Our Story

Aniibiish began with a simple observation.

Indigenous plant knowledge, especially from Anishinaabe traditions, is rarely represented with care in modern wellness. At the same time, women’s health is often minimized or reduced to oversimplified solutions. These are not separate gaps; they reflect knowledge systems that have been consistently overlooked.

As an Anishinaabe founder working across design, research, and plant-based wellness, I was raised to understand that plants are not trends; they are teachers. Aniibiish was created to bring that understanding into everyday life in a way that is grounded, practical, and accessible.

Not through appropriation. Not through mystification. Through daily ritual.

Tea was chosen intentionally. It is simple, affordable, and familiar. It transforms plant knowledge into something tangible: warm water, leaves, time, and care. A practice people can return to consistently.

Aniibiish is a meeting place between knowledge and application. A space where traditional plant teachings can coexist with modern wellness needs, and where people can reconnect with their bodies through small, repeated practices.

Our Approach

We work with plants as food-based botanicals, rooted in traditional use and everyday application. We do not position our blends as medical treatments. Instead, we focus on supporting daily wellbeing through consistent, intentional use.

Each formulation is built to be lived with, not used occasionally. The goal is not intensity, it is continuity.

The Mother Herb Methodology

Every blend is anchored in what we call our Mother Herbs: raspberry leaf (miskomin), strawberry leaf (ode'imin), sumac (bakwana'tig), and nettle (mazaanaatig).

These plants are the foundations of our blends, grow in our ecological region, and are an essential part of Ojibwe medicinal history. Their names carry knowledge about season, place, and relationship. Using them is not only about consumption, it is about participating in land-based practice and keeping language visible.

Together, they form the foundation of our blends because they reflect how plant knowledge was traditionally lived, integrated into daily routines rather than separated into categories.

Aniibiish is not about introducing something new. It is about returning to ways of working with plants that are already deeply established.

In a wellness landscape that often prioritizes speed, trends, and extraction, we focus on relationship, repetition, and respect.

Through each blend, we aim to make ancestral knowledge practical again. Not abstract. Not performative. Simply part of everyday life.