Taproot Medicine was founded by medicine maker and clinical herbalist, Frieda Kipar Bay, RH (AHG) in 2010.  She created each herbal syrup (and bitters formula) to reflect the needs of the community with integrity and care.  In 2020 she fully passed the business into the capable, brilliant hands of Charlotte and Jessica to carry on and expand upon the vision of handmade, sweet medicine made from the heart. You can find out more about Frieda's current work as an herbalist here. And read more about how Taproot began here.

We abide by labor, environmental, and sourcing protocols that align with not just our values, but also with the clean manufacturing necessary to ensure safe, potent, and consistent medicine.

We have outfitted our dedicated lab with the most state of the art equipment at every stage of medicine making. From our water filtration system to steep our responsibly-sourced herbs to our custom-built press to pull the most nutrients out of every steep.

We are a passionate collective of women who research, harvest, formulate, and make medicines together in our dedicated medicine-making lab in West County Sonoma, in Northern California.

clockwise from top left: Jenny Roberts, Isabella DeCredico, Jessica Kleiderman, Charlotte Connors, Sydney Scafidi (not pictured yet..Hilary Go)

I believe that medicine comes by way of relationship. This work is rooted in healing, cultivating, and deepening our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the earth.

My journey with plants began while pregnant with my first child, feeling called to manage my own well-being more holistically. Through deep education at California School of Herbal Studies, and partnering with Taproot founder Frieda Kipar Bay in 2018, I have been deeply honored to make, share, and further develop these beautiful medicines for our community. The practice of deep listening in medicine making has been part of the path to continue ceremony and healing work as a Four Winds School trained Shaman.

Life's medicine is about remembering our interconnectedness with Earth as we bring forth courageous and creative new visions of health, justice and beauty.

It is my honor to make this medicine for our community. This journey began when I witnessed the magic of mullein and garlic as it healed a raging ear infection in my infant son.

As the founder of several heart-led small businesses, I am inspired to disrupt the "business-as-usual" paradigm to build new co-empowering structures that are in right relationship with our land, community, and selves.

This work is rooted in the alchemy of remembering. As we have co-evolved with the plant world, I'm dedicated to remembering traditions, skills, and knowledge that have forever been part of our humanity.

As a clinical herbalist in public and private practice (you can find me at Farmacopia), I have developed the path of work with the elements of herbalism and plant medicine as an ideal way to create nourishment and beauty for the good of myself, the Earth, and my community.

I honor my ancestors mother, and grandmother, who taught me to cook and to care for myself so that I may show up here and care for others with this beautiful medicine.

I believe that working with the plants connects us back to our ancestors, to the earth, and to our creative expression. My work in herbalism is to guide, inspire, and connect others to the simple and daily ways of connecting with the natural world around us and ourselves.

I am an herbalist, medicine maker, gardener, and plant lover. I have a diverse background working in herbalism from growing and managing medicinal gardens, managing herbal laboratories, herbal product manufacturing, product formulation, and education. 

Currently I am teaching medicine making for the California School of Herbal Studies & Ancestral Arts as well as Co-Creator/Owner of Earth Allies. I live on a farm in Alexander Valley, California with my partner, Blue Heeler, Colter, and farm cat, Orca. 

For me wellness must be paired with attunement.  Through developing attunement to the body, mind and spirit we are able to deeply listen to what is needed to thrive in these human vessels. It is also with attuning to the natural world, from either spending time in nature or cultivating right relationships with plants, that all of it becomes a medicine in itself.  I feel passionate about integrating plant medicine into daily acts of nourishment that are not only good for us but taste delicious too!

I feel deeply honored to make medicine with the magical women at Taproot as it weaves together shared values of community wellness, interconnectivity, sustainability, generosity, integrity & heart-led feminine business models. 

My relationship to the Earth was always one of reverent spectator. Growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., I connected to the world through policy and theory. Lost in an abstract world, the plants called me back to the tangible. I believe that the strongest path to healing is to live in relationship with our planet, our communities, and ourselves.

I moved to Sonoma county to deepen my understanding of and relationship with plants and their medicine, studying the foundations of herbalism and community herbalism at the California School of Herbal Studies. I strive to center love, compassion, and reciprocity in all aspects of my life.