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About Ali Jordan-Brown
FreshAir Fare of Morro Bay is owned and operated by Ali, her daughters, Heather and Ashley Jordan-Arnold, and husband Cory
Jordan-Brown. Now in her fifteenth year in business, Ali draws from a varied background in the physical and social sciences,
lay midwifery practical herbalism, and also with advanced training in Reiki energy healing.
Her academic background includes major course studies in chemistry, mathematics and developmental psychology, with graduate
course work in developmental psychology and tests & measurements. Her practical experience began with having been taught
as a child by renowned plant ecologist and plant taxonomist Janice Carson Beatley, PhD (Ali.s maternal aunt), who named and
classified the vascular plants of the southern Nevada desert in the early 1960.s.
Ali also spent seven years with her family in communes in Vermont and Missouri, where she got a good foundation in lay
midwifery and herbalism, attending and participating in approximately 15 home births in addition to her own, and using various
medicinal herbs and herbal preparations on a daily basis and becoming comfortable with gathering, drying, making tinctures,
poultices, infusions, decoctions, and other herbal preparations, as well as creams, ointments and other bodycare products
commercially produced by the communally owned businesses.
Her experience also includes stints as seamstress for households of 40-60 people, head chef, catering & management
of natural foods restaurants, leatherwork & shoe repair, scented candle manufacture, production and product development
for a New England candle company, and glassblowing, to mention a few.....
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This Month's Tea Special:
NEW!
Ali's Happy Liver Formula
With Burdock Fruit and Root, Milk Thistle Seed,
Dandelion Root, Wild Yam Root and
Licorice Root.
4oz package $14.50
| Click Here to ask Ali your Herbal Questions |
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| Ali's Herbal Blog |
Come Enter a Peaceful World...
...........when you enter the door of FreshAir Fare of Morro Bay. You will enter through beaded curtains, which are for
sale in numerous designs. To your left are displayed
various hemp bodycare products on warm wooden shelves. To your right along the wall are many rows of bulk medicinal and
culinary herbs, arranged in sections: Ayurvedic, African, Asian, Western European and Native American.
You will also see in the back to the right of the apothecary window, the large collection of essentialoils, used in aromatherapy
and ingredients for making your own bodycare products. You will find all kinds of bottles and containers for storing your
potions, as well as books in our reference library to find recipes for your own herbal remedies. But most people who arrive
are immediately invited by the many wonderful smells and aromas, which are a mixture of the soaps and candles and premium
incenses that are displayed here and there. We never burn anything inside because we don.t have to. Each visit is always different
because we are constantly adding and rearranging to keep it always fresh, always new.
We will be adding other manufacturers products to this catalog as time permits. Otherwise, you may find these items when
you visit the store. Welcome!
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