Shaena Heartwood, owner of Humble Creek Farm – a medicinal herb, fruit, and flower farm offering herbal body care and ritual plant remedies.

An Interview with Shaena Heartwood of Humble Creek Farm

Are you interested in creating an herbal business compatible with homesteading and farming? How to start a business while creating a family and building a community? We think Shaena’s heartfelt honesty and vision will inspire you. Shaena Heartwood (she/they) is a grower, medicine-maker, parent, and graduate of Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine’s Online Herbal Immersion Program. Shaena’s business and family homestead, Humble Creek Farm, is a prime example of how herbalism can weave together community, family, sense of place, and healing.

Humble Creek Farm is a medicinal herb, fruit, and flower farm offering herbal body care and ritual plant remedies. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, they grow and wild-forage high-quality herbs for their community, offer a range of beloved pollinator plants and medicinal herb starts from their permaculture nursery, and are cultivating a space for collaborative education and healing centered around ancestral skills and creative tools for living deeply rooted on Earth.

Shaena recently shared an interview with us for our Student Business Spotlight—a series featuring Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine graduates, their work, and the wide variety of professions herbalists pursue. Shaena is a graduate of our Online Herbal Immersion Program—1,200 hours of our personal training in bioregional herbalism and heart-centered herbalist businesses. To learn more about the spectrum of herbal careers available, see An Herbalist’s Salary and Career Opportunities and Learn How to Become an Herbalist.