On the side, I spent the winter break from school building a website for my sister-in-law’s new business. Marianna and Eric’s brother (Mike) and their two kids live near Willow Creek in Northern California and Marianna is trained as an herbalist and has spent a decade learning about the natural healing properties of plants and putting those to use in helping to heal ailments in her surrounding community. She recently started her own herb business called Ancient Garden Medicinals (CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE HERE), selling organic herbal healthcare products for pregnancy, postpartum, baby and the whole family. She has 10 products for expecting women, new mothers, infants, children, and even some for new stressed-out dads! (Note: some of AGM’s products contain beeswax, so read the ingredients list on the site if you are avoiding beeswax).
You can read more about Marianna on the ‘About’ page of the site. So far, she’s selling her products in a few stores in Northern California and is working on getting them out there to other shops. But you can also order online through the website. Making the website was a great (though at times extremely frustrating) experience for me. It’s something I’ve been wanting to learn to do for years, and I’m super grateful to Marianna for giving me the chance to fumble through the learning process on her site. Now I think I have a much more solid idea of how to build a website and set up a shop and I’m excited to try building another one to make sure I don’t forget what I learned! I also got to play around with learning to use our new camera to take the photos for the site (it was really fun to take the pictures with the dried herbs and the containers of products). Anyway, check out the website and if you try any of Marianna’s awesome products, let me know what you think!
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What a great website! Nice work, Katie.