 Established
in 1997 in rural Chester County, Pennsylvania,
Farm at Coventry offers an abundant array of natural,
hand-crafted herbal products available by mail order
or through retail venues locally. Farm at Coventry grew
organically out of a need to use the fruitful harvest
of our gardens to make beautiful, healthful products
to share with family and friends. We are continually
striving to better our products to include the purest
possible ingredients: certified organic and ethically
cultivated and wild crafted herbs, raw, unfiltered, unbleached
tropical butters, cold pressed oils and local beeswax
and honey. All of our products are mindfully prepared
in small handmade batches. No synthetic ingredients,
fragrances or preservatives are ever used.
Our on-line catalog
includes:
Faux’ Joe , a tasty (caffeine-free!) coffee alternative,
Herbal Bar Soaps, Creams for Face and Body, Therapeutic Baths,
Butters and Balms, Comforts for Colds & Flu, Herbal Tea Blends,
and more!
Susan’s 8-month “Homestead
Herbalism” foundations course meets one Saturday
every month from March through October. The course curriculum
weaves current informative herbal wisdom with interesting
historical facts and folk traditions. Through the seasons,
from planting through harvest, we will learn to create
delicious, nutritional snacks as well as therapeutic preparations
using edible, medicinal and fragrance herbs that are both
cultivated and wild crafted.
In
the not too distant past, keeping a family strong and
healthy with simple home remedies was a common homesteading
skill that every woman possessed. Identifying and using
wild and cultivated plants was as important and necessary
as preserving food or learning to stitch. The "Homestead
Herbalism" foundations course was designed to gather
small groups of women with the intent of re-introducing
this empowering tradition by learning together,
using our hands, and preparing and sharing the harvest. |
