Shop Hours

We hope you’ll visit us in person to talk to a real herbalist, smell the herbs, sample a fragrant aromatherapy oil, or just to walk through our  gardens. Whatever, the reason, we'll be happy to see you.

Closed Christmas, New Year’s, Easter, July 4th & Thanksgiving 

By automobile:

From Capital Beltway( Rt.495), take exit 25B-A onto Baltimore Avenue south toward College Park  and travel 1.3 miles. There is a traffic light and a 7-11 store at the Berwyn Road intersection. Turn left on Berwyn Road and go 0.2 miles (just past the first stop sign). You will see the sign for Smile Herb Shop on the left hand side. Parking lot is in front of the store or you may park in the Catholic church parking lot directly across the street.

• Use Metrorail to reach the College Park Metro Station, the next to last station stop on the Green line in the direction of Greenbelt.
  
• Inside the station, use the North exit (veering left after the turnstile) to reach street level.  Turn right to reach the bus depot.
  
• Look for the Metrobus sign for bus 86, in the direction of Calverton, or 83 in the direction of Cherry Hill Park.   Bus fare is $1.25 or $.35 with a transfer slip from your home Metrorail station.  (Alternately, The Bus may be used—look for bus 17 in the direction of IKEA; the fare is $.75 but buses are less frequent.)
• On the bus, your stop will be Route One and Berwyn Road.  After the bus turns right on Route One North, look for the third metrobus sign or pull the cord when the Best Western is in sight. 
  
• Walk down Berwyn Road past the second stop sign, you will see Smile on the left!
• For more information and door-to-door directions, visit the Washington Metro website at http://www.wmata.com/.

• Follow Metro directions above, but instead of turning right towards the bus depots, head left toward the traffic light at River Road.
  
• Turn left on Paint Branch Road.  Cycling on Paint Branch Road is hazardous, so you may want to bike on the sidewalk (it is relatively wide—pedestrian traffic is not a problem).
  
• If you bike on the sidewalk, you will need to cross Paint Branch when you come to the cross walk about ¼ mile before Route One.
• Crossing here (there is a pedestrian walkway sign), turn right to follow the bike trail away from the road, heading north.
  
• Continue on this trail through a residential area, past Lakeland Road, into another wooded area until, after a playground and schoolyard on the left, you reach a stop sign at Berwyn Road.
• Smile is just to your left, up the street and on your right!

• All returns must be made within 90 days of purchase.
  
  
• All returns should have an itemized receipt. If the customer does not have the receipt but the product has a Smile SKU sticker attached, a gift certificate will be issued for the amount of the return.
  
  
• If the product was purchased with a credit card, the customer will receive a credit card credit, not cash back.
  
  
• No returns will be accepted on open tapes or CD’s. If the tape or CD is defective, the customer may exchange it for the same title.
  
  
• All sale items (marked with a red /blue dot) are final.

Smile Herb Shop is owned by Tom and Linda Wolfe. They have worked side by side throughout the last thirty years. Both are active in the business on a daily basis and manage different aspects of work.

In their personal lives, they are parents to two sons, Jason and Brennan. Both are active members of Adelphi Friends Meeting.

Tom Wolfe was on the sales floor from 1975 until 1996 and is going back to managing the on the floor selling, staff, and operations of the store beginning January 1st, 2006.

Outside of Smile herb Shop/Smileherb.com, Tom is one of 127 professional members of the American Herbalists Guild, the primary organization representing clinical herbalism in the USA.

 Tom was principal investigator for a grant team composed of  James A Duke (ethnobotanist),  Leonard Wisneski (endocrinologist), Narayan Patel (biochemist), David Hoffmann (Medical herbalist from Wales), and Paul Petit (third generation Medical herbalist from France).

This team studied the use of herbal medicine in the treatment of high blood pressure. Tom presented the results of this research to the 27th annual symposium of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in Atlanta in May, 1994 as the paper:  “The Use of Allium and Crataegus in the Treatment of Stage One Essential Hypertension” 

Tom has served as the herbal columnist for Pathways magazine, for the past 23 years.

Tom was a founding stockholder in Integrative Medicine Communications, which was responsible for the publication of the Commission E Monographs, the primary textbook for German physicians studying herbal medicine.

Tom’s main study currently centers in Ayurveda, the traditional herbalism of the Indian subcontinent. He is particularly interested in parallels of physiology, spirituality and herbal use found to be consistent in the three elements of herbal medicine in Ayurveda (the herbal medicine of India) and the five elements of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine.

Tom has been teaching herbal medicine at Georgetown medical school since 2001

Tom also serves as treasurer for the board of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan DC, the boards of the William Penn House, and Washington Quaker Workcamps, as well as being a consultant to the board of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Tom chairs the annual fundraising drive and major donor campaign for all four organizations.   

Linda Wolfe has been the active co-owner of Smile Herb Shop since 1975. She came to Smile after working in the natural foods restaurant business. First, as a manager of an after theatre dinner club in Stratford, Ontario, she was introduced to the culinary benefits of herbs & spices. Later, as an owner of the local Berwyn Café, she moved into management of staff & procurement.

After selling her restaurant interests, she began to work at a then very small Smile Herb Shop.

At Smile, she worked side by side with Tom in the expansion of Smile’s offerings. A very small store selling only herbs did not provide a large enough customer base to survive so it was imperative to expand Smile’s offerings. Linda developed the natural body care, aromatherapy, books & gifts categories that now contribute to seasonal sales particularly. Currently, she manages all procurement & inventory control, web site development, store display & runs the monthly staff meetings.

As the marketplace climate changed, she went actively into learning the world of e-commerce as it works for “bricks & clicks” retailers.

She worked over the course of two years to build www.smileherb.com with the help of a web developer. She found her earlier background in fine arts & design served her well in this process. The success of this small, simpler site proved the catalyst for a full- scale foray into a more advanced e-commerce site. For the last year and a half the bulk of her time has been spent in the creation of this a new, much improved smileherb.com.

Her personal areas of interest include women’s spirituality, aromatherapy, painting and gardening.

Read the fascinating history surrounding Smile Herb and see more of its College Park, Maryland interiors.