Our commitment to bringing you the highest quality products starts at the farms. We source our ingredients from farmers who are committed to the highest standards of sustainable agriculture and who are the top experts in what they grow and produce. Each farm we work with holds a stewardship role in the community of natural health and green living.
Zack Woods Herb Farm
Farmers Jeff and Melanie are committed to cultivating and protecting the highest quality medicinal herbs on their 10-acre farm in the Green Mountains of northern Vermont. For more than 10 years the couple has been tending their dream on this botanical sanctuary, where they grow more than forty varieties of medicinal herbs, from angelica to yellow dock root. All of the herbs are hand-harvested at the peak of potency and dried in a wood-fired drying shed. Jeff and Melanie both deepened their love for and knowledge of herbs under the guidance of herbalist Rosemary Gladstar at Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center.
www.zackwoodsherbs.com
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Healing Spirits Farm
As newly weds years ago, Andrea and Matthias volunteered for the Peace Corps in the Philippines, where they taught subsistence farming and nutrition. For more than the past twenty-five years, they have strived to live a life harmonious with all creation on their farm in the Finger Lakes region of western New York. Through various healing modalities, including cranio-sacral, zero balancing, reiki, and therapeutic touch—as well as the healing properties of the seventy-five ethically wild-crafted and certified organic herbs that they grow- Andrea and Matthias have created a true haven at the Healing Spirits Farm.
www.healingspiritsherbfarm.com
Flack Family Farm
Barbara and Doug Flack are at the helm of a truly heirloom farm nestled in the northern hills of Vermont. This is a biodynamic farm that uses organic farming practices. Known in the area for their incredibly delicious kimchi and sauerkraut, locals also know that they can drive around to the barn entrance to buy raw milk straight from their grass fed cattle. In fact, the Flack’s have been running the Raw Milk Theater every year, a performance night filled with the creative and food-loving spirit that is this community. Barbara Flack also happens to be the most talented biodynamic herb grower in the area. Her phenomenal lemonbalm is found in our Sleep Tonic. Check out their website for information on visiting their farm and learning more about biodynamic farming.
www.flackfamilyfarm.com
Heartsong Farm
In New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Michael and Nancy cultivate and wild-craft medicinal herbs and apple trees. They also grow eight varieties of garlic. As authors of The Herbalist’s Way and The Apple Growers, Michael and Nancy love to share their knowledge through the apprenticeships they offer on the farm as well as workshops and lectures they give throughout the country. They also teach summer courses on herbs, health and healing as well as an Organic Apple Intensive course on all things apple. Together with their daughter, Gracie, their dog Avena and Cow named Sassafrass, Michael and Nancy run a beautiful family farm.
www.herbsandapples.com
Beehavin’ Apiary
This small, family-owned apiary in Smithfield, RI supplies honey for Roots Remedies tonics. Beehavin’ observes only chemical-free, natural beekeeping practices and all of its woodenware, or housing for bees, is made from local eastern white pine from a local sawmill. Established thirty-eight years ago, the farm’s beehives are located in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Beehavin’s chief beekeeper, Everett, enjoys educating the public about the importance of bees and the mutual dependence between these pollinators and humans.
www.beehavinapiary.com
Maple Lane Farms
This 120-acre, all-season farm in Connecticut, evolved from farmer Allyn’s 2-acre Christmas Tree Farm started in 1978, now boasts pick-your-own blueberries, raspberries, pumpkins and apples. But more than half of the farm’s acreage is devoted to 130,000 bushes of blackcurrants, a super fruit with three times the amount of Vitamin C as citrus fruits and more antioxidants than blueberries. Allyn is one of the largest growers of blackcurrants in the United States. Though wildly popular in Europe, these dark berries have only recently gained popularity in the States, due in part to Allyn’s pioneering efforts. Maple Lane Farm provides the blackcurrant juice for Roots Remedies’ Energy tonic.
www.maplelane.com
Farmers & Growers
If you grow medicinal plants, produce a fresh fruit juice, or produce natural honey, please call 1-800-720-0821 or email info@rootsremedies.com.