Get dirty every Wednesday from 4:30 – 5:30 in our bilingual learning patch. Weeding, watering, planting and growing community is what we’re up to, and you can too!
2024, gratitude & opportunity
In 2023 we popped up at Share Fair and nurtured our bilingual learning program at Skinner City Community Garden. Mountain Rose Herbs continued hosting our workshops at their Mercantile annex and the Free Herbalism Project. We provided wellness supplies to folks with covid as we have done throughout the pandemic, partnered with Huerto de la Familia miembros to make fire cider at the Churchill garden and, thanks to Michael Blair at the Human Path, sponsored one person to attend a beginning herbalism course delivered in Spanish. We survived the speed bumps of health issues thanks to community support and awesome volunteer dedication!
This year we’re working to expand our relationships with underserved folks, nurture the garden project and add free mobile clinic to our offerings. Stay tuned for ways you can participate – or maybe you have something to offer that we need to hear about?
To those who reached out and waited patiently during our longish response time, our sincere apologies. To those who persisted and those who continued generous support of our various projects, we are humbled and grateful for your enduring generosity.
We look forward to another year of health, collaboration and opportunities to serve our community.
A thousand thanks!
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.
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!
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):
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!
Next workshop is all about yarrow Sunday, June 26, 1-3pm. We’ll discuss uses, lore and demonstrate the stovetop method for making hydrosols.
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!
August Update
Thank you to the good folks of the Asian Celebration for inviting us to participate. We made some great new friends!
Tree looking lively behind the desk. 
Meeting new friends. 
We always have a wealth of information on hand.
Also: The Herbalists Without Borders Eugene Chapter August meeting will be Monday August 9, 6:00pm at TreeStead. Contact us to inquire about attending by zoom.
Herbalists Without Borders at the Asian Celebration
We’ll be at the Asian Celebration on Saturday, July 31. You’ll find us hanging out with the other service oriented non-profit folks and we’ll have Chrysanthemum tea in tiny cups. Come join in the fun!
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!
How’s It Going Out There?
We’ve got things brewing and other shenanigans afoot. Maybe you want to jump in but don’t know how? Email us at hwbeugene@gmail.com or fill out a volunteer form to join in.
Solidarity work is enduring. Thanks for all your contributions and encouragement.
What’s a pandemic without a little solidarity?
Since putting together the relief supplies for the Diné Nation’s devastating bouts of coronavirus last year, we’ve been busy!
We’ve been:
Organizing inventory.
Providing custom care packages to sick Latinx families..
Collaborated in February with Huerto de la Familia to provide 167 wellness packs for their member families during their annual garden registration events.
We’ve received a seed grant from HWB headquarters.
Most recently, we’ve partnered with Huerto to begin developing a bilingual outdoor herbalism classroom at Skinner City Farm. We are very excited to pull the blanket off of that bed and dig in with fresh enthusiasm!