Hello!

I am Erica Valker, the founder of Serene Farms. I founded this company based on my own personal health struggles and great success I found with medical cannabis extract oils. I wanted to share my story on how we got here, why I created this company and how I’ve developed my expertise in this space.

While living in California in 2011 I was living my dream of pursuing my career. My husband and I also started a gourmet edibles company but just as we were getting that going I had become stricken with a really bad case of late stage chronic Lyme Disease. The illness came on what seemed to be sudden and would end up disabling me and keeping bedridden for several years, nearly taking my life on multiple occasions. Over 2011-2016, I struggled with pain, seizures, heart/vascular issues, inflammation, gut issues, nausea, sleep deprivation, light sensitivity, anxiety…you name it. I was hospitalized over 40 times, was flying all over the country to find doctors that could help and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on treatment.

When pharma drugs were doing nothing to heal me and were only making me sicker, I was forced to turned to alternative forms of medicine. My husband and caretaker, Paul, was buying cannabis products from dispensaries in LA and San Francisco but they weren’t lab tested, had no dosing direction, were filled with chemicals and had other allergens that I could not handle. Safe, quality and clean products with transparency really did not exist at that time.

A doctor in San Diego then turned me on to cannabis (can’t say the real word here or Google takes down our account) tinctures and I began to self medicate by using different strains and consumption methods and varying degrees of cannabinoid ratios extract tinctures (50/50, 80/20 etc). Eventually I was able to calibrate my dosing in a way that would help me control a multitude of symptoms and ultimately stop taking most of the pharmaceuticals. I complemented this regimen with plant based essential oils and found successful ways to heal with plants, not pills. Through this journey, I become a bit of a guru on the use and benefits of medical cannabis as well as essential oils and other plant-based wellness solutions. I can’t say that the plant cured my diseases but if definitely helped me cope and heal in dramatic ways.

When I turned the corner we reached out to the manufacturer to express our gratitude for their healing products and they wanted to hear our story. We expressed our desire to give back with our own plant-based wellness platform, that company mentored and helped us create our first several products that would lead to the line we have today. We saw a huge gap in the market for premium, fully plant-based, allergen-free products and created Serene Farms in 2019. Today we create super premium hemp products using all organic ingredients, Certified Organic Hemp, advanced hemp extracts & terpenes, and rare botanicals and adaptogens for an extra kick of wellness.

We feel blessed to be able to carry out the mission to help others find wellness through plants. We are also excited to give back. With every purchase of any Oral Drops product we will donate $3 to the LymeLight Foundation of California. LymeLight’s mission is to raise awareness for Lyme disease while providing medical grants to financially strained families of children and young adults with Lyme Disease so they may receive proper treatment and medications.

We sincerely hope you enjoy our product line and it helps you find wellness. Please get in touch with us any time with questions or feedback, we look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks and God Bless,

SERENE FARMS

“Saved by Plants”