Small-batch herbal apothecary
Teas, tinctures, syrups and salves, made by hand in batches we can count. Named for what you actually need them for, with every ingredient printed on the front.
This month's remedy · Tincture 2 fl oz
The one you reach for the day your throat starts feeling scratchy. Elderberry steeped twenty-one days, not seven.
ELDERBERRY · ECHINACEA ROOT
ASTRAGALUS · RAW HONEY
CANE ALCOHOL, DISTILLED WATER
$28 · Batch 0114 · 62 made
The shelf
We don't carry a hundred products. We carry the things people actually come back for, and we make them until they're gone.
Tincture2 fl oz
The day your throat starts feeling scratchy.
ELDERBERRY · ECHINACEA ROOT
ASTRAGALUS · RAW HONEY
Loose infusion3 oz
For the hour between putting everything down and actually falling asleep.
CHAMOMILE · LEMON BALM
PASSIONFLOWER · OATSTRAW
Syrup4 fl oz
Two weeks in, still barking at night. This is that one.
MULLEIN LEAF · WILD CHERRY BARK
THYME · MARSHMALLOW ROOT
Salve2 oz tin
For hands that worked all day and are letting you know about it.
ARNICA · CALENDULA · CAYENNE
OLIVE OIL · BEESWAX
Tincture2 fl oz
Ate something that disagreed. Or the nerves got to you.
GINGER ROOT · FENNEL SEED
PEPPERMINT · CHAMOMILE
Oil1 fl oz roller
Rub it in at the hairline and sit still for ten minutes.
PEPPERMINT · LAVENDER
ROSEMARY · COCONUT OIL
Salve1 oz tin
Kids, gardens, kitchen knives. Keep it by the sink.
CALENDULA · PLANTAIN LEAF
COMFREY · BEESWAX
Bitters2 fl oz
A few drops on the tongue before dinner. Bitter on purpose.
DANDELION ROOT · GENTIAN
ORANGE PEEL · ARTICHOKE LEAF
Steam & bath6 oz jar
Bowl of hot water, towel over the back of your neck.
EUCALYPTUS · THYME · SEA SALT
ROSEMARY · MENTHOL CRYSTAL
Who's Auntie
Auntie is the person in the family who knows what you take for that. Not a doctor. Not a guru. The one who sends you home with something in a jar and tells you to call her tomorrow.
That's been the delivery system for herbal medicine for as long as there's been herbal medicine, and it works because there's a person on the other end of it. Somebody who made it, who knows what went in it, and who cares whether it helped.
We're not trying to look like a laboratory. We're trying to be that person, at scale, without losing the part that made it work.
So: small batches. Ingredients on the front. Names you'd actually say out loud. And a card in every box telling you where the plant grows and how to take the thing.
If something doesn't work for you, tell us. We'd rather know than sell you the next one.
How it's made
Every batch follows the same order. The dates on your label are real ones.
Certified organic where it's grown commercially, wild-harvested where it isn't, from three farms we've visited. The farm is named on every batch record.
Under 100°F, in racks, for as long as it takes. Heat is fast and it costs you the volatile oils, which is most of what you came for.
Tinctures sit twenty-one to forty-two days depending on the root. Most commercial tinctures are pulled at seven. You can taste the difference and so can we.
Pressed, filtered, filled, capped, labeled. Batch number and count written on the label because we actually counted them.
Straight talk
Most of this industry is careful to phrase things so you hear a promise that was never made. We'd rather just say it plainly.
What we'll tell you
What we won't say
The seasonal card
What's coming off the drying racks, what's about to sell out, and one plant explained properly. No discount codes and no urgency.
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