You’ve grown something real. Now it needs to hold its value beyond the field.

This is a focused working session for farmers, growers, and small producers who want to translate what they’ve cultivated into products people understand, trust, and choose—on a shelf, at a market, or online.

Led by Silverbrook Manor's Mindy Yang, this session draws on years of experience designing products, packaging, and sensory systems for global brands, hospitality groups, and emerging producers.

What We Cover

• How to position your product so it reads clearly (and sells)

• Packaging that protects, preserves, and elevates—not overcomplicates.

• Label language: what to say, what to avoid, what actually matters.

• Pricing architecture that reflects your work and your market.

• Turning raw ingredients into cohesive, desirable product lines.

• Avoiding common mistakes that quietly kill good products.

Format: 

A small-group workshop or 1:1 working session. Bring your product, your questions, your half-formed ideas—we’ll shape them in real time. You’ll leave with a clear direction, practical next steps, and a sharper point of view on how your product lives in the world.

Who It’s For:

Farmers, growers, and makers who are ready to move beyond “just selling” and into building something intentional.

Alternate format options are available:

• Group Workshop (at Silverbrook Manor): Seasonal sessions, limited seats

• Private Intensive: 90-minute deep dive tailored to your product

• Zoom Workshop: Monthly session, limited seats

• On-Farm Advisory: By request, for more complex product lines.

Subscribe below to join future sessions or email us to book a private session.

20% off for farm club members with code.

There’s a brief moment in spring when the land offers itself freely—wild, vibrant, and gone before you know it.

At Silverbrook Manor, we step into that window together.

We’ll walk the land and learn to recognize what’s rising now—wild onions, garlic, and tender nettles—plants that have fed people quietly for generations. You’ll harvest your own bundle, guided by season, intuition, and respect for the land.

We return for light refreshments and a shared recipe exchange—simple, social, and designed to carry the experience forward into your own kitchen.

What You’ll Experience

• Guided forage + plant identification

• Hands-on gathering (your take-home bundle)

• Light seasonal refreshments

• A collaborative recipe swap (compiled and shared after)

  Duration: ~2–3 hours

  Capacity: 15 guests max

  What to bring: Comfortable shoes, a basket (optional), bug repellent, and a recipe if you’d like to share

• 10% off for Farm Club members with code

  Farm Club Members: Complimentary self-guided foraging access during designated windows is always welcome.

A walk through Silverbrook’s aromatic fields becomes a botanical study you can hold.

Harvest & Blend is a small agricultural workshop exploring how aromatic plants grown at Silverbrook Manor can inspire and inform fragrance development.

Led by Silverbrook’s Proprietress and sensory designer Mindy Yang, guests begin with a guided crop walk through the farm’s managed meadows, gardens and growing areas. Along the way, participants will observe seasonal herbs and flowers, examine their aromatic qualities and learn how growing conditions, harvest timing and preservation influence scent.

Selected Silverbrook botanicals will be responsibly harvested for evaluation. The group will then move into the farm’s botanical product-development workspace, where Mindy will demonstrate how the aroma of a crop is documented and translated into a fragrance concept.

Using Silverbrook-grown botanicals as the creative and sensory foundation, each participant will compose a small aromatic study to take home. Seasonal botanical bundles and other Silverbrook farm products will also be available for purchase.

Featured plants and materials will vary with the farm’s harvest.

This agricultural program is hosted to demonstrate, promote and support the development of aromatic crops grown at Silverbrook Manor.