Rootwork Herbals

Rootwork Herbals community herbalism

high summer greetings garden friends ⁠🌸⁠We are so excited to be nearing the official opening at our new garden home!⁠🌼⁠I...
07/10/2025

high summer greetings garden friends ⁠
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We are so excited to be nearing the official opening at our new garden home!⁠
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In the last few weeks, Amanda and I (Taylor ) have been busy transplanting, harvesting, drying, and processing medicines from the old garden before we have to be moved out completely in a few days... spending so much time with the mullein, yarrow, monarda and elders has been bittersweet⁠
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As much as we would like to, there is no way we will be able to bring every one of our plant friends with us to our new home. And the new owners indicated they would like the garden mowed⁠
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so we are calling on community to once again help! We would like to extend an invitation to come by the old gardens and transplant any medicine friends that you all might like! We know its not the ideal season for this, but we have been doing it for the last couple of weeks with a a good amount of success!⁠
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Valerian⁠
Comfrey⁠
Applemint⁠
Lemon Balm⁠
Nettles⁠
Spearmint ⁠
Peppermint⁠
Elecampane ⁠
Tansy⁠
Monarda⁠
Wormwood⁠
Rue⁠
Echinacea⁠
Thyme⁠
Sage⁠
Oregano⁠
Black Cohosh⁠
Ladies Mantle⁠
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we would love to give these friends a chance of survival in your gardens⁠
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Feel free to come by to the Jane Minor Gardens TOMORROW between 5:30pm and 8pm to dig some up!⁠
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Please bring your own tools!⁠
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For the address or if you have any questions, feel free to reach out janeminorbipoccommunitygarden @ gmail

final criminal court date and update…
03/26/2025

final criminal court date and update…

Friends! we asked you to pack the court and you showed up! i am sharing a recent press release below to give an update.....
09/11/2024

Friends! we asked you to pack the court and you showed up! i am sharing a recent press release below to give an update... but the takeaway is - thru community all things are possible! we are celebrating this win and a few weeks of peace. we are so grateful! and the GARDEN is officially OPEN again til 10/20! so please come thru!! ⁠
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Anti-Racist Crowd Packs Caroline Courtroom For Hate-Crime Case as Judge Rules Repeat-Offender Remanded Into Custody until 10/21⁠
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Over 100 supporters of Rootwork Herbals, a BIPOC-Centered program, crowded into a small courtroom in Caroline’s Town Hall on Monday afternoon. After a brief rally in the court’s parking lot, the observers filed into the courtroom to witness proceedings in a criminal case against Robert Whittaker, Junior. The defendant, who was arrested on August 30th, has been charged with stalking as a hate crime and criminal contempt. ⁠
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Although Whittaker ultimately pleaded “not guilty” to the newest charges against him, Judge Gary Reinbolt decided to take what he called an “extreme step” of remanding Whittaker into custody. In making the decision, Judge Reinbolt discussed the potential safety risk of Whittaker remaining on his property and continuing his pattern of verbal harassment. “It is not physical harm, but living under intimidation, particularly when you don’t know when or where the next threat is going to physically be, even if the defendant is making it from his own property.” The judge also noted the defendant’s record of contempt of court orders to justify remanding him into custody. “He has twice shown utter contempt for an order issued by this court. Apparently I don’t get his attention just issuing an order of protection,” Reinbolt said. “Apparently, he doesn’t think the court has authority over him. It does.” ⁠
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Whittaker, who is white, is the next door neighbor of amanda david, a Black herbalist and founder of Rootwork Herbals. The newest charges come after Whittaker has been arrested multiple times and pleaded guilty to past charges pertaining to years of ongoing racist and sexist harassment against david and her family. ⁠
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join us today!
05/19/2024

join us today!

despite it all, the Earth continues to spiral. because of it all, the Earth continues to spiral. and today, the Earth ha...
02/01/2024

despite it all, the Earth continues to spiral. because of it all, the Earth continues to spiral. and today, the Earth has spiraled into the auspicious position of being exactly halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. ⁠
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today is a quickening, a flutter of life in the depths of the dark. it is not a day of birthing, that is still to come...but it is an unmistakable sign of hope for the gifts of life that are on their way. the gifts of warmth, light, fruit and liberation are set in motion and no force can stop their arrival.⁠
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despite it all and because of it all, Life moves towards Life. it is a self-evident truth and today we celebrate this truth. we celebrate Imbolc, Setsubun, Día de la Candelaria, and even Groundhog's Day to mark our movement towards Spring, towards renewed Life. ⁠
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every year on this day we also celebrate renewed Life by opening up the People's Medicine School to new participants! with the hope and joy of the great quickening, we announce that the 2024 People's Medicine School is now OPEN for registration. ⁠
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we invite you to move towards life with us. we invite you to move towards life with the plants. we invite you to move towards life with community care. we invite you to move towards life with life!⁠
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this post is an ode to moving towards life with plants and with joy. just look at those beautiful joy-filled faces!⁠
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our work aligns with the seasons. for our herb school, The People's Medicine School, this means that our curriculum coin...
01/05/2024

our work aligns with the seasons. for our herb school, The People's Medicine School, this means that our curriculum coincides with our growing season; our enrollment period begins halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox aligning with the energy of Spring's first stirrings....
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because of this seasonal timing, we tend to be ready to announce our new course options right around the gregorian new year. we know that is a totally fabricated transition, however it is fun to be able to say... new year, new PMS course options!!
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for 2024, we are excited to announce that we will continue to offer our in-dpeth, liberation-focused fully online curriculum, which includes 3 options for course participation. all course streams offer lifelong access, student forums, study groups and the ability to study at your own, perfect pace.
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for 2024 we are also excited to be doubling the amount of incredible guest facilitators who will be gracing our BIPOC-only Connection Cohort with their brilliance. 12 of the most radical keepers of plant/fungi/ancestral/land-based knowledge will be joining us and we could not be more grateful (stay tuned, we will announce their classes soon!)
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for 2024 we are also super excited to be creating pathways for participants in past years' PMS cohorts to connect and build with the current year's cohorts. we will be inviting past participants to join our study sessions, Q & A's and guest facilitator classes.
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for 2024 we are also so super excited to share that we will be growing the ways past and present participants can play in the garden together! we will be offering optional, in-person gatherings including weekend immersions, 1-day intensives, drop-in garden hours, and regional meet-ups
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so needless to say, we are excited for 2024! and although this yearly transition does not actually align with any earthly/celestial seasons, we are glad for a reason to pop out from hibernation and share what is upcoming for PMS!
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visit our site for lots more course info! and join our waitlist today for priority enrollment starting 1/17! BIPOC scholarships, payment plans & a warm welcome to all folks working towards freedom
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as we sit in the stillness of the longest night, as we grieve/heal/grow in the deepest dark. finding gratitude tethers u...
12/22/2023

as we sit in the stillness of the longest night, as we grieve/heal/grow in the deepest dark. finding gratitude tethers us to each other, connects us to hope. please join us in a collective thanks giving for our work in 2023 so that we can carry this collective hope into 2024!
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the People's Medicine School was honored to welcome in 94 remarkable participants who dedicated themselves to building a community based on liberatory herbalism!
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radical wealth redistribution from over 80 Reclamation Fund contributors supported our BIPOC scholarship fund making it possible for 61 revolutionary healers to participate in PMS.... this is over 60% of the entire 2023 PMS cohort!!
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radical wealth redistribution from over 80 Reclamation Fund contributors supported our BIPOC scholarship fund making it possible for 61 revolutionary healers to participate in PMS.... this is over 60% of the entire 2023 PMS cohort!!
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the Garden hosted 13 incredibly beautiful outdoor gatherings. including: monthly work parties, seed & plant giveaways, medicine making workshops, an equinox celebration and a hoop-house build with our friends at the Black Farmer Fund!
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as an emergent response to the wildfire smoke that darkened our skies this summer, we also hosted a day dedicated to holding each other’s climate crisis grief & anxiety while making lung supportive remedies
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we were also thrilled to have the brilliant
Darren LaBaron in the garden leading a PMS Mycology Immersion Weekend. Students from all around the world joined our deep dive into African Psychedelic Traditions and Mushroom Cultivation
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we also fortified our bonds with the future of BIPOC land-based, reciprocal healing via our collaborations with the Youth Farm Project and Southside Community Center. the Garden hosted BIPOC youth for medicine making, mural making & merry making!
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thank you for taking time with us in the deepest dark to bind ourselves together with a moment of gratitude. may this small act of collective thanks, help to hold us in community and spark the light of hope as the days begin to grow longer.
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embodying ways to go deeper in my practice of giving and receiving care is constant work and the work that keeps me grou...
10/20/2023

embodying ways to go deeper in my practice of giving and receiving care is constant work and the work that keeps me grounded, especially thru days like these. there are so many incredible ways that carework can manifest - from protesting to praying, singing to somatics, cooking to coding... i hope you are all finding ways of care that offer some solace, purpose, gratitude and joy even/especially in the face of so much hatred and harm.
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our Community Care Mentorship :: We Care For Us was created in hopes of offering folks a collective learning space where they can go deeper into their practice of caring with and for their community thru herbalism. a space where we can practice our carework, so that we can more comfortably and confidently offer it in times of need. and it is always a time of need...if you are interested in this offering please keep reading... if not, please take care!
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WCFU is open to folks who have participated in PMS and is enrolling until 11/15. the mentorship runs January – April and includes 2 live, zoom classes per month and weekly student study sessions.
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together we immerse ourselves in case studies and dive into protocols, scope of practice, recommendations, dosages, contraindications, compliance, medicine making, and more. ⁠
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we learn from each other, from the plants and from our community about how we can better care for each other as we outgrow our dependency on systems of oppression and fill the vacancy with systems of care. ⁠
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if you are interested in joining us, please visit: https://www.rootworkherbals.com/wcfumentorship ⁠
in an on-going and ever-evolving attempt to make our offerings accessible and sustainable, we have various prices and BIPOC scholarships available
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We Care For Us :: Community Care Mentorship is now enrolling for 2024!!!⁠💚⁠as we move further into Fall and as we prepar...
10/14/2023

We Care For Us :: Community Care Mentorship is now enrolling for 2024!!!⁠
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as we move further into Fall and as we prepare for tomorrow’s Libra New Moon / Solar Eclipse, we enter fully into the season of finding our equilibrium by letting go. a time of shedding so that we can more deeply embody what is just. ⁠
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in making space for this releasing and rebalancing, it is a perfect time to sit with your shadows, dine with disruption and sing an ode to all we have outgrown… acknowledging that which no longer serves, not as an unwanted guest, but as a traveling teacher whose time to move on has come. also knowing that this movement creates a vacancy ready to be filled with the harmonic Libran lessons of reciprocity, relationship, care and connection. ⁠
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it is in this spirit of Libran lessons that we announce the opening of the enrollment period for our 2024 Community Care Mentorship, We Care For Us. ⁠
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if the eclipse is making space in your life for new modes of relating that center healing justice thru horizontal healthcare, we invite you to join us!⁠
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WCFU welcomes all past and present participants of the People’s Medicine School 6-month curriculum. the mentorship takes place january - april and includes 2 live, zoom meetings per month and weekly student study groups where we immerse ourselves into case studies that represent the real needs of our communities. together we learn from each other, from the plants and from our community how we can better care for each other. together, as we outgrow our dependency on systems of oppression, we fill the vacancy with systems of care. ⁠
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if you are interested in joining us, please head over to our little site in the spider’s web. in an on-going and ever-evolving attempt to make our offerings accessible and sustainable, we have various prices and BIPOC scholarships available.⁠
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“when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.” (Morrison, The Bluest Eye) ⁠🤎⁠here...
10/04/2023

“when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.” (Morrison, The Bluest Eye) ⁠
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here on Gayogohó:no' land (aka upstate ny) we are delighting in all the warm weather, sun-kisses and fall colors! ☀️🍂 we are also working with these beautiful days to gather and craft some remedies for the colder, darker days ahead. one of our perpetual fall-time favs for supporting health during seasonal shifts and the dark time of the year is Fire Cider. an Oxymel (honey🍯+acid) remedy that features so many of our kitchen medicine besties....it's accessible, delicious, versatile and a classic staple that connects us in community with our gardens, ancestors, supermarkets and of course the plants. ⁠
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how do you make / take your fire cider? ⁠
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here is a basic recipe that can be played with if you are new to crafting your own....⁠
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⁠Fire Cider Oxymel Recipe: ⁠
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INGREDIENTS:⁠
1⁄2 cup(ish) fresh onion ⁠
1⁄2 cup(ish) fresh garlic⁠
1⁄2 cup(ish) fresh horseradish ⁠
1⁄2 cup(ish) fresh ginger⁠
1⁄2 -2 fresh hot pepper(s) ⁠
apple cider vinegar⁠
1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup raw local honey or herb-infused honey⁠
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OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS:⁠
1⁄2 -1 lemon / orange / lime⁠
fresh or dried: turmeric, burdock, dandelion, rosemary, thyme, rosehips, monarda, or other desired herbs⁠
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Chop/grate/blend (by hand, food processor, ninja) all of the above fresh ingredients. Put chopped herbs in a quart-size jar. then add apple cider vinegar to the top of the herb-filled jar. Use a plastic or wax paper-lined lid to close tightly. Shake well.⁠
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Let infuse in a cool, dark place and shake daily. After 2-6 weeks, strain through a cheesecloth-lined colander into a clean glass bowl, pressing and squeezing as much liquid as possible out of the herbs.⁠
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Add 1⁄4 cup honey to the strained herb-infused vinegar. Stir well until incorporated. Taste and add more honey if desired.⁠
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Pour the finished fire cider into a clean glass jar with a plastic lid, label it, and store in a cool dark place. ENJOY!!!⁠
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the seeds of survival and celebration garden display and exhibit at curated by the amazing jakara zellner was really sw...
09/30/2023

the seeds of survival and celebration garden display and exhibit at curated by the amazing jakara zellner was really sweet. it was a chance to connect with old friends from my migrant farm working days, a chance to deepen connection with current land-stewarding friends and a chance to make new friends whose connection to plants i've admired. it was a chance to see okra varieties i have never seen before and a chance to appreciate okra varieties i've long adored. a chance to see plants that i have loved for lifetimes on display for folks to meet for the very first time. it was a chance to connect blackness and plants thru time.
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shout out to some of the dope local black folks featured in this exhibit and other local black folks who are also out here doing the work like
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farming for freedom on the autumnal equinox ⁠⚖️⁠this equinox we collaborated with the farming for freedom trail tour wi...
09/28/2023

farming for freedom on the autumnal equinox ⁠
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this equinox we collaborated with the farming for freedom trail tour with that brought folks out to BIPOC run land-based projects who focus on liberation work.⁠
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it was so sweet to have folks come together in the garden to talk about ways we can appreciate the balance of light and dark, action and rest, life and death...how balance is not static, it is an ever-changing divine dance of reciprocity that is so easy to see in the compost and blossoms of the garden⁠
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we weaved our equinox intentions into beautiful bundles of plants that teach us about dynamic balance, we nourished ourselves with incredible food from . ⁠
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it was a joyous way to celebrate the Fall and to bring in Libra season. so much gratitude to the wide array of folks who showed up in the garden to practice freedom, together.⁠
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