About Us
A family business built in the forest.
Alberta Wildcraft didn't begin with a business plan. It grew out of the way our family was already living: exploring the boreal forest, learning plants, harvesting resin, making things by hand and teaching our children along the way.
We're Maria & Ron.
Alberta Wildcraft is our family-run wildcrafting company here in Alberta, Canada.
We're a husband-and-wife team raising our family, homeschooling, wildcrafting and building something real from the ground up.
Our Canadian Spruce Gum, herbal products, soaps and other forest-inspired goods are made by us here in Alberta. From collecting resin in the forest to filling and labeling tins, we're directly involved in the work behind Alberta Wildcraft.
It's a little wild, occasionally messy, and very much a family operation.
We learned by doing.
We've been outdoor enthusiasts and wildcrafters for more than 15 years, beginning around 2009.
Spring and summer meant hiking trails, foraging, swimming in creeks and rivers with our children, identifying plants, collecting resin and spending countless hours outside.
Our education was largely self-taught and built from the ground up: books and research paired with years of hands-on experience in the boreal forest.
Learning the plants
Years were spent learning to identify wild plants, understanding where they grow, observing seasonal changes and becoming comfortable working directly with raw forest ingredients.
Learning the craft
Resin products, herbal infusions, salves and soaps came through research, experimentation, trial and error, and the lessons you only get from making things again and again.
The people behind the brand are also the people doing the work.
In 2021, we finally gave it a name.
For years we'd talked about starting a business together, but nothing ever felt quite right.
Then we realized something: the lifestyle was already the business.
The foraging, plant knowledge, resin harvesting, long days outside, teaching and making were already part of our lives. Alberta Wildcraft was founded in 2021 from a passion we'd already spent more than a decade living.
Growth hasn't separated us from the forest.
Today, Alberta Wildcraft products are shipped across Canada and internationally and carried by independent Canadian wellness retailers.
One of the most important parts of Alberta Wildcraft hasn't changed as we've grown: we personally harvest the resin used in our Canadian Spruce Gum.
We don't currently use outside resin harvesters. Personally harvesting our resin allows us to maintain direct knowledge of its source, species and quality from harvest through processing.
Many of the wild herbs used in our products are gathered by our family as well. Other ingredients, such as the oils used in our soaps and balms, are carefully sourced separately.
Watch our interview with Light Cellar.
Hear more about our story, how Alberta Wildcraft began, and see a demonstration of traditional resin gum.
We're not here to sell you perfection.
Life here isn't some perfectly curated back-to-the-land fantasy. We're raising kids, homeschooling, running a business and trying to keep up with everything else life throws at a family.
We wildcraft. We eat steak. And yes, sometimes we throw chicken nuggets in the oven.
Our kids know how to identify a spruce tree and how to beat a boss level in a video game. They love the forest and they love their screens.
We're okay with that balance.
We built the life we wanted our kids to grow up in.
We both came from struggle, and building Alberta Wildcraft has always been about more than creating products.
It has been part of building a different life for our family: one with creativity, independence, time outside, learning through experience and a connection to the land around us.
We're not perfect parents or perfect business owners. We've made mistakes, changed direction, learned things the hard way and grown tremendously along the way.
That's part of our story too.
Thank you for being part of this.
Alberta Wildcraft started with a love for the land, a handful of wild ideas and a desire to build something meaningful for our family.
Every step has taught us something, and we're still learning.
When you support Alberta Wildcraft, you're supporting the real family behind it — the people harvesting, making and packing the products, and carrying more than 15 years of hands-on wildcrafting experience into the work we do today.
Thank you for being here.
Founders of Alberta Wildcraft
See what we're making.
Wild-harvested ingredients, traditional forest-based products and a Canadian family behind every order.