LoveJoy Botanicals

Forage to Feast class Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center was so super lovely. I am deeply grateful to be able to share my knowledge, experience, and wisdom of the edible + medicinal plants in the wild! We foraged a huge bag of nettles along with chickweed, miners lettuce, violets, plantain, spruce tips and dandelion that we whipped up into 3 batches of wild green pesto. Super yumyum!

May all beings everywhere be blessed with such divine blossoming 🌸

The fragility of life is poignant these days.
Everywhere we look seems to be on fire with cruelty, greed, and injustice. Please keep Hope alive in your hearts as you work for peace. It truly begins in our own hearts.

I offer up gratitude everyday for the powerful priveleges I have to connect with, and share my wisdom of the plant world. Such a necessary skill and honor. Thank you Thank you Thank you.

May all beings everywhere be safe. May all beings everywhere be free from suffering. May all beings everywhere know peace in their hearts. May it be so.

Sweet Greetings Friends ☼ I'm super grateful to be offering some Herbal classes again this Spring at Oregon Coast Community College and Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center ~ It is my passion and purpose to share the wisdom of the plants ☼ I hope to see your beautiful faces in the healing circle ☼
Wild Greens: Forage to Feast
Explore the flavors and medicine of early spring at Yakona as the forest begins to awaken. Learn to identify wild edible and medicinal plants, discover their nutritional and healing benefits, and harvest ingredients to create and enjoy a simple wild food dish together.
Wednesday, April 8 | 1PM-5PM
Register Here: yakonaoregon.org/events
Super Natural Skin Care
Learn how fresh, wild, and organic plants can be transformed into nourishing skin care products in this hands-on workshop. Students will explore the healing properties of select local plants, learn methods for infusing botanicals into oils, and create their own herbal skin care balms and salves. Participants will discuss how to choose appropriate herbs for different skin needs and will leave with a personally crafted herbal-infused oil and a tin of co-created balm. Recipes and samples are included.
Wednesday May 6th • 5:30–7:30 PM
https://oregoncoast.edu/communityed/
Wild Rose Exploration: Nourishing Our Emotional Hearts
This immersive botanical experience invites participants to explore the emotional and heart-centered healing qualities of wild roses. Students will learn how to identify local wild rose species, understand their emotional and cardiovascular benefits, and craft an herbal preparation using fresh wild roses. The evening includes a short plant meditation, sampling a variety of rose preparations, and hands-on creation of a take-home remedy. Recipes and samples are included.
Tuesday May 19th • 5:30–7:30 PM
https://oregoncoast.edu/communityed/

Truly stunned by coming across these precious beauties today. Just what the Herbalist ordered 🤭 sweet sweet medicine for a peaceful heart and night-time magic, she is rich in flavonoids and offers her soothing vibes to colds + coughs due to her antimicrobial actions. Her color alone can stimulate intuition and awaken wisdom. Big bouquet of gratitude for this early Springtime gift from my dear mama 🌏

💗 Sunshine to Sugar 💓
This is what I hope everyone can learn, feel and trust....
"Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water....and then they give it away" ~ R. W. Kimmerer
Pure and abundant generosity in every leaf, bud, stem, root, thorn and petal. Pulsing with warmth and nourishment, plants offer us their lives so we may sustain our own. I am ever heartened by their supreme beauty 🌸 They sing their stories to us with their colors, aromas, patterns, and depth. They are our teachers, and all we need to do is listen 🌿 May we all find solace, healing, grace, vitality, and sweet comfort as we connect more deeply with our plant friends.

with sweet gratitude to my dear soul sister Rosa for singing to me throughout my lifetime
and to my dear friend Rick Eades who wrote me a poem decades ago that captured Sunshine to Sugar 🥰

Warm Winter greetings friends. I am so super grateful to offer you these Seasonal Plant based Medicines. All of them truly tasty. Big beautiful thanks to the plants for sharing their healing abilities, and to you my friends for trusting in them 🌲🕯🌸

Big bouquet of gratitude for being part of my life story. My Herbal studies began back in 1993 in the woods of North Carolina. My daughter, ,was a tiny baby, and we lived in a log cabin where we bathed outside, I heated our 2 room cabin with wood, and we wandered the forests while I learned about the native, edible and medicinal plants. It was truly a magical time.
Looking back over all these years I am humbled and deeply grateful to the plants for singing to me and shining their healing powers so brightly. My heart is sweetly grateful to all of you who support my LoveJoy, my Dream Come True.
I cant imagine my life without the wild plants. I am forever grateful for their love, support, and beauty. It is my sweetest pleasure to be this bridge between the plants and my community. Crafting fresh whole plant infused organic oils + elixirs is true and potent medicine. I continue strong and steady because of you.
THANK YOU for selecting LoveJoy 🌸🌿

FREE Community Immunity Event on Saturday Sep. 13th ☼ Frances O'Halloran of LoveJoy Botanicals will be helping folks craft their own jar of this potent Cold + Flu Remedy ☼ Most the ingredients used in this traditional tonic are from our local farmers! Oso Honey Farm Pablo Muñoz Farms V Family Farm Gathering Together Farm ☼ Find the Fire Cider booth next to LoveJoy across from the Managers booth. Come find out how to make your own Herbal Remedy to enliven your Immune System! 9am until supplies run out~

R O S E J O Y 🌸 This precious rejuvenating facial balm is lovingly handcrafted with fresh wild roses + vanilla beans infused into organic oils to nourish both your skin and your energetic heart 🌸 Leaves your skin nourished and silky smooth 🌸 Rose is joy incarnate ~ she opens us to the sweetness of life and helps us resonate with our spirit 🌸 Softener and protector of hearts, soother of worry and anxiety, opener of the heart center, Rose helps us reunite with our hearts song 🌸

The sweetest booth at the Oregon Country Fair 🌸
So super grateful to have had this pocket of beauty + peace among the wild extravagant bustling creativity 🪅 It's such an honor and a pleasure to be included in this phenomenal event. Yes, it's exhausting, dusty, and loud! And I wouldn't miss it! I met so many plant lovers 🌸 Big 💐 💐 💐 bouquets of thanks to my crew You the best!

Medicine of the Evergreens — Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center Join Herbalist + Wellness Educator Frances O’Halloran of LoveJoy Botanicals for an immersive afternoon of evergreen exploration, plant connection, and hands-on medicine making at the beautiful Yakona Nature Preserve. This gathering is an invitation into sacred space and seasonal attunement, where ...

Oregon Country Fair baby!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Magic and beauty abounds 🍑 Where expressing your wild creativity is not only accepted, yet expected 🥰 I am deeply honored to be chosen as a Botanical Artisan Vendor. Sharing my sweet + powerful remedies is my passion and my purpose 💜🌸 Hope to see you on the Moon Path 🌙🫶