Sage and Plow is a family-owned business comprising, now, three generations. The business, the vision, and the family continue to grow. Sage and Plow represents the next phase of growth for a business long known as Alpine Food Storage. Alpine Food Storage was established by Chirine Wadsworth, a homeschooling mom, in 2001 as a group-buying opportunity for friends, neighbors, and other like-minded folks..

While Chirine didn’t intentionally set out to create a business, she soon found her group of patrons expanding in every direction. She enjoyed the interaction with these new friends; and she saw an opportunity for her children to learn work skills, communication skills, math skills, language skills, health and wellness skills, and more. Alpine Food Storage would give her children the opportunity to apply their textbook lessons to real-life situations on a daily basis.

For twenty years Alpine Food Storage was connoted with Chirine and her children. People from all parts of the nation, and even beyond the nation’s borders, have engaged with Chirine to establish their own food storage, to learn to bake sourdough break, to learn the benefits of this herb or that oil, or simply to talk about raising children or taking care of elderly parents. The spectrum is broad—too broad for what was Alpine Food Storage.

Sage and Plow takes everything that was part of Alpine Food Storage and expands it to include whatever can help people become more self-reliant, more independent, more healthy, and more productive citizens and neighbors—with greater skills and opportunities to both learn and share.

Chirine still engages daily with friends and customers, albeit in a much larger facility. She’s joined by her husband, David, their skilled children, and now a growing number of eager grandchildren.