White Deer Apothecary

🌲💚 Some glamour shots of a couple local junipers here in Northern New Mexico at Ghost Ranch 💚🌲

I love meeting the juniper trees wherever I go and smelling their varied (but all delightful) scents and tasting the berries! The first pic shows the tiny male cones and the second some lovely berries (actually the fleshy female cones in botanical nerd terms).

My favorite ways to work with juniper leaves are to create smoke bundles and make a warming infused oil for sore muscles and joints. If you’d like to learn more about these prolific and beautiful trees, I hope you’ll join my next Juniper Magic class at The Charmadillo ✦ Nature Retreat, Lodging & Event Venue in Center Point, TX on Nov 8th! Details and tix in my bio and at whitedeerapothecary dot com.

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🌿🥂Cheers from the road!✨

I’m here in northern New Mexico this week (one of my former homes) to teach and play at the Plant Healer Good Medicine Confluence. I’ll be teaching an Herbal Cocktail & Mocktail class at the confluence…and every time I do so I am asked when I will be teaching one closer to my home in TX…

Sooooo go ahead and mark your calendar for Friday Nov 13th! Better yet, you can get your tix via my website (in bio).

Join me in crafting delightful botanical cocktails and getting to know the plants we use to make them. These celebratory drinks can help us enliven our senses and mark special moments in our lives- even more so when we can craft them with local ingredients at home. In this class we’ll play with some infused spirits, syrups, bitters, juices, herbal salts and more. I will demo several recipes for vibrant cocktails for you to sample, provide recipe cards of what is made in class and inspiration for creating your own magical drinks at home. Our cocktails will feature spirits from a local distillery.
Your ticket includes a beautiful heirloom Tequilero Copper Shot Cup from Sertodo copper to sample from and take home. We’ll be mixing our drinks with Lauren’s longtime favorite Sertodo Copper bar tools and will have some available for purchase after class to get you set up at home as well!

This class takes place in the beautiful open-air kitchen and lounge space at Hacienda Sertodo, a boutique guesthouse minutes from downtown Austin amidst peaceful gardens, and a short 10-minute drive to Lady Bird Lake.

(Class is open to folks 21+)

✨🌲 NEW Juniper Magic Class! ✨🌲

Sun Nov 8th
3-5pm at The Charmadillo ✦ Nature Retreat, Lodging & Event Venue in Center Point, TX
$45

Let’s explore the magic and medicine of the often misunderstood Juniper- outside under the trees!

Join Herbalist Lauren Peterson of White Deer Apothecary for an afternoon of getting to know and love this abundant and widespread tree. In addition to exploring how humans have interacted with Juniper trees throughout history, we will learn some techniques and recipes to incorporate Juniper into our daily lives. You’ll learn how to make your own infused gin, Juniper infused oil & salve, and Juniper smoke bundle (incense).

Following the workshop, you’re invited to enjoy time in The Charmadillo’s sauna- built from local Juniper wood.
If you haven’t visited The Charmadillo yet- you’re in for a treat! It’s a nature based lodging and event space to nourish your connection to nature, yourself and your fellow travelers. Learn more and book an A-frame cabin or tent site by checking out The Charmadillo ✦ Nature Retreat, Lodging & Event Venue

I can’t wait to see you!

💙💙💙 Testing out some Cyanotype chemistry I mixed up a while ago…and it’s still good!💙💙💙
In my previous life, I studied historic photographic processes in Santa Fe, NM 20+ years ago and got my BFA in photography. My love for Cyanotype runs deep- how could you not fall in love with these gorgeous blues and printing in the sun? It may seem distant from my love for herbalism, but I see the connections clearly- mixing potions (not to drink!), making beautiful things with my hands, playing outside with plants. They very first use of the Cyanotype process was to document botanical specimens!
Anywho, just had fun doing some quick tests and can’t wait until I have time to play more.

Would you like to attend a Cyanotype workshop sometime?

💜It’s a good day to become one with the passionvines💜

Thank you Orchid Hill Farms for always being so generous in sharing your plants with me! And your delicious duck eggs 🥚

🌲 Setting up for a private plant walk & herbal cocktail class under the junipers! Basically an herbalist’s dream 💚
Visitors to the Texas Hill Country can book my Nature’s Elixir Experience when they stay at Onera | Fredericksburg, TX and Onera | Wimberley, TX.

DM me or contact me via my website for other inquiries!

🍹 Really loving this new bevy with Yauhtli/Mex Mint Marigold Oxymel, Two Hives Honey Mesquite Honey, Pineapple juice, Lime juice and homemade chile lime salt (aka Tajin).

Intrigued? We still have a few open spots in the Herbs & Honey Mocktail class at Two Hives Honey tomorrow (Sat 9/19) taught by Carla Salas and myself! Class is from 4-6pm at the Honey Ranch in Manor, TX. You’ll sample 3 unique mocktails and learn about the herbs and special varietal honeys used in each one! You’ll go home feeling refreshed and inspired to craft your own memorable mocktails at home.

Tix in bio!

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It’s been a rough week…but I just arrived home after a long unexpected road trip and look who finally bloomed! I have been waiting and waiting for months for my blue butterfly pea plants to flower and they’re finally begun! This is my first time growing them and I’m just so happy to see these beautiful flowers popping up.

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Join me and Carla Salas at Two Hives Honey in Manor, TX this Saturday 9/19 to play with lively herbs, delicious local honeys, syrups, bitters, extracts, juices and more. We’ll demo 3 recipes for delightful mocktails that enhance your day without the booze and will cover several techniques for infusing vibrant flavors into your drinks. You’ll sample each mocktail as we make them, plus, enjoy a mini guided honey flight of those used in the drinks to inspire you to create your own special recipes at home. Go home with a recipe card of the recipes of the day!
You can use the code FALL for $5 off each ticket as well! Get your tix at twohiveshoney dot com (🔗 in bio)