Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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192 Hirschfeld and Brainerd grow, dry, and bottle herbs for sale in their little Winchester shop. Amy Hirschfeld and Tatiana Brainerd love good food almost as much as they love the earth itself. As the owners of Soluna Garden Farm, which includes Soluna Herb, Spice, and Tea Emporium in Winchester and the store's little feeder line, a one-acre garden, the women see the earth as a delightful bounty of food and flowers that heal the body and soothe the soul. It's just a matter of treating the land right, the women believe, and knowing how to combine natural ingredients like herbs and spices for the best effect. "Our whole philosophy is getting people more connected to the land and to plants—to start thinking about plants as useful," Hirschfeld says. "It's respecting the land and respecting your body. It tastes better, you feel better, and you're more connected." Visitors to their cheerful Main Street shop, Soluna Herb, Spice, and Tea Emporium, are wrapped in a soothing, sensual world of organic dried herbs and spice blends that