A bit about Wild Dispensary
Wild Dispensary is a Dunedin based company passionate about making herbal remedies and formulations using wild and New Zealand native herbs. All of our products are 100% natural, herbalist formulated and small batch made right here in Dunedin.
We harvest almost all our plants and herbs in Otago, from the foothills of the Southern Alps to the dry mountains of Central Otago. We are passionate about making herbal remedies that support people's health.
A bit about us
We are just like you. We have families, we work, we enjoy life. We want to you to know how to help the most important people in your life.
But most importantly we are people that want to share what is awesome about what we know. Plants.
We are so lucky to be surrounded by our own wild dispensary. The co –founders of Wild Dispensary are a passionate bunch from Dunedin, who love being amongst New Zealand’s outdoors, from the coast to the mountains and all the wild spaces in-between.
A dispensary is a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines, and we only have to look in the wild places around us to find medicinal plants and herbs. From the mountains in Central Otago to the plants in our backyard.
Co-founder Ruth Vaughan is passionate about sustainable business with a background in native plants and Environmental Science. Ruth looks after the operations, sales and the administration side of running Wild Dispensary. You will see her running the Market stalls most Saturdays.
Skye Macfarlane is our Naturopath and Medical herbalist. She has worked in Health education for the last six years and continues her own practice. She is our chief formulator and educator. She also grows organic medical herbs and greens with her Husband Jed, on their block of land - Mihiwaka Vern Paddock.
Co- founder Gerald Davies comes from a diverse background from chefing, to landscaping and now business management and consulting. The three of us get around the table together and ensure that our small business is growing to be the best it can be for you- our customers.
We think things are better in a team and love working together.
We are Dunedin proud and being in Dunedin gives us such great access to the amazing plants we use in our awesome formulas. Yes we wild craft our ingredients, but we do so sustainably.
Our Products
Our products are formulated by a medical herbalist, but designed for you and your family. Compliance, safety, and efficacy is the utmost importance to us.
The core of who we are at Wild Dispensary is about sourcing high quality, potent ingredients to create the best products we can. Our ingredients are carefully selected and sustainably harvested, and vertified organic and locally grown where feasible.
Our Culture
Beyond producing high quality, potent and pure herbal medicine and formulations, our core values as a business are to genuinely commit to having a sustainable business ethos. This includes factoring in social and environmental factors into the way we do things.
From being a living wage employer, to initiating a bottle re-use scheme, to carrying out waste audits after production, working around the young people in our families and supporting a great local charity- The Dunedin Wildlife Hospital.
