The Humans Behind Our General Store
Every good general store has a few characters wandering the aisles. Ours just happen to run the place.
Cory
V.P. of Pruning Pages and Planting Profits
Eldest sister. In true form, as she'll happily remind you. Best Auntie ever — she's been like a second parent to her nieces and nephews, the kind who shows up with unwavering love and stays present through it all.
Cory is an artist through and through. She's been creating for as long as anyone can remember — painting, drawing, and bringing to life whatever her imagination dreams up. Her hands are always moving, always making, always shaping something beautiful out of raw materials. She makes hand-painted and wood-burned motif boxes, leather wallets, and pretty much anything she decides is worth creating. Bees, dragons, runes — each one is a work of art, and she takes commissions if you've got a vision she can bring to life.
She also built this website, runs the books, manages the store, and handles the big-picture dreaming while somehow keeping the whole apple cart from tipping over. She's the reason the online doors are even open. With years of experience in website and graphic design, she brings a creative eye and technical skill to everything she touches.
Beyond the screen and the shop, Cory is a builder in the truest sense — of gardens, of community, of possibility. When she and Kati ran C.A.M.P. together, Cory stepped up as event planner, organizer, and visionary. She also took a lead role in bringing the first Pride day and parade to her hometown — a milestone that shifted the landscape of belonging for so many.
Her dream is a life off the grid, self-sustaining and rooted in the land she tends. Ask her what's next, and she'll probably mention a greenhouse — not as a someday fantasy, but as something she's actively willing into existence. Knowing Cory, it's only a matter of time.
She designs. She builds. She shows up. And she makes the world a little more colorful just by being in it.
Kati ~ Ayrah Roth
Alchemist of Wax and Wick
Younger sister. Candle Maker. Author. Coach. Mentor.
Kati doesn't do boring. If it comes out of a mold and makes her grin, it lands in the shop. Skulls and cauldrons. Roses and runes. Apples and celestial motifs. Some are sculptural. Some are ritual. Some are just deeply satisfying to light at the end of a long day.
Every scent is phthalate-free and paraben-free. Wooden wicks crackle like campfire embers. Each candle carries a whisper of magic — the kind that makes you want to clear a shelf, strike a match, and breathe. Nature and magick thread through every pour, every flame, every flicker of light.
Beyond the wax, Kati is a certified permaculture designer. She took the course years ago alongside her mom, and now she's finally got a little land to put it into practice. She's relearning, experimenting, and building toward a more sustainable life — one season, one seed, one slow step at a time.
She is also a Red Tent Keeper, certified life purpose coach, career coach, and connection mentor. She carries the old Gaelic word Anamchara — "soul friend" — not as a title, but as a quiet act of reclamation. In a displaced world, it is a small way of reaching back for what was hers all along.
Her pen name, Ayrah Roth, is another thread in that same weaving — a name derived from a spiritual name, forged through years of life, loss, and becoming. Another intentional step toward taking back her heritage, her identity, and her purpose.
As an author, her Roots & Rhythms series is more than journals and workbooks — they are mini self-paced coaching programs, woven with reflection, ritual, and the kind of questions that crack you open and put you back together, right-side up. And there is much more to come.
Her work runs deeper than titles. It is about weaving culture and community that hold people as they step into their purpose and passions. Imagine a world where every person had the space to know themselves fully and the courage to live what fits. How far could humanity rise if we didn't lose so much potential to poverty, busyness, and depression — in a society that never taught us how to connect, or how to know ourselves more deeply? How far could that ripple reach?
That quiet, fierce work is the fire beneath everything she pours into wax — and every word she writes.
Harald
Arcane Wildwood Carver; Wielder of Blade and Quiet Magick
Quiet. Built like a brick wall. His life goal? To become the most badass 75-year-old he's ever known. A man who believes one of the best uses for a cell phone is a coaster for his ever-present coffee mug. Harald is a bow hunter — not the kind with gadgets and gizmos, but the sacred kind. Tracking, honoring, learning the habits of the animals, and using the whole harvest. He came to this later in life, when he finally gave himself permission to follow his passions instead of everybody else's expectations. He's still learning — aren't we all? Naturalist workshops, hide tanning, forestry skills, the long slow art of building your own bow from materials the forest gives you. If it's old-school and can't be rushed, Harald's probably got his hands in it.
In a previous life, Harald was a carpenter and renovator. He doesn't love that work anymore — but he'll still pick up the tools when it means helping someone he cares about. Around here, tends the apple trees, fixes what breaks, builds what's needed, and shaped the very desk Kati writes at and the candle station she pours at.
When it's just him and the trees, though? That's when he's happiest. He carves cooking spoons, serving bowls, and walking sticks by hand — each piece cut, shaped, and finished the slow way, with respect for the timber and the time it took to grow. When you hold one of his utensils, you're holding hours of quiet craftsmanship from a man who's finally living life on his own terms.
Logan
Reluctant Social Media Guru in Training
Every homestead needs a teenager who actually understands the internet, and Logan is ours. He'd probably rather be gaming, making music, or deep in some digital creation, but we've roped him into running social media because someone has to tell the world we exist — and frankly, the rest of us still use phrases like "post it on the Facebook."
He's a Gen Z kid learning life skills hands-on, whether he likes it or not. Some days it's content creation and trending audio. Other days it's realizing that being part of a family business means showing up when the wifi is weak and the coffee's gone cold. It's a challenge, but it's the fun kind — the kind that shapes a person.
Around here, we think a lot about the next seven generations and what we're passing down. Skills. Values. A different way of living. Logan's part of that, even when he's rolling his eyes.
One day he'll thank us. Probably. Maybe.
Layne
Forger of Iron and Her Own Path
Kati's daughter. Grammy's favorite. A little earth spirit who's been collecting rocks, rescuing ladybugs, and befriending slugs since she could walk. Layne has always been full of energy and life — the kind of kid who sees the world as alive, sacred, and worth tending. She's an animist by nature, a witchling by upbringing, and now a welder-in-training learning to shape iron the way her mom shapes wax.
She may not live on the property full-time anymore, but her roots run deep here. We're quietly hoping she'll bring those welding skills home one day and create something wild and wonderful on the homestead. Until then, she's off forging her own path — literally — and making us all proud.
Some roots travel with you.
Lilith and Hella
Our logistics are modern, but our security is old-school. No delivery driver pulls up the drive without fully understanding exactly who holds the Head of Security titles around here. Hella and Lilith take their inspection duties very seriously—though they can usually be bribed with a premium treat.
Hella (Head of Security & Moral Support)
Lilith (Director of Dirt Excavation & Sounding the perimeter alarm)
Full disclosure: Their resumes looked great, but their actual productivity is shockingly low. Still, they’re the heart of the operation.
The Bounty of Our Workshop
Each piece is a translation of tradition, crafted by the same hands that tend our trees and tell our stories.
Cory's Motif Boxes
Hand-painted and wood-burned boxes that capture the big-picture dreaming of the eldest sister.
Boxes coming soon
