Ashtree Wildcrafting began as a business in the summer of 2018.  What had begun with a horse, morphed into the creation of teas that anyone who tried them, loved! HORSE??? Let me back up a bit. . . The year was 2016 and Ashley was desperately trying to get a handle on her horse’s health.  Rain rot and a lump on the spine in the saddle area eventually drove us to start looking up alternative remedies.  On Canada Day that year, we found a herbalist in the Made in Canada Bazaar who made soaps, oils, detergents and other items.  Ashley…

Ashtree Wildcrafting aims to offer 100% locally foraged and harvested ingredients from nettle and dandelion to berries and fruit grown right here in the Okanagan Valley. Ashtree Wildcrafting aims to offer 100% natural ingredients.  You won’t find any artificial flavours, colours, or preservatives in our products. Ashtree Wildcrafting cares about your health and your environment.  We research everything that goes into our products with the goal of maintaining sustainable, renewable resources both for our customers and our environment. Ashtree Wildcrafting aims to ensure that every product is beneficial to you, our customer.  Research into each ingredient means the creation of…

Ashley is the nose behind the concept of Ashtree Wildcrafting.  Yes, I said nose. . . you see, she has a very unique and useful gift.  Once she’s read over, discussed and pondered the health benefits of a given plant, all she has to do when formulating a tea is to smell each plant to know if it should be included or not.  When we stop to examine exactly what her nose said to add to the tea, we generally discover: The plants chosen work well together. The plants chosen have similar or complimentary general health or medicinal properties. The…