Ash now grows medicinal herbs, flowers and heirloom seeds on the one-acre farm. She even dries many of the herbs she grows on a closet dry rack she built by hand.
Although Ash had been using medicinal herbs in her own life, she wasn’t always happy with the imported herbs she bought. “I would get these bags of brown, dusty herbs,” she says. “And I was like, what is it like to grow this?”
So Ash sought out other farmers who were growing herbs and asked a lot of questions. She did the same with seed farmers. And when she heard that customers in the wedding industry wanted locally sourced flowers, she began selling flowers grown on her farm, too.