07/24/2025
We have some new friends here, so I'd love to take this time to reintroduce ourselves. 🌈
My name is Katie, and my wife Allie and I own Sprouting Life Garden in Roanoke. Together for 13 years, and married for 7. We have a 5 year old son and twin daughters who are 3. We love a good road trip, being outside and just spending time together as a family. We met as Registered Nurses in the hospital, and traveled the country for years caring for patients in their most vulnerable moments. 🏥
After ten years of nursing, I needed a change, and we started a homestead back home in Appalachia. We live in the suburbs, but I love showing people you don't need a lot of space to grow a lot of food! Growing our own food for our family led to selling veggies, sourdough goodies, teaching garden classes, and expanded into selling our own all natural skincare products.
We're now in ten stores around the Valley, and more on the way! And our website www.sproutinglifegarden.com ships all over the country.
We infuse our homegrown and locally sourced Calendula flowers slowly into cold pressed oils that are then mixed into our skincare products. Calendula is an antiinflammatory, has antioxidants and wound healing benefits, and works on the most sensitive skin. 🌼
Our Calendula Salve is plant based, but the majority of our products have beef tallow added. My skin, as well as my family's, have had amazing results from it without all the harsh chemicals.
We recently changed our products to use 100% local grass fed beef tallow from C & F Farms. This farm is doing things the right way. Caring for the land with respect to the animals, and they're a local family, not a big corporation. We put their already high quality tallow through two purification processes in order to get it ready for our Whipped Tallow Balms, Barrier Balm, Lip Balms, and Magnesium butter. 🐮
Our products are made in small batches, with lots of love and care. I can help people still, while doing something I love and am passionate about, and I can be there for my children while I do it. We have big dreams for this little business, and new items in the works! Thanks for being along for the ride!