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It’s exactly what it sounds like! This Mother’s Day, The Kettle Farm is joining forces with Wildroot Flower Co. to bring you a Mother’s Day tea party! This event will take place at Wildroot’s beautiful flower farm and includes a build-your-own bouquet mini-workshop, treats & desserts, a mini-lesson on herbal teas and their medicinal properties,… Continue reading Mother’s Day Tea & Blooms

Reusing seed trays and pots from your nursery purchases are a great way to save money and reduce plastic waste! That black plastic seed tray that you bought your six-pack of pansies in last year can totally be reused to start your cucumber seeds this spring! I have been reusing the same plastic seed trays… Continue reading When reusing seed trays & pots…

Now that winter has actually arrived, I am ordering up another round of sweatshirts!! These locally printed sweatshirts are a cotton/polyester blend and are $30 each. Sweatshirts can be mailed to your house, picked up in downtown Marietta, or on the farm! If you would like to order a sweatshirt, here’s how:

Wit & Whimzy in Marietta is the only store location where you can buy variety packs of Kettle Farm tea sprigs grouped by their medicinal properties! For a couple of years now, this incredibly unique gift shop has carried my tea sprigs in variety packs with helpful properties such as Immune Boost, Stomach Settler, and… Continue reading New Variety Packs at Wit & Whimzy!

Reflecting back on when I got the farm started in 2020, one of the exciting parts of starting a new business is choosing a name and logo! I asked friends and family to help me find the perfect name, but for the logo, I knew I wanted to hire my artist sister to design one… Continue reading Who Designed My Logo?

If you couldn’t make it to the Betsey Mills Christmas Craft Show earlier this month, I just restocked All Pro Nutrition in Marietta yesterday with tea, including my two new varieties for this year–Calendula and Eucalyptus! All Pro has ALL the varieties in stock from Applemint to Tulsi, so if you need last-minute Christmas gifts… Continue reading All Pro Nutrition has your tea!

At the end of every farming season I collect and dry seeds from the field so that I can grow my herbs again next year! I also sell my seeds so that my customers can grow their favorite teas fresh at home, too! This year I will be selling seeds from my: Bee Balm, Calendula,… Continue reading Seeds Make Great Stocking Stuffers!

One of the challenging parts of an herbal tea farm is trying to grow tea from all over the world…..in Southeastern Ohio’s climate! Every year I experiment with new varieties. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t! I am really excited that one of this year’s experiments WORKED (and tastes delicious)! Eucalyptus is a tree native… Continue reading New Variety: Eucalyptus!

This spring I had noticed a hole in the ground about the size of a quarter at the base of one of my plants. I would cover it up with dirt, but the next day it would always be back again! Finally, one day I saw movement… It looked like a spider, but what on… Continue reading Happy Halloween from the Farm Spider!