A Growing Garden & Community
What your subscription dollars support:
Herbal Free Clinic - The Herbal Free Clinic provides no-fee consultations and a discount on herbal products for individuals who may not be able to afford the full price of a holistic herbal consultation. Eventually, we’d love for the clinic to be entirely Free (including custom herbal formulations). Your subscription dollars will help us get to that point.
Greenspell Intensive Scholarships - Currently, we are only able to offer two partial scholarships each year for people who would like to participate in the Greenspell Bioregional Herbalism Intensive. Eventually we’d like to offer full scholarships for those interested, but who otherwise wouldn’t have the means to attend. Each subscription supports this possibility.
Free Herbal Products for Indigenous Folks - The plant-based remedies we make through First Curve Apothecary are meant to offer healing with as few barriers as possible, particularly for those who have been overlooked due to oppressive systemic racism and marginalization.
As an herbalist working with and on lands sustained for millennia by Indigenous people, I believe it is important to offer back medicine that I could have never created were it not for the stewardship, knowledge, and care of these Indigenous groups. Towards this end, I offer free product to Indigenous people.
At the moment, we are only able to sustainably offer a limited amount of free herbal product, but your subscription will allow us to increase our offerings.
Future Stewardship Initiatives - One of our long-term goals is to deepen ecological stewardship in the Chicago Region and surrounding areas. We also hope to offer education and skill development related to ecological stewardship.
Your subscription will allow us to orient our efforts toward developing our stewardship initiatives and inviting our community to learn more about stewardship at whatever scale possible.
Greenspell Education Center - A physical location and land to learn in-person, hands on, and in the presence of other curious human beings is in the works! This also requires a lot of resources, and we are trying to avoid taking on debt or inviting in outside investors at all costs, so your support will bring us one step closer to making this happen for our community!
Last but not least, you are supporting your local community herbalist! :)