Our Ethos
If you can’t eat it, then you shouldn’t put it on your skin.
Being plant people in every sense, we are guided by the rhythms of nature. We dream in the winter months about the future gardens and stir in the late winter to plant seeds. We put our time and energy into cultivating our own herbs and plants, ensuring that they are fresh and of high potency. What we cannot grow ourselves, we wild forage or source from local farms with whom we have personal connection to. Our formulas contain fresh mountain spring water that is collected from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains here in NC. From soil to bottle, our hands have touched every part of the process. Our products have been crafted using practices that are natural, environmentally mindful, cruelty free, and biodynamically grown.
We try to infuse mentorship into our path by offering guidance, classes, and workshops to share knowledge of plants and their healing properties. We strive to make knowledge accessible to people in all walks of life, from the beginner to the seasoned professional. The medicine is much more potent if it can be shared and passed on.
“It was explained to me early on in my studies, now that I have this knowledge,
I am not to hoard it, I am to pay it forward, and this is my offering to you.”
- Rebecca, owner & creator of aurum apotheca
Who we are
Hello, I’m Rebecca
The Owner and Creator of aurum apotheca.
I have been an herbalist for 20+ years where I have gained a wealth of knowledge in medicinal herbs and practices. Last year brought many changes, and on the forefront is the decision to open my own apothecary, aptly named aurum apotheca.
I've worked in herbal education, natural products labs, and various versions of cultivation for the last two decades. My studies have taken me along a path of herbal medicine that focused on Nutrition, Biodynamics, Ayurveda, Postpartum Ayurvedic Care, Clinical Herbalism, Flower Essences, community building, mentorship, and most recently distilling.
To keep up with my adventures at aurum apotheca, follow me on Instagram.
Hello, I’m Liz
The Creative Director at aurum apotheca.
I’m a creative with 10+ years of working in the design industry in both fashion and digital. I have a background in branding, logo & graphic/web design. I had the pleasure of working with Rebecca to build the website and branding for aurum apotheca. It was a delight to bring her vision into focus.
To keep up with my creative adventures, follow me on Instagram.
Meet Our Farmers
Farm to table… seed to bottle. Working with family farms to curate potent medicine.
We source organic and biodynamically tended medicinals to ensure purity.
We grow and tend our own botanicals, or we source from these beautiful family farms.
Kestrel Herb Farm
Kestrel Herb Farm was born from a desire to devote more of the land to growing vibrant + powerful medicinal herbs.
Farmers Katie & Mike are located in a beautiful valley in Big Sandy Mush, NC. They take care to honor their relationship to the land by minimizing their disturbance of natural systems.
They grow and harvest a wide variety of medicinal herbs and flowers from April to October and are strongly committed to the stewardship of the land, and only use organic inputs to grow their crops. They see the farm as a microcosm of our planet Earth, where individual organisms work symbiotically to nurture and sustain one another.
