Farmer & Distiller of Hand Harvested - Slow Steam extracted distillates - Finely Crafted 

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100 % PURE Wild Harvested - alcohol free, No chemicals, NO PULP WOOD, no additives farm direct - A Wild Crops Farm -

A healthy start in in healthy forest!

It starts on pristine, remote,& wild lands and with the natural alchemy of plants, water and soil. We work in healthy forests, rich in biodiversity. We harvest in places where & there are often times a hundred different species, all intertwined and interacting chemically. This wild, natural interaction between species to produce some of the best medicine plants on earth. In competing for light and nutrients wild plants grow stronger than those row cropped, or cultivated in a field or garden.

Grows wild and healthy

Guided by generational wisdom personal&experience, and modern science

Our harvests are perfectly timed for the maixium phyto chemicals in the plant. Sometimes, flower heads have so much oil that it could litereally be squeezed out by hand. We know the proper time to pick each species very thoughtfully plan our year's production based on&the perfect timing.

Guide: No plant before its time or after its prime.

Distillation Method

We seperate the living plant material from the boiling flask. No dumpting plant material into a can of boiling water, here!

We are grateful to Gary @ heart magic, who has worked with us since the begining!

The following comes from Gary's Distillation site.:

Maintaining the entire biocontainer at exactly boiling temperature (100c) during production is very important for obtaining maximum quality and quantity of both essential oil and hydrosol. For big systems this usually isn't practical. Big remote steam-fed bio-chambers are usually just sitting out in open air, which by definition allows their walls to be cooled by that air, so some water condensation on the inside of those walls is always going to occur.

Any water that ends up in the biocontainer robs you of potential hydrosol, and also renders any biomaterial it comes in contact with undistillable, and the biomass touching the chamber walls may not get properly distilled at all.
It's a difficult problem... insulating the biocontainer is an answer, but costly and physically cumbersome. Also, in large steam-fed distillers that use separate steam generators, there a continual dance of controlling pressure and temperature of the steam going into the biochamber- tricky to get right.

We've come up with a deceptively clever way around all of this...to keep the biocontainer dry and insulated and not have to hassle with steam pressure or temperature, we simply put the entire biocontainer inside of the boiling chamber!!
Quite different than simply chucking the biomass into the same vessel as the boiling water, we build an entirely separate housing inside of the boiling chamber, and then put the biomass in that "inner" housing.
It makes sense... this way the entire biocontainer is surrounded inside and out by 100 degree steam- Thus the entire system works at exactly 100 degrees c, and the biocontainer stays dry because it cannot condense any water on it's walls.
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Please note the words "witch hazel" can mean any one of a number of formulas made from the plant.

The common formula is witch hazel USP - this is what you find on the shelf at stores.

Here is the formula for that product please note acid is a required additive. 

We do not strip the forest. There is no roller chopping, skidding, or destruction on ouSEE OUR lands.

Compare our harvest to industrial witch hazel harvests.

We are fair trade:

Our harvesters make $150.00 or more a day and are paid by the lb not by the ton.

We use human and animal power to bring

fresh witch hazel herb out of the forest.

Why certified wild crop organic witch hazel