FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday May 29, 2026
Rapid City, SD – NDN Fund, an emerging national Native Community Development Financial Institution, announces a new LANDBACK loan with Miss Anne’s Maypop Herb Shop. The Herb Shop is a Lakota woman-owned and operated full-service herb shop serving New Orleans, and a previous recipient of an NDN Fund regenerative agriculture loan.
Since its founding in 2011, the Herb Shop has become a trusted community hub for nontraditional healthcare and plant-based equivalents to pharmaceutical interventions.
The Herb Shop provides the largest selection of organic, bulk herbs and herbal extracts in the Gulf South along the Medicine Trail in South Louisiana. With over 180 bulk herbs, 20+ herbal extract blends, spices, tea blends and a line of herbal oil extracts, the Herb Shop embodies what owner Anne White Hat terms “community-determined medicine”.
Beyond serving the community needs, the Herb Shop supports Indigenous healers and medicine makers in Indigenous communities across the United States. The Herb Shop gives them access to the Maypop storefront and online marketplace to sell their raw and finished goods. In fact, Miss Anne relies on these materials for her own blends and to stock the shelves. These symbiotic relationships allow a broad and growing network of Indigenous traditional land and plant stewards to build stronger businesses while protecting Mother Earth.
Miss Anne was eager to find a space for the Herb Shop to dig its own roots and create resilience for the business through land ownership. The LANDBACK loan from NDN Fund allows Anne to purchase a residential/commercial property in the historic Treme district of New Orleans, doubling the Herb Shop’s retail footprint and expanding operations in an area with greater market access.
“As an Indigenous herbalist this move represents more than just the expansion of my business. I see it as an acknowledgement and reclamation of a safe space to embrace Indigenous herbalism. So this LANDBACK purchase of the new home for the Herb Shop ultimately represents an act of personal and plant medicine sovereignty.” said Anne White Hat. “I’m realizing my dream of providing accessible and affordable herbal medicines of the highest quality to Indigenous communities everywhere, and doing this while serving the Bvlbancha/New Orleans community directly – my second home for 17 years.”
“We are proud to provide another opportunity for Miss Anne’s Maypop Herb Shop to expand and enhance its national marketplace and vital community resource for herbal remedies, traditional plant knowledge, healing, and social change. By employing an ecological and economic sustainability model that supports Indigenous producers across the United States, the Herb Shop drives equitable opportunity, cultural preservation, and environmental stewardship nationwide.” said Kim Pate, NDN Fund Managing Director.
For more information about the Herb Shop offerings and hours in its new location, contact maypopherbshop@gmail.com or visit missannesmaypopherbshop.com.