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The Ladybird Company
Prairie Ethnobotany & Cultural Memory Archive
Heritage Crafts & Apothecary • Seasonal Education Project
Lily of the Valley
Convallaria majalis
An Ongoing Study of Plants, Place, & Cultural Memory.
Through field study, stewardship, seasonal herbal practice, archival preservation, conversations with elders, and the gathering of community, The Ladybird Company is an ongoing search for a deeper sense of belonging - to land, memory, and one another.
Rooted in the wild heart of rural Alberta, Canada, The Ladybird Company is an exploration of the relationships between plants, people, ecology, and land-based ancestral knowledge.
Common Comfrey
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Symphytum officinale
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Heritage Apothecary
Our Heritage Apothecary is home to our artisan
culinary preparations, botanical fragrances,
and nourishing, ancestral body-care.
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Our preparations start at home, at Hearth & Heritage Family Farms, where we grow and harvest the majority of our herbs. Every product is crafted by herbalist & grower Mackenzie, using fresh, fragrant plant material, rich, high-quality oils and solvents, and traditional preparation techniques.
Our recipes are formulated by Mackenzie- informed by her studies of ethnobotany & ancestral ways of living well, wild flavour & nutrition, and human & plant biology.
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FEATURED
COMMUNITY GATHERINGS
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Field Notes &
Folk Stories
signature travelling plant walk
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Forest to Table
Garden Party
seasonal food showcase
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Travelling gathering
Smoke
Medicine
History &
Herbal Craft
FROM THE COMMUNITY
" Mackenzie has a rare gift — every plant
became a story. Not just names, but histories...
Not just identification, but connection. "
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" After I left, I couldn't help but feel that ... after experiencing the natural world through Mackenzie's eyes -
I will never walk through the world in the same way again."
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A regenerative herb farm, medicinal silvopasture, food forest, &
living classroom in progress; sister business of The Ladybird Company;
rooted in local stewardship, reciprocity, and the gathering of community.
Hearth & Heritage Family Farms
Mackenzie Laurin is a herbalist, horticulturist, writer, archivist, and storyteller; founder of The Ladybird Company, and co-founder of Hearth & Heritage Family Farms. She was raised in the Peace Country of northern Alberta, and is now based rurally in the County of Vermilion River, near the border of Saskatchewan.
Mackenzie Laurin
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
She graduated from the Horticulture Technologist diploma program at Olds College, where she focused her studies on native ecosystem restoration, permaculture, and ethnobiology. She continued to build her practice through years of independent study, fieldwork, and hands-on experience. Her work stems from over a decade of study of the plant kingdom; reflecting a reverence for old-world botanical traditions, intergenerational connection, ecological stewardship, and the wisdom carried through plants, seasons, landscapes, and community.
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