To Know My Land. Botanical Launch 2025.

Making plant medicines and natural skin care products is something I have been doing since 2015. I love creating products that smell like nature, are safe for our skin, and bring healing to problem areas. Growing herbs and flowers that I use in my tinctures, and creams and salves is so rewarding and brings me so much joy.

When I was able to start growing trees and herbs and flowers on our land here in Panama, I was soooo ecstatic. Working outside, with my hands in the soil, tending to the trees and plants, picking flowers, harvesting herbs, making plant medicines and doing all of this with my children by my side, is one of my greatest pleasures. It is how we fill alot of our mornings and evenings.

Early in the sunrise light, we walk around and check the flowers, the boys picking one for me always, and then I must put it behind my ear. We check on the bird nest in our hibiscus tree, the babies are learning to balance on the branches. Midday all the butterflies are dancing around the flowers, looking for the pollen that hasn't been eaten by the bees. Jesse finally catches one in his little hands and brings it over to show me. In the evenings, as the sun is setting, we walk up and down our farm road, checking for leaf cutter ants and exploring the earth under all the plants for grasshopppers, earth worms, and sometimes big lizards. Some evenings, the dragonflies are so numerous, it feels like they are swarming around you. The boys climb the papaya tree and see who can touch the lowest papaya. And then as the darkness settles in, the fireflies start blinking their sparkly magic lights all throughout our pastures and around the gardens. The frogs start singing, and of course the geckos come out to hunt bugs around any light that is on.

We've only lived here almost one year, and already I feel like I know every inch of each garden area, the way each young tree is growing, how the ground cover in one area is what I want but another area isn't quite the best, which garden has the best soil, and which soil still needs a lot of improvement (from the days of concrete mixers, nails, and constructions trash), which lemongrass plant needs pruning, what each litle seedling and sproutling will turn into, all the new "weeds" and invasive plants that have started to grown around our farm, and where the breeze blows just right at each time of day.

When I started thinking about whether or not to do a botanical launch in the USA this holiday season, I knew I had a lot of logistical issues to consider first....how would I get supplies here and products back to USA with as little cost as possible? Would our California community still be interested in my products? After prayers and talks and research and thinking, I decided I really wanted to try and make it happen. And now I am 100% moving forward with my plan.

I am so excited to share some of our healing plants, grown right here with rain water, home made compost, big hands and little hands, and lots of tender care. I will of course, also be making my well-loved lip balms for another round this year! Last year, I had a friend in California make all the products with my recipes, but this year I am excited to make all the products myself again.

Shop is live October 1, 2025 for pre-ordering, right here on my website. Products will available for pickup in Turlock & Las Lajas in November!

Thank you to all of you who still support my passion, my business, my family and myself by purchasing and using my Nourish Farm Botanicals products on yourself and your family.

As always

Stay nourished,

xo Nicole