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...offering education and self care products made in an ethical, sustainable, and beautiful way and sourced as locally as possible.

The Community Medicine Cabinet was conceived between friends in the herb school kitchen during the spring of 2014, and founded from a desire to foster collaborative community among local herbalists. We wanted to create a platform to facilitate the making and selling of the herbal medicines arising from this collaborative process. Believing that heath and healing are active concepts, effected by ou

r evolutionary history, ancestry, genetics, environment, and experiences, we understand that wellness is complicated and so we offer our explanations alongside preparations. We want to support your body and we want to help you to understand it.

14/05/2025

About the Walk: Get to know medicinal plants and botany in an ecological context. We see brining people into the parks as growing into our relationship with and belonging to land- through devotional practices of observation, listening and tending with humility and respect for original peoples. And yes, we’ll have yummy snacks.

About Us: Violet (she/they)and Madalyn (she/they/ella) are alumnae, plant lovers, and friends. We’re both practicing clinical herbalists who share a commitment to guiding herbal practice towards an ethical, ancestrally enriching herbal medicine tradition for the benefit of our ecological and human communities.

Exchange: $20-40 NOTAFLOF

Access: Bathrooms and picnic tables at the trailhead and we’ll go slowly on the trails, but there is some up-n-down and occasional unevenness. Shows with tread recommended. We won’t be masked, but feel free to. Stay home if you are sick. If you have more access questions, please write us.

12/03/2025

Out here getting ready to teach Animal Herbalism like…
🐈 🐕 🐎 🐐 🐄 🐓

i’ve often framed the work that I do with the plants as herbalism for humans and other animals because I like we’re animals and also because of how important it is for us to remember that we are animals and that that fundamentally informs our experience of our lives. I’m excited to share about caring for our non-human relations tomorrow at now and then . Thank you, Renée and Sam for having me.

P.s. yes this is my dog Canela in a foot bath

27/02/2025

About the Walks: Get to know medicinal plants and botany in an ecological context. We see brining people into the parks as growing into our relationship with and belonging to land- through devotional practices of observation, listening and tending with humility and respect for original peoples. And yes, we’ll have yummy snacks.

About Us: Violet (she/they)and Madalyn (she/they/ella) are alumnae, plant lovers, and friends. We’re both practicing clinical herbalists who share a commitment to guiding herbal practice towards an ethical, ancestrally enriching herbal medicine tradition for the benefit of our ecological and human communities.

Exchange: $20-40 NOTAFLOF

Access: Bathrooms and picnic tables at each trailhead and we’ll go slowly on the trails, but there is some up-n-down and occasional unevenness. We won’t be masked, but feel free to. Stay home if you are sick. If you have more access questions, please write us.

19/01/2025

10 years ago today on the Magdalena River near Mompox, Colombia…

Ancestor work is often not easy and this trip was HARD but this moment brought levity. Honored to have such a powerful river as my namesake.

Sending a little of this big water energy to Los Angeles tonight.

15/01/2025

Mullein zines in the shop 📖

Made in our 2018 cohort, these zines are about all things mullein featuring a bunch of amazing plant people.

I thought in the continued presence of I’d put them in the shop since mullein packs a 1:2 punch for respiratory support and grief.

They are digital so you can print your own. Not intended to purchase and distribute.

11/01/2025

We sent herbs to LA today! 🌿🫖💚

Thank you for reaching out to distribute herbs. Starkey came over and we pressed the last of my home grown milky oats harvest, bottled 67 bottles of tincture blended with some flower essences for the moment, made respiratory and nervous system blends from a very special herb donation, and I sent them away with some post-fire formulated super tasty syrup I had in stock that’s for respiratory, nervous system, liver and immune support.

I’m grateful to be able to help in a small way. I received so much support and kindness after the fires, it feels important to pay it forward and I’m lucky to be in a position to be able to.

19/12/2024

Just a little bit of sunshine 🌞 for a client… some solstice wort infused oil going out with some other medicines today

I never get over the magic of the yellow flowers and this red red oil 🩸

Sending you all a little light as we aproa h our darkest night.

18/12/2024

We’re spilling the 🫘

is coming back in person in 2025.

If you’ve wanted to have space to learn directly from the plants in a supported community, this might be the offering for you. More info coming your way within the week.

P.S. I know this plant as rudo. It’s in my garden and was gifted from a Guatemalan friend who uses it for susto. He explained to me that ruda and rudo are used relatively interchangeably where he is from but ruda hold the feminine and rudo hold the masculine in his tradition. Pretty cool!!

14/10/2024

Let me tell you about .bus.

This photo captures our joy in working together in service to the plants and our community. This was the herbal team at the bus this weekend. A team of strong, competent, bilingual bicultural herbalists growing together and, as you can hopefully tell by our big smiles, having a blast while doing so.

🚐The Botanical Bus (501c3) is a bilingual mobile herb clinic that provides place based, culturally centered community care by-and-for Latine and Indigenous people.

Since 2020 I have been involved with the bus, first as a volunteer and now I am their Lead Practitioner and Clinical Herbalism Program Coordinator (also the bus driver :p). I get to facilitate conversations about heath equity and culturally informed care with our team of volunteers, support and learn from student herbalist who join me as apprentices and seguidores for a one or two year apprenticeship, and I have the honor of seeing clients at the bus.

Our team of program coordinators & promotoras are a family. We always say “si sanas tu sano yo”, if you heal I heal, at the bus. And that ethic ripples into our client work and our work community. I have deep respect for our promotora team, their facilitation skills & the wisdom they hold & offer freely. We all learn from eachother, sharing our medicine, & working as a team.

I have deep respect for Jocelyn Boreta, our ED for setting this tone and modeling this work culture that is medicine to me and many others.

One thing I love about this work is the way it ripples. Working with apprentices, the first years leave knowing how to be community herbalists running the back end of a mobile clinic with grace. Second years are mentored into clinical practice. And being by & for the community we serve this skill building makes our Sonoma county latine indigenous community more resilient when more people are trained up to offer care.

We’re in our fall fundraising drive. I know that there are many orgs & individuals needing funds these days. If you are looking to share your wealth in the direction of a small local org making strides toward heath equity in our community, I hope you’ll consider donating to the Bus ♥️

28/08/2024

And things go dormant.

Something I love about the world is the way things exist that we cannot always see. The plants go dormant, brown and dead on the surface yet very much still alive. The creek flows underground but something about both the water and the movement can still be felt barefoot in the creek bed in the heat of summer.

By this time in the year we’ve been pushing ourselves to come at our tasks hot and fast and unrelenting as summer has asked us to again, like every year. And for many of us it has started to come at a cost. We might feel a little extra dry, or worn down. We might feel tired or depleted. As the poison oak is turning red, a subtle turning inward is happening.

Kids are back in school, Covid is at an all time high, meanwhile masks are being banned, electoral politics are going full speed, many suffer, and Palestine still isn’t free.

I have been thinking about how we run ourselves ragged. Push our limits, and how so many things genuinely come with a sense of urgency.

I have been thinking about how astragalus is strong and moistening, gentle too. How it builds us up and supports our immunity which gets challenged by the microbes the rise in the fall as well as by every stressor and task in our to do list.

I also think about carnelian essence as a spirit support for burnout and the way we can move through things without burning our fire so hot we go dark. Tending that ember.

If you want specific support, I have focused consults and full intakes open this month. There is definitely beauty in this dry golden time and it can be challenging to find balance with the season too. If you want a bottle of astragalus or carnelian essence, I can make that happen too. DM me.

Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. 🫀

10/07/2024

Hi Everyone! This June marked 10 years since we started The Community Medicine Cabinet! We're celebrating the milestone on August 4th and invite you to join us. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/Z5G4vY5wnwmJspfs7

08/07/2024

I ran into this stunning mural dropping off dry cleaning last week on the third of July. I’m curious how folks of settler/ immigrant ancestry engage with the everyday reality of living on stolen land here in Sonoma County? Do you have practices of acknowledgment? Moving beyond that to something more concrete? Land back? Small every day actions?

I want to lean more and I signed up to take ’s masterclass: goring beyond land acknowledgments on august 6th. It’s sold out but check out their amazing work and resources.

As herbalists, our connection to land and the plant people is at the center of our work. Understand and engaging with the personal and political aspects of colonization-land ownership, relationship, and disposession, are central to being able to offer our medicine in a good way.

Herbal practice necessitates a justice lens to be worth it’s salt. Otherwise it’s just another form of extraction.

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