Shannon McLinden knew she had entrepreneurial and resourceful instincts from a young age. When she was 8, she said, she walked around her neighborhood selling homemade, crocheted goods.
Nearly a decade later, in college, McLinden’s running hobby caused the skin on her feet to crack. She found a solution to her problem: a foot scrub made of sea salt and rice bran oil. That product, along with three others, eventually became the basis for her business years later. In 2006, the foot scrub landed a spot on Oprah Winfrey’s “O List.”
For several years, McLinden ran her FarmHouse Fresh skin care and cosmetics company out of a house in Frisco, where she lived at the time. She has since expanded to offer more than 240 products, from lotions and face masks to body washes and fragrances, many of which are used in spas and hotels across North America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
As her business operations and ideas expanded, so did her work space. In 2014, she purchased four acres of land on county property, where zoning laws are more lenient. Her ranch sits on a pocket of unincorporated land surrounded by the city of McKinney.
