A Million Seeds of Hope: 1,081,000 Seeds Planted for 2025

Because of you, our community funded the planting of 1,081,000 wildflower seeds this year. 🌼

That number still hits me in the chest when I say it out loud—because it isn’t just a statistic. It’s habitat. It’s color returning to a patch of earth that needed it. It’s food for bees and butterflies. It’s the quiet, stubborn kind of hope that doesn’t just “care” about Nature… it does something for her.

Here’s how it works, plain and simple: we plant 100 wildflower seeds for every item sold. Every tea bag, every tincture bottle, every salve tin—each one becomes a small act of restoration.

And we don’t do this as a marketing gimmick. We do it because our work has always been about more than a shop. Woodland Herbal is a family business—three of us at the center, with more than four generations of herbalists behind us—and our entire life’s work is shaped by the same truth: people and planet can’t be separated. When the land is harmed, the medicine suffers. When pollinators decline, the food chain trembles. When habitat disappears, the living world loses its resilience… and so do we.

So we set aside an acre of previously deforested land and dedicated it to this promise: with your support, we will keep rebuilding what has been taken.

Wildflowers aren’t just “pretty.” They’re infrastructure for life.

They feed pollinators across the seasons. They offer nectar and pollen when it’s scarce. They create shelter. They hold soil. They bring balance back to the edges of fields and forests. And they remind us that the world doesn’t have to be sterile to be “managed”—it can be wildly alive and still belong to us all.

On our land, we’re intentionally planting for a long bloom window—from early spring through late fall—so there’s support through the full sweep of the growing season. And the seeds themselves are chosen with real care: a mix of organic North American native wildflowers and other pollinator-friendly favorites.  (You’ll recognize many of the names: coneflower, black-eyed susan, milkweed, asters, clover, coreopsis, gaillardia, sunflower, poppy, flax… the kind of plants that turn a blank stretch of ground into a living quilt.)

We started this mission years ago with trees, and we still love that work. But we also learned—hands in the dirt, season after season—that trees can be slow, fragile beginnings, and the success rate can be humbling. Wildflowers let us make a bigger immediate impact for pollinators, and honestly? Pollinators can’t wait for later.

That’s the heart of why we do it: because the natural world is not a backdrop. It’s the foundation. It sustains everything—our food, our health, our breath, our medicine, our ability to keep going. And when we talk about “healing,” we mean it in the fullest sense: healing people, and healing the living systems that make people possible.

This is part of our bigger vision at Woodland Herbal:

To follow the green path with intention.
To share what we learn—freely, widely, and with real-world usefulness.
To offer the best quality plant medicines we can make.
To keep natural remedies within reach for everyday people.
And to protect the future of the plants (and ecosystems) that have protected humanity for generations.

So when you choose Woodland Herbal, you’re not just buying a product you hope helps you sleep, breathe easier, ease pain, calm stress, or feel more like yourself again.

You’re also choosing a future with more blossoms. More wings. More life.

1,081,000 seeds is a lot of possibility—each one a tiny capsule of “not giving up.”

From our family to yours: thank you for making this possible. Thank you for trusting handmade medicine. Thank you for caring about what happens beyond the checkout screen. Thank you for helping us turn commerce into conservation, and daily routines into something that reaches outward.

If you’ve ever wondered whether small choices matter, let this be your reminder: They do.

A hundred seeds at a time becomes a meadow. A meadow becomes a refuge. And a refuge becomes a better tomorrow we can actually stand in. And here’s the part that still amazes us: we’ve watched the land respond. We’ve seen a real bounce-back in pollinators. New little worlds moving through the flowers. All sorts of “who are you?” bug species showing up—more butterflies and moths than we can count on warm evenings, and bees I’d never seen in my life until this project started.

I’ve even been out there with my macro lens, photographing them up close—not just because they’re beautiful, but because they’re real. Because when people can see what’s living on the other side of those blossoms, conservation stops being an abstract idea and becomes something personal. Something worth protecting.

So thank you for helping us build this. Thank you for being part of a business that treats healing as a full circle: people, plants, pollinators, and the living land that holds us all.

With gratitude—always. 🌿🌼
Woodland Herbal