Cutting Root Farm

Cutting Root Farm At Cutting Root Farm we organically grow herbs and flowers.

We hope to increase access to botanicals by providing affordable products, education, and hands on experiences.

February 16, gather with us as we process fresh elecampane root, a warming moving lung herb that helps get rid of stuck ...
02/07/2025

February 16, gather with us as we process fresh elecampane root, a warming moving lung herb that helps get rid of stuck phlegm and mucus, is antibacterial and makes a delicious cough syrup. We’ll make syrups for everyone to bring home and get to know this easy to grow plant. You’ll get seeds too that will sprout anywhere you put em! But they like full sun or partial shade and they love a wet garden spot too. Gathering at the farmhouse with us and get real cozy! Sign up in bio, registration required

We are taking applications for the Wild Cherries Herbal Studies Program until February 14! We would love for you to join...
02/05/2025

We are taking applications for the Wild Cherries Herbal Studies Program until February 14! We would love for you to join us on this immersive three season program to deepen your connection to the natural world. With three fabulous teachers, a student garden and a group of amazing classmates, every year this program fosters amazing community in the Pittsburgh area. We have several full paying spots still available as well as scholarship and work trade spots for trans folks and BIPOC folks

We want to work with other hardworking fun people! Hiring for two positions, one for the spring only where you get to he...
02/01/2025

We want to work with other hardworking fun people! Hiring for two positions, one for the spring only where you get to help in the greenhouse and then getting all the babies out planted in the field. The other position will continue for the rest of the season, cultivating, harvesting and doing all the fun and tough work of farming 1.5 acres of flowers and herbs! Application on our website

Applications open for Wild Cherries year one and two, until February 14. This amazing 8 month program features three ama...
01/21/2025

Applications open for Wild Cherries year one and two, until February 14. This amazing 8 month program features three amazing teachers (and a whole world full of plants) to learn from. We talk about botany, body systems, energetic, medicine making under the broad context of anti-capitalism and decolonization. We are deeply committed to bringing these practices to trans and BIPOC folks and have scholarships available to make the program more accessible. We also have full paying spots if you are able to pay full price! Reach out with any questions, share this widely. We have over 100 alumni of the program, they all have wonderful things to say.

Thanks y’all for helping us out so much this last season, and longer. You make our dreams come true every year that we g...
01/17/2025

Thanks y’all for helping us out so much this last season, and longer. You make our dreams come true every year that we get to do this! We usually have one big sale day a year to say “thanks, please drink more tea” and this year January 22 everything on our website is 40% off with the coupon code BIGSALEDAY

Herb of the month, this Sunday January 16, 10:30-12:30. Build community while learning about this important native polli...
01/16/2025

Herb of the month, this Sunday January 16, 10:30-12:30. Build community while learning about this important native pollinator plant! A huge immune boost, a venom fighter and a worthy ingredients in winter time tea and tincture blends well talk about how to responsibly use this endangered plant. You’ll go home with a personalized blend that you can start using right away!

Our dried flower wreaths are hanging  right now. They are all for sale, you can take it right off the wall and take it h...
12/16/2024

Our dried flower wreaths are hanging right now. They are all for sale, you can take it right off the wall and take it home! All made with flowers grown on our farm this season, they are guaranteed to look as beautiful as they do today for 5+years. Priced $15-95

Wild Cherries Herb School now open! In our ninth year of weaving together plant connection and community we are excited ...
12/12/2024

Wild Cherries Herb School now open! In our ninth year of weaving together plant connection and community we are excited to accept applications for our year one and year two programs, both running March-November 2025. Grow herbs, make medicines, learn about our bodies through a decolonial lense, rooting in relationship with Earth. With three teachers, you get so much experience and perspective, with our host you get to grow herbs in a beautiful space and with your classmates you’ll make new friends forever! Link in bio

 with so many other inspiring artists! So many booths filled with gorgeous plant art!
12/07/2024

with so many other inspiring artists! So many booths filled with gorgeous plant art!

Link in bio, join us for a gathering on Sunday December 8 to tend to grief and hold space for ourselves and learn about ...
12/01/2024

Link in bio, join us for a gathering on Sunday December 8 to tend to grief and hold space for ourselves and learn about how we like to use rose to support us to move through emotions. You’ll go home with medicine you make and a seedling from our Rosa rugosa plants, now a decade old and wanting to be spread far and wide to help others grow this lovely medicine.

Yesterday we dug all our dahlia tubers and I can’t get over how amazing they were this year! Over last winter we lost al...
10/30/2024

Yesterday we dug all our dahlia tubers and I can’t get over how amazing they were this year! Over last winter we lost all of our thousands of stored dahlias, probably to a freeze, and reached out to community for help. Strangers like and gave us tubers, friends like .pa and gave us extras, and random people would come up to me at markets and say, i heard you need tubers, here’s some, handing me a box of dahlias. It was such a sweet outpouring of love and support and abundance! We watched the dahlias grow all year and were surprised with every new bloom. I mean, those giant yellow dahlias, I would have never bought them, but I love them! The cycles now complete, the dahlias are dug and tucked away, and I’ll be spending more time keeping an eye on them, and asking my close butler peeps to stop by when the temps get low to help us keep the barn basement at a balmy 40-50 degrees. It takes a village, and I’m grateful for that connection that plants provide us with. Next year spring, if you need any extra tubers, we got you!

So many dahlias  today. Thanks to our friends who provided us with tubers when we stored them poorly through last winter...
10/05/2024

So many dahlias today. Thanks to our friends who provided us with tubers when we stored them poorly through last winter and they rotted. .pa thanks you

This Weekend: Market & Class, Fundraising for the Stone Cabin Collective -
10/03/2024

This Weekend: Market & Class, Fundraising for the Stone Cabin Collective -

We are fundraising for our fall free clinic at Black Mesa, Dinetah, Navajo land in November. We’re gathering together fo...
09/26/2024

We are fundraising for our fall free clinic at Black Mesa, Dinetah, Navajo land in November. We’re gathering together for land support and for two glorious pop up clinic days filled with of free herbal consults, herb goody bags, body work and foot baths for elders and families. We are so excited and really need your help this year. So many of you have supported our clinic, the Stone Cabin Collective for years. We need more help than usual this time because it’s our first large gathering since Covid started. It would be great to blow this fundraising goal out of the water!

Partnering with   and  is a dream come true! Come through tomorrow evening to make flowers crowns, herbals medicines and...
09/24/2024

Partnering with and is a dream come true! Come through tomorrow evening to make flowers crowns, herbals medicines and collect seeds.

This Weekend: Bloomfield Market, Phipps Botanical Boutique, and Chamomile, Herb of the Month -
09/05/2024

This Weekend: Bloomfield Market, Phipps Botanical Boutique, and Chamomile, Herb of the Month -

Our next two products that will be leaving our inventory is headache no more and sore muscle rub. We’ve spent a long tim...
08/27/2024

Our next two products that will be leaving our inventory is headache no more and sore muscle rub. We’ve spent a long time making these and though we love them (and you do too!) these formulas are complicated and we no longer grow all the herbs found in them. We have less than 20 of each of them, so order online or pick up one at the farmers market this weekend!

A Party!  A Class! (this week) -
08/20/2024

A Party! A Class! (this week) -

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949 Mercer Road
Butler, PA
16001

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Cutting Root Farm

Cutting Root Farm and Apothecary is a dream I've been cultivating for the past 5 years. Throughout that time, three things have always been true.


  • A commitment to the revitalization and stewardship of the land in urban and rural settings. In Pennsylvania, the history of steel extraction and the current expansion of fracking for natural gas needs to be countered with vigorous investement in traditional farming practices.

  • Small scale herb growing, processing, and formuation ensuring high quality botanicals for the local community.

  • A thoughtful engagement with clients, matching beautiful, medicinal, culinary, native plants with their specific needs.