We are Yew and Yarrow Collective

Yew and Yarrow Collective began in the soil; growing from our devotion to the land and guided by the wisdom of those who tended it before us.

 

The three of us, Anita, Lilah, and Vinita, met through a local course on soil and water stewardship, taught by Anita; a dedicated community organizer and leader of a thriving community garden, food forest, and restoration site. What started as a class quickly grew into friendship as we worked side by side on communal land. In caring for the earth together, we found ourselves caring more deeply for one another and for our wider community.

 

Through seasons of volunteering, planting, harvesting, and learning, a shared vision began to take root. We wanted to center our lives around our relationship with the land — and to create offerings that would bring that connection into the homes of others seeking nourishment, resilience, and belonging.

 

Yew and Yarrow Collective was born from that intention.

 

Each of us brings a different background and body of knowledge, but we are united by years of crafting and refining herbal recipes in our own kitchens for our families and loved ones. We are not the beginning of this story, what we share is part of a long lineage of land-based wisdom carried by Indigenous peoples and passed forward through generations.

 

Our work is an invitation: to slow down, to reconnect with the rhythms of the natural world, and to remember that tending the land and tending ourselves are one and the same.