Resources

Places you can order what you need to make calendula salve at home, including dried calendula flowers, beeswax, labels, and salve tins & glass jars:

Dried calendula flowers:

• Pacific Botanicals

• Healing Spirits

• Zack Woods Farm

Beeswax:

• Sunbeam Candles

• Sparky’s Honey & Maple

• Seek out & support your local beekeepers!

Labels:

• Avery Presta 94506 blank labels for 1” tin lids

• Avery Presta 94506 label template (PDF download)*

Salve tins & jars:

• SKS Bottle & Packaging

• Specialty Bottle

Do you have resources we can add to this list?

If you know of a farm local to you that is drying and selling good-quality calendula flowers, please let us know! We would love to add them to this list if they are open to it.

Handy sheets you can print out and use for reference as you make your own calendula salve or share with others who might be interested in participating in this project.

• Calendula Preparations

• Creating Calendula Oil

• Herbs That Can Be Used in Salves

• Preparing an Herbal Salve

• Calendula’s Healing Gifts

Agriculture

• Farming While Black (by Leah Penniman)

• The Healing Garden (by Deb Soule)

• How to Move Like a Gardener (by Deb Soule)

• Mycorrhizal Planet (by Michael Phillips)

• Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate (by Wendy Johnson)

• The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer (by Jeff Carpenter and Melanie Carpenter)

• Stella Natura Biodynamic Planting Calendar

• The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming (by Natasha Bowen)

Medicinal Herbs

• Healing Herbs for Women (by Deb Soule)

• Plants Have So Much to Teach Us, All We Have to Do is Ask (by Mary Siisip Geniusz)

• Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings (by Wendy Makoons Geniusz)

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of the Plants (by Robin Wall Kimmerer)

• The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food & Medicine Plants of the North (by Beverley Gray)

• Intuitive Herbalism (by Nathaniel Hughes & Fiona Owen)

• Weeds in the Heart (by Nathaniel Hughes & Fiona Owen)

• Ayurvedic Medicine (by Sebastian Pole)

• Women, Hormones & the Menstrual Cycle (by Ruth Trickey)

• Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (by David Winston & Steven Maimes)

Pollinators

• Attracting Native Pollinators (by the Xerces Society)

Racial Justice

• Farming While Black (by Leah Penniman)

• The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)

• Turn This World Inside Out: The Emeregence of Nurturance Culture (by Nora Samaran)

• Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (edited by Ejeris Dixon, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)

• Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology (by Incite)

• Sister Outsider (by Audre Lorde)

• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (by Andrea Ritchie)

• But Some Of Us Are Brave (by Akasha Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith)

• Crunk Feminist Collection (by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn)

• At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance (by Danielle McGuire)

• Unbought and Unbossed (by Shirley Chisholm)

• Women, Race, and Class (by Angela Y. Davis)

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (by Harriet Ann Jacobs)

• Recovering the Sacred (by Winona LaDuke)

• Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (by Alexis Pauline Gumbs)

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz)

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States (by Paul Ortiz)

• Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change (by Sherri Mitchell)

• Whereas (by Layli Long Soldier)

• Climbing Poetree (by Naima Penniman and Alixia Garcia)

Healing Trauma

• From Trauma to Freedom (by Kristina Lea and Heather M. Ensworth)

• Healing Collective Trauma (by Thomas Hübl)

• Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (by David A. Treleaven)