FOR US, WEEDS ARE A MATTER OF PERCEPTION...

We relate to being categorized as growing in unplanned places just like weeds. Uncultivated. Taking up space. Uncontrolled. Potentiality in the overlooked.

While we ourselves are cultivators and crop planners, we also value humble weeds as a representation of resiliency and survival. As medicine makers, we also recognize many, many weeds to be our important plant medicines. For this very reason, weeds will always belong in our conversation.

We have always shared our handmade goods with our closest circles: gifts intended to bring joy, nourish, soothe injury, solve ailment. All of our products are made by hand in small batches from scratch (or seed, as it were) and we aim for delight and thoughtful remedy. As a testament, we use them in our daily lives too!

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 limiting offerings of allopathy. For over 15 years, she has continued 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).