Blue Fan Farm is what we call our two-and-a-half-acre educational farm, located in the Hayes area of Woodland, Washington. We have been stewards of this land since January of 2024.

Almost anything grows in our fairly temperate climate here in SW Washington. We encourage and guide native plants, grow produce, flowers, and medicinal herbs to benefit our family and community.

Up until this land was developed in 2017 it was a forest. We are blessed to have enough large trees left to provide forest habitat for woodland loving at risk medicinal plants and plenty of our local native varieties. Blue Fan Farm is a proud member of United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary Network. The UpS mission is to protect native medicinal plants, fungi, and their habitats while ensuring renewable populations for future generations. We also are working with The Backyard Habitat Certification Program to ensure this land keeps providing habitats for native plants and pollinators while contributing to clean air and water.

I started practicing Folk Herbalism in 1988, when at the age of 23, I was sent by my midwife to The Herb Shop in Grants Pass, Oregon to pick up some Raspberry leaf, Peppermint, and Chamomile to use in making tea. Some of my first lessons in herbalism were what plants NOT to work with when pregnant, and what plants to work with to help strengthen the uterus and ease the stomach. Self guided book learning, intuition, experimentation, using herbs, good nutrition and meeting up with other herbalists in the days before the internet was the way.

Along the years I have completed full herbal courses both in person and online, as well as attended many workshop, conferences and herb gatherings. Currently I stay engaged with my community by providing herbal products to those in need, hosting educational workshops, listening to podcasts, and reading herb books. I enjoy foraging the forests of the Pacific NW with other herb folks, growing and working with medicinal plants by making tinctures, glycerites, tea blends, and balms. Making space for others to gather, learn, and share brings me great joy and provides yet another way to learn from others.

The Apothecary at Blue Fan Farm is open for the community. Most of what we work with has been home grown or wild crafted. Let’s work together to meet your needs!

All herbal products are on a sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

We acknowledge that we are residing on the traditional lands of the Cowlitz people, along with the Yakama, Klickitat and Chinook people. We are grateful to be stewards of this land.

It is my hope that when we meet our ancestors in the sky, we can say that we were not selfish with the knowledge we gained on our journey, and that we leave behind evidence of good stewardship to the land.