This catalog offers 107 botanicals from 95 species. We grow or wildcraft all of them personally.

2016 was a light year for my botanicals business, partially due to a very full organizing schedule (Medicinal Herb Growing & Marketing Conference in April and the Northwest Permaculture Convergence in October (both in or near Port Townsend, Washington).

SHIPPING: We ship UPS, Fedex or US mail per customers preference.

Overnight, 2-day, 3-day or ground. Shipping is billed at cost.

Our primary focus remains fresh plant material. We have a reputation for delivering the highest quality, fresh and dried botanicals available. Although we dry some botanicals above our firm orders, it helps us if you place orders for fresh and dried botanicals early in the season!

Friends of the Trees Botanicals
PO Box 1133, Port Hadlock, WA 98339
Michael Pilarski
360-643-9178
[email protected]

A few thoughts on herb pricing.
 
I have learned a few things in my 22 years of making price lists for my botanicals but I am not rich yet.  I am competing in a marketplace dominated by cheap material imported from countries with low labor costs. So I don’t market by trying to beat their prices. My market is for high quality botanicals. So I am competing for the high quality market but as a general rule I don’t compare my prices with others.
 
I remember in my early years of running an herb business of talking to my friend Mark Wheeler, the owner of Pacific Botanicals (the largest organic herb grower in the US), and asking Mark how he did his pricing. Mark told me that he has learned what he has to charge to make a reasonable profit. This is also how I decide my pricing.  If I work my butt off for low wages at one price, I will raise the price to where I feel duly compensated. That said, I am not out to make a killing and keep my prices scaled back.  My buyers need to make a living too. I don’t need an expensive lifestyle.
 
At any rate, I regard my herb catalog as sort of a public service, giving people some idea of what a person has to charge to make a right livelihood from growing and wildcrafting various medicinal plants. Every farmer and wildcrafter has their own specialties and reasons for different pricing.

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