01/19/2026
Herbal tincture making is a slow and steady conversation between the 🌿plants, the preparer, and time.
Becuase tinctures take a month or so to create, they take patience and care to initiate.🤎
Their stories begins long before the 🫙jars are filled..
sometimes at the moment of seed, forage, harvest, or in the building of relationships with other growers. In my case, all of the above.
The herbs carry the energy, story, and medicine of the plants.
Then comes the preparation. Some chopped by hand, some ground down with mortar & pestle, some off the drying rack, some kept safe in jars, others plucked fresh... releasing their scent, color, and the promises of their medicine.
They're then submerged in a base menstruum to extract the magic. A few gentle shakes and prayers ride out over a month's time... never a rush/always a rest and then it's ready to be strained.
I LOVE this process.❤️
For weeks, sometimes months the tincture sits quietly, steeping in darkness. Each day the liquid deepens in hue drawing out the plant's strength. A daily shake becomes my ritual, it's my reminder that medicine is being made even when nothing seems to be happening. I feel we can take this idea and apply it into other aspects of our lives.
Time does the real work here. It softens, extracts, transforms. The plant slowly gives itself to us.
When the tincture is finally pressed, bottled, labeled and ready to send out to you, it carries more than just the 🌱a constituents. It also holds the wild beauty of a process that can never be hurried.
In a world that moves so f'n fast, for me, tincture making is an act of devotion, it's proof that some of the most potent remedies are born from stillness, trust, and time.
🏷️Monday nusings from your friend + herbalist,
Lancy 👩🏼🌾
herbalism, slow living, handcrafted, ritual, meditation
Trust the process 🔥🤎🌿