PERSIMMON MOON FARM
A 5 acre lavender & medicinal herb farm just outside Taos, NM.
Using steam distillation, enfleurage, maceration, and tincturing methods we pull aromatics & healing essences from the plants we grow, forage, and harvest.
Hand crafted, small batch herbal balms, salves, lotions, teas, tinctures, candles, & hydrosols.
PERSIMMON MOON FARM
Inspired from the waters of the Rio Grande River to the forests of the Sangre de Cristo mountains
Persimmon Moon Farm is located in Arroyo Hondo, outside Taos, NM. We offer hand made small batch skin care and herbal products. The botanical ingredients are grown on our small farm or wild foraged from the diverse biomes found from the Rio Grande River basin to the alpine forests of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range.
Beginning to end, we handcraft our products in a way that reflects our relationship to the environment, these wild places, and our community.
Wild Foraged & Hand Crafted
We combine wild foraged plants with our farm grown flowers and herbs to add the wilderness of the southwest desert & alpine mountains to our products. Any additional ingredients are organic botanicals or oils.
Lavender and Medicinal Herbs
Persimmon Moon Farm herbs are grown with nature, reverence, love, water, sunlight, moonlight, and soil to regenerate the earth and nourish your body and spirit.
We cultivate a broad array of heirloom, native, and standard varieties of crops, mixing perennial and annual crops in open fields.
Honey Bees & Pollinator Habitats
We grow flowers and have wild areas to support all pollinators & beneficial insects.
They have access to a wide variety of nectar in plants and flowers to forage and they overwinter on their own honey.
We minimize smoke and hive disturbances, harvesting honey only when there is excess.
Persimmon moon Values
Restore balance
Every decision made on the farm prioritizes restoring and caring for our soils and surrounding ecosystem first.
We are trying to farm in a way that is in harmony with nature.
Compost supports soil microbiology, helping us grow healthy plants without the addition of harsh herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers.
We only use ecological methods like applying compost, cover crops, organic fertilizer, and minerals to feed the soil that in turn feeds the plants.
Conserve Water
Conserve water for the precious resource it is in the southwest high-desert climate.
Capture and keep it in the soil, using techniques to concentrate a slow release of water, and selecting plants with low water needs, that are native and draught tolerant.
Utilizing keyline design and plowing based on a set of principles and techniques that works with the natural land contour patterns to restore and increase the depth and fertility of the soil, while increasing its water holding capacity.
Build Soil
Healthy living soil is the base for everything else. We build soil using cover crops and waste from the farm to create organic, biological compost which acts as a natural fertilizer that improves water usage, reduces erosion, and supports healthier crops.
Keep the soil covered, keep a living root in the ground year-round, this also helps keep the soil biology happy, moisture in the ground and reduces erosion.
No chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides are ever used.
Reduce Waste
Work to build a regenerative loop, where waste in one area of the farm produces feed, fuel, ingredients, or nutrients for another.
Minimize packaging materials, choose paper over plastic, natural non-toxic dyes and inks, utilize recycled materials that are biodegradable.
We also work with local sources to divert waste (plant, tree trimmings, leaves, wood chips, compost materials, coffee grinds, etc.), that would otherwise be dumped or burned.
Compost, recycle, reduce, reuse.
Farmer + MAKER
Hi! I'm Kate Mullen, a farmer and maker, with a love for plants, photography, traveling, cooking, foraging, and woodworking.
I feel grateful and honored to grow and work with the magical plants and trees in our area.
I’m listening to the land and sky every day and following the moon and stars at night.
I’m a student learning how to care for the land, plants, insects, and wild animals.
I believe that farming can help mother nature heal our land while supporting our food security and health.
I hope you too are inspired to grow and create.
nature
Having a relationship with the rest of nature is knowing that we can, if we wish, rekindle our lost connections, because somewhere deep inside us all, there lives a little spark of ‘wild’ just waiting to be ignited.
Brigit Strawbridge Howard
Chelsea Green Publishing - For The Bees
The bee 🐝 house
Bees are so vital to all life.
Having the bees adds magic to the farm!
We have two hives in the bee house.
A Flow hive & an Apimaye hive.
Welcome to our hive
We believe the bees know best.
They start on open wood frames building comb with a natural cell size, no plastic.
We do allow swarms, colony splitting, mating, and the bees’ natural choice of their queens so they will thrive in the apiary.
We supplement with bee tea only when necessary.
honey 🍯
We only harvest when there is an abundance of honey.
Our priority is for the bees to feed themselves and have enough for their winter reserves.
To produce a pound of honey, over 500 foraging honey bees have to visit 2 million flowers, flying over 55,000 miles 😮
High Desert Dwelling Botanicals
Juniper Tree
Northern New Mexico is in the Piñon Juniper woodland belt of the greater Colorado Plateau.
Juniper can be used medicinally or as culinary flavoring.
Medicinally it has antibacterial and antifungal properties and is high in antioxidants.
Lavender
Beyond it's amazing aroma!
Lavender has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.
Like Juniper it can be used medicinally or as a flavoring for food and baked goods.
Piñon Tree
Nothing quite says you are in the Southwest as the crisp, aromatic air carrying the scent of piñon pine.
They are slow growing but long-lived, living up to 1000 years.
The needles, pine sap or resin, cones, and nuts all provide healing and nutrition.
Big Sagebrush
There is something magical in the air after a rain on the mesa.
The scent of the sagebrush, sweet and camphor, floating with the humid air is something you won't soon forget.
Big sagebrush is also traditionally used for preventing infection in wounds, stopping internal bleeding, and treating headaches and colds.
Prickly Pear cactus
The prickly pear cactus has been used for centuries both as a food source and a natural fence.
Prickly pear is very needed in this dry arid climate boosting collagen production, increasing the skin's elasticity, strength, and firmness.
Paired with rich organic oils to help your skin renew and repair itself.
Herbiary Workshop
COPPER ALEMBIC STILL
WILD FORAGED BOTANICALS
ROSE HIPS
High in Vitamin C
Great for the skim - moisturizes
Reduces inflammation
Superb in a tea blend
HOPS
More than a key ingedrient in beer
A sedative promoting rest or sleep
Helping to combat anxiety
Supports the nervous and respiratory system
Improves digestion and skin health
SUNFLOWERS
Vitamin E in sunflower oil
Helps with premature aging and wrinkles
Linoleic acid retains moisture
Hydrates the skin
MULLEIN
Respiratory congestion relief
Moisturizes the skin
Eases rashes
Improves digestion
SPRUCE TREE TIPS
High in Vitamin A & C
Culinary flavor
Bright and fresh tasting
Antimicrobial and antibacterial
THE POWER OF PLANTS 🌱
A hydrosol starts as a seed. It absorbs the sun and drinks the rain. It frolics with the wind, sings with the birds, sleeps with the moon. When harvest arrives, it dances with the Alembic to become one with fire and water. It rises as a vapor and returns as a liquid.
Ann Harman
Harvest to Hydrosol
Hydrosols | Plant Waters
Each handcrafted hydrosol is steam distilled in our beautiful copper alembic stills. We use the old methods to produce a quality product you won’t find on commercial farms or as an essential oil byproduct.
We only use fresh plant material in our distillations, harvested by hand and aligned with the lunar cycles when possible.
You will find our hydrosols are vibrant and fresh.
These form the basis of our hand-bottled home and body care offerings.
all natural ingredients
All our products are free of GMOs, parabens, phthalates, and dyes. It’s important to us to show respect for the environment at each step in the process. Our aim is to bring you closer to the wild places in northern New Mexico we so love. Our products are also cruelty-free.
TAOS | NM
Persimmon Moon Farm is located on 5 acres in Arroyo Hondo, 10 miles outside Taos NM, on the high desert mesa overlooking the congruence of the Rio Grande and Rio Hondo rivers.
We acknowledge that it sits on the traditional lands of the Taos Pueblo, Puebloan peoples and the Utes. We are committed to uplifting the names of these lands and community members who we reside alongside. We honor their traditional cultural and ecological knowledge going back over 1000s of years.
GIVING BACK
Persimmon Moon Farm supports local organizations through volunteering and/or donations to organizations such as the Taos Pueblo and Taos Land Trust.
