Over 20 years ago we started growing our own herbs and a few years later we began our endeavors into “kitchen sink medicine making.” We started making our own tinctures, followed by making spagyrics, salves, balms, etc. We eventually expanded our craft to include steam distillation of hydrosols and essential oils using our small copper still. In 2016, following years of practice, trial and error, and lots of learning, Feather Catcher Apothecary was born and our small seasonal batch products became available to the community. As part of our integrity and honoring our plant relatives, for the exception our ceremonial/spiritual items, our products contain plant medicines that we grow in our herb gardens or respectfully wild harvest in small amounts from the deserts and mountains of Quita’s ancestral lands. 

About Us

Quita Ortiz

Quita is rooted in place-based knowledge and experience having grown up surrounded by the rural drylands and irrigated valleys of Nambé. She’s been on the path of plant and energy medicine for much of her life and is committed to being a lifelong student of plants. Her parents used traditional folk medicine and “food as medicine” to address illness and ailments, exposing her to herbal medicine at an early age and contributing to her early foundational reverence for plants and gardening. She attended Native Roots Ancestral, Folk, & Herbalism School and is a member of American Herbalists Guild. She takes great interest in quantum healing and how herbal healing relates – in effect – to energy healing. Quita is also a geographer by way of her NMSU degrees – so she’s the navigator, photographer, documentarian, and plant identifier when out foraging for remedios.

Cory Brown

Cory was born and raised in eastern New Mexico. He attended NMSU in Las Cruces where he received his bachelor’s degree in Education. While there, he worked at a local nursery which sparked his love for plants. He quickly became a sponge for plant knowledge. Cory is an amateur mycologist with over 20 years of experience cultivating mushrooms. He’s also an alchemist and distiller of spirits – some of our tinctures are extracted using Cory’s spirits. He’s passionate about working with fungi, magick plants, baneful herbs, and entheogens. Being an initiate of the “poison path” Cory underscores the alchemical signature of our work.

In addition to their herbalism, Cory is an educator and a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist; and Quita is a freelance marketing professional and a QHHT hypnotist intern. Their combined interests and practices include meditation, quantum healing, hypnosis, alchemy, and folk magick and curanderísmo. Both Cory and Quita are members of Oratory of Mystical Sacraments. They reside just outside the Santa Fe area in Cuyamungue, NM.