Woven Hearts Herb Farm in Mcinleyville, California

Sophia Steinwachs started with people. After years of working as a community herbalist, offering remedies, making blends, and listening, she realized something was missing. Surrounded by bottles instead of roots, Sophia noticed the connection she desired wasn’t theoretical, but physical. In 2019, she took over the care of a small piece of acreage in McKinleyville, California - fallow for about a decade, then briefly cultivated by another organic farmer - and started growing.

On her .42-acre plot, Sophia breathed life into Woven Hearts Herb Farm - a highly biodiverse, certified organic operation grounded in both ecological care and personal intuition. She draws on regenerative practices like minimal tillage, deep mulching, cover cropping, compost teas, crop rotations, and beneficial insects. Her offerings of culinary herb jars, tea blends, extract formulas, and infused body oils are crafted within a licensed commercial kitchen and reflect both science and sensibility. Each product is entrenched in lived experience, shaped by the land, and refined by an innate hand in the kitchen. “Having an abundance of fresh herbs and produce has sparked a lot of creativity,” Sophia says. She doesn’t just sell herbs; she helps people know what to do with them.

At Woven Hearts Herb Farm, expansion is imagined not just in scale, but in service. More acreage. A space where classes can be taught, hands can be dirtied, meals can be shared. A hub for learning, gathering, remembering. It is the invisible thread that connects intention to practice, and practice to place. Sophia tends her land like a handwritten letter to her community and to the plants. Woven Hearts Herb Farm is small by design, dynamic by necessity, and deeply rooted in the belief that plants, like people, reveal their strengths when closely tended.