Starting Herbswest

We had our beginnings in 1992, opening a natural foods buying club for whole organic bulk foods known as "Magpie Natural Foods" which is located in the heart of downtown Prescott, Arizona.
As a small independent store we saw the growing health foods boom spreading and bringing in big stores. Others were providing health foods in a bigger and better way, so we "reinvented" ourselves continuing the buying club but emphasizing the herb store and Traditional Chinese Medicine Patents. To reach out to more people with our services we opened our website naming it "Herbswest". We liked the name because we are delivering to western people, eastern medicinal herbs.

About Margaret Mendoza

I have been interested in health foods since I was a young mother.  I practiced holistic medicine for myself and my family.  In 1985, while raising my family I worked for a health food store (the historic "Super Carrot") in Prescott, Arizona, where I handled the herb department, helped in the organic cafe' and got to know the natural foods movement and business as a basis for the future.  In 1991 I began a class in T'ai Chi Chuan where I met my future business partner Patricia Pierson. In 1992 we decided to open a buying club for natural foods, by 1994 we opened our storefront. In 1995 collaborating with my T'ai Chi Chuan teacher Sifu David Champ, who was also a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner I began selling the Traditional Chinese patent formulas. He was my guide and inspiration to start bringing these formulas into our small business.
Pat retired from the business in 2007. I have continued on working and exploring ways to best serve the ever changing community in Prescott.

With this fresh perspective, I decided to change the name of my store, and my eldest daughter Rebecca has become part of the business.

About One Root Tea & Herbothecary

Today we are known as "One Root Tea & Herbothecary". We have matured into a specialty store emphasizing personal service and our years of experience. Our growing focus is on the world of tea and on cutting edge healing herbs, tonics and TCM patent formulas.

About About Traditional Chinese Medicine Patents

Over the years we have witnessed many positive results that Traditional Chinese Medicine has provided for our customers, prompting the expansion of our inventory into one of the largest retailer of patented Traditional Chinese formulas in Northern Arizona.

We are committed to offering these Traditional Chinese products and other hand picked herbal formulas and supplements through the extension of this web site HerbsWest.