Recently we had the enormous privilege of going on a stewardship journey with evanhealy, one of our all-time favorite skincare brands, which we’ve stocked on our shelves for over twenty years. But evanhealy is so much more than a brand - they are a collective of people pouring their hearts and souls into uplifting the work of their suppliers, who they call stewards: the partners who produce and harvest the organic and regeneratively-grown ingredients that go into evanhealy products.
Evanhealy invited us for a weekend harvesting and HydroSoul distillation at Morning Myst Botanicals in Northport, WA, where farmers Jud and Ann pour love and care into their land, family, and local community - giving back so much more than they take.
With us were Jeff and Elise from Oshalla Farm in Oregon, Simo and Stefan from Al Amal cooperative in Morocco, Julius from ORGIIS in Ghana, and Patrick from Frantoio olive grove in California - all partners of evanhealy. Ann and Andy from the Sustainable Herbs Initiative led us in a collective visioning session. We imagined how we as stewards could up amplify the work of these incredible growers who are in turn sustaining their own communities and the health of our planet. We created a video of the experience and posted it here.
When you see the evanhealy bottles and boxes on our shelf, there is so much more than skincare inside. There are the hopes and dreams of the hundreds of people who grew the ingredients that nourish your skin. They like to say: your skin care is only as vital as the land and the people it comes from.
It’s our privilege to partner with evanhealy, and we look forward to sharing more of their story with you in coming weeks; we are so grateful to them for leading the way and showing us what is possible when we work together to make a better world for all. ❤️🌱🌾🌿