The secret is in the soil

We invest in green technology for the quality of our organic products as well as the future and well-being of our ecosystem.

Quality Over Quantity

A plant's chemical properties can change tremendously over the course of its lifecycle as it puts energy toward leaf development, flowering, and finally seed. Familiarity with the chemical properties of each crop over the course of its lifecycle is essential to proper harvesting and optimum potency.

One key advantage of farming our own ingredients is harvesting at peak potency. For example, Qing Hao (Artemisia Annua) plants can grow very large, but they lose potency.

Farmers who sell ingredients to extract companies often make money by the pound, so they grow as many pounds as possible at the expense of quality. We harvest at the right time according to the research on optimum chemical potency. Even if this means lower yield on our farm, it still makes for a far more potent extract in our final product.

From the Ground Up

Soil health through myceliated compost

Making the highest quality all-organic compost on our farm to nourish our fields, we feed our plants with sustainable nutrients without the use of chemical inputs or mined additives.

It doesn’t just make ecological sense; all of our trials also showed that plants nourished with our actively aerated myceliated compost have more aromatic essential oils and higher potency.

Feeding our soil with robust organic nutrients nurtures a healthy soil ecosystem and gives our plants the compounds in soluble form that their root systems need to produce more of the compounds that we want in our extracts.

In short, healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy people.

The Art of Seed-Saving

Giving crops an intergenerational home

The therapeutic compounds found in plants are often stimulated responses to their ecosystems. Plants are ingenious chemists able to produce hundreds of different compounds to support their health. Humankind has benefited immeasurably from our passed-down knowledge of how to use these plants to support our own health.

Plants also pass that knowledge down to their own offspring, and we practice seed-saving to honor the resilience that they pass down to each generation. With each year, we often find more resilience in our plants as they thrive in the same ecosystem as their parents.

Farming Pollinator-Friendly Fields

Our farm is 75% old growth woodlands which preserve abundant biodiversity. These forests offer nesting locations to everything from insect pollinators to birds and mammals. We also maintain our own honey-bee hives and promote a non-toxic safe environment at our farm where they can thrive. A big part of our crop rotations and field maintenance is working to offer a diversity of flowering plants in the same field. Different plants flower at different times of the year and by intercropping plants together, we provide reliable and diverse food sources for our pollinators throughout the season.

**How Organic Should Be**

When you buy Nokomis products, you’re not just getting a better product, you are saying no to monoculture and other harmful agricultural practices. Nokomis Herbal Extracts is the only botanical supplement brand whose products are certified by the Real Organic Project LLC.

The Real Organic Project LLC is an important voice against the dilution of organic standards as big agriculture and industry lobby for more permissive organic regulations. Our Certified Real Organic Products are not only grown in compliance with USDA organic standards, the Real Organic Project certifies that they are grown using sustainable and ecological practices that nurture and support the soil and the environment.
Too many organic farmers are covering their fields with plastic mulch instead of herbicide leading to microplastic pollution in our soils. The Real Organic Project certified farms that use ecological and sustainable soil-supporting practices. They are also the only organic certification that inspects labor practices on farms to ensure that farms certified by the Real Organic Project are respecting workers, which USDA Organic Regulations sadly overlook.