Tochnoma Herb Farm and Clinical Master Herbalist

Tochnoma Herb Farm and Clinical Master Herbalist Personal consultations are available for those seeking a natural approach to their health. It is operated and run by Tony and Chris Baker.

Herb Farm devoted to producing herbs and produce that are organically grown as well as providing herbal education to all those seeking a more natural way of life. Tochnoma Herb Farm is a small herb farm located in Hampshire County in beautiful Wild and Wonderful West Virginia. Chris is a certified Clinical Master Herbalist receiving her certification through Vintage Remedies School of Natural Heal

th. She also has certifications from One World Healing Community as a Community Herbalist and a Family Herbalist. She is also a trained and certified CHERP (Community Health Educational Resource Person) through the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine. She offers a variety of herbal educational classes with the context of a Christian worldview at the farm and also does community educational events that are posted on the farm's website and advertised here on Facebook. Chris also teaches healthy living classes from cooking, shopping, to lifestyle for natural health. She teaches from an evidenced based education to ensure efficacy and safety in botanical solutions. Mystical folklore and divisive philosophies such as energetics are not taught. What is taught is scientific solid based education that enables the student to discover the wonderful world of herbal care for their family's well being. In addition (when Chris has the available time to produce or harvest), Chris offers for sale fresh herbs, herbal tea blends, spices, soaps, lotions, and other all natural products.

05/30/2026
05/30/2026

The best herbs for the kidneys are parsley, cilantro, horsetail, burdock, stinging nettle, milk thistle, Gynostemma, and marshmallow root. Burdock root and marshmallow root are natural diuretics that the body flush out excess fluid.

This helps to cleanse the urinary system. Burdock root also helps to detoxify the blood and promote circulation.

--->Detailed Article on Kidney Health in Comments!

05/30/2026

June isn't late. It's the second planting window — and for heat-loving crops, it's the RIGHT window.
Everything on this list goes directly into warm soil now and produces before the season ends. No indoor starts. No transplants. Seed to harvest, timed for summer.
- Bush Beans — 55 days. Sow every 3 weeks through July for continuous pods into September.
- Cucumber — 58 days. June-sown cucumbers avoid the early-season cucumber beetle wave that kills May transplants.
- Summer Squash — 50 days. The fastest fruit producer from seed. June sowing means August harvest with fewer vine borer problems than May plantings.
- Okra — 55 days. Needs hot soil to germinate. June is better than May in most zones. Produces harder as temperatures climb.
- Yardlong Bean — 60 days. Heat-loving climber that barely grows below 75°F. June is when it finally wakes up.
- Sunflower — 70 days. June sowing means late August bloom — extending the garden's color and bird-feeding season into fall.
- Basil — 30 days to first harvest. Direct-sow now into warm soil. Germinates faster than April indoor starts did.
- Dill — 40 days to harvest, 70 to seed. Sow now for midsummer harvest. Succession sow every 3 weeks because it bolts fast.
- Malabar Spinach — 55 days. The heat-proof spinach substitute. Won't germinate until soil hits 65°F. June is its month.
June-sown crops miss the early pests, skip the cold-soil stall, and finish before frost. The second wave often outperforms the first.

05/28/2026

Food as wellness!

05/28/2026

We were meant to interact with Earth, the soil, the land. Go get your Vit D!

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