About Us

Samad Gardens Initiative LLC is an herb farm and education initiative which offers locally grown and garbled herbal teas, seasonings and spices, and hands-on educational experiences. Since its inception, Samad has been grounded in the values of self-sufficiency through total dependence on the Earth, and our Creator to suffice all our needs. This is the meaning of “As-Samad”, one of the 99 names of Allah (God) in the Islamic faith. Farming is a faith journey, manifested in the physical activity of cultivating the Earth to produce substance to suffice our every need. Our mission, inspired by this principle, is to help raise a new generation of independent farmers, arming them with skillsets, mindset, resources, and ecosystem of partners needed to be successful.

Our educational offerings include an incubator farm and apprenticeship program at Auerfarm, ongoing classes on gardening, foraging, seed saving, self-sufficiency, regenerative growing techniques, and more. In the past years we have been grateful to partner with aligned and impactful community partners such as the Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust, New CT Farmer’s Alliance, UCONN's Solid Ground Farmer Training Program, CT NOFA, NOFA Mass, CT Resource Conservation and Development, Keney Park Sustainability Project (Hartford), Cityseed (New Haven), Green Village Initiative (Bridgeport), and more.

In addition to education, Samad's farm production provides medicinal herbs and fresh, organic produce to our preferred partners including Mercado Popular, Distinctive Ideas, Lucky Gut Collective, Cityseed, Holcomb Farm, and many more.

These herbal offerings include wellness tea blends for stress relief, digestive support, respiratory support, and heavily feature tulsi (holy basil), mullein leaf, milky oats, korean mint, peppermint, mugwort, dandelion, red clover and many more nourishing and delicious herbs. Each blend invites the consumer into a closer relationship with nature as the source of all healing and grounding. All herbs in your Samad products are either grown directly on our farm, or sourced from trusted, quality local farm partners. We sell our herbal teas, spices, and seasonal produce at various markets throughout the state including the Ellington Farmers Market, Coventry Farmer’s Market, Windsor Farmer’s Market, and Blue Back Farmer’s Market.

Samad Gardens Initiative has a new webstore featuring all our seasonal tea blends and herbs for women’s health, cold, flu & allergy support, stress relief, respiratory health, and more. Shop with us!