This is a resource page for Herbal CSAs. I created this page to support herbalists and those looking for quality herbal products from grassroots herbalists.
What are Herbal CSAs?
Herbal CSA's are modeled after Community Supported Agriculture models. This model is a way to support herbalists before and throughout the growing and harvesting season.
Generally how they work is you sign up for an herbal share that is anywhere from three months to a year in length. Each month you receive herbs and herbal products from your herbal CSA.
Read more about CSAs here.
Herbal CSA's are such a wonderful way to offer high quality, hand crafted herbal products to the public, while also adding the educational component that is so important. More and more people are becoming interested in learning about herbs and how to use them, but they tend to be nervous or afraid and don't know where to begin. Herbal CSA's can help bridge that gap, guiding folks through months of education of how they can introduce herbs regularly into there lives, hopefully leaving them confidant to further continue using herbs after their CSA has run it's course.
Kathi Langelier
If you would like to find an herbal CSA in your area do a "find" feature on your browser and look for your state.
Also, many herbalists ship their herbal CSAs all over the US.
Want to be included?
If you would like your herbal CSA to be featured here please send me an email with CSA in the subject line and include the following information:
- Name (yours or the company)
- Location (and where you serve - long distance, etc)
- URL of your business (or how folks can learn more/sign up)
- Description of your CSA. (look below for examples on length)
List of Herbal CSA providers
Amrita Aromatics & Apothecary / Ananda Lakshmi Wilson (coming soon)
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Apothecaria Herbs, by herbalist Katie Wolk
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Canada) I serve the Greater Toronto Area (extra shipping for out of province)
A monthly delivery of herbal goodies to your front door
Each month you receive three items plus an easy D.I.Y tip included in the informative newsletter.
The CSH runs from May to November and costs $250 OR you can choose the flexible plan and pay $45 per month.
Expect to receive herbal honeys, nourishing infusions, effective bug spray, natural sunscreen, hair care, tinctures, etc...!
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Tucson, AZ by mail order to the u.s. (international available, please ask for shipping quotes)
The Blue Turtle Botanicals Herbal CSA is:
- delivery to your home each month through the mail- you never have to go anywhere to pick up your share (pick up is available in Tucson, AZ)
- 3 new fresh, handmade products each month
- offers multiple share lengths, and payment plans
- provides the freshest, most potent plant medicine and products for your personal use (products are made seasonally, and fresh- nothing sitting on a shelf for months on end!)
- offers a wide variety of medicines and product types for all tastes- including tinctures, elixirs, medicinal tea blends, infused healing oils, salves, luscious body care, flower essences, vinegars and more!
- comes with educational information each month about each of the plants included in your share products, and suggestions on how to use the products
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with Jenn Allen (Yogifarmgirl)
Pocono Mountains, PA (ship throughout the US
A monthly CSA limited to 10 members per month. Each month echoes a theme and may include tea, tincture, elixir, syrup, bodycare, incense, pr perfume. Minimum of at least four items per month and also includes an informative newsletter of folklore, recipes, monographs and support that month's products.
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Farm at Coventry by Susan Hess (on hold)
Location: Elverson, PA (Southeastern PA) Available for pickup and shipping
Community Supported Wellness shares are currently distributed in four quarterly packages. Bring the 'backyard healthcare' movement right into your own home by supporting locally grown, high quality handcrafted herbal products that have been carefully selected by seasonal need.
Each share will include any abundant combination of culinary, therapeutic or scent-sational herbal gifts such as : *herbal/floral jams*dried/fresh herbs *salves *tinctures/elixirs*herb-infused syrups/honeys/vinegars/shrubs* herb-infused massage oils/liniments *tea blends *culinary/therapeutic pastes & so much more.
A full color seasonal newsletter will also accompany each share detailing it's contents and how to use them
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Community Supported Wellness shares are currently distributed in four quarterly packages. Bring the 'backyard healthcare' movement right into your own home by supporting locally grown, high quality handcrafted herbal products that have been carefully selected by seasonal need.
Each share will include any abundant combination of culinary, therapeutic or scent-sational herbal gifts such as : *herbal/floral jams*dried/fresh herbs *salves *tinctures/elixirs*herb-infused syrups/honeys/vinegars/shrubs* herb-infused massage oils/liniments *tea blends *culinary/therapeutic pastes & so much more.
A full color seasonal newsletter will also accompany each share detailing it's contents and how to use them
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Based in Cambridge, Minnesota with local drop sites throughout the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.
For the Love of Dandelions is an herbal CSA based in Cambridge, MN. Six consecutive monthly shares are filled with sustainably cultivated and wildcrafted herbs, tinctures, salves, vinegars, soap, lip balm and more. Each monthly share includes 4 different products as well as fresh herbs (as allowed by the growing season). A newsletter helps members to incorporate these and other herbs into their daily lives.
Herbal Revolution (Kathi Langelier)
I am located in mid-coast Maine, I offer mail order shares for the herbal CSA along with local shares.
Herbal Revolutions medicinal CSA offers 3 month and 6 month organic shares that include 1 1oz tincture, 1 large tea tin, 1 1/2 flower essence and an extra product that could be an elixir, salve, herbal oil, body butter, etc. Each monthly package will also included herbal recipes, write up on the herb of the month and information on the products that you have chosen and the best ways to use them.
Herbal Revolutions medicinal CSA offers 3 month and 6 month organic shares that include 1 1oz tincture, 1 large tea tin, 1 1/2 flower essence and an extra product that could be an elixir, salve, herbal oil, body butter, etc. Each monthly package will also included herbal recipes, write up on the herb of the month and information on the products that you have chosen and the best ways to use them.
Through supporting an Herbal CSA you are supporting small farms run by individual herbalists such as myself who specialize in the craft of herbal medicine making on a small and intimate scale.
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Just Herbals CSA
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Just Herbals CSA
Ipswich, MA (local distribution only, because there are weekly pick-ups of fresh herbs)
The medicinal herb CSA from Just Herbals provides a unique experience because we offer weekly pick-ups of fresh unprocessed herbs, not pre-made products, while emphasizing education, connection & hands on experience with live plants. Classes in herbal medicine making & plant walks are offered in conjunction with the share, where participants get hands on experience making medicine with herbs received in their shares. The aim of this CSA model is to empower it's participants in taking home healthcare into their own hands, while further enriching & strengthening community herbalism in Massachusetts' north shore.
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King's Road Apothecary is called the Monthly Herbal Surprise box. Every month you get a selection of goodies, made from wild and hand crafted ingredients, plus information on how to use these ingredients that bring you closer to nature and your surroundings. Each month contains four items, possibilities being:
- Scented herbal room spray
- Herbal lotion (sage, rosemary, bay and mint)
- Infused honey (jeffrey pine infused honey is divine)
- Herbal face cream (think rose-infused, age-defying goodness)
- Infused body oil
- Herbal bitters blends
- Liqueurs
- Infused spirits (spiced rum? Spruce tip vodka?)
- Hand made scented candle
- Tea blend made from wild gathered plants
- Various seasonal tinctures (detox in the spring, cooling in the summer, nourishing in the winter)
- Salves (sunburn, chapped winter hands)
- Culinary herb blends
- Herbal syrups (have you ever tasted white fir infused syrup?)
- Oxymel (elderberry oxymel anybody?)
- Infused oil (Douglas fir infused olive oil makes for delicious lunches)
Monthly, six month and twelve month subscriptions available.
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI
The Deep Winter Herbal CSA is a hyperlocal apothecary kit of organic and local herbs selected specifically to support winter wellness. The Deep Winter Herbal CSA herbal creations have been grown and wildcrafted and prepared in the traditional folk medicine way by community herbalist Lisa Rose Starner.
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Loveland and Front Range Colorado as well as offering free shipping to distant (within the US) subscribers.
Morgan Botanicals offers year-a-round Large and Small Herbal CSA Memberships so you can enjoy fresh seasonal herbals that are homegrown, wildgathered, handmade and delivered to your door! By becoming a member you will build your own home supply of herbal medicines, learn more about how to use local and medicinal plants, and explore new ways of taking charge of your own health. Each season 20 new members will receive 3 boxes full of herbal offerings (and information on how to use them) such as infused honeys, loose teas, sweet elixirs or syrups, medicinal oils and salves, liniments, toothpowders, vinagars and plenty of other herbally goodnesses! (Monthly payments are available, please inquire at herbalist at morganbotanicals dot com)
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Portland Apothecary
Location: We are located in Portland, OR. For locals we have our CSH Share pickup at a different venue each quarterly season. It might be a pop up shop with other makers, or an open studio, or even under a large tree in a park. We like to have the share pick up be fun and varied. We also do mail out our CSH Shares all across the country and are happy to do so.
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Ship anywhere in the UK
I grow and gather my own herbs in Dorset, UK in order to provide the most vibrant and fresh herbs possible for my patients. Over the seasons I find that I have some surplus and I am able to share this with a select few members of my Herb Share Scheme. This is probably best described as a cross between a herbal box scheme and a course in home herbalism.
Members sign up for a three month period and receive three parcels containing four hand crafted herbal items such as 2 packs of dried herbs or tea blends, a 100ml bottle of tincture, infused oil or tonic, a 30ml jar of ointment or cream.
Herb Share parcels also can include salt scrubs and body oils, capsules, oxymels, spice blends or cough sweets. The contents are seasonal and reflect the harvesting and medicine making activities here at my clinic.
Each month members receive instructions on how to use the herbs and information about them so that they are learning how to incorporate herbs into their family healthcare as well as gaining an introduction to staying well through holistic principles.
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Portland Apothecary
Location: We are located in Portland, OR. For locals we have our CSH Share pickup at a different venue each quarterly season. It might be a pop up shop with other makers, or an open studio, or even under a large tree in a park. We like to have the share pick up be fun and varied. We also do mail out our CSH Shares all across the country and are happy to do so.
About: We are strong believers in preventative medicine and it's contribution to vibrant and healthy communities. Portland Apothecary's CSH Shares will be offered four times a year -- Autumn, Winter, Spring & Summer. It is our hope that these Shares will reconnect you to the seasons and to their particular nuances. For example, Autumn is associated with the Lung, with the color white, with dryness, the direction West and with grief. Our Share for Autumn will focus on respiratory health, the transition into winter and nurturance. We blend Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Herbalism to create our Shares.
Each CSH Share will contain small batch, handcrafted medicinals that will help you move through the seasons with health and awareness. Your Share will always come with a detailed description of the season and what ways you can meet the challenges of that season with health. You’ve heard of seasonal eating at this point, well—this is seasonal healthcare. We want to keep you from getting sick to begin with. You’ll find a wide range of herbal remedies in each Share ranging from tinctures & teas to artisanal soap & medicinal honey.
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The Wild Garden
Serving: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Free shipping in Ontario)
The Wild Food and Herb CSA runs quarterly throughout the year changing with the seasons, following the rhythms of nature. Each delivery comes with a newsletter highlighting the products for the month, with lots of information, historical lore, recipes and more! CSA members also enjoy free access to any walks and workshops offered by the Wild Garden, during the quarter for which they are subscribed.
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The Wild Garden
Serving: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Free shipping in Ontario)
The Wild Food and Herb CSA runs quarterly throughout the year changing with the seasons, following the rhythms of nature. Each delivery comes with a newsletter highlighting the products for the month, with lots of information, historical lore, recipes and more! CSA members also enjoy free access to any walks and workshops offered by the Wild Garden, during the quarter for which they are subscribed.
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Location: Central Vermont
The Wild Heart Wellness Cold and Flu Herbal CSA Share is designed to support immune health throughout the winter months and to be at the ready if you or your family should encounter a cold or flu.
Shares Includes:
- Winter Cold & Flu Support Kit: A selection of locally grown herbs to build you winter apothecary. May include elderberry syrup, echinacea tincture, propolis tincture, heat-it-up cider, garlic, fever comfort tea, cold & flu support tea, and other bounties of the season's harvest.
- Using Your Cold & Flu Kit Class: During this three hour beginner class, members will receive their CSA shares and be introduced to all of the plants included. Learn how to use plants to support immune health along with herbal approaches to cold and flu care.
Pick-Up & Class: Visit http://www.wildheartwellness.net/cold--flu-csa.html to check out this year's class dates.
Make-up Classes: If you cannot attend the class because of a know conflict, you may receive a pass to redeem for attendance to a later class (topics vary). This must be arranged at sign up.
Make-up Classes: If you cannot attend the class because of a know conflict, you may receive a pass to redeem for attendance to a later class (topics vary). This must be arranged at sign up.
To Register: Register at http://www.wildheartwellness.net/csa-registration.html.
Payment: For current pricing, please visit http://www.wildheartwellness.net/cold--flu-csa.htm.
Questions? Feel free to contact me (Rebecca) at rebecca.dalgin@gmail.com, 802-552-0727, or visit http://www.wildheartwellness.net/cold--flu-csa.html for more info.
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Wild Seed Apothecary by Erin Domagal
Shares are available for pickup in Rosendale, NY or shipped to anywhere in the continental US.
- Seasonal CSH (Community Supported Herbalism)
Seasonal transitions place our bodies under an increased amount of stress as our internal state works to acclimate to changes in the environment. At these times it becomes increasingly important to be mindful of our bodies, as we are more likely to feel rundown, exhausted or overwhelmed. In order to help your body maintain optimum health throughout the year, Wild Seed Apothecary offers a bundle of herbal products that is geared toward supporting your body through the different particulars each season brings
CSH Shares include the following items, as well as information on each product, seasonal-specific health tips, and an informational plant card:
· single herb and compound formula tinctures (Echinacea extract, headache relief tincture, etc)
· herbal teas (nourishing nettles, sweet dreams tea blend, etc)
· skin care products (salve, skin cream, lip balm, facial scrub, toner, etc)
· specialty items (syrups, elixirs, vinegars, herbal honey, etc)
Available in SMALL (4 products) or LARGE (7 products)
