For 50 years, Winter Sun has served the community with healing herbs and inspirational art.
For five decades, Winter Sun Trading Company has quietly anchored downtown Flagstaff as a place of healing, learning and connection. What began in 1976 as a modest trading company has grown into a nationally known destination for herbs, authentic Southwest art and ethnobotanical wisdom, while remaining deeply rooted in community.
By mid-morning on a weekday, owner Phyllis Hogan is already fully engaged, moving between jars of herbs, handcrafted jewelry and customer consultations. An herbalist and ethnobotanist, Hogan wears many hats, managing retail sales and mail orders while continuing research that takes her beyond the shop, including work with the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Business, she said, remains strong.
“We’re swamped,” Hogan said. “We are a good, healthy business…