Arise Botanicals

10/03/2025

Feeling so very grateful for community these days. So many of us are navigating big loss, uncomfortable change and future unknowns. What I know is that calling in help and completing big leaps for a vision coming to fruition feel affirming (next phase of Arise Botanicals!) Thank you to everyone who helped with the big dig as well as the ongoing Tulsi harvest + processing.

Also pictured: Last Sunday's plant ramble was nourishing. Collaboration made it possible. Relationship with land made it sacred 🌾 I've also started up with Nature Club at Prescott Elementary again. These young ones teach me so much with their curiosity, observations and reflections.

This Sunday I'm looking forward to bringing the pop-up apothecary to for the Harvest Moon Pop-up, 12-3pm (4726 Cooper Ave, Lincoln). Pepe's Bistro and Daughter Nature will be bringing their delicious and delightful plant magic as well! See previous post for details.

Monday is both the Champion Tree Bike tour, led by Kat and Brad (see flyer on last slide). Free community bike ride to appreciate gorgeous trees right here in Lincoln (meet at Woods Park parking lot, 5pm)

Also on October 6th, I'll be teaching my Elderberry Syrup workshop at SCC Continuing Education 6:30-8pm. A perrenial favorite! There are 2 seats still available. Details on my website or register at Southeast.edu (course search under community with keyword HERB)

I've been practicing herbalism for 18 years and in business as an herbalist for 10. I'm forever learning, slow growing and planting seeds for the future, even and ESPECIALLY in uncertain times. So glad we're connected. Let's keep going 🌻

09/18/2025

Beloveds, here’s an invitation to stop and smell the flowers. Breath in...out...repeat. The growing season is waning, but the flowers are still giving. Join me this Saturday, September 20th for an immersive workshop on the magic and medicine of flower essences from 6:30-8pm at Bodhi Imports (1645 S 17th St in Lincoln). Space is limited and there are six spots left at the time of this post. This event was so well received last June that we wanted to offer it again on the other end of the summer season. All participants will leave with detailed handouts and a customized flower essence blend along with the knowledge of how to craft these plant remedies at home.

Flower essences are profound in the ways that they shift the emotional experiences we are folded into. A supportive hand-hold from the plant world. Flower essences are, but one expression of the potent energetic connections we tender humans are woven into with the living world around us. When the eclipse portal is cloudy, when the stank of fascism is strong, plant medicines support us in staying present and moving through complex feelings to align with our most authentic expressions of love and connection.

Reserve your spot by contacting .imports on instagram, facebook, or visit in-store.  Did you know that Arise Botanicals products are available here along with so many other lovingly crafted items? 

Some flower photos from this season and past summers to brighten your feed. Photo one is Baby Dragon sniffing some fornicating pollinators on White Snakeroot flower, alongside Goldenrod and Purple Aster.

09/15/2025

Two upcoming gatherings for plant lovers and the plant-curious 🌼Free community events. More info below. Please share 🌼

Sunday, September 28th 3-5pm. We will gather at the community garden in Peter Pan Park (near 31st and W St.) then ramble together down the bike path. Let's observe, interact with and learn more about some common (weedy) medicinals growing around us as well as a few cultivated plants relatives stewarded with Indigenous wisdom. Led by Manny of Indigenous Foodways and Alex from Arise Botanicals.
More information and registration (free): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfr4dCZF9Ez2V_JhiLcP4bG-0uT1ZlovjPkn4OuP36_pEnbRw/viewform

Monday, October 6th 5-7pm. Join Kat Shiffler and Brad Kindler (NE Statewide Aboretum) for a guided four mile bicycle tour of several champion (largest known) tree specimens, located right here in Lincoln. Meet at the Woods Park pool parking lot, near 33rd and J St.)

09/15/2025

Upcoming pop-up event at Bella Spa & Apothecary on Sunday, October 5th, 12-3pm. It's going to be a real sweet time with Pepe's Bistro and Daughter Nature

Super Moon season is approaching and these beautiful full moons coming closer to the Earth, reminds us to lean in and be closer to our community.

Please join us on Sunday, October 5 from 12 to 3 PM for a Harvest Moon Pop ups with + .daughter.nature + Bella’s body butter and bath salt maker .

Come join us for delicious food, botanical goods to support you through the changing seasons, along with handcrafted soaps, and beautiful plants 🪴 to bring comfort and balance to your Sanctuary 💙

Enjoy some sips of tea and bites of chocolate as you step into and explore the these lovely artist in your community and their offerings.
Xox Bella

09/12/2025

I'll be returning to Bodhi Imports on Saturday, September 20th for an immersive workshop where we'll spend two hours together discussing the playful and profound medicine of flower essences. Participants will be invited to sample and create their own customized flower essence formula to take home. Space is limited to 12 people, register with Beatrix by calling, visiting the shop or DM'ing Bodhi Imports. $25 per person

07/17/2025

The pop-up apothecary will be at the next Curio Summer Sunday event on July 27th from 11-3pm. Come enjoy a glass of ice herbal tea, delicious food from Pepe's Bistro while browsing vintage clothes and stained glass art from our other vendor buddies. Curio: Shop + Creative Space is such a solid small business and community hub in my neighborhood. Check out this lineup of upcoming events in the Summer Sundays pop-up series!

The pop-up apothecary will be stocked with teas, salve, tinctures, plant art, flower essences and more!

Summer Sundays — A pop-up series ☀️

Think local favorites, makers, artists, vintage finds, and more. Come hang, connect + support local businesses.

07/09/2025

Upcoming Summer Classes at SCC 🌻🐝

Preserving Your Herbal Harvest, Monday, July 14th 6:30-8pm at SCC Continuing Education Center (68th and O St in Lincoln)

Hebal Elixirs, September 8th 6-8pm at SCC Continuing Education Center. A refreshing celebration for the end of summer!

Registration and details at Southeast.edu (or via link in bio.) Search for these classes on the Community page with keyword HERB.

Recent programs with Community Crops and Bohdi Imports were such a sweet success! Big thanks to all 30 of you who came out to the urban growers class last night! These events were all at capacity, but there are still spaces available for SCC Summer programming.

I'll be back at Morrill Hall later this month for two of their summer day camps. Plants and play are where it's at! Please reach out with questions about upcoming programming or scheduling an event for your group. There are endless ways to connect plants and people. Nature is an invaluable teacher in these times of extraordinary harm and upheaval. Much love 💜🌿

Photos from the garden with Mullein flowers, Garden Party with Community Crops, Morrill Hall Discovery Day Camps, and potion making activity led by my daughter at Witch Camp!

06/27/2025

Updates: Tomorrow evening's flower essence class at Bohdi Imports is sold out. Thanks to everyone who registered!

Tomorrow is also Community Crops annual Garden Party, 10-1pm at Gere Library (outside by the garden). Vi and I will be there sharing herbal tea and leading a Mugwort wand making activity. Free and fun for everyone!

The Garlic harvest is complete 🧄 A few of these braids will be available at my next pop-up 7/27 at Curio. Their Sunday Pop-up series starts this weekend and the weekly lineup is stellar.

Oats are harvested and a medicine I've been leaning into big time lately. A nice cozy blanket for the nerves 🌾

This morning at the Paleobotany and Modern Plants camp at Morrill Hall a young person exclaimed that they've found their calling and would like to be an herbalist so they can play with plants everyday. Me too :)

Beaming bright summer wishes to us all. Planting seeds for the new world we're growing into existence. Trust kids. Compost ICE and the fascist police state. Much love for a greener tomorrow 💚