We have been in business since 2003

In 1998 I was teaching high school health and had a bunch of guest speakers come into my classroom to speak about forming healthy habits. Herbalist Isabelle Hadley came in with little vials of essential oils and large glass jars filled with brightly colored dried herbs. I fell in love with the idea of using plants for health and began taking classes with Isabelle in her adorable log cabin in southern Vermont. She made herbal luncheons and taught me to make all kinds of herbal preparations. I fell in love with plants.

Shortly after that, we bought a fixer-upper farmhouse in Northern Vermont that came with a catalogue of all the perennials that were planted in the front garden by a woman who summered here for over 30 years. Jane Hatfield loved and cared for the property in the same way we did and over time, we became friends.

Jane’s flower garden prompted us to start learning how to garden in earnest. We added jungle style gardens to the backyard, including 100 blueberry bushes and other medicinal herbs after studying with the amazing Rosemary Gladstar at Sage Mountain. (Turns out our new house was only 30 minutes from Sage Mountain.) I was also fortunate to be an intern at Zack Woods Herb Farm and learn from Jeff and Mel Carpenter who are as healing as the medicinal herbs they grow.

In 2012 I begin white labeling for a large Vermont retail store after a friend suggested I send them samples of all the products I made. I am still making and labeling products for them.

In 2017, my husband and business partner, Matthew, built a barn in his spare time to house our growing business. In 2018 I was able to leave my teaching job and pursue Everlasting Herb Farm full time.

In 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, a local woman who knew I made body care products asked me to make her a cream deodorant because she had had a stroke and couldn’t apply deodorant in a traditional plastic applicator to one side of her body. Two years later, after making multiple batches and testing them by the woodstove, I developed both a balm style deodorant and a solid bar format of the same deodorant called Meadow Bee. It really works, and doesn’t irritate sensitive skin. Plus it comes in plastic-free, planet friendly packaging. And it is only made with 9 simple ingredients, 8 of them plant-based.

Most recently I have studied through Formula Botanica in London and am a graduate of their Organic Skincare Formulation Course. In 2023 I took Gracie & Nancy Phillip’s “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times Course” at their Heartsong Farm in New Hampshire.