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Chuck: Society has gone to a quick fix, take a pill and you’re better. We have forgotten how to find ways to prevent disease and just look to cure it instead.
Jane: After I had our third child we launched our first line of “Wildflowers Tea”. We wanted to deal with a range of common health problems, like cold and flu, indigestion, insomnia. Our son had recurring bronchitis for the first three years of his life, he was on recurring antibiotics a few times every year. But as soon as I started studying herbal medicine my eyes blew right open and since then none of our kids have been on any type of antibiotics. It’s not that we are against it, so if there is a need we will go for it, however with the help of herbs, foods and lifestyle changes, we haven’t seemed to go down that path.
Chuck: The point is, if you are feeling ill or out of balance, there are many natural ways to help you get through it, listen to what’s really happening- maybe overstressed or overworked? I know from my experience, that once I got to the root of the problem, I was able to alleviate symptoms through diet and herbs.
Jane: All of my teas are caffeine free and additive free, there is nothing except the herbs themselves. Technically they aren’t even called teas they are tisanes, but for simplicity’s sake we just call it herbal tea. We really try to focus on what grows here, so we don’t have any black tea or any jasmine tea. To put it simply I work with wild flowers or ’weeds’. Every single one of my teas are made from my own experience. I can’t really sell you something if I haven’t felt the direct benefit of it.
After initial success with their teas, Chuck and Jane were looking to branch out to other products. Quite by accident Chuck stumbled into bee-keeping and has never looked back!
Jane: Chuck is kind of like the Bee whisperer, he goes out and plays classical music and meditates with the bees. People always say our honey has some sort of magical taste to it, so they can tell they are loved and well looked after.