New Shop Hours! Open Thursday-Sunday 11am-5pm

Starting November 2022 we will be open on Thursday’s for the first time since mid March 2020. Masks required to keep our immune compromised community safe. We can’t wait to see you all! It is so exciting to be able to give six more hours a week to come shop with us. Now open:

Thursday 11am-5pm

Friday 11am-5pm

Saturday 11am-5pm

Sunday 11am-5pm

1501 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix

Growing Joy πŸ’—

New book and plants I am loving πŸ₯° β€œGrowing Joy: The Plant Lover’s Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and plants)” by Maria Failla aka @bloomandgrowmaria πŸ₯°πŸ₯°πŸ₯° The writing style is so informal and fun. I love plants and mindfulness practices, as you know, and I have my own methods but I also have a major phone addiction πŸ“± ☠️ πŸ‘‹ This book has been super helpful in actually motivating me to make some changes first thing in the morning. It has been a few good days and I can say this made a difference. I am hoping I can also put into practice some better habits for houseplant relations. πŸ’šπŸ™πŸ’š

New plant babies put into friendly earth this morning as part of my new practice - yarrow, elacampane, motherwort.. #CharlieTheDoggy helping by gobbling up soil πŸ˜’ .. skullcap, valerian, and a couple of break offs I am trying to root in water β€” skullcap and spilanthes. Cheersies!

I am hoping to get some copies to carry and share in the Strawberry Hedgehog Soap Shop but you can preorder yours at https://read.macmillan.com/lp/growing-joy/

Full Moon Prosperity Vegan Mini Maker Market

This Saturday 4/16

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This Saturday !! πŸŒ• πŸŽ‰ Our monthly Vegan Mini Maker Market is a bit later in the month to celebrate the Full Moon 🌝 It is indoors, masks required 😷 πŸ™Œ with free veg to share the prosperity and some fun diy goodies to help tune into the Supermoon in Libra energies β€” the moon goes full at 11:54am AZ time, join us for some intention setting right around noon then getting a little crafty so if you’re into make-and-take show up around then. We are hosting on a Saturday, April 16. I hope you’ll swing by between 11am-5pm. πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’– 10% of all money spent with us on Saturday will be donated to a local charity TBA.

We are proud to be hosting fellow Makers:

Open All Weekend!!

We are now open all weekend! Please stop by to see us Saturday and Sunday 11am-5pm. We are still requiring masks for anyone entering the space. We have extra if you forget yours. Can’t wait to see you!!

Open Saturday's and one Sunday Monthly!

The Strawberry Hedgehog Soap Shop & Vegan Boutique is open every Saturday from 11am-5pm and one Sunday monthly for our Vegan Mini Maker Markets where we invite some artists we carry in the shop to join us for a day. This month it will be March 13 from 11am-5pm and we are excited to bring in the Fluffy Vegans, Carla Yeatts, and Melissa Waddell!

Dates for the rest of 2022’s Vegan Mini Maker Markets are:

  • April 10

  • May 22

  • June 12

  • July 17

  • August 28

  • September 18

  • October 23

  • November 27

  • December 18

CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

WE ARE CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

All orders placed by 12/20 are being processed as quickly as possible to ship or for scheduled pick ups 12/23. .

All orders placed after 12/20 will be shipped out in the new year.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND KINDNESS! Without your purchases, sharing, showing up and caring we would not have made it through another tough year.

We will be back with Soap Shop hours, curbside pick up, and frequent shipping of online orders in 2022. Sending you our deepest gratitude and best wishes for a safe and loving holiday season. Smell ya later!

Pucker Up, Buttercup!

Hi there! Long time no blogging. Just thought I would take a moment to share a little self-care recipe with you. I’ve just about had it with social media app filters artificially plumping my lips up so here’s a natural way to plump and exfoliate your precious kisser.

Circulation-Boosting Lip Scrub by Strawberry Hedgehog

~1/2oz plant based oil (almond, jojoba, etc)

1/2 Tsp powdered ginger

1Tbsp exfoliant (fine raw sugar - smaller crystals are better)

1 drop each spearmint & carrot seed essential oils 

Drop your essential oils into a 1oz jar. Carefully pour oil into jar half way. Alternate adding the powders and sugar to the oil and tap the side so it distributes evenly. After washing face with Strawberry Hedgehog tea tree rosemary soap for combination to oily skin types or almond oatmeal soap for combination to dry skin types apply a dollop of your scrub to damp lips and delicately scrub in circular motions until your sugar has dissolved and your lips are smooth as can be. Rinse off and pat dry, apply Strawberry Hedgehog Balancing Facial Toner followed by Lavender Tea Tree Facial Moisturizer for combination to oily skin or our whipped body creme if combination to dry. Follow up through the day by slathering on some Crazy Rumors vegan lip balm.

Hope you enjoy it!

Smell ya later,

Tracy the Soap Maker

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Starting a shade garden for hard to grow and threatened plants

If you follow us on social media you may have noticed I am obsessed with plants, medicinal plants to be specific and particularly with our garden. When I moved into my home in 2011 I started planting herbs and now, 10 years later, the yard has seen many plants come and go but it is at its peak, for sure. The area we typically plant in is getting wonderfully crowded and we are starting to venture out. We have a small area on the west side of our house that is shaded by a juniper and mesquite tree. It is too shady for most things to grow, though a spindly and resourceful lantana managed to grow the height of the house to reach sun!

I have been continuing my herbal education and recently joined the United Plant Savers, an organization committed to preservation of medicinal plants and their habitats. With the ever growing urban sprawl, climate change and increased interest in wildcrafting herbs there are many plants that are threatened in the wild. With this in mind I decided to make use of our little shady spot to try our hand at creating a simulated forest garden.

I bought some organic root stock of American ginseng, black and blue cohosh, goldenseal, and bloodroot. The goldenseal didn’t survive the shipping process but the rest were good to go when they arrived in the mail. They need 75% shade, great drainage, and loose fluffy goodness to grow in to develop those roots, the part of the plant that is used for medicine. We decided to build up rather than dig down since there are undoubtedly precious roots for the shade trees we did not want to cut into and having a raised bed would allow optimal drainage..

With 6 cinder blocks notched for 2x4 boards and scrap wood we built the structure for the planter. We did a layer of washed sand on the bottom for optimal drainage, topped with organic β€œraised bed soil.” I then dug holes just large enough for the roots to have an inch or two of good soil over them. I arranged them in the planter with the blue cohosh in the back left, black cohosh in back right as they are the tallest growing of what was planted then ginseng through the middle of the planter and bloodroot up against the front. Lastly we covered the bed with red cedar bark mulch to protect the root babies from our scorching heat and hold in moisture. The final step was to protect the bed from our garden helpers, the doggies, and especially from the neighborhood kitties from using it as a litter box. Serendipitously, we had a piece of chicken wire just the right size to fit over the planter and keep any curious critters from getting nosy.

Now we water and wait! This planter is just outside my bathroom and I had high hopes I could use gray water from my shower and bath for this planter, but as it is the root we would be harvesting we decided against taxing them with any extra burden from biodegradable soap, etc. I have no idea what to expect but will update at some point. This is a many year endeavor and if at first I don’t succeed I will try again. This is round one and it feels like a wonderful addition to our medicine garden!