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From Houston, Alaska · 61.62°N · 149.76°W
Wild-harvested. Small-batch. Made by us.
A veteran-owned mercantile of wild-harvested apothecary, wellness teas, and small-batch topicals, made by hand on a homestead north of the Susitna River.
Meet the Makers
Richard, Aimee, and Liliana — three people on a homestead bordering the Little Susitna River, making a short list of things by hand.
Aimee has been making soap for years. Richard has been working in botanical apothecary for nearly as long: tinctures, infused oils, salves. Liliana is our daughter, apprentice, and young entrepreneur, every day, all over the homestead. We bought the raw land in 2021 and have been building ever since.
We make a small number of things carefully, and put our real names on the label.
Read the long version →A field catalog, organized by hand.
Every item in the mercantile is harvested, rendered, or poured within a day's drive of the homestead. We stock what we use, and what we'd give to a neighbor.
The one we can't stop making.
Raw spruce pitch, rendered slowly and poured into tins, a salve we started making for ourselves and haven't stopped.
What we're harvesting now
May on the homestead.
The first greens of the year break through the south slope by mid-month. Here's what's going into the baskets.
In hand
Spruce Tips
First growth, high in vitamin C; dried for tea, rendered into salve.
Tapping now
Birch Sap
A three-week window before bud-break, simmered down forty-to-one for syrup.
Watching for
Devil's Club Shoots
Traditional spring tonic; careful handling required, back in the shop late May.
Recently Restocked
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Back on the shelf.
From the Field Notes
All Field Notes →
What we're reading, rendering, and writing down.
Wildcrafting · Mar 2026
On the ethics of rendering spruce pitch.
Why we only tap wounds the tree has already made, and what the research says about long-term stand health.
Botanical Prep · Feb 2026
Labrador tea, ledol, and knowing when to stop.
A plain-language guide to the one botanical we sell with a dosage sticker, and why we do.
Homestead Apothecary · Jan 2026
Forty acres, four years in.
What we've learned about working a piece of boreal forest without breaking it, or ourselves.
From the counter.
“My pups healed damage fast using the Paw Protector. Definitely keeping this stuff.”
Ruby C.
Willow, Alaska
“This worked great for my beard, nice and pleasant all day.”
John G.
Portland, Oregon
“When I started using Spruce Sentry on my face wrinkles, I couldn't help but buy more. It works great!”
Jane S.
Happy Valley, Oregon
Veteran-Owned
Wild-Harvested in Alaska
Small Batch
Made on Our Homestead