WEEDS BELONG (formerly RECLAMATION) is a new name with the same credo. As we seek to more deeply represent our farming dreams and ventures, we reach to the potential of what we may overlook.

Weeds are usually defined as plants growing where they are unplanned or unwanted. Uncultivated. While we ourselves are cultivators and crop planners, we also value humble weeds as a representation of resiliency and survival. We also recognize many, many weeds to be our important plant medicines. For this very reason, weeds will always belong in our conversation. We are in praise of weedy relationships.

Alliance with the plant world is ancestral lineage for all humans and all nature.

We share, we learn, we revere, and we give thanks to the knowledge keepers and teachers that came before and will come after us.

This coalesces as a retrieval of something once known but lost...perhaps in method, memory, or dream. Our compass points to wild wisdom, while acknowledging the definition of “wild” continues to be revised.

We have always shared our handmade goods with our closest circles: gifts intended to bring joy, nourish, soothe injury, solve ailment.

WEEDS BELONG is the widening of that circle to community, and now, FARM.

We aim for delight and thoughtful remedy. All of our products are made by hand in small batches from scratch (or seed as it were). As a testament, we use them in our daily lives too!

In 2020, we were able to access a more direct line of plant gifts through a land steward position in the Western Catskills of New York. We began to grow our own food and medicine and deepen our relationship to the rhythms of nature.

We now seek permanent land to home our farming and community dreams.

We focus on using whole materials, many harvested from what we have grown or respectfully wild-crafted from the land. What is not gathered or produced by our own hands, we source from places we believe practice an honest, conservation-minded ethic. For more information about our processes and plant medicine in general, please see our FAQS.

STAYC ST. ONGE is the formulator, designer, and maker of our products. She is a farmer and land steward. She is also an IATSE union craftsperson for film and television: working as a professional makeup artist for over 22 years, a trade requiring discerning competency to the skin and its care.

STAYC came to work with the plants many years ago when she saw their impact shine over the narrow and limiting offerings of allopathy. For over 15 years, she has studied, and will continue to study, with many distinguished plant teachers in the US and abroad. She is an abiding and forever student of botany and the medicinal teachings of the natural world. She is also an artist whose work represents deep longing for everything that is out of doors. She holds much gratitude for her elders and teachers, beings of all forms, who continue to illuminate paths before her.

Hobbies include: taking maddeningly slow walks through the woods, botanical drawing, studying plant and people relationships, solving puzzles, building stuff from found objects.

LADY AGNES and BETTE DAVIS THE PIG are the farm dogs of Weeds Belong. They inspect our seedlings, harvest their own carrots, and keep party chickens in line. They take their jobs very seriously. Well, at least Agnes does.

Hobbies include: Squirrels, policing perimeters, pop music dance parties (that's Bette). Work, cheese bones, philosophy (that's Agnes).