I started keeping bees on the farm. 

What does that mean for you as a customer? 

I am now using my very own honey and wax in the products.

I made facial polish on Friday and used my own honey in it. It feels divine on your face and smells wonderful (it also has almond ess...

One of the questions I get most often relates to how I scent my products. I use only essential oils.

What other oils are out there? Fragrance oils.

What's the difference?

The easiest way for me to tell you how to determine the difference is to smell. Does what you are sme...

What are my best sellers? 

I'm asked this quite often at shows. I have to say, "well, it depends on the time of year, the weather and sometimes the day of the week."

It's summer. What is a best seller? Insect repellent! We want to sit outside but we don't want to get eat...

The weather outside is frightful. 

Wait, don't we say that before the winter holidays?

But it's Springtime in the Country at the Erie County Fairgrounds in Hamburg this weekend.

I spent the day yesterday making products so everyone who comes this weekend is getting fresh...

Hands and body are dry. Are you taking care of your face?

We have wonderful facial products I swear by and use everyday. Don't take my word for it, I just filled an order for several facial polishes!

Why use our products? All natural - you know what's in them. Awesome.

I...

I returned from Uganda where wifi was spotty at best. What did I return to? A raging cold. Then I see that everyone has something - cold, flu, sinus, yuck.

What can we do? Eucalyptus roller balls will help with sinus and cold. Just roll it under your nose and across you...

Wild Mountain Organics/Wild Mountain Botanicals is my side gig, so to speak. My day job is as a professor at St. Bonaventure University. As part of that day job, I am lucky enough to be able to travel to places all over the world. My primary focus is Uganda, Africa whe...

Don't you hate headlines and titles like that? "New year, new you?" It implies there was something wrong with you to begin with.

There is nothing wrong with you.

Well, maybe you're a bit dry this time of year.

Or you're dirty.

Or you want to start working with essential oi...

Winter is here at Wild Mountain Botanicals. The ground is covered in snow. Our lavender may or may not be a snack for the local deer. Our bees are wintering well.

The picture to the left is sunrise on a snowy day in our backyard.

Several changes have happened in my profe...