We are based in Central Scotland, our community work takes part in the Greater Glasgow area, Stirling, rural Stirlingshire and its surrounds. 

 

Our aim is to make herbal remedies accessible to everyone.  As such we run workshops on a pay-from-the-heart system, community apothecaries where people can access simple remedies for free or by donation, solidarity medicine making, HerbCare events at Christmas mainly aimed at the refugee population, workshops for asylum seekers and refugees and community herb and herbal first aid gardens.  We believe that creating herbal gardens in communities will benefit the community, the climate, and is an integral part of community resilience programmes.  At a time when we are being told by the NHS to avoid accessing their services for minor illnesses, people need to relearn the skills our ancestors had in order to be able to do this.  Our aim is thus to empower people.  Participants at our workshops make remedies for themselves and their community in the form of the community apothecary and solidarity medicine making sessions thus giving them a sense of worth, confidence, achievement and agency, and helping to build social connections, and reducing isolation.  We also aim to change people's connection with the land, knowing that simply being in the herbal garden surrounded by the plants will have a positive effect on mental health, and can provide a moment of calm and reflection in a stressful world.

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Vision
Social Justice, Herbs, Movement, Environmental Protection, and Wellbeing education for all. 

Mission

• Healthier Society

• Empowered Communities

• Improving physical and mental wellbeing

• Encouraging people to move well with mindfulness

• Preventative care

• Developing community

• Encouraging nature connection

• Developing nature stewardship

• Climate preparedness 

• Bringing herbal remedies back into the hands of the people

• Radical community herbalism

• Humanising refugees and global struggles

Values

• Inclusive

• Sustainable

• Empowering

• Supportive

• Learning

• Engaging

• Solidarity

• Mutual aid

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