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The night before she meditated over the dark brown sphere, filling it with intentions, and then shaved it into small pieces; mixed it with warm water, oat milk, a little manuka honey and vanilla; and then frothed it.

“Right now, we are feeling pretty optimistic because she’s eating, she’s drinking, she’s moving,” Ortiz said on Wednesday as she prepared to rub Manuka honey on the kitten’s burns to soothe the pain.

We spent a few hours wandering around Langley with an excellent smoothie in hand from Tonic Juice & Remedy, a pocket-size shop that’s stuffed to the gills with all sorts of sundries, from incense and essential oils to manuka honey, mushroom chocolate, herbs, alters, salts and more.

Customers are also demanding proof that expensive, high-end products — like conflict-free diamonds, organic cotton, sushi-grade tuna or Manuka honey — are genuine, and produced in ethically and environmentally sustainable ways.

However, I’ve heard that manuka honey is really better for wound healing.