Herb Stripper
Five Oaks Farm Handmade Wooden Herb Stripper
Walnut, Maple + Cherry Hardwoods | Food-Safe Wood Butter Finish | 8"x2"
The tool that makes fresh herbs effortless — made by hand, built to last a lifetime.
Stripping herbs from their stems is one of those small kitchen tasks that happens constantly and takes longer than it should. Rosemary pulled needle by needle. Thyme worked off the stem with a fingernail. Oregano leaves pinched free one at a time before anything can actually be cooked. The Five Oaks Farm Herb Stripper resolves the whole task in a single motion — pull the stem through the graduated hole that fits it, and the leaves strip cleanly in seconds. What was a minute of prep becomes a moment.
The tool that does that work is made from sustainably sourced hardwood — walnut, maple, or cherry — cut, sanded, and finished by hand in the woodshop on the Five Oaks Farm property in Hazel Green, Alabama. Mark Nymeyer, who has been working with wood for over forty years, makes each one individually, which means the grain pattern, the weight, and the character of every stripper is slightly different from every other. The graduated holes handle the full range of herb stems — the slender delicacy of thyme on one end, the sturdier stems of rosemary, kale, and oregano on the other — without switching tools or adjusting technique.
The finish is Five Oaks Farm's own Wood Butter — a blend of beeswax and coconut oil that seals the wood, protects it from moisture, and leaves a silky surface that feels exactly right in the hand. Food-safe, natural, and the same finish used across the farm's full lineup of wooden kitchen tools. At 8"x2", it stores in a drawer, hangs on a hook, or sits on the counter as the kind of object that earns its place by being both beautiful and genuinely useful.
Product details:
- Dimensions: 8"x2"
- Sustainably sourced hardwood — walnut, maple, or cherry
- Graduated holes — fits the full range of herb stems from thyme to rosemary to kale
- Finished with Five Oaks Farm Wood Butter — beeswax and coconut oil blend, food-safe
- Each piece is unique — grain patterns and character vary naturally
- Handcrafted in the woodshop on the Five Oaks Farm property in Hazel Green, Alabama
Why we love it:
- Strips herbs from stems in a single motion — rosemary, thyme, oregano, and kale in seconds rather than minutes
- Graduated holes fit the full range of herb stems without switching tools or adjusting technique
- Sustainably sourced hardwood — walnut, maple, or cherry, each with its own grain and character
- Five Oaks Farm Wood Butter finish is food-safe, natural, and leaves a silky surface that improves with use
- Every piece is genuinely unique — the grain, the weight, and the character vary naturally from one to the next
- Handcrafted by hand in a woodshop that has been producing quality work for over forty years
- Made on the farm, by the family, with the same intention that runs through every Five Oaks Farm product
- Built to last a lifetime of daily use — the kind of tool that gets handed down rather than replaced
- The gift for the home cook, the herb gardener, or anyone who appreciates a tool made with real craft
Native Manor Note: Most kitchen gadgets are made to a price point and replaced when they stop working — which, for the category this tool sits in, is usually sooner than it should be. The Five Oaks Farm Herb Stripper is built from the opposite premise: sustainably sourced hardwood, finished with beeswax and coconut oil, made by hand in a family woodshop by someone who has been doing this for four decades. The result is a tool that strips herbs faster than any other method, feels like something worth keeping, and looks like it belongs in a kitchen that takes its tools seriously. Handcrafted with care. Designed to last. Made by Five Oaks Farm's Dad — and it shows.