Opening
May 6 & 7, 2023
Pop up
Saturdays & Sundays - 11 to 4
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This year we are limiting our open hours
here at the farm. Instead of a regular schedule we will
have pop up weekends. Please follow us on our Facebook
page - The Wooden Shoe Herb Farm - for those pop up
dates. We will post them as they come up. They will
take place on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. - 4
p.m. We hope to see you this year here at the farm or
at the Allen Street Farmers' Market on Wednesdays from
2:30 p.m.-7 p.m. starting May 10th.
The Wooden Shoe Herb Farm is a
working farm. It is located 5 miles east of Mason, in
mid-Michigan. The farm consists of the shop, greenhouse,
drying barn with classroom, surrounded by acres of organically
grown herbs and perennials. The farm is owned by Brenda
and Ron Ginther.
Brenda Ginther founded
the Wooden Shoe Herb Farm in Mason, MI in 1987. Brenda,
a native of the Netherlands, immigrated to the United
States with her parents as a young teen. After attending
public school in Lansing, she completed Undergraduate
and Master’s degrees in Chemistry at Michigan State
University. While teaching for Lansing Public Schools,
Brenda was an avid gardener in her spare time. It was
on an antique shopping trip in St. John’s that she
discovered the wide world of herbs, and decided to add
some Sweet 
Annie
to her gardens. As her knowledge and inventory in herbs
grew, so did the idea of parlaying this pastime into a
second career. She began to study and develop floral designs
with dried herbs and flowers, as well as introduce herself
to different varieties. In 1986, she and husband Ron built
a greenhouse and a small barn that would serve as a showroom
for many dried floral designs Brenda had created. It was
at this time that the name of the up-and-coming business
was coined – The Wooden Shoe Herb Farm – homage
to Brenda’s proud Dutch heritage.
Over the past nineteen
years, the Farm has grown into an elaborate shop and grounds,
with a plant showroom and sprawling gardens. Among the
new additions to the Farm over the years are homemade
soaps and cosmetics, dried culinary herbs, a heightened
plant inventory, and special events including Herbal Teas,
Floral design and soap making classes. Brenda offers her
increasing knowledge to her clientele through continued
studies in herbs and dried flower arranging, after completing
several design classes in Europe.
