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Casey
Meadows Farm has evolved over six years. The first trees
we planted on the property were two tiny apple trees we
grew from seed. We then planted two other varieties of
apple trees, a pear, and two plum trees: two types of
cherries, quince, and fig trees. After one year, we
received a small harvest of apples and cherries. An
already established peach tree on the property produced
several bucket loads of peaches during our first summer.
We will continue to plant and replenish the property in
the coming years. We planted four varieties of grapes,
raspberries, blueberries, a Horse Chestnut, and a Ginkgo
Biloba Tree; we constructed two large greenhouses where
we grow vegetables and herbs each year.
We wild harvest some herbs from our property and
surrounding areas, such as Stinging Nettle Leaf, St.
John�s Wort, Horse Chestnut, and Red Clover; others we
receive from our reputable and sustainable suppliers.
Our in-house Herbalist, Karlos Sutrananda, is careful to
follow traditional herbal harvesting practices, allowing
the harvested herbs to rest and insects to escape before
the drying and grinding process. Karlos obtained his
Herbalism Certification from Pacific Rim College in 2010
but had learned many traditional herbal practices as a
young boy growing up in South America.
Each harvested herb is air-dried naturally; once
completely dried, the herb is ready for grinding and
capsulation. All of our herbal remedies are hand
capsuled using high-quality veggie gelatin capsules. We
do not use fillers, only the herb; each capsule is
approximately 300 to 500 grams depending on the herb.
Karlos does not combine herbs to make herbal compounds. Instead, he encapsulates the entire herb as he believes that our bodies are extremely intelligent and know how much and which herbal properties to absorb from each capsule to heal and restore our system to optimal health; he calls this Mother Nature in a Capsule.
WHY HERBS
Nature provides a plethora of food and
medicine.
The earliest historical records of
herbs are found from the Sumerian civilization, where
hundreds of medicinal plants, including opium are listed
on clay tablets, c. 3000 BC. The Ebers Papyrus from
ancient Egypt, c. 1550 BC, describes over 850 plant
medicines. The Greek physician Dioscorides, who worked
in the Roman army, documented over 1000 recipes for
medicines using over 600 medicinal plants in De materia
medica, c. 60 AD; this formed the basis of
pharmacopoeias for some 1500 years.
