How to Make Your Own Sage Bundle Sticks! 

I use Garden Sage in this video. White Sage is over harvested and is used in closed practices. Smudging is a closed practice, however, smoke cleansing is not. When I filmed this, I didn't do enough research about all of this and I sincerely apologize. These bundles/sticks I have made in this video are all herbs from my personal garden and are what I use to smoke cleanse.

did a small test bundle with bay and eucalyptus leaves and the result was a calm.

Something I learned about tying my sticks is to use a wet paper towel, the make a size is perfect. Just wet it and roll up your herbs tightly as if you're rolling a doobie. Let it sit over night to dry and when you come back, the roll will be perfect and all you have to do is tie it up. I use a lot of different things in my smudge sticks. Fig bark is great and so are the leaves. Mexican sycamore has a wonderful smell from the leaves. When it is this time of year they are really nice and flexible so don't dry them first. They make a perfect way to roll up your herbs. Sage, thyme, basil are all good but check with other fragrances in the wild and test them first before burning. Some people say that mint burns with a bad smell I don't know that for sure but I'm testing.

Growing sage for the first time this year, and it just occurred to me that I could make my own bundles! Thanks for teaching me!! 🥰

You’re adorable like an actual real person... *rare these days* haha thank you for this! Love your personality! So simple and easy to follow thanks girl!

This helped me. I made tiny smudge sticks. Lol

Awesome!!! I’m growing sage now along with rosemary and some other herbs and flowers and I’m looking forward to making my own. I can not wait!!!! ❤️❤️

Oh, I’m so looking forward to doing this! I’ve got sage, rosemary and lavender growing for just this reason! Thank you for an easy to follow video on how to do this. 💖

This is a lovely, natural tutorial. Thank you 💕

Love the natural tutorial, it was you, felt welcoming. I have always wanted to get into smudging. Thank you for explaining how to save money and do it at home. 👍🙏namaste

Thank for sharing! I have an over grown sage plant I harvested some of the leaves today. I will be making some of these and sending them to friends and family.

I made my first smudge kit today, thank you so much❤️

Thank you for this easy tutorial. Just made one now with rosemary, and a bit of sage and lavender.

This spring when I can get an herb garden going, I want to make "Scarborough Fair" bundles. Can't wait to try them.

This was wonderful! I've trying to find ways to use up the vast amounts of sage growing in my garden! This is perfect!

Thank you so much! This was so helpful! Me and mamma got the same type of sage in our lil garden! I didn’t even know that sage can be different, and you just explained it all! Now I can make these cute bundles myself! Thank you so much! 🙏🏼❤️🥰🥰🥰

I’ve made sage sticks with green culinary sage, rosemary, thyme and a rose bud in the center top. Thanks for sharing your method.

YES, love how you used culinary sage instead of white sage!! I absolutely hate when I see white sage bundle sticks online or in metaphysical shops. :(

Yes so easy to follow. Thank you!! your hand jewelry cute

Thank you! Your super awesome! I just made some with a few Australian native plants 🌿 great work!

Just did it, I'd been thinking about it for a while but couldn't figure out how to wrap and tie everything, thank you so much! Hope my little bundle will dry and burn nicely 😊

Awesome thank you so much for this video. All i was finding were people drying for food. This is my first year growing and making my own bundles.

Thank you for sharing! Your vibes and voice are very calming for me this evening.

Thank you for this video! I’m looking forward to making my sage bundles.

Made some mini's . They turned out nice. Thank you for this idea!

This very smart lady suggested sage bundling this video has sparked an interest. I will try this .❤ thanks for your video.

Awesome.Thank You so much !! Very interesting!! Excited to try this !!Much love an light joy to you !!

Can't wait to try it!

I never considered using cotton. Thanks for the vid🌱

Just about to try, thank you for the help and advice xx

Thank you for sharing , so well explained and so simple to make !

I love making smudges! And I love all of your videos.

I will be trying this in a couple weeks I have a bushel of sage. Thank you so much for sharing ❤

Thank you, really great video, looking forward to making some!

I have a wonderful mullein plant. I know burning it is good for the lungs. I'm going to make some bundles and have them ready for the winter colds. Thank you for showing how to do this.

LOVE your rings you have on!

Great video thank you! I have grown 4 types of sage this year i will try that!

Thank you for this! I am a starter witch and it helped me out a lot even when it does look a bit wonky I think I will get the hang of it :D P.S. Your voice is so calming!

Excited to try this! Thank You!

Thank you so much. I needed this right now. I am off to the garden to pick my sage.

My dad made a herb stone circle garden with a load of sage. I've always wanted to try making some sage smudging sticks. I've considered adding in some local mint too. (it only grows here on our farm, everyone who's tried grit elsewhere has not succeeded, but it makes wonderful mint tea, so I'm happy to have it!) Thanks for the video. I'll be suggesting that me and my girlfriend make these via our Sunday video dates after being separated by covid for the last 14 weeks, this'll be a fun and useful craft to do. Thank you, stay safe

I haven't yet Sage is ready I have saved your video so I can watch it a couple more times. Thank you for taking the time to do this video was very helpful

Thank you my first one is an absolute mess I'll keep this in mind for next time

I grow sage at home so going to give this a go. Thank you. 😊

i love the way you explain and demonstrate. very nice vid!!

Thank you, I am certainly going to try this 👍😉🇮🇪🍀

You made this super easy. Thank you so very much!

Following your directions, it was very easy to make a rosemary bundle today! Thanks!

Thank you for making this video for us.

Just found out how to make my own incense and now this beautiful work blessed be

I was just given alot of culinary sage so instantly I thought of drying them out as burning so thankyou for the tutorial 😊 new subscriber and new to the witchy arts 😊🤘

I have soooo much safe in my back yard. I've always burned incense but never safe. Excited to try this

Thank you, I made my first smudge stick, following your your tutorial, 🪴💛

Just the vid I was looking for - I’m going to try it with pineapple sage & lavender. Thanks!

Thank you for your tutorial .looking forward to burning sage in my home for first time.

Love this!!! Thank you!

We in Palestine use sage in tea .. we do tea normally then we put green or dry sage leaves in the cups and pour tea over it ... We drink this as a daily basic habit specially in winter ..it is sooo delicious. Try it out.

Excellent! Thank you!

Thank you, the tutorial and ideas was very helpful.

I really enjoyed your video, thank you. I will definitely try this. I’ve been watching tutorials on making them and yours is my favorite. Subscribed! 💜🌺 Aloha

Thanks I have my first sage !! 💜🖤

Thank you so much for sharing. I've subscribed

Awesome video. Always wanted to make my own

love that ring. I have one just like it.

This is awesome, thank you! ☺️

Enjoyed your video! I am going to try this!

😮 Nice and easy 😊 Thank you

Thank you for this tutorial! However I’m glad you used kitchen sage as white sage is very sacred to Indigenous peoples and it is going endangered because of our excessive usage of it!

Your video showing how to wrap with twine makes a lot more sense than the other videos, where people flop the plants over, back and forth, for every crisscross they make. Lot of flopping going on!

Thank you so much for video, it helped me a lot. !!!!

tysm for this tutorial now that where in quarantine its really hard to get ahold of white sage but I had all the ingredients for this video

Thank you! This is awesome!!!

Love it! Thank you, thank you, Thank you! Liz Gray from Canada

thanks this video was great! have been looking for some but everywhere around me sells small bundles for $20+

Wow thank you for showing me. I have always been spiritually and take it very honorably. I also help others.❤ Love and light I think your pretty awesome I sub so cant wait to see your vids❤❤

Appreciate you soooooo much!!! Love your videos!! Thank you!!

Thanks for the video loved it

I absolutely loved this video... I made a smudge stick along with you, and you made me laugh so hard with your brain farts😜😂!! Your are super funny and sweet😊 thank you so much ❤️ Namaste 🤟

Great video cheers for the help

When spring appears, I'll be planting culinary sage, rosemary, and lavender for smudge sticks and for the kitchen. I'll also plant other herbs and get my vegetables at the market.

Thank you for sharing this video on RU-vid . I was just wondered if wild sage is suitable for burning.

Your bundle sticks are so nice. Wish I could smell them 🌱

we just got fresh organic sage from the local csa we have and I tried this method. It looks to beautiful and I'm excited to see how it goes. It smells amazing! My first try. Let's see =)

thank you for sharing your great

thank you looking forward to watching more videos

Just picked Russian sage and I'm excited to do this!

Thanks fam☀️

Love this! You just got a new subscriber! Blessed be!

Thank you!😘😊

Thank You for your sacred love!!! = ))))).

just some fenangallin 😆 thank you for the vids 🙌🏻

I was just wondering how tight I should wrap it but you did a great job explaining it thank you very much. )🙂(

Thank you!

Thank you for sharing..

Thanks. I’m growing white sage and just wanted a little guidance before making bundles. This is perfect. White sage seeds available through strictly medicinal seeds -responsibly grown/harvested

I'm not going to lie, the tying part messed me up and I had to recruit a little help to find out I messed it up. Lol My lavender was eaten up by the leaves, but in the end made it. Lol Thank you for your help.

I was lucky to find a small planter of white sage in the herb section in the grocery store of all places. Planned it in my garden in the spring and it grew like crazy and spread everywhere. Also with my mint which are all perennial and a huge section of just lavender. I did my first bundle yesterday the first one I was fumbling with the string but after that it was a breeze I made four beautiful bundles with lavender and the white sage. The only twine I could find with very thin burlap twine I'm wondering how that's going to turn out burning it. I have it hanging up to dry I'm wondering how long it takes to completely dry out and will the bundles become smaller after dried. I had such a good time doing it, they were made with love. 🌱♥️💚

Thank you so much, this is so helpful! I started growing several herbs in my garden recently, including sage for this exact purpose :) I also have some rosemary, that seems like I would make a heavenly smell! Also, I appreciate you mentioning in the comments the issues about using white sage. I know not everyone is responding well to it, but I think it’s worth knowing. One of my good friends is fully Native American and there’s such a collective wound for her people that for decades, they were persecuted for burning sage and other beliefs and traditions of her people’s, but now that it’s trendy, it’s getting dangerously close to extinction from over-harvesting. I didn’t know about it until recently too, but that’s part of what inspired me to plant sage of my own! It’s just culinary sage, but I still feel better about using stuff that I’ve grown. You can just saturate it in intention from the moment you get it! :)

You could use colored cotton embroidery thread to tie and bind your sage or other smudge sticks.

thank you so much!!!