Today is a special day, and not just because it’s the first day of summer or even that it is father’s day… Trouping through the 7 foot grasses, evading the swarms of deer flies, sweat dripping from your face and then you come to it- a mountainous shrub covered with cream colored flowers beckoning you forth with the most alluring aroma … it is the first day of elderflower harvest. Pinching off the umbrels and delicately setting them into our bags until they formed a mound of sweet floral nectar just begging to be made into a new batch of St Steve’s cordial is more than a sign of the season, it is a sign of life …and just really cool. Some of these flowers will find their way into a fresh batch of St. Steve's Elderflower Cordial right away. The rest of them will be dried - a beautiful reminder of what's to come - a taste of mid-summer's day in the dead of winter. We think lace must have been invented because elderflowers are so fleeting...
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6/3/2020 03:16:16 pm
This is definitely a special day and I am glad that I get to be a part of it. I hope that I can do this more often for you from now on. I really do feel like there is nothing that I can do better than this. I am a huge fan of everything that is happy and funny. I do think that there is going to be a lot of things that we can be happy with, that is what I believe.
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