Where It Begins: The House of Herbs Garden Project

A small update from behind the scenes - and what’s coming next.

Over the past few months, there’s been a steady shift behind the scenes at House of Herbs.

As demand for our products has grown, so too has the need for a more consistent and reliable supply of high-quality raw ingredients. While we've always worked with trusted growers, there’s something quite different about being involved from the very beginning - from seed or seedling through to finished herb.

So, we’ve started extending our own herb garden.

What began as a simple idea has quickly turned into something more complicated. Raised beds, carefully prepared soil, and the first rounds of planting are already underway. Calendula and Chamomile are among the first - two herbs we use often, and ones where quality makes a very visible difference.

The intention isn’t to replace the growers we work with, but to complement them. To deepen our understanding of the plants we use every day, and to have greater oversight of how they’re grown, harvested, and handled.

Because, as we’ve spoken about recently, the quality of a herbal product is shaped long before it reaches the end product.

It begins in the soil.
It continues through the way a plant is grown and harvested.
And it’s preserved - or lost - in how it’s dried and prepared.

Having our own garden allows us to stay closer to that process.

It also brings a different rhythm to the work - one that’s slower, more seasonal, and grounded in the reality of growing plants rather than simply sourcing them. The climate can be fairly extreme where we live, so there will be challenges along the way. Floods, grasshoppers, caterpillars, wild storms, frosts, rabbits, echidnas and hot dry spells to name a few.

There’s still a long way to go, and we’ll share more as things develop. The next stage is propagation and planting out, which we’ve been quietly documenting along the way.

If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you may have already seen a glimpse of this.

More to come soon.

Thank you, as always, for being part of it all.