Letting the six seasons guide us

An appreciation of the farms where we source our essential oils 

The places where we source the 100% pure essential oils for our products are located in some of the most beautiful and fertile valleys of northern New South Wales, which owe their fertility to the nourishing minerals of long-extinct volcanoes. 

This is special bamay, (a word which means ‘land’ in the language of the region’s original inhabitants, the Bundjalung people). Bamay is shaped by a cycle of six seasons, which over millennia guided the Bundjalung when and where to find the best and most abundant river or bush tucker, and what to leave alone to seed or gestate. 

Wet season. Mullet season. Cold season. Coming out (or goanna) season. Windy season. Thunderstorm season. More nuanced than the calendar of spring, summer, autumn, winter that Western settlers imposed.   

The farms in this region are in tune with the six seasons, because bamay can feel when the mullet is running from the rivers to the coast, or when thunder makes the lemon myrtle burst into flower. 

These are ancient cycles of flowering and fruiting, of feeling and being.