About
An office chair that learned to farm.
The Office Farmer started as a tomato on a filing cabinet and a drawing of a chair that had gotten out of hand. It is now a small seed house, a soap rack, and a catalog for people who grow things between meetings.
The story
Maren was not trying to start a farm. She was trying to make a south window less depressing. A Cherokee Purple in a cracked pot did that, then did more: fruit on a beige cabinet, seed saved in an envelope, colleagues asking for a packet of their own.
The chair in the drawing is the brand because it is the truth of the work. Typewriter, seed catalog, brass pipes, a watering can where an armrest should be, soap on a side table. Office life and garden life occupying the same piece of furniture.
We pack open-pollinated seed in small lots, make cold-process soap with a pressed leaf, and ship twice a week in kraft. Nothing here is a subscription farm in the countryside pretending to be a lifestyle brand. It is a windowsill operation that grew a catalog.
Who it’s for
Typical growers
- Desk farmers — a laptop, a south window, and the desire to cut basil without driving to a shop.
- New homesteaders — people who want a serious seed list, not fifty tomatoes and a coupon.
- Gift people — soap, a vial, a printed catalog. Things that feel like a place.
- Gardeners already — who still like a well-made can and a variety that behaves in a pot.
Small lots
Packed by hand on Mondays and Thursdays
Open-pollinated
Seed you can save if the plant is happy
No plastic
Kraft, glass, and a copper can that lasts