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Where The Wild Things Grow! Freeborn Family Farms
The vision of our forest farm was dreamed up over 16 years ago when Jason and I met working at a garden center. We fell in love working with plants and exploring the Great Outdoors and identifying the many abundant medicinal plants around us. The wild plants are our greatest teachers and we are so grateful we had the opportunity to live in an old growth forest in North Idaho where we have identified over 100 medicinal botanicals growing wild and abundantly.
We are now a family of 4 foragers with a loyal dog named Sadie. Our two boys share the same initials as us: JMF. Our mission is to harness the healing properties found only in nature to make quality herbal remedies to share with our community. We offer forest school for children ages 3-13. Fermentation, folk medicine making, and foraging classes with Jessica for all ages.
Our wild foraged path sometimes leads us to unexpected turns and forks in the road. Although we loved living off grid on the North Idaho mountain, it was hard and we were tired. We found work opportunities on our homeland soil on the California central coast and so here we are, back to the land in the Golden state. Full circle our journey has come.
We are nomadic farmers and foragers. Our bistate lives of living in both Idaho and California, mirrors how our hunter gatherer ancestors once lived. This gives the soil a chance to rest and regenerate. While repopulating wild game and edible flora. California is the place to farm year-round and there are many potent and medicinal plants that can be abundantly harvested. During our stay in California we are working with a lot of mugwort, hummingbird sage, golden yarrow, horehound, mustard, elderflower and berry, and manzanitas. We started a forest school in the Santa Ynez Botanic Gardens located in Riverview Park in Buellton. Ironically, this is next to the river I would access as a girl to young woman, on my daily jogs, the place where I first became a student of the land. The garden has blossomed and flourished by the loving hands of volunteers. The garden stewards and fairies have granted me permission to run my school and workshops in the garden where the medicinal plants grow abundantly! We plan to live here where we can work year-round as we save up for our dream land/ forest school headquarters in North Idaho. Where we will grow all of the 108 plants in my book, Where The Wild Things Grow, and steward the land. And when it gets too cold, we will come to California to forage and farm on our friends' and families' gardens, ranches, and forests. The nomadic farming life, it shall be!