When Animals Run the Business

FarmHouse Fresh makes organic, homegrown botanical skin care products. But at HQ, the team takes self-care to a whole new level.

- By Liz Brody. Photographs by Peyton Fulford

Look up from your office desk, and there's a lamb gamboling by in a diaper ... Uh, are you dreaming? Not if you're working at FarmHouse Fresh. The multinational botanical skin-care company, which launched 17 years ago from Shannon McLinden's kitchen sink (where she made its first foot scrub), did $40 million in retail sales last year with products in thousands of spas, salons, and resort hotels. But the staff is equally inspired by “colleagues” like Flower (that's the lamb's name), whom employees have been bottle-feeding after his mother rejected him.