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The Birth of Blessed Herbs - Michael Volchok

It was Fall of 1985 and we had no jobs and no income. As our life savings dwindled, we struggled to find another home business that would allow us to stay together as a family. Eight months before we had moved onto one corner of a three-thousand-acre piece of property, owned by a Trappist Monastery and deep in the Missouri Ozark woods. We had never lived so far from society.

We needed to earn a livelihood and it had to be by mail order to keep our family lifestyle intact. We were down to zero cents, no job, no prospects. A little white rice and veggies still left and hope hanging by a string, when a knock came at the door. It was a local herbalist. He asked us to pick some fresh Mullein leaf that was growing on the monastery's property because he didn't have the right to enter their land. He offered us $10/lb and off we went to get some. We were a family of six and were barely scraping by. We got $30 for our collection efforts and then went off to the store and bought groceries.

After we ate, we asked him what else he needed and he showed us Black Cohosh root and we picked a little of that too. We were starting to get the hang of gathering herbs in the wild. Martha had always used herbal remedies to treat our family and it didn't take us long to realize that there were names of herbal companies right on the bottles in our medicine cabinet. We started calling these companies and soon we had our first order. At the time it was our biggest order ever, about twenty pounds, and off we went, all six of us plus backpacks. We waded across the local creek and went up into some Missouri oak woods to locate plants. We all had a marvelous time, laughing and playing and looking for the Black Cohosh. We found several large patches on a hillside and way up at the top of the hill was the grandfather and grandmother plants of the clan. Huge, large, majestic plants from which, or so it appeared to us at the time, had given birth to generations of this plant. Those patches still thrive to this day.

After that experience, we were hooked on the woods, the plants and being able to feed ourselves by selling wild medicine plants. All the while, keeping our family together. It really felt neat. Herbs came to us as a blessing and "Blessed Herbs" was born.

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