West County Herb Company

Located in scenic downtown Occidental, California, our community-oriented shop features locally grown and always organic bulk herbs and handcrafted herbal products: herbal medicines, face and body creams, salves, lotions, soaps, candles and more. We welcome you to peruse our shop unbothered while you sip some tea, and come to your senses.

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May 18th from 10am to 3pm the legendary Maralee Wisewomyn will be teaching how to weave a two hoop egg basket out of willow, cattail, watsonia, roots and bark. Cost of class is $75 and covers all materials, everyone leaves with a basket like this one, woven by @taprootmedia, who also took these beautiful pictures. Tickets go on sale in the shop this Thursday, you can visit us or give us a ring at (707) 874-9567. ✨✨✨ We met early one morning with Maralee, and she led the way in her pickup truck to her favorite place to harvest willow. We entered the willow grove, pulling out what would become our baskets, our heirlooms, our everyday tools made in circle with community. It was such a sweet day. Thank you Lee for your gorgeous photos! #folkcraft #basketweaving #willowbasket #communityeducation #folkart #twohoopeggbasket #weaving #willow #watsonia #cattail #fromtheland
Happy Earth Day to all the critters, plants, fungi, soil, stars, moon and sun. Really, it's a whole system that expands past our wildest dreams and visions and YOU are a part of it. If you know the artist of this work, please let us know (we thought we knew but now can't find it). We would love to tag them.
Yasuzo Nojima, Tulips, 1940 #tulips #springtime #flowers
One of the reasons we love our local craft folks is that the designs they create speak to our local landscapes. This is @mayabethmaker and her hide and tanning work feels inherently West County, as if plucked from the back roads and farm lands that roll out to the sea. Can't wait to have her join us on May 11th from 11am to 4pm. #sheepskinshawl #craftfolk #leatherwork #tanning #sheepskin #westcounty #fiber #wastenotwantnot #farmlandfashion #folkfashion #sustainablefashion
Moons and eggs and blossoms and rabbits. #springtime
Folks travel from all over to shop the @honeyfolkclothing line at our designer trunk shows and you can see why. Heidi creates simple elegant lines and has the highest standard for fabric. We'll see you there, May 11th from 11-4pm. #motherlovingtrunkshow #indiedesigners #shoplocal
Pressin' time. #pressedflowers #flowerpress