All timeline stories.
Blogger and entrepreneur, Jazerai Lord ( @nerdlikejazzy) came out of a deep depression & refocused all her energy on teaching other creative women of color how to do the same. DroppingSeeds participated in the Creative Souls retreat to help empower and self motivate with meditation and plant knowledge.
Time Is Art is an inspiring documentary film that follows the journey of a writer, compelled to make sense of the mysterious and powerful energy she felt at her aunt’s deathbed. We were lucky enough to be part of the series of compelling conversations with fellow seekers Toko-Pa Turner, Richard Tarnas, Graham Hancock, Daniel Pinchbeck and…
We visited our long time customer Evan Collier (founder of Arch Production and Design) to talk about the impact that herb plays in his work. Evan combined SYNC and FOCUS to dial into his desired state of mind: Focus but relaxed creative flow.
Healers Speak is dedicated to research, support and education regarding Nature and indigenous based Healing practices. Check out below our morning convo over tea:
On the episode of Decolonize Everything, Johanna Guevara joins Rebecca to discuss the ways that we can relate to plants and remember ancestral survival skills and healing practices. Johanna shares her personal journey of Indigenizing her family structure, homeschooling her children, and cultivating herbal medicine.
The pandemic showed us the importance of growing our own food, medicine and sovereignty. DroppingSeeds operation moves to the Hudson Valley.
SirRoan moved on to building and running We Are Earth (WAE), a multi faceted operation featuring high yield vertical farms in collaboration with GROWBOX™. Also, COVID had everyone staying home which made our connection to the plant kingdom bigger.
We presented our blends MOON and SUN tea at Deepak Homebase at ABC Carpet and Home. While for Fashion Week, Vogue magazine feature our RELAX Elixir in an Osteria57 custom cocktail. And our Hemp blends PEACE, REVIVE, & DEEP became the latest ones to join the collection due to the legalization of Hemp in 2019.
Guest appearance on Psychedelica S1:E3 of Gaia TV. Discussing the power of Ayahuasca, how plants first “spoke” to me and its effects on the body, mind and soul with Dennis Mckenna and Graham Hancock. And Psychedelica | S1:Ep6 | where we guess star along Kuauhtli Vasquez, Chris Long, Max Montrose, Daniel McQueen and Michael Winkelman in discussing the ceremonial use of cacti in…
Food Curated, a James Beard Award-winning food documentary series, featured DroppingSeeds: There Is More to the Medicinal Plant World than Cannabis.
We started Herbal PopUps at shops like West Elm and Brooklyn Museum. As well as collaborations with Humblebloom and Bust Magazine. Not to mention our favorite Afropunk Festival curating the Healing Temple with Minka Brooklyn.
Inventory, production, operations manuals all grew. Artist & Tarot reader Angie Guevara working the mid-night hour to keep up with demand.
As the business grew, so did our family. Picture being 7 months pregnant with a toddler at Joshua Tree after a cross country road trip from NYC to California. Much support and love continued from friends like Bilal Music. And we were part of the documentary Time is Art. It inspired the creation of our SYNC blend that…
The blends started developing in dualistic ways: SUN & MOON, SLEEP & AWAKE and MASC. & FEMME. Soon we found ourselves creating an Herbal Sample Blend for customers to have the full collection experience.
