🌿 The Quiet After Class

🌿 The Quiet After Class

An open letter from Daisy

The classroom feels different after everyone leaves. The chairs are still warm, the scent of herbs still hangs in the air, and there’s this soft, full silence — the kind that feels like the plants themselves are exhaling.

Each Kitchen Witch Apprenticeship ends this way: a mixture of joy, pride, and a little ache in the heart. For three months, we share so much more than recipes and remedies. We share laughter, stories, the occasional tear of trust, and the deep reminder that healing isn’t only about herbs — it’s about connection.

This Fall, our focus was immunity — both the kind that protects the body and the kind that shelters the spirit. Together we stirred Fire Cider (holiday edition!), simmered Elderberry syrup, and even crafted gummies and jellies that make daily wellness a small, delicious ritual.

Now that the jars are sealed and shelves are full, I can’t help but feel gratitude for the community that keeps growing around these classes. Each group brings its own rhythm and stories, weaving new memories into the long thread of this work.

As the year turns, so does the Wheel of Time, and with it comes the next chapter — The Winter Apprenticeship. From January through March, we’ll walk through the cool quiet of the season, guided by:
🌲 Pine, Spruce, and Fir in January — evergreens of clarity and resilience.
🌿 Mugwort in February — the dreamkeeper and intuitive ally.
🌾 Stinging Nettle in March — the nourisher, the awakener, the great balancer.

Each month, we’ll explore folklore, history, and plant chemistry — grounding old wisdom in modern hands. Every class ends with something you can hold, taste, or light: a remedy, a food, and a spiritual creation, made together in circle.

To those who joined this fall — thank you for showing up with open hearts and curiosity.
To those just finding us — welcome. This path is slow, intentional, and deeply alive.

If you feel the pull to learn in rhythm with the seasons, Winter enrollment is now open at @thestinkingrosesa.

Here’s to the quiet after class — and the next breath before we begin again.

— Daisy 🌿

How We began

Daily Daisy Botanicals
It’s not just a business — it’s a way of breathing, of listening. Daisy first felt it during a team-build with a marine environmental non-profit, tucked into a ravine where Topanga Canyon meets the Pacific Ocean. One moment she was on the clock; the next, she stepped through a portal into wild freedom.

The air tasted of salt and sage. White Sage drifted like incense through sunlight. California Sagebrush brushed against her skin as if testing her curiosity. Black Sage left its peppery kiss on her tongue. Overhead, wild parrots flashed green against the cobalt sky, their cries echoing through the Australian Brush Cherry trees. The plants seemed to notice her — as though they were waiting for her to remember them.

From that day forward, Daisy followed their call — across the coast, into chaparral and high desert, through pine forest and canyon wash. Each ecosystem revealed a different dialect of the same ancient language. She learned which leaves nourish, which roots heal, and during a Plant Spirit Apprenticeship, how to meet each plant as a being, not a resource. “What can this do for me?” softened into “May I share space with you?”

Plants, she discovered, teach presence better than any meditation app. Once, distracted mid-harvest, she felt a nudge — an American Elderberry dropped a branch gently onto her head, reminding her to return to the moment. Lesson received.

The path naturally led toward herbology — adding Science, how the plants affect the human body, to the mix. As a former high-school biology teacher, Daisy began sharing what she learned through workshops and apprenticeships that wove foraging, plant spirit, herbalism, and cooking into one living tapestry.

Today, from San Antonio to Austin, she still walks those mindful miles, listening to the soft hum of local flora and the whisper of old roots.

Each DDB creation is its own quiet ceremony, a plant-powered reminder to breathe, reset, and reconnect.”

If this sounds like an origin story  — that’s because it is — one still scenting the air, flickering in small flames, and blooming through every creation at Daily Daisy Botanicals.