune systems.

Our Daily Adaptogen blend is a gift for a person who is chronically stressed or facing regular external or internal pressures. Adaptogens are defined as producing a “nonspecific state of resistance to stress” as well as being normalizing - meaning they work with the body as needed to bolster our various systems and bring us to a healthy sort of stasis. Tulsi, reishi, and ashwagandha pull our body and mind back to center while also deeply increasing our resistance to stress related illnesses, while milky oats do the work of repairing our frazzled nervous system and offering a bit of antidepressant magic.

We offer this blend in both 2oz and 4oz bottles, and we hope you’ll find some relief for both body and mind with this blend of rich and powerful plant medicine that we have lovingly created.

Ashwagandha is a lesson in looking well beyond what we see at first glance. This is a plant whose aerial parts, the above-ground body of the plant, are plain and largely unremarkable. No showy flower or leaf, just a common nightshade. When we dig the root in the winter, that’s where we find the most powerful medicine, all covered in soil and minerals, the roots reaching much further into the ground than we might imagine they could.

The Latin name for ashwagandha is Withania somnifera, with somnifera meaning “sleep inducing.” I wouldn’t say that ashwagandha is a sleepy herb like valerian is, but I think it speaks to the power of the plant to arrive in our bodies with calm, helping us to navigate stress and lowering our cortisol levels. Which yeah, if you’ve ever had too much on your mind at bedtime, you’ve probably wanted something to do just that for you.

But ashwagandha is a tonic and an adaptogen, so its power is best unleashed when we use it regularly and allow the work to happen slowly. This not an instant gratification type of medicine. It wants you to actually slow down and be intentional over time, teaching you in the process a sort of self-regulation. Not a nightcap type of ally, but instead a friend who walks with you all day, every day. It’s truly a beautiful relationship to grow.