| Okay, maybe it seems a little cheesy, but essential oil | | | | have passed their peak, why not harvest those |
| making "goes green" making dollars as well as saving | | | | beauties for their essential oils? Their market value |
| the planet. In macro-economic terms, it contributes | | | | steadily will increase as aromatherapy and |
| to widespread practice of preventive measures, | | | | naturopathy steadily gain widespread acceptance and |
| reducing the cost of healthcare and therefore putting | | | | popularity. |
| the brakes on inflation. In micro-economic terms, | | | | Making the oils need not become a major expense or |
| because the village soon will become the key unit of | | | | a big production. Shop the scientific catalogues, and |
| governance and production, it becomes a vital part of | | | | send away for your own simple still for home |
| each village's pharmaceutical industry. Dismissing | | | | production. Better still, you easily can build your own |
| "green" economics as just another little shard of | | | | simple still; a quick online search even will lead you to |
| fractured utopian vision, you risk forfeiture of great | | | | blueprints for solar powered stills. Your favorite |
| opportunities for making money from it. | | | | suppliers of all things culinary happily will hook you up |
| A few visionary economists gifted with the rare | | | | with a proper press with which you can extract |
| capacity for looking ahead, refusing to stay mired in | | | | essential oils from your favorite fruits; and a little |
| the current crisis, and steadfastly resolved to perfect | | | | online research will lead you to easy, ingenious |
| their 20/20 hindsight, recognize that "making" stands | | | | techniques for extracting essential oils from your |
| at the core of sustained prosperity. In the last | | | | favorite berries. Essential oil making produces not only |
| several decades, we have grown exceptionally | | | | sweet smelling extracts but also tons of comfort and |
| proficient at selling things made elsewhere. Now, | | | | joy; essential oil making has the fun factor woven all |
| recovering wasted factory capacity and reclaiming | | | | through it. Think of it: how terrific will you feel when |
| lots of vacant land in our mid-sized cities and | | | | you spray your pillow with aromatherapy essences |
| regular-sized villages, we need to get back to making | | | | you grew in your own backyard! |
| things with all our might. In our own backyards, | | | | When you have gained a little proficiency with |
| "making" translates to growing our own; and in our | | | | essential oil making, consider how you can pump your |
| mudrooms, garages, basements, and back kitchens | | | | products into your village economy. No matter which |
| we really ought to devote some of our best | | | | method you choose-distillation, cold pressing, |
| energies to essential oil making, capitalizing on its | | | | enfleurage, or one among three common modes of |
| countless household uses. | | | | chemical extraction-a needy market eagerly awaits |
| Essential oil making ought to to begin with growing | | | | your product. Why horde those goodies for yourself |
| our own: If you can plant tomatoes and coach plump | | | | when it can become your booming cottage industry? |
| pumpkins out of your patch, surely you can plant an | | | | Transforming your aromatherapy passion from fun |
| herb garden. Plant flowers once and they will return | | | | fascination to thriving enterprise requires no detailed |
| every year. If you can plant sunflowers for fun and | | | | market research or focus groups. The people want |
| profit, why not plant lavender, rose, and geranium; | | | | what you produce. The combination of dirt-cheap |
| why not tear back the ivy and let clematis grow wild | | | | raw materials and eager consumers adds-up to huge |
| across your back fence? Just after your blooms | | | | profit potential. |