Hillside Botanicals

Hillside Botanicals is a certified organic herb farm and apothecary in Randolph, Vermont, co-owned by Sarah Shaw and Nathan Bacon. The farm started in 2018, first as a hobby farm, then as a full medicinal herb and wellness business rooted in Central Vermont. Their own about page describes the work plainly: they grow dozens of medicinal herbs and perennials, then handcraft products in-house using plants from the farm and carefully gathered wild plants.

The ownership check is unusually clean. Hillside names its founding year and farm-based model on its own site, while Farmers To You identifies Sarah Shaw and Nathan Bacon as co-owners and repeats the 2018 founding history. We found no acquisition trail, corporate parent, or match in the corporate-parent exclusion list.

What makes Hillside useful for the directory is the short supply chain. Many herbal brands buy bulk ingredients through opaque suppliers, bottle them somewhere else, then tell a soft-focus plant story. Hillside keeps the plant work close: tinctures, teas, salves, CBD oils, topical rubs, fire cider, and bulk herbs come from a farm that also talks openly about soil, pollinators, and regenerative growing.

The certifications help, but they are not the whole point. Hillside is Real Organic Project and Bee Friendly Farming certified, which gives shoppers outside Vermont something more concrete than a pretty label. The better signal is that the brand tells you who owns the farm, where the herbs are grown, and how the products are made.

For buyers replacing mass-market tinctures or anonymous CBD oils, Hillside Botanicals is worth knowing. It is small, place-specific, and transparent enough to verify without squinting.

Products

• Herbal tinctures and tonics
• Organic herbal teas
• CBD oils, elixirs, and topicals
• Herbal salves and bodycare
• Fire cider and seasonal remedies
• Bulk dried herbs and plant starts

Why We List Them

• Co-owned by Sarah Shaw and Nathan Bacon in Randolph, Vermont
• Founded in 2018 and still operated as a farm-based apothecary
• Certified organic, Real Organic Project, and Bee Friendly Farming
• Uses farm-grown and responsibly wildcrafted herbs
• No corporate parent or acquisition trail found