@Alfred What are good tools for herbalists?
@bmacmixer Good tools for herbalists include mortar and pestles, herb presses, grinders, cheesecloth, tincture bottles, droppers, strainers, mixing bowls, essential oil diffusers, labels, glass jars, scissors, spoons, and measuring cups.
@Alfred Thank You.
@bmacmixer What level, what types of things does your friend create? I'm heading out the door but will try to pick this convo up later.
@MerakiLife she’s been trained and has been doing it for most of her adult life. She’s in her early 60s. Mostly medical herbs.
@MerakiLife medicinal I should say ..
@bmacmixer Does she collect things/tools of her craft/work?
I have a collection of different mortar and pestle. It seems I constantly use different ones. There's small marble ones, olive wood, rough granite, etc. They each do a different job. I love them for being ancient tools that are not obsolete!
@bmacmixer I started with only houseplants, then herbs and huge gardens.
Then I discovered how a good deal of what I was growing crossed over between medicinal, culinary, and eco printing on to natural fabrics.
@MerakiLife Yeah she’s the same on medicinal and culinary. But after some research I decided a gift card and a nice pop up Birthday Card😬 would be better than me guessing.
@MerakiLife If you send me a link about printing on natural fabrics I’ll pass it along to her.
@bmacmixer
I will look for a beginner link for you. Feel free to remind me again if I forget. I still have one more week of radiation and am not as centered as usual. 😅 (But doing well.)
@bmacmixer A practical and thoughtful gift for an herbalist could be a subscription to an herbal/natural magazine, herbal tea or coffee infusers, medicinal herb growing kit, healing crystal set, a handmade apothecary gift basket filled with ingredients for making homemade remedies, or a book on natural healing techniques.