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Chapter 5 · Le Cercle de l'Ombelle

Twelve moons, following the harvests.

Plants cannot be picked all year round. The Cercle follows their harvest calendar, month by month: twelve moons, twelve pickings, each within the true window when its plant is gathered. The ombelle on the medallion blossoms moon after moon, as you write your journal.

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The herbalist's year

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The Douze Lunes subscription, one moon a month

Each month, the moon's basket arrives at your door: six herbal infusions from the harvest, the story of the picking and the ritual. Twelve months, twelve baskets, without ever giving it a thought. Prefer to choose? Each moon's selection can also be bought individually, below.

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The twelve moons and their selections

  1. 1. January · The Southern Cup

    Winter, the great skein of rooibos

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  2. 2. February · The height of the Cederberg harvest

    Winter, drying in the full sun

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  3. 3. March · The awakening

    Spring, the tea plant's first buds

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  4. 4. April · The first shoots

    Spring, harvesting the green surge

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  5. 5. May · The rising sap

    Spring, leaves steeped in the southern winter

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  6. 6. June · Before flowering

    Summer, cutting leaves at their peak

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  7. 7. July · High summer

    Summer, mowing the tall grasses

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  8. 8. August · The ripe leaves

    Summer, the last cut before autumn

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  9. 9. September · The great harvest

    Autumn, the gathering of fruits and seeds

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  10. 10. October · Fruits and roots

    Autumn, the gathering after the frosts

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  11. 11. November · The earth

    Autumn, lifting the rhizomes

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  12. 12. December · Barks

    Winter, the harvesting of barks

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