Calling all plant loving, body care crafting, medicine making, and backyard gardening herb enthusiasts! We are thrilled to introduce a one-of-a-kind herbal marketplace and community to you all. We have teamed up with our herbal kin down at Mountain Rose Herbs in Eugene, OR. to offer this awesome giveaway as a warm welcome to our new fans. We’re so glad you are here! Make sure to hop over to the forum and introduce yourselves! We love to dish about herbs!
Welcome to Poppy Swap!
So, what is Poppy Swap?
Think of Poppy Swap as the Etsy of herbal products. You can browse the site for amazing holistic medicinals, herbal edibles, bodycare and cosmetics, aromatherapy, pet care products, and many more high quality goodies – all handcrafted by small-scale, cottage-industry herbalists. Plus, every creation offered through the site is made with natural ingredients that have been produced in a sustainable manner. Too awesome, right?
Whether selling your homemade goods as an independent vendor or supporting the livelihoods of other skilled herbalists, Poppy Swap will connect you to an inspiring DIY community of sustainable commerce and herbal education.
The Giveaway!
Poppy Swap will join us at the Rootstalk Festival this September to share new and exciting community building tools that bring plants to the people! In anticipation of this amazing gathering, several Poppyswappers have offered their lovingly made herbal crafts to help spread the word. There are two prizes up for grabs!
Herbal Rootzine Subscription
One winner will receive a 1 year subscription to the Herbal Roots Zine by Kristine Brown! That’s 12 free issues! Herbal Roots Zine is a monthly PDF magazine for children and adults that teaches herbal medicine through games and stories. Beautifully illustrated, each edition focuses on one herb and contains many activities to make learning fun. Enjoy stories, crossword puzzles, mazes, crafts, recipes and much more!
Recipe Book and Herbal Tooth Powder
Our second winner will receive a copy of Balms & Salves: How to and Recipes by Tina Sams at Essential Herbal as well as Cinnamon Stick Tooth Powder from Aquarian Bath!
Balms & Salves is 55 pages of herbal information and recipes for lotion bars, pomades, ointments, muscle rubs, solid perfumes, lip balms, and more! With well over 20 years of experience, Tina Sams has created a handy guide filled with 50 wonderful recipes for health and healing.
The wonderfully natural Cinnamon Stick Tooth Powder is a great non-abrasive alternative to toothpaste. This powder is made with food grade Bentonite Clay, Organic Ceylon Cinnamon Powder, Activated Charcoal, 5x Myrhh powder, and organic stevia to detoxify and tone oral tissue!
There are several ways to enter and you can submit up to 6 entries for a chance to win these marvelous prizes!
1. Visit Poppy Swap and leave a comment here telling us about another product from their marketplace you’d like to try.
2. Like Poppy Swap on Facebook and leave a comment here to let us know that you’re a fan.
3. Like the Rootstalk Festival on Facebook and leave a comment here to let us know that you’re a fan.
4. Post a link to the Mountain Rose Herb blog giveaway on your Facebook page and leave a comment here to let us know you’ve posted.
5. Tweet about our blog giveaway on Twitter using the tag #PoppySwapping and leave a comment here to let us know that you’ve tweeted.
Be sure to follow us @poppyswap and @MtnRoseHerbs
6. Blog about our giveaway with a link back to this post, and leave a comment here with a link to your blog post so we can check it out!
You have until Wednesday, June 29th at 11:59pm PST to enter. We will pick two winners at random on Thursday, June 30th!
Good Luck and make sure to shop the swap! It’s a great way to support your local herbalist!
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It was his encounters with the Reishi mushroom that inspired James to explore the rainforests of Washington. Lucky for us he never left! James is an explorer of all things wild. Wild water, wild food, wild medicine and wild nature! He is the manager of our Community Map and Social Media team on Poppy Swap.
Kiki is an East Coast transplant living in the deep cedar forests of the Pacific NW. In her life long study of Chinese Medicine, she has studied with herbalists all over the world but it was her love affair with the local Mugwort growing on her small island that brought her to her passion for local herbalism. She is the Creative Director for Poppy Swap and shares her hand~spun moxa and mugwort products through her Poppy Swap shop Moxa NW.
Originally from Northern California, Kristie moved to Westcliffe, Colorado to LIVE her dream life. Cultivating a garden in the Rocky Mountains, sharing her fields with her horses, dogs and feline friends she stays constantly inspired to learn and grow. Kristie is the social butterfly of Poppy Swap, as the Marketing Director and Event Coordinator. She is currently studying herbalism with Aviva Romm and offers her own line of herbals through Spirit Horse Herbals on Poppy Swap!
Natalie is a Traditional Herbalist whose roots are firmly planted in the South. Although she was born and raised in Tennessee, Natalie has spent the past 24 years living and loving life in North Florida. Natalie provides consultations as well as classes and is one of the founding members of the North Florida Holistic Network, a Non-Profit organization which is dedicated to promoting holistic and sustainable practices. She sells her herbal products on Poppy Swap as The Family Herbalist.
Rebecca is a Scottish girl who lives in the wilds of Los Angeles. She spends her time cooking wild foods, concocting magic healing potions, painting, and running her herb business, 
After years of activism in Vermont, Susan moved to her family's home in Fryeburg, Maine with views of her beloved White Mountains where she grew up, to dig in the Earth, learn from the healing plants and trees, and replenish her spirit. The first thing she did was put in a large, organic garden that has grown and evolved over the years into a beautiful and enchanted space, a mix of flowers, healing herbs, veggies, "weeds", rocks, crystals, and many surprises. Her land is bordered by huge white pines, large maples, and the old course of the Saco River. After years of sharing her creams, salves, and other herbal creations with family and friends, she created Gaia's Garden Herbals to offer them to the public. Everything is made in very small batches with only the best ingredients, often from her garden or wild-harvested nearby, and lots of love.
