
Why
Goldpetals?
Ellen White Weir created the
Goldpetals Aromatherapy products after she
fell in love with the calendula officinalis flowers, and the art of
making potions, lotions, and medicinal herbal medicine. "Like everything
good in life, it reminded me of cooking...." The base of all of her
creams and salves is the sun infused calendula in olive oil, which
traditionally has been used for treating inflamed and damaged skin.
Calendula and Lavender became the two flowers that worked together in
her products to create the most powerful healing properties. The
essential oil of Lavender officinalis has calming properties and can
soothe everything from a bug bite to a nervous condition. Calendula has
the same breadth of healing properties, for everything from a chapped
baby's bottom, to minor cuts and burns.
Weir uses no chemical preservatives or fragrance oils, and stresses that
her natural body care products, made of the finest natural ingredients, are made in small
batches and have a shelf-life of approximately one year. All of her
products are sensitive to heat because of the organic nature of the
essential oils.
The Goldpetals Barn is located on thirty- eight acres, outside of
Cooperstown, New York, amidst the rolling hills of the Catskills and
beautiful Leatherstocking country. "We are slowly developing the land
into a plant sanctuary for the wildlife and pollinators. We use no
chemicals or pesticides, and are looking at Biodynamic farming methods
to improve the soil. The calendula and lavender flowers flourish along
with the "weeds", blueberries, grapes, bee balm, daisies, iris's,
lilies, grasses and vegetables scattered throughout the property. The
wonderful spring fed pond is framed by poplar reflections, and the
chorus of frogs is a welcome sound in the evenings there."
We welcome visitors ( call first), and often will make you some sun tea,
and delicious herbal treats. For those interested in our
Goldpetals
Nature Camp for Kids, Plant Walks & Talks, Art Shows, and other
Events,
please sign up for our Newsletter. Ellen White Weir has also been a
purveyor of quality hand-woven Oriental Rugs for almost thirty years.
More photographs of the farm are available
here and of the nature camp for kids
here.
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer
Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion - put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
"Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" from The Country of
Marriage, copyright © 1973 by Wendell Berry, reprinted by permission of
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

 Infusions

Sun infused
calendula oils
 The new rock garden
 Oriental Rugs at the Goldpetals Barn
 Ellen and flowers
Phone:1-607-547-8425 Email:
goldpetals@oecblue.com
Goldpetals is a member of The International
Herb Association.
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Goldpetals featured on Mohawk Valley Living!
Check out the broadcast by
visiting the archive on
YouTube.
Goldpetals is featured near the end of the video.
Here's
an interview
with Ellen White Weir about her business, Goldpetals.

Mike's
grapevine
 Calendula flowers and borage at the Goldpetals Barn
More Barn Photos

Bee on
echinacea
 Local beeswax used in Goldpetals creams and salves
 Power flowers
 The process

No pesticides
here
Goldpetals Aromatherapy and Skin Care
Products

Calendula Lemon Balm
2 oz. jar |
$12

Creamy
Lavender
4oz. | $22

Lavender Body and Room Spray
4 oz. spray bottle |
$14

Bug Off chemical free insect repellent
4 oz spray bottle |
$14

Gardenia Monoi Cream with Coconut
and Calendula Oils
4 oz. |
$22 |