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.
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!
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.