Long before this blend found its way to the rain-soaked forests and wild margins of British Columbia, these four herbs were already woven into the folk traditions of northern Europe — gathered from hedgerows, meadow edges, and riverbanks by generations of herbalists, healers, and everyday people who knew their land intimately.
Nettle, lemon balm, blackberry leaf, and fireweed each carry centuries of Old World heritage. Fireweed — beloved across Russia and Scandinavia as Ivan Chai, or Koporye tea — was once a great Russian export, traded across Europe long before black tea dominated the cup. Nettle and blackberry leaf have been toning and nourishing staples of European folk herbalism for as long as records exist. Lemon balm, grown in monastery gardens since the Middle Ages, has always been the herb of calm and quiet comfort.
Here in BC, all four grow with abandon — in disturbed ground, along forest edges, in the green margins where wild things thrive. Hedgerow & Hearth honours both that Old World wisdom and this wild, generous landscape we now call home.
Nourishing, gently toning, and quietly calming — a cup for slowing down, wherever you are.
Urtica dioica (nettle)
Melissa officinalis (lemon balm)
Rubus fruticosus (blackberry leaf)
Epilobium angustifolium (fireweed / Ivan Chai)
Long before this blend found its way to the rain-soaked forests and wild margins of British Columbia, these four herbs were already woven into the folk traditions of northern Europe — gathered from hedgerows, meadow edges, and riverbanks by generations of herbalists, healers, and everyday people who knew their land intimately.
Nettle, lemon balm, blackberry leaf, and fireweed each carry centuries of Old World heritage. Fireweed — beloved across Russia and Scandinavia as Ivan Chai, or Koporye tea — was once a great Russian export, traded across Europe long before black tea dominated the cup. Nettle and blackberry leaf have been toning and nourishing staples of European folk herbalism for as long as records exist. Lemon balm, grown in monastery gardens since the Middle Ages, has always been the herb of calm and quiet comfort.
Here in BC, all four grow with abandon — in disturbed ground, along forest edges, in the green margins where wild things thrive. Hedgerow & Hearth honours both that Old World wisdom and this wild, generous landscape we now call home.
Nourishing, gently toning, and quietly calming — a cup for slowing down, wherever you are.
Urtica dioica (nettle)
Melissa officinalis (lemon balm)
Rubus fruticosus (blackberry leaf)
Epilobium angustifolium (fireweed / Ivan Chai)
