Listen To Our Latest Tea Room Session
December 4th, 2025
In this session we talked about:
Melissa (0:00)
- Finishing the year really well in the black, best year ever
- Lots of ideas and trying to prioritise
- Building trust with people in her community
- Pricing for demand
- Focusing on local suppliers
Laura (0:20)
- Medical Herbalist outside of Vancouver
- Working on opening up own apothecary
- Volunteers in Egypt with herbal medicine
- Import herbs (e.g. black seed & hibiscus) from Egypt
Laurelle (0:33)
- Bumper calendula crop
- Went through burn out and need to take time off
- Gateway herb into herbalism
- Rest and relaxation to reset and work out path forward
Yolanda (0:48)
- Series of failures this year
- Stepping back for more secure income to tide out low season
- Sharing the vulnerable side of business and how meaningful that is


