About Mina

Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary grows high-quality, soil-grown teas and herbs to keep our community and our ecosystem healthy.

Why Soil Grown?

Research shows that there are more living organisms in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on the earth. These soil microorganisms work with plants in ways that make stronger, healthier, more nutrient-rich plants.

To ensure my plants can form these symbiotic relationships with soil microbes, I grow my teas and herbs in the ground, using agricultural practices that support the health of soil microbes (which in turn support the health of my plants and the climate at large). These practices include cover crops, crop rotation, no or low tillage, and living mulches.

These practices, often utilized in organic and regenerative farming, have ancient origins in Africa and Indigenous communities around the world. Cover cropping and building organic matter in soils was pioneered in the U.S. by George Washington Carver.