“I’ve been travelling for four weeks, and this is the first time I’ve gotten back home for any real length of time,” Katrina Markoff, founder and ceo of Vosges Haut-Chocolat, tells me. And where has she been, I ask?
“I just came back from Kauai in Hawaii, visiting an herbal farm, which grows medicinal herbs such as turmeric, ginger, tulsi,” she replies excitedly, albeit in a still jet-lagged cadence. The Kauai Farmacy, founded in 2010, focuses on growing medicinal plants, using only composted manure and planting multiple species in a “symbiotic” manner, Markoff explains.