Our first batch of calendula from the garden at home, the plants we rescued from the greenhouses at the farm in early June because they were suffering in the heatwave. You live and learn, but they survived and thrived in the open air and rich earth of the regenerative garden at home.

This pretty picture is next to our ancient Filipino pottery vases planted with ghost grass, which is gorgeous, and the calendula we grow from certified demeter seeds from Bingenheimer Saatgut in Germany. After we pick and dry the flowers, we make oleolites by cold infusion using our own extravirgin biological olive oil. There’s more, much more, on the way…