Alchemy Gardens was founded by Scott and Lindsay Courcelle in 2010. Scott and Lindsay met as environmental educators who were passionate about helping kids connect to the Earth.
Once they started gardening, they experienced a deep remembering of the skills that their ancestors had had, and felt a profound wellness in the act. Scott is a 6th generation Vermonter and his ancestors on both sides were intimately connected to the Earth and her rhythms through agriculture, running a greenhouse flower business for nearly 100 years, a dairy farm, and a Christmas tree farm, and of course growing their own food.
After apprenticing on a local farm, Scott and Lindsay decided to pursue their dream of growing food and teaching their community how to do the same. As Lindsay was drawn into her own calling of helping people heal themselves through connection to their bodies, founding her business Alchemy Myofascial Release, she stepped away from farm business.
Once they started gardening, they experienced a deep remembering of the skills that their ancestors had had, and felt a profound wellness in the act. Scott is a 6th generation Vermonter and his ancestors on both sides were intimately connected to the Earth and her rhythms through agriculture, running a greenhouse flower business for nearly 100 years, a dairy farm, and a Christmas tree farm, and of course growing their own food.
After apprenticing on a local farm, Scott and Lindsay decided to pursue their dream of growing food and teaching their community how to do the same. As Lindsay was drawn into her own calling of helping people heal themselves through connection to their bodies, founding her business Alchemy Myofascial Release, she stepped away from farm business.
For 13 years, Scott attended the Rutland Farmers Market every week, selling high quality and nutrient dense vegetables and herbs, prepared foods like sauerkraut, and beautiful flowers. Alchemy Gardens was the sole provider of plants at the Rutland Area Food Co-op for many of these years, helping gardeners get a good start in their gardens by providing the healthiest transplants possible.
Now, in 2024, Scott is committed to a new vision of helping more people grow their own food, make their own herbal medicines, and essentially heal themselves through this deep remembering of ancestral skills and connection with the Earth.
As stewards of 92 acres in Shrewsbury, Vermont, Scott and Lindsay are working to build their land into a retreat center for people to come and feel the health-radiating qualities of living through in connection to the earth and to learn all sorts of homesteading and ancestral skills, including but not limited to: gardening, growing medicinal herbs, making herbal medicines, making sourdough bread, making delicious vegetable ferments like sauerkraut and kim chi, hunting, butchering, preserving, and cooking.
OUR GUIDING VISION:
Like those of the past who worked tirelessly to transform simple elements into gold, we realized our mission is much the same. Following in the footsteps of our ancestors, we work hard and thoughtfully to transform simple elements–seeds, soil, sunlight and water–into something far greater and certainly more useful than gold.
We seek to nurture the seeds that have been passed down to us, in order to provide that which binds us all intimately with the earth, that which served as the genesis of community and culture, and which has the power to sustain life and restore our collective health–good food!