Buy bulk herbs & spices online. Single and bulk herbs, roots, leaves, flowers, spices, and powders.

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A working apothecary, not a warehouse

This is the deep end of the shop — single-herb stock, the way an herbalist or apothecary would lay it out. Culinary spices, traditional adaptogens, sleep and calm herbs, digestive bitters, smoking blends, infusion bases.

"Bulk herbs" just means dried herbs sold loose by weight instead of pre-packaged into tea bags, capsules, or blends. You choose the herb, you choose the amount, and you pay for plant material rather than packaging. It's how herb shops worked for centuries, and it is still the cheapest and most flexible way to stock a tea cupboard or a home apothecary. Most are sold by weight in food-grade bags. We don't make health claims; we sell quality herb at honest weights, and we encourage you to consult a qualified herbalist or healthcare practitioner for your specific use case.

Use the search box above to jump to a specific herb, or filter by plant part (leaves & herbs, roots & barks, flowers, seeds & fruits) and by form (whole, powder, tincture) to browse.

Cut and sifted, powdered, or whole: which to buy

Most dried herbs come in one of three cuts, and the right one depends on what you plan to do with it. Cut and sifted (you'll see "c/s" on old-school apothecary labels) is leaf, root, or bark chopped to a coarse, even texture with the dust sifted out. It's the workhorse format: it steeps well, strains cleanly, and keeps longer than powder because less surface area is exposed to air. Powder is the same plant milled fine, the pick for capsules, smoothies, and cooking, where you want the whole herb to disappear into the mix. Whole means intact flowers, buds, berries, or seeds, which hold their aroma longest of all and look the part in a glass jar.

A practical rule: buy whole or cut and sifted when you can, and powder only what you'll use in the next few months. Where an herb makes sense in more than one format, we stock it in more than one format, like whole chamomile flowers alongside chamomile powder, so check the Form filter above.

How we source dried herbs

Every herb on this page is hand-packed in small batches at our Portland shop and sold by weight in food-grade bags. That sounds like a small detail, but it's the difference between an aromatic bag of peppermint and a stale one: small batches mean stock turns over instead of sitting in bulk inventory, and hand-packing means a person actually looks at the herb before it goes in your order. We source organic herbs where they're available, and a handful, like our locally grown ashwagandha, are grown right here in Oregon. Each product page lists the botanical name, plant part, and sourcing for that herb, so you always know exactly what's in the bag.

Popular herbs by tradition

With 201 single herbs on the shelf, the easiest way in is by tradition. These are the herbs people ask for most, grouped by the practice they come from.

Western herbalism

Mullein Leaf

Ayurveda

Ashwagandha Powder

Culinary & aromatic

Lavender Flowers

• Western herbalism: the European and North American folk tradition, heavy on leaves and flowers. Mullein leaf, chamomile flowers, mugwort, skullcap, and nettle leaf are the perennial best sellers here.
• Ayurveda: the classical Indian tradition, where roots and powders dominate. Ashwagandha powder and holy basil (tulsi) are the two best sellers in this lane.
• Culinary & aromatic: the kitchen-and-teapot lane. Peppermint, lavender flowers, rose buds and petals, and hibiscus flowers go into everything from baking to blending.

Herbs and teas overlap more than the aisle signs suggest: most of the leaves and flowers above brew into a clean single-herb tisane, and our loose-leaf tea shelf covers the ready-made blends if you'd rather not measure.

How to store bulk herbs

Dried herbs fade in the same order they charm: aroma first, then color, then character. Light, heat, air, and moisture are the culprits, so decant your bags into airtight jars, keep the jars somewhere cool and dark, and label them with the herb and the date. Whole herbs and flowers hold their aroma far longer than powders, and whole spices longer than pre-ground, so grind as you go when you can. Buy amounts you'll use within a year, which is easy when everything is sold by weight from one ounce up.