Lauren Pignatello

Lauren Pignatello is a mother of 7, traditional folk herbalist and ACS award winning cheese and yogurt maker. Lauren started studying herbs as a teen growing up in NYC. She moved to the rocky coast of Maine and grew a family as well as a family business, Swallowtail Farm, with Sean Pignatello. Lauren recently opened a farm cafe and apothecary, Milk and Honey of Swallowtail Farm in Portland, Maine, where she gives consultations and herbal classes on healing and community herbalism as well as dairy making classes.