Alchemystic Apothecary LLC

Alchemystic Apothecary is a Moscow owned business. Jessica Swan has lived on the Palouse for 15 years and has run a small farm just outside Moscow the past 4+ years. Adhering to permaculture principals and sustainable living, Jessica aims to create products that incorporate these ideals as much as possible by crafting one-of-a-kind wearable, functional and sustainable art as well as healthy herbal tea.
The tea blends include delicious, unique flavors, while maintaining health benefits an no added sugar or chemicals. The tea blends come from years of experimentation as a lay herbalist and ethical wildcrafter on the Palouse. Most of the herbs are sourced from her farm, other local farms, Moscow Food Co-Op or Frontier Co-Op. Her tea garden is expanding exponentially in 2022, and she looks forward to incorporating more herbs into her blends as the season progresses.
Alchemystic Apothecary also creates resin jewelry with elements from fruits, flowers and veggies either locally grown, ethically wildcrafted or purchased through the Moscow Food Co-Op or Rosauers, with a goal to work with farmers in 2022 to eventually utilize only locally grown plant materials for resin art. Her aim is to preserve the Palouse in wearable art for generations to come. She also offers custom memorial and intuitive pieces.
Much of the jewelry includes elements from reclaimed materials such as broken jewelry, reclaimed parts from old artwork, leather scraps salvaged from furniture stores, etc. Sustainably foraged natural elements such as moss, lichen, mushrooms, driftwood, seashells, nuts, seeds and locally grown herbs are also present. Ethically reclaimed animals such as feathers from naturally shed, legally harvested, or legally reclaimed roadkill birds, her flock of chickens and local sheep’s wool from the Palouse are also present.
The jewel beetle wings incorporated into some pieces are sourced directly from locals in Thailand that would otherwise throw the casings away. When Jessica traveled to Thailand, she learned that jewel beetles are a food source there. By utilizing their casings, she wants to help educate the Palouse to insects as a more sustainable protein source, prevent the casings from going to waste, and support the local Thai people she sources from.
Jessica also incorporates butterflies in her wearable art. The butterflies are sourced from preserves where they live out a normal lifecycle and are collected after death. The purchase of these wings also helps to support these insect preserves in their conservation efforts around the world.
The jewelry designs draw on Celtic, Norse, woodland, fae and oceanic themes and utilize natural, human and some machine-made elements. Custom pieces are available to order onsite as well as to be picked up from previous orders. Available items include but are not limited to earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, bookmarks, hair jewelry, journals, feather fans, display art, incense, herbal sachets, tea blends and more.
Jessica also tunes into the symbolism that each element represents before working the materials into a finished product. Her background as an energy practitioner, hypnotherapist, intuitive, lay herbalist and educator also influences her work. Her practice, Journey to Wholeness, is also located in Moscow, ID.