Forest Floor Alchemy

11/28/2025

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This hot cocoa is not what you get at your local market. Nothing close to it. Not even a little bit....

It’s richer, darker, and crafted to support the body, not satisfy a sweet tooth. Made with Dutch-process cocoa for its smooth depth and functional mushrooms for focus, resilience, and steady energy, it’s a winter drink with intention. No junk, no fillers, just real ingredients that nourish, fortify, and ground you when the cold settles in.

This blend starts with rich red Dutch-process cocoa and pure maple sugar, skipping the refined sweeteners and creating a smoother, healthier cup you can share with the family all season long.
Then come the nutrients...the magick woven through the mix:

• Lion’s Mane for clarity, focus, and steady mental fire.
• Cordyceps for gentle energy, stamina, and lung support in the cold.
• Chaga for immune defense, antioxidant strength, and deep winter nourishment.
• Reishi for nervous-system calm, grounded immunity, and that slow, ease-into-yourself kind of peace.

All of it coming together into a cup that’s decadent, earthy, and quietly beneficial.

So as we approach this winter season, remember to...

take a moment to root down…
Take a moment to return to yourself…
Take a moment to get GROUNDED.

Available now! Message me to order.

11/26/2025

The season of muck and mucus is here, so I put together a kit for anyone who wants to brew up a real, potent syrup at home. This is simple, strong, and built for the colder months when the body needs that extra support.

Each kit comes with a dry blend of elderberries, ginger, ceylon cinnamon, clove, cardamom, and rosehips. These herbs and spices are traditionally used to keep the system steady when everything starts slipping into the darker half of the year.

What each ingredient brings:

• Elderberries: Immune-supporting antioxidants; known to shorten cold duration and strengthen the body’s response.

• Ginger: Warms, moves, and supports digestion and circulation.

• Rosehips: A natural hit of Vitamin C; helpful for skin, immunity, and recovery.

• Ceylon Cinnamon: Balances blood sugar, supports digestion, and adds real medicinal warmth (not the cheap cassia version).

• Clove: Antimicrobial, warming, and great for respiratory comfort.

• Cardamom: Helps open the lungs, ease digestion, and move stagnation.

You simmer the blend, strain it, stir in some local honey, and end up with about 16 oz of fresh elderberry syrup you brewed yourself. No fillers. No guesswork. No BS. Just solid herbal support you can actually feel.

Kits are available now.
Craft it, bottle it, use it.
Your body will thank you!

Let me know if you want one set aside!

11/25/2025

Aimee has a variety of thoughtful products to consider. Whether it's herbal remedies, dried botanical creations, watercolors, or jewelry, Aimee's work is both intentional and beautiful. You can find her at Holiday Magic on December 6&7 at BrassWorks!

11/06/2025

🌲🌲🌲the Art of the Evergreen 🌲🌲🌲

Join us for a day of craft and connection. We will create small wreaths and forest ornaments from the Earth’s abundant offerings. We will work with pine and other wild things found underfoot, crafting medicine and meaning from the Forest Floor.

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10/31/2025

Most people don’t realize there’s more than one kind of cinnamon, and that the familiar, sharp-sweet spice most of us grew up with—cassia cinnamon—isn’t the true variety once prized in herbal medicine. Cassia is darker, hotter, and cheaper to produce, which makes it common in grocery store jars. It has that bold 'red-hot' flavor that can overpower a blend, while Ceylon cinnamon, known as 'true cinnamon', is softer, lighter in color, and carries a gentle, almost floral sweetness. In the herbal world, that difference matters. Ceylon has a finer balance of volatile oils and significantly less coumarin, a compound that, in large amounts, can be harsh on the liver, making it the healthier and more sustainable choice for daily use.

Ceylon cinnamon has a softness to its strength. It doesn’t hit the tongue with the same fiery punch as cassia, but it lingers, as it's warm, light, and almost sweet in a way that feels nourishing instead of sharp. It’s known to help balance blood sugar, support healthy circulation, calm inflammation, and ease digestion. Unlike cassia, it’s gentle on the liver and better suited for daily use—something you can sip in your tea, add to your tonics, or stir into honey without worry. In herbal practice, it’s about working with nature’s rhythm, not against it. Ceylon carries that energy.

At Forest Floor Alchemy, I carefully select the Ceylon Cinnamon I use in all of my consumables. Hand rolled and processed with no added chemicals or pesticides is typically what I look for when purchasing. What a difference in flavor and beneficial properties.

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10/23/2025

There’s a kind of medicine that doesn’t come in bottles. It brews on the stove, fills the house with scent, and reminds the body how to settle.

Cider & Sage was made for that kind of healing. Apple, sage, clove, and star anise come together to warm the blood, support digestion, and soothe the shift into colder days. A blend to steady the system and quiet the mind while the season turns inward.

Sip it as is, or simmer it into the cider recipe shared below. A ritual of nourishment more than anything else.

Hand-blended with care, intention, and the innate knowing of forest medicine.

10/22/2025

Fire cider is a traditional herbal tonic designed to strengthen the immune system, support digestion, and promote circulation, especially during the colder, darker months when the body naturally slows down. Made with raw apple cider vinegar, roots, herbs, and warming spices, it works as both a preventive and restorative remedy.

The acidity helps extract the medicinal compounds of each plant while balancing gut health and supporting the body’s detox pathways. Taken daily or at the first sign of imbalance, fire cider encourages the body to stay resilient, energized, and grounded through the seasonal transitions that test our immune strength and inner warmth.

Horseradish acts as a natural decongestant and circulatory stimulant, clearing the sinuses and lungs. Sichuan pepper boosts circulation and brings heat to the body, gently awakening digestion and easing inflammation. Thyme offers potent antimicrobial support for the respiratory system, while rosemary strengthens focus, memory, and overall vitality. Together, they create a tonic that not only fuels the immune system but reminds the body how to stay alive and alert in the darker season. A steady, fiery ally when the world grows cold.❄️

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Available in 4oz and 8oz sizes.
Contact Aimee to reserve your bottle!

10/21/2025

10/21/2025

Szechuan (or Sichuan) pepper isn’t a true peppercorn but the dried husk of the prickly ash tree. A fiery, aromatic spice with numbing, tingling magic that awakens both palate and spirit. Medicinally, it has long been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to stimulate circulation, aid digestion, and warm the body’s core energy. It helps dispel “cold” and “damp” conditions, supports metabolism, and can ease abdominal pain, nausea, or sluggish digestion. The active compound hydroxy-α-sanshool creates that electric mouth sensation, increasing saliva and blood flow, essentially igniting the body’s inner fire.

Spiritually, Szechuan pepper carries the frequency of awakening and clarity. Its sharp, buzzing energy clears stagnation, both physical and emotional, and brings awareness into the present moment. It embodies the Fire element:

Transformation.
Passion.
Illumination.

Energetically, it acts like a spark to the meridians, quickening one’s chi and breaking through numbness or apathy. In ritual work, it can be used to ward off negative energies, strengthen personal power, and invoke vitality. Think of it as a sacred catalyst, stirring the senses awake and rekindling the flame of life force within.

A perfect addition to my fire cider recipe. 🔥

Stay in-tuned for more....

10/19/2025

There’s something wild and sacred about an herbal apothecary. It reminds us what the medicine cabinet should really look like. Not those shelves stuffed with synthetic pills and empty promises, but jars of dried leaves, tinctures, and roots that hum with life. Somewhere along the way, we forgot that healing used to come from the earth, not from a corporation with a profit quota.

Pharmaceutical companies have made an art out of keeping people dependent, not well. They sell the illusion of healing, while the real medicine waits quietly in the garden, in the forest, and in our own backyards. Plant medicine doesn’t just treat symptoms, it speaks to the body’s wisdom.
It repairs.
It replenishes.
It reconnects us with the rhythm of the planet, with something older, truer, and far more intelligent than anything in a lab coat, funded by WHO? ....no pun intended 🙄

The real medicine cabinet should smell like pine resin and earth after the rain. It should look like amber tincture bottles lined in sunlight and baskets of herbs drying in the kitchen. It should look like:

Laughter.
Emotion.
Intention.

It should look like chaos and clarity, all at once, and feel like an eternal connection to something so vast and unfathomable. It should be a living, breathing reflection of how we care for ourselves. The mind, body, and spirit as a whole. What it should not be, is a sterile row of bottles with fine print and warning labels, including 776 side effects and allergic reactions.

My own shelf continues to grow. It has been guided by the seasons and my body’s story. Knotweed has been a strong ally for me. It's powerful and resilient, and deeply supportive for those navigating Lyme. Mullein, soft and generous, has been helping to restore and cleanse my lungs after years of smoking, encouraging each inhale to move a little freer. White pine offers both strength and sweetness, is rich in vitamin C and contains medicine for the spirit as much as the body. Another great ally is burdock root. It works quietly beneath the surface, helping to clear the blood, support the liver, and release what the body no longer needs. A wonderful addition for detoxification and regeneration.

This is what medicine looks like when it remembers its roots. No disclaimers, no dependency, just the rhythm of the earth moving through your hands, your breath, your bloodstream.

Optimum wellness is a state of being.
A recalibration.
A restoration of what the body lost through societal conditioning and money making madmen.
..I do not hold the doctor title, and I definitely don’t hand out prescription sheets. What I do offer is earth wisdom, plant extracts, and old-world common sense, the kind that existed long before anyone needed a license to heal. Take what resonates, do your own research, and remember: nature doesn’t need FDA approval to work.

10/09/2025

An incredible breakthrough comes from researchers at the University of California San Diego, where scientists have discovered that a harmless plant virus, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV), could become a powerful weapon against cancer. Unlike viruses that infect humans, CPMV cannot harm human cells—instead, it reawakens the immune system, training it to hunt down and destroy tumors anywhere in the body. When injected directly into tumors, it summons an army of immune cells including neutrophils, macrophages, natural killer cells, B cells, and T cells, creating a lasting memory that keeps fighting cancer long after treatment. The secret lies in its unique ability to trigger multiple interferons and activate a key immune switch, something no other plant virus has achieved. Low-cost and easily produced with just sunlight, soil, and water, CPMV is now moving toward human clinical trials, offering hope for a revolutionary, affordable cancer therapy.