Steeping the Harvest from Our Farm to Your Home
In 2014 we left our small city lot for our 2 acre farm outside of town. With dreams of growing the bulk of our own food we also started hand crafting our own herbal medicines and teas. It all started with a single packet of seeds and the lovely calendula flower. Read more about how this flower started our herbal path.
Inspired to integrate our farm life into our work life we decided to take our family on a full time farming adventure. All six members of our family now live, work and school at home together.
Our four children were adopted from all over the world. With those special circumstances come special challenges. Farm life has helped us and them over come those challenges. It has given the children the space they need to grow and thrive. Our business has allowed us to be here with them and provide that extra support and love.
Inspired to integrate our farm life into our work life we decided to take our family on a full time farming adventure. All six members of our family now live, work and school at home together.
Our four children were adopted from all over the world. With those special circumstances come special challenges. Farm life has helped us and them over come those challenges. It has given the children the space they need to grow and thrive. Our business has allowed us to be here with them and provide that extra support and love.
Our products are a reflection of our belief that we are stewards of the land and that food is our best medicine. Each tea has been carefully crafted to not only look beautiful but taste great and help support our local economy and farms. Every cup not only helps support our family but other local families as well. Our teas are truly crafted and sipped with a cause in mind. We thank all of our patrons from the bottom of our hearts and welcome all those of you who are new to be a part of our family and farm! We invite you to join our journey through our blog, v-log on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
Here is to a great cuppa from our farm to you home,
The Kosel Family
Here is to a great cuppa from our farm to you home,
The Kosel Family
About our Farm's Name
Our farm was named after the Patron Saint of Gardener's who turned up his land with his staff and was famous for curing many ailments by way of miracles. We thought he was a fitting patron for our herbal creations as we use many of God's wonderful plants to promote healing and good health.
The story of St. Fiacre …..
Fiacre, Saint, Abbot, b. in Ireland about the end of the sixth entry; d. 18 August, 670. Having been ordained priest, he retired to a hermitage on the banks of the Nore of which the town land Kilfiachra, or Kilciples flocked to him, but, desirous of greater solitude, he left his native land and arrived, in 628, at Meaux, where St. Faro then held episcopal sway. He was generously received by Faro, whose kindly feelings were engaged to the Irish monk for blessings which he and his father's house had received from the Irish missionary Columbanus. Faro granted him out of his own patrimony a site at Brogillum (Breuil) surrounded by forests. Here Fiacre built an oratory in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a hospice in which he received strangers, and a cell in which he himself lived apart. He lived a life of great mortification, in prayer, fast, vigil, and the manual labour of the garden. Disciples gathered around him and soon formed a monastery. There is a legend that St. Faro allowed him as much land as he might surround in one day with a furrow; that Fiacre turned up the earth with the point of his crosier, and that an officious woman hastened to tell Faro that he was being beguiled; that Faro coming to the wood recognized that the wonder worker was a man of God and sought his blessing, and that Fiacre henceforth excluded women, on pain of severe bodily infirmity, from the precincts of his monastery. In reality, the exclusion of women was a common rule in the Irish foundations. His fame for miracles was widespread. He cured all manner of diseases by laying of his hands; blindness, polypus, fevers are mentioned, and especially a tumor or fistula called 'le vic de S. Fiacre".
His remains were interred in his church at Breuil, where his sanctity was soon attested by the numerous cures wrought at his tomb. Many churches and oratories have been dedicated to him throughout France. His shrine at Breuil is still a resort for pilgrims with bodily ailments. In 1234 his remains were placed in a shrine by Pierre, Bishop of Meaux, his arm being encased in a separate reliquary. In 1479 the relics of Sts. Fiacre and Kilian were placed in a silver shrine, which was removed in 1568 to the cathedral church at Meaux for safety from the destructive fanaticism of the Calvinists. In 1617 the Bishop of Meaux gave part of the saint's body to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and in 1637 the shrine was again opened and part of the vertebrae given to Cardinal Richelieu. A mystery play of the fifteenth entry celebrates St. Fiacre's life and miracles. St. John of Matha, Lous XIII, and Anne of Austria were among his most famous clients. He is the patron of gardeners. The French cab derives its name from him. The Hotel de St-Fiacre, in Rue St-Martin, Paris, in the middle of the seventeenth century first let these coaches on hire. The sign of the inn was an image of the saint, and the coaches in time came to be called by his name. His feast is kept on the 30th of August.
Taken from The Catholic Encyclopedia ; Robert Appleton Company + Imprimatur 1909
The story of St. Fiacre …..
Fiacre, Saint, Abbot, b. in Ireland about the end of the sixth entry; d. 18 August, 670. Having been ordained priest, he retired to a hermitage on the banks of the Nore of which the town land Kilfiachra, or Kilciples flocked to him, but, desirous of greater solitude, he left his native land and arrived, in 628, at Meaux, where St. Faro then held episcopal sway. He was generously received by Faro, whose kindly feelings were engaged to the Irish monk for blessings which he and his father's house had received from the Irish missionary Columbanus. Faro granted him out of his own patrimony a site at Brogillum (Breuil) surrounded by forests. Here Fiacre built an oratory in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a hospice in which he received strangers, and a cell in which he himself lived apart. He lived a life of great mortification, in prayer, fast, vigil, and the manual labour of the garden. Disciples gathered around him and soon formed a monastery. There is a legend that St. Faro allowed him as much land as he might surround in one day with a furrow; that Fiacre turned up the earth with the point of his crosier, and that an officious woman hastened to tell Faro that he was being beguiled; that Faro coming to the wood recognized that the wonder worker was a man of God and sought his blessing, and that Fiacre henceforth excluded women, on pain of severe bodily infirmity, from the precincts of his monastery. In reality, the exclusion of women was a common rule in the Irish foundations. His fame for miracles was widespread. He cured all manner of diseases by laying of his hands; blindness, polypus, fevers are mentioned, and especially a tumor or fistula called 'le vic de S. Fiacre".
His remains were interred in his church at Breuil, where his sanctity was soon attested by the numerous cures wrought at his tomb. Many churches and oratories have been dedicated to him throughout France. His shrine at Breuil is still a resort for pilgrims with bodily ailments. In 1234 his remains were placed in a shrine by Pierre, Bishop of Meaux, his arm being encased in a separate reliquary. In 1479 the relics of Sts. Fiacre and Kilian were placed in a silver shrine, which was removed in 1568 to the cathedral church at Meaux for safety from the destructive fanaticism of the Calvinists. In 1617 the Bishop of Meaux gave part of the saint's body to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and in 1637 the shrine was again opened and part of the vertebrae given to Cardinal Richelieu. A mystery play of the fifteenth entry celebrates St. Fiacre's life and miracles. St. John of Matha, Lous XIII, and Anne of Austria were among his most famous clients. He is the patron of gardeners. The French cab derives its name from him. The Hotel de St-Fiacre, in Rue St-Martin, Paris, in the middle of the seventeenth century first let these coaches on hire. The sign of the inn was an image of the saint, and the coaches in time came to be called by his name. His feast is kept on the 30th of August.
Taken from The Catholic Encyclopedia ; Robert Appleton Company + Imprimatur 1909
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