SO: then I'm definitely going to create an experience people will never forget! Because we HAVE to celebrate 20 years of Vossabia 🎉 From a time when people backed away with a frown between their eyebrows when I said it was 100% natural, to now when people are hungry for knowledge and nourishing natural products! 🌱❤️🩹
My good friend and incredible eco-pioneer Craig Sams has already agreed to come and give a talk! He started the world's first organic and fair trade chocolate brand: Green & Blacks , with his wonderful wife Josephine Sams . She is also a super eco-pioneer, among other things in perfume (founder of The Perfume Society in the UK and she is the author of a natural cosmetics book ). Incidentally, Craig started Northern Europe's first organic grocery store together with his mother and brother in England in the 1960s, so you can see we are talking about a pioneer of the rare kind. I am really looking forward to their talks and activities.
There will be lots of other things too, including delicious local food, tours and fun on our farm, and lots of things that aren't quite nailed down, but are floating around like bright star ideas that are gradually being concretized and landed 💫
🌳 Maybe you'd like to join an evening forest walk and hug trees and listen for owls, after a day of professional refreshment from the best in ecology and regenerative thinking and operation?
⛰ Or do you want to lie in old hayfields and feel the energy while ladybugs crawl over your nose and butterflies, willows and bumblebees whizz around?
🏊🏻 Or how about swimming in our clean Støl River, or going for a walk in the mountains here?
💆♀️ Could you imagine a wild spa course where you harvest herbs, mix them into the best face mask and at the same time enjoy a delicious local drink while herbs and honey care for and nourish your skin?
So, it's endless what wonderful things we can plan for this anniversary celebration with play, learning, life and fun! 🙌
Now I want to create a nature-based event , an experience, that will touch the HEARTS of the wonderful people who follow and support our nature-based business Vossabia 💛
It will be what I love most, namely a mix of play and learning, about and in nature, with what nature locally has to offer! The focus will be on ecology, permaculture, soil and plants and how humans are so closely connected to AND dependent on our nature.
Vossabia is not "just" a cosmetics brand. The skin and hair product line is most of all my platform and a space to convey my passion for values, philosophy and knowledge about herbs, plants and all the wonderful things nature has to offer 🌱✨
Creativity and Ingenuity ⭐️ Connection to the city and local plants. Contact with culture and history. These are also essential ingredients in Vossabia for me, and the company has given me the opportunity, now for 20 years, to connect with nature and people who will use our products in the next round, in a way I would not have had the opportunity to do without Vossabia (which I do NOT believe is cosmetics, even though the regulations say so, but it is FOOD and NUTRITION! )
This beautiful path Vossabia has taken, thanks to what we have around us in nature, because of people who have been here before (my parents, grandparents), and the wonderful people our customers are, has made Vossabia for me a space for SELF-CARE on so many levels! 😍🥰
Join us for the celebration
We are super excited to invite you to this wonderful celebration of Vossabia's 20th anniversary ! The celebration will be a nice mix of play and learning, surrounded by the most beautiful nature in West Norway at Voss.
Now let me go. 200 tickets out into the world , with a 1000kr early-bird discount, a ticket that gives you:
🛍 Vossabia goodie bag
🧑🌾 Lectures from skilled professionals
📚 Courses (Wild Spa Course, Smell, Learn and Create: Natural Perfume Course)
🍴 Local food
🎶 Local music (maybe some really great singers will come to the yard?)
🥾 Nature-based activities
🗓 When: first weekend in June 2024, in the middle of the nettle harvest
📍 City: Voss
Get your ticket now and start the countdown to this unforgettable experience!
Feel free to send us any questions or suggestions! We would love to hear from you!
We look forward to seeing you here 🤩
Warm regards,
Renate, Queen Bee 🐝 in Vossabia