Resources
Under capitalism, we are taught to expect scarcity and to hoard resources. I believe, instead, that abundance and interdependence are central to collective liberation. I am grateful to many healers, herbalists, midwives, organizers, teachers, and writers who have shaped me and rooted me in a web of practitioners. Here is a list of practitioners and organizations in that web that are doing vital work for collective healing, and whose work I want to lift up. This list is always growing and changing, as are each of us, so keep checking back.
I hope you find the practitioner or healer who is right for you, when they are right for you.
Herbalists
Cate Alber / Home Body Herbs / New Orleans
Mary Blue / Farmacy Herbs / Providence
Mandana Boushee / Wild Gather / Hudson Valley
Ricky Bratz / Cazimi Healing / Durham
Amanda David / The People’s Medicine School / Rootwork Herbals
Berenice Dimas / Hood Herbalism
Janet Kent & Dave Meester / Terra Sylva School / Radical Vitalism
Atava Garcia Swiecicki / Ancestral Apothecary / Oakland
Lauren Giambrone / Good Fight Herb Co
Kelly McCarthy / Attic Apothecary / Philadelphia
Finn Oakes / Steadfast Herbs
Elokin Orton-Cheung / Shooting Star Botanicals
Jennifer Patterson / Corpus Ritual
Karen Rose / Sacred Vibes Apothecary
Karyn Sanders / Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine
Toi Scott / Herbal Freedom School
Jen Stoval / Maypop Community Herb Shop / New Orleans
Adaku Utah / Harriet's Apothecary
Practitioners of Other modalities
Marikah Heinrichs / Somatics
Sara Yassky / Somatics +Therapy + Bodywork / Philadelphia
Dori Midnight / Community Based Intuitive Healing / Western Mass
Corina Dross / Flax + Gold Astrology / Philadelphia
Allison Harris / Astrology / Philadelphia
PLACES TO SOURCE HERBS
Foster Farm Botanicals / fresh and dry herbs
Zach Woods Farm / dry herbs
Tooth of the Lion Farm
True Love Seeds
Barefoot Botanicals
Pacific Botanicals
Here’s a list of small growers selling bulk herbs / Geraldine Lavin
Many Graces Flower Farm / for beauty
Healing Spaces & Social Justice organizations
Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism / Vermont
Third Root Community Health Center / Brooklyn
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
Highlander Research and Education Center
Harriet’s Apothecary
Black Women Birthing Justice
Yellow Hammer Fund
Susu CommUNITY Farm / Southern Vermont
White Noise Collective
Other resources I love
adrienne maree brown / emergent strategy + pleasure activism
Susan Raffo / culture work + writing
Mia Mingus / Leaving Evidence / accountability + transformative justice
Fireweed Collective / mental health education + mutual aid
China Tolliver / Rise Up Midwife
Pandemic Pregnancy Guide / CA midwives guide to Covid-19
Evidence Based Birth / pregnancy, birth, postpartum with evidence
The Poetry Project / NY poetry events and classes
The Body Is Not An Apology / radical self love
*this is an ever-growing list * please reach out to be added or with suggestions *