07/30/2026
For those who are new here, hello. I’m Megan Bre Camp, founder, owner, and tallow artisan behind Summer Solace Tallow – Regenerative Tallow® Beauty.
I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, where I grew up surrounded by mountains, wilderness, and long winters that taught me resilience and self-reliance.
My father is Sedang, an Indigenous people from the Central Highlands of Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, he served as a Green Beret translator for the U.S. Army. In the 1970s, he was forced to flee his homeland without ever saying goodbye to his mother—a wound that still lives with him today. My mother is from the mountain regions of the Philippines, and her family immigrated to San Francisco in the late 1960s.
Growing up in Alaska was a gift. The pristine air, vast landscapes, and quiet solitude shaped both my work ethic and my appreciation for the natural world.
After graduating high school in 2002, I attended culinary school before moving to the Bay Area to cook in kitchens inspired by the Slow Food movement. I worked at Greens and, as a vegetarian at the time, admired restaurants like Millennium. I spent more than a decade cooking professionally, learning to value regional ingredients, seasonality, and the relationship between farmers and chefs.
Later, I traveled to Maine to homestead on a small farm. There I met young people raising livestock, shearing sheep, and living close to the land. A seed was planted.
Back in Berkeley, I became the kitchen manager at Three Stone Hearth, where I immersed myself in traditional foods, nose-to-tail cooking, fermentation, and ancestral nutrition. Around the same time, I studied horticulture and permaculture at Merritt College, raised rabbits, and found community among urban farmers.
In 2014, I wanted to help friends whose children struggled with eczema and persistent skin irritation. I knew firsthand the nourishment of pasture-raised animal fats, so I began creating the first prototypes of what would become our core collection of tallow balms.
From the very beginning, I committed to knowing every farmer behind every ingredient. Twelve years later, I still work with many of those same partners: Stemple Creek Ranch for regeneratively raised suet
