Palcho's Products

I began gathering wild plants and turning them into potions as a child. My first product was called Huckleberry Finn Water (Wildberry Lifesavers soaked in warm water). Later, I learned to raise and preserve food- canning, pickling, brining, salting, fermenting everything from vegetables, beer and bread to cheese and sauerkraut. Later, living in Kodiak, I made plant medicines and healing lotions and learned how to smoke and pickle fish, kelp, and tofu.

In 2004, after 20 years of teaching high school art, I resigned in order to start a business manufacturing organic skincare products made from plant-based raw materials, a process in which fire is also essential. Today, I work as a potter and ceramicist, and teach classes in botanicals and fermentation.