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Newsletters from our HWBEugene mailing list.

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October Update

We were busy in late Summer!

Share Fair, a monthly community resource event in Eugene, finally reset after a long pandemic ‘holiday’ and we were there with our herb care station August 21, 2-6pm at Monroe Park.

Share Fair

In August we served up some respiratory remedies at the Mountain Rose Herbs Annex on the 28th. Fire season is no joke, and HWBEugene herbal team was there to roll out some herbal remedies for respiratory relief. We shared some recipes & formulas, and went over plant possibilities and their constituents regarding seasonal lung complaints throughout the year.  Participants were able to sample remedies and take home their own sample with recipe instructions. 

In September, we held a Soothe Your Nerves event, which taught attendees how nervines work, which herbal allies to call upon when the need strikes, and how to make a handy herbal preparation to add to their herbal wellness kit.

Stay tuned for updates about our Harvest and Holiday time fire cider / elderberry tincture classes in the upcoming months as we approach the end of the year!

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June 2022 Update

Hi there!

An update about the garden project at the Skinner Community Garden (which doesn’t have a clever name yet, but wants one):

A picture of grass and soil.
First dig
A garden plot covered in leaves for winter
Wintered over 2022
a volunteer digging into a large pile of soil with a shovel
Volunteers rock!
a fresh garden plot with a pattern of rocks in a spiral
Ready for planting
A volunteer sitting on the ground with soil in their hands.
Olivia diggin’ deep
two garden plots, one with weeds removed and one without
Weeded & not weeded
a garden plot with plants growing in it
Progress!

Project Garden is in development. We’ve got 4 squares – 2 medicinal plots, 1 salsa plot and 1 children’s plot. Programming, signage & events are pending. Stay tuned for updates! Want to help? email hwbeugene@gmail.com

The rose workshop at Mountain Rose Herbs Annex raised money, made medicine for the Uvalde grief relief project and made new friends!  

A jar of Rose elixir sitting on a table
Rose Elixir
A group of people sitting around a table. Tree is sitting in center frame
Workshopping

Next workshop is all about yarrow Sunday, June 26, 1-3pm. We’ll discuss uses, lore and demonstrate the stovetop method for making hydrosols.

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Elderberry Season

Why be out there with your leaf blower when you could be harvesting elderberries and making immune support deliciousness for young and old alike. Tincture, syrup, gummies, oxymel are right at your fingertips — or you could just donate them to us and we’ll make good and righteous use of them for the community!

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July Meet Up and June gratitude

It’s time.

This long long pandemic year is finally easing up a bit for some of us and we have much to be grateful for.

Our regularly scheduled meeting will happen 2 days earlier than usual on Saturday, July 3 at TreeStead in Eugene OR due to complicated summer schedules. We have new volunteers to meet, new/old business to acknowledge, new business to shine light on and old business to put to bed. Whew! Somebody better bring the chocolate. If we’re really organized, we might be able to spark up the new still for a lemon balm distillation event!

Sue and Jet with our Vax Pax care packages

Taking Stock…

Winter’s pandemic collaboration with Huerto de la Familia has provided wellness care to the Latinx community and made some new friends.

After care “Vax Pax” are a big hit at the BIPOC vaccination clinics and we’re asked to make some more through June & July. Contact hwbeugene@gmail.com to get in on this team. We welcome makers and assemblers however, at this point, packet contents are ‘standardized’ and product recipes need to follow our bilingual label ingredients.

We’re headed to the Share Fair on June 29 for the inaugural re-set of specified community care. Stay tuned for developments.

HWBEugene bilingual learning garden project is in development in partnership with Huerto de la Familia.

Great goodness thanks to our donors for contributing to these projects:

• Rambling Rose Herb Farm for all the TLC that goes into all those lovely herbals, the on site hospitality and those prolific hens!

• Wise Woman Herbals

• Gatlin for her undying confidence in us and her visionary seed planting.

• Mountain Rose Herbs

• Learning Herbs

• Herbalista

• The Botanical Bus

• Long’s Meat Market for the generous poundage of lamb bones to make bone broth for our family folks who fall ill with covid19, or who valiantly suffer cancer, or who just need some high powered nutrition.

• Sasha at Dr. Price’s Vitamins for the electrolyte packets!

• King Medical Supplies for the discount on bulk pricing for thermometers.

• The Vitamin C donation that Sue scrounged up but is determined to remain nameless.

• WildRose lip balms in a multitude of flavors.

• Face masks shipped in from one of Jet’s fans.

• The incredible discount at the office supply store that also magically feeds the PTO when we scan that little discount card.

• The cardboard, soil and leaf mulch that covered our garden plot for a soil building year while the learning garden project germinates.

• Our benevolent tech goddess, Ashley, who can snap it all together in this lifetime instead of me trying to do it before my afterlife.

…and all the other unnamed souls who cheer us on and bring us things and share their wisdom… and all the hours of good natured volunteerism that makes all these projects happen!

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