Locust Light Farm

We are a small herb farm in central NJ. We connect you directly to healing plants through hands-on he We are a small herb farm in Mercer County, NJ.

We are dedicated to connecting people directly to healing plants through high-quality dried herbs, handcrafted herbal products, and on-farm classes and tours. We are deeply committed to the belief that plants

09/19/2025

Hi there! Popping in to tell you that I'm teach two classes TOMORROW: Herbs for Sleep at (1:00-3:00pm) and my last Plant Walk of the Season (9:00-10:00am).

I hope to see you there!

07/17/2025

https://www.locustlightfarm.com/blog/2025/7/17/the-truth-about-jewelweed

How to *actually* use jewelweed to prevent poison ivy and soothe your skin. Learn how to prepare jewelweed, get recipe ideas, and how to prevent a poison ivy allergic reaction.

05/07/2025

I’m teaching two herbal mocktails classes at on Saturday. These classes are so fun -- they're a party! And afterward, you can stroll around the Grounds enjoying the art.

Mocktails are delicious, and deliciousness is important. When something is yummy, it's a lot easier to get yourself to drink it. It's also easier to get other people to drink it.

I'm not sure if you've had the experience of offering herbal tea to someone, only to have them act like you're trying to sell them drugs. People can be so sketched out by herbal tea (not you, obviously). But when you hand them a well-crafted, beautiful drink? They gladly accept.

Herbal mocktails are an effective way to get herbs into the body (yours, or your toddler's). They are excellent for compliance, or simply for keeping herbs in your daily rotation.

Mocktails open up a whole world of herbal creativity. They help you approach herbs as allies in fun and flavor. They help you drink herbs all the time. And that's the goal.

04/22/2025

https://www.locustlightfarm.com/onfarmclasses/2025/3/22/plant-walk-by3cc-re8lt-g5mnk

Do you wish you could identify plants when you’re out walking in nature? Do you use one of those plant ID apps but you’re not quite sure if it’s accurate? Interested in foraging but not sure how to do it safely? Join me for a medicinal plant walk!

04/17/2025

I'm so excited to be teaching this class with Lisa Miccolis of Bountiful Gardens! This course is a full introduction to growing herbs and using them as medicine. In the first class, you’ll receive 30 herb plants. You’ll learn how and where to plant them, tend them, harvest them, and prepare them!

Alternating Thursday nights from 6:00-8:00pm.

The Hillsborough class starts April 24th. *next week!*
The Ewing class starts May 1st. Click the "Local Classes" button at the link in my bio for full info.

04/14/2025

https://www.locustlightfarm.com/onfarmclasses/2025/5/1/starting-you-herbal-apothecary-from-garden-to-glass-ewing-hjdp7-rmnxw-6hb75-s3jgd

Join Herbalist Amanda Crooke and Lisa Miccolis, Seasoned Horticulturist and Owner of Bountiful Gardens, to learn how to build your own apothecary from the ground up! Hands-on herbalism class in northern NJ, Hunterdon County NJ. Learn how to grow and harvest medicinal herbs, and how to make medicin

Join Herbalist Amanda Crooke and Lisa Miccolis, Seasoned Horticulturist and Owner of Bountiful Gardens, to learn how to build your own apothecary from the ground up! Hands-on herbalism class in central NJ, Mercer County NJ. Learn how to grow and harvest medicinal herbs, and how to make medicine wi

04/14/2025

https://www.locustlightfarm.com/onfarmclasses/2025/5/1/starting-you-herbal-apothecary-from-garden-to-glass-ewing-fbx8a-9ah8d-3bgc3-s85hm-9s5z5-a9tza

Join Herbalist Amanda Crooke and Lisa Miccolis, Seasoned Horticulturist and Owner of Bountiful Gardens, to learn how to build your own apothecary from the ground up! Hands-on herbalism class in central NJ, Mercer County NJ. Learn how to grow and harvest medicinal herbs, and how to make medicine wi

04/14/2025

https://www.locustlightfarm.com/onfarmclasses/2025/5/1/starting-you-herbal-apothecary-from-garden-to-glass-ewing-fbx8a-9ah8d-3bgc3-s85hm-9s5z5

Join Herbalist Amanda Crooke and Lisa Miccolis, Seasoned Horticulturist and Owner of Bountiful Gardens, to learn how to build your own apothecary from the ground up! Hands-on herbalism class in central NJ, Mercer County NJ. Learn how to grow and harvest medicinal herbs, and how to make medicine wi

04/14/2025

https://www.locustlightfarm.com/onfarmclasses/2025/5/1/starting-you-herbal-apothecary-from-garden-to-glass-ewing-fbx8a-9ah8d-3bgc3

Join Herbalist Amanda Crooke and Lisa Miccolis, Seasoned Horticulturist and Owner of Bountiful Gardens, to learn how to build your own apothecary from the ground up! Hands-on herbalism class in central NJ, Mercer County NJ. Learn how to grow and harvest medicinal herbs, and how to make medicine wi

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Locust Light Farm strives to empower individuals in their wellness journeys. Through our on-farm classes as well as our handcrafted products, we seek to connect people directly to the plants. We believe that personal connection with the plants is healing in itself.

We seek to foster the wellness of our local community by providing high-quality herbs and herbal preparations. We aim to connect individuals to their own health and wellness by providing education and a relationship with the farmer, herbalist, and the land on which the herbs are grown. The health of the ecosystem and the health of the individual are closely connected: we farm using methods that promote soil and plant health and ecosystem sustainability. We do not use synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers. We pick all herbs with care, by hand, and process them the same way.

Amanda had worked as an organic vegetable farmer for about 6 years before starting Locust Light. During her time as a veggie grower, she came to believe very strongly in the importance of eating local food for nutritional reasons as well as environmental, social justice, and economic reasons. Also during those years, Amanda began exploring the world of herbalism, reading herbal books and making her own tinctures and oils. At some point it occurred to her that if she believed so strongly in local food, why not use local herbs in her products? After all, when we ask plants for healing, they are operating at an even higher vibrational frequency. Surely the energetics behind medicinal herbs would be best from plants that were grown locally. But when she sought out a source for local bulk herbs, she wasn't able to find one. Amanda felt called to supply herbs to her local community.

She began by growing some medicinal plants at Roots to River Farm, where she was working. As she set about planning this small herb patch, Amanda realized that she didn't know anything about these plants: she didn't know how large they would grow, when they would bloom, or exactly how to harvest from them. She had only interacted with these plants as cut-and-sifted dried herbs that had arrived in her mailbox in plastic pouches or tincture bottles. She knew next-to-nothing about these herbs as living plants.

Amanda dove into a study of how to help this wild and wildly-diverse set of plants to grow in cultivation, but she held on to the realization that many people who are interested in herbs or even studying them do not have much opportunity to interact with these plants as living organisms. They do not get a chance to see them as full plants, to smell their fresh fragrance or see the shine of dew on their leaves. They do not have the honor of asking permission to harvest, of watching leaves transform as their water evaporates. Amanda felt a spiritual imperative to create a space in which people and plants could truly engage with each other.

Locust Light Farm began in 2015 on a property in Bucks County PA. The land was strikingly beautiful and the herbs were happy there, but Amanda decided to move the operation to Gravity Hill in order to make the gardens accessible to the community. 2017 was LL's first season at this new location. We are all been thrilled to be part of this group of businesses that so perfectly complement each other. Specifically, Amanda is happy to be working closely again with the Roots to River crew, who have remained her true farming family all these years.

Locally-grown herbs carry unique benefits to fostering wellness. When an herb is grown and processed within your community, you can know every aspect of the methods used to produce your herbal preparation. You can learn the growing practices, the processing techniques -- you can even know what the attitude is like of the person handling the herb. Is the person cheerful, peaceful? Are they happy to be picking or cleaning the herb? Thus, you can be confident that you are receiving the highest quality product available.

Locally-grown herbs also connect you with the natural rhythms of our regional ecosystem. The plants have experienced the same weather you have all season: the same rainy June, the same drought in August. The plants experience the shortening daylight and dropping temperatures the same way that you do. The energy of the plants is already more in tune with your body's energy. Thus, when you consume the plants, their energy is already more available to you. Taking ashwagandha root that lived out its life in the climate of India will be a very different experience than one that was harvested during a New Jersey October, after experiencing a New Jersey growing season. The energy within this plant is already more aligned with your body's energy.

It is also important to know that herbs we use have been harvested sustainably. Many exotic herbs are over-foraged in other countries or even our own forests or deserts. It is crucial to the future of herbalism that we preserve our natural plant communities. When purchasing herbs that grow in other ecosystems, we have little way of knowing the sustainability of the harvesting practices. We have an abundance of medicinally-potent herbs available to us in New Jersey. In prioritizing these local herbs for healing we honor the natural bounty of our ecosystem.

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