Goddess Ghee is a Mama owned & women run small business in the heart of Appalachia. We believe in a business model that highlights our individual gifts, creates space for rest, & inspires self-driven motivation. We know what a difference it makes to feel valued, loved, & respected & we hope the joy of our team makes it into every bite of ghee.

Marion Hearth

Marion Hearth birthed Goddess Ghee in 2015 after asking herself the question, “What am I already doing/creating that I can make more of to share more gifts with my community?”. Ghee was the obvious answer. Marion had been making ghee each moon cycle since the birth of her first baby just two years earlier and ghee was the one staple in her kitchen that she didn’t let run dry. Marion began slowly, selling at farmer’s markets with a baby wrapped on her and a toddler running around - not imagining that Goddess Ghee would outgrow her in the ways She has. Marion is passionate about being an integral piece of Earth, food as medicine, resilient & sovereign living, primal motherhood, the arts, ritual, magic, and mysticism. Devoted to sharing this medicine and holding a vision of supporting a beautiful and simple way of life, Marion hopes that this medicine nourishes everyone it touches.

Our Team

  • True (Lydia) Senghas

    OFFICE GODDESS

    True is the goddess in the office; she answers the emails, connects with our wholesale distributors, lovingly puts a label on each jar, and packages up online orders with joy and care. True discovered Goddess Ghee at a farmer’s market in 2015, and was ecstatic to find a locally sourced and high quality cooking oil option. Upon learning it was a women owned and run business, and that employees were encouraged to take time off on the first days of their monthly cycle, she thought to herself, “this would be a wonderful company to work for…” Life ebbed and flowed and in 2021 she was living off grid in a bell tent, learning the simple ways of living in the forest. Feeling a desire to reconnect to community and shake up her slow and remote lifestyle, she decided to look for a part time gig. The stars aligned and she began selling Goddess Ghee at the market every Saturday, and then transitioned into the office position later that year. As an aspiring mother and lover of holistic health, she feels so nourished in this role. Providing the service of getting the ghee to the people feeds her soul. True’s passions are multifaceted; in addition to high energy food, wellbeing, and nature-connected living, she also loves dance, poetry, myth, crafting, cultural immersion, and ceremony.

  • Julia Loretta Romero

    KITCHEN GODDESS

    Julia works in the quaint, rural ghee kitchen, with the river running by and natural light pouring in.

    She absolutely loves every step of the process making Goddess Ghee products. Tending to the ghee as it clarifies and caramelizes, seeing the light shine through the golden liquid as it’s poured into jars and the color change as it cures feels like a magical transformation every time.

    The combinations of colors and scents as herbs, spices and flowers for the ghee blends are measured out and mixed is a sensory wonder and work of art. She often takes photos and video clips of the making process for social media, to capture and share the beauty she experiences. She feels truly blessed to be part of such a wonderful team.

    When not in the kitchen, Julia spends her time in nature and her home studio, recording layers of harmonies and working on oil paintings. You can find her work here.

  • Bailey McAvenia

    KITCHEN GODDESS + FARMERS MARKETS

    Bailey works alongside Julia in the beautiful mountain kitchen pouring love and intention into every batch of Goddess Ghee. She also has the privilege of selling ghee to locals and travelers at the farmers market. To be able to connect with the people and hear their relationship to the ghee, food, healing and life is the one of the greatest joys of working for Goddess Ghee. Making the ghee in itself is such a beautiful transformational process and she cherishes every day she spends in the kitchen.

    Bailey's greatest passion is cooking locally sourced soul nourishing food. She has been professionally cooking for many years and currently spends time crafting healing meals at an Ayurvedic retreat center in the mountains of Asheville. She loves spending time outside on the Earth in prayer and living her life as intentionally and joyfully as possible. Divine magic brought her here, so to share time and energy with the Goddess's at Goddess Ghee is such a potent blessing.