Mystic Roots Farm

Mystic Roots Farm is a women-led team devoted to growing and producing high quality, wildly potent, and beautiful medicinal herbs, functional foods, and herbal products. They steward a 6-acre permaculture-designed farm that includes a 1-acre grow devoted to medicinal herbs, perennial food crops, edible flowers, an outdoor mushroom garden, forest gardens, a high tunnel, a small veggie garden, and a small flock of chickens. Their mission is to increase access to high quality, potent, and beautiful medicines and functional foods, and to expand the perception of herbalism to benefit all aspects of life. They are committed to regenerative organic practices and building soil health, believing good medicine starts in the soil. The farm was founded in 2023, as indicated by the copyright date on the website. Sass Ayres is the Farm Manager, with Erika Swing as Bookkeeping and Office Manager, and Tim Kim as Sales and Product Development. Sass has a Masters degree in Clinical Nutrition and extensive training in herbalism, permaculture, and landscape design, having worked in the farm-to-table and farm-to-apothecary movements since 2010. Tim brings over 20 years of sales experience to the team. The farm is located less than 30 minutes outside of Asheville, NC, in Fairview, North Carolina. They emphasize their commitment to responsible, respectful, and regenerative growing and crafting practices. They also mention a small flock of chickens and a few unruly farm dogs on the farm. The farm is committed to being a nourishing, fun, and profitable employee-led business that serves both people and the planet. They highlight their no-till practices, crop rotation, companion planting, on-farm composting, and avoidance of synthetic chemicals to improve soil health and biodiversity. They also mention growing over 15 varieties of edible flowers. The farm aims to provide potent medicinal herbs for medicine-making, herbal products for healing, dried medicinal herb hangers for spaces, and edibl