Slow Farm
Farmers
Rachel Herrick
North Carolina
State
Grant Year
Friend of a Farmer Choice 2024, Fall 2025
The Farm
A woman-run regenerative farm in the Carolina Sandhills. We use our team of pigs, goats, and poultry to improve our soil and grow a variety of native and hardy botanicals. We transform our harvests in our renovated 1934 tobacco barn workshop, producing a line of ethical luxury beauty and wellness products called Slow Goods.
The Project Funded
This Farmer’s Grant will fund a mobile distillation system that will allow us to produce large batches of essential oils in the field, removing the tedious stem of hauling plant material back to the workshop.
The Project Impact
Having a mobile distillation system will remove an awkward bottleneck in our production process and allow us to compost the used plant materials on site, keeping more of the fertility on site.
