Boreal acreage, worked by hand.

The boreal, specifically.

The boreal forest is the largest continuous biome on the planet, running in a ragged belt across Alaska, the Yukon, northern Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia. It accounts for about a third of the world's trees and is, by most measures, the most intact forest biome left.

Our acreage sits near the southern edge of Alaska's boreal, warmer, wetter, and more biologically diverse than a comparable patch further north. What that means for the shop is that we have access to a set of botanicals that are rare anywhere else in the world: wild Labrador tea, devil's club, high-bush cranberry, fireweed, yarrow, and a dozen lichens most people outside a taxonomy lab can't name.

We work and live on the acreage. In order to maintain sustainability, we also gather in the local region where permitted. The rest is standing forest, and standing forest is what keeps the bit we work on functioning. We are trying to leave more than we take.

What we grow versus what we gather.

Most of our ingredients are gathered. A few (chamomile, lemon balm, mint) we cultivate in a plot in the garden.