Plants first, always.
Every formula begins with a single herb we love. We add the second only if it makes the first one sing.
A small house built on slow practice.
In 2018, Iona Rowse left a career in clinical pharmacy and moved to Cannon Beach with a single suitcase and a small library of herbalism books. She wanted a quieter relationship to medicine — one closer to gardens, kitchens, and weather.
What began as a market stall on Saturdays became a permanent room behind a cedar gate on Hemlock Street. We have grown carefully since: a second herbalist, a part-time gardener, a baker who comes in on Fridays. Nothing more.
The name arviloqorbit.cam is a word we made up — a small, private one, like a tea blend's name written only in our own notebook. It means, roughly: "a circle drawn with care."
