• Herbalista

    by the people, for the people
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    Mobile Medicine
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    Community Healthcare
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    Herbal Education
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    Solidarity Medicine Making
  • Herbalista

    by the people, for the people

Building Community through Herbalism

Herbalista recognizes healthcare as a fundamental human right. We sponsor free health services and herbal education through commmunity programming, empowering folks to care for themselves and their neighbors.  We believe true healthcare is based on a foundation of  mutual respect and mutual aid– solidarity not charity!

In 2013, Herbalista launched the first Herb Bus clinic in Atlanta and continued to build other models of mobile medicine, including the Herb Cart, Herb Bike and HerbCare Stations. We have shared these affordable and accessible models of mobile community care with herbalists across the US, Ireland and the UK!  This website was built to document the Herbalista projects in real time and be a support to others looking to do this work in their neck of the woods.💚

 

Free Online Courses

Self-paced learning for all you Herbalistas!

Courses include:
Herbal Foundations Course
In the Field: Botany + Foraging
Herbal Medicine Making

About the Free School

Herbalista Projects Past + Present

Herb Bike

Providing free herbal care and comfort to marginalized communities around Dublin, the Herb Bike offers pop-up clinical services, HerbCare Stations and specializes in alcohol-free remedies.  We also have a sister clinic in Cork ….

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Herb Bus

How it all began! The Herb Bus was the first mobile clinic, offering free herbal care in Atlanta, Georgia and around the United States.  Since the winter of 2012-2013, the Herb Bus has been defending our right to vital and verdant healthcare  ….

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Herb Cart

Since 2015, the Herb Cart provides free, herbal care to communities in need around the Atlanta area.  In 2022, the Cart passed to the stewardship of Fleur + Forage ATL, where it continues as a service learning program for emerging herbalists looking to expand their skills.  

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Herb Clinic

Herbal Medicine is the oldest and most widely used form of medicine in the world!  After 15 years serving East Atlanta, the brick and mortar Community Herbal Clinic has closed its doors and moved online.  We offer online consultations on a sliding scale basis, helping bring people and herbs together.

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Health Fair

For 5 years, our monthly community Health Fair brought together holistic clinicians and educators to offer free health services, wellness classes, and a spot of tea.   This was true community healthCARE– by the people, for the people.  Learn more about how you can bring this healing to your community!

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Foot Clinic

The Harriet Tubman Free Foot Clinic offers integrative therapies to care for the feet of those experiencing homelessness.  All services are free thanks to generous volunteers and donors.  Although Herbalista no longer coordinates the clinic, we still love to spread the joy of herbal foot care!

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Grow A Row

Promoting herban-agriculture in the Atlanta area,  Grow A Row encourages skill sharing and seed swapping!  We welcome farmers, schools, and individuals who want to join us as we create herbal infrastructure to support our community ….

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Plant Rambles

The land around you is chock full of edible and medicinal plants – even in the urban landscape. Join us at these seasonal plant walks to learn basic plant identification and botany skills, medicinal uses for urban weeds, and more ….

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HerbCare Stations

 These mini-health stations offering folks a chance to care for themselves and their community with herbs and vitamins. Establishing HerbCare Stations helps bring herbs out of the shadows and into the hands of the people ….

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Solidarity Medicine Making

Combine service with learning in these exciting workshops! Build your medicine making skills while you help us create sweet, sweet herbal remedies to share in the community with folks who need it most ….

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Project Consultations

Are you looking to offer community healthcare and build your local herbal infrastructure?  Do you have a vision to serve but want a little help with the nuts ‘n bolts of your grassroots project?  Herbalista can help ….

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Herb Kitchen

The Herb Kitchen is an Atlanta based herb project, providing health education and herbal events.  The Herb Kitchen brings herbal medicine out of the shadows and onto your kitchen table ….

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Land Acknowledgement

Herbalista was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia on land that is the traditional home to the Muscogee and Cherokee peoples. They lived, traveled, and stewarded these lands until they were forcibly removed by the US government in the 1800’s. We want to acknowledge this history of genocide and also the present connection these tribes still have to their original homelands.

We acknowledge that this land is now home to folks from all over the world, migrants who have come here for a multitude of reasons – economic or educational opportunity, to be near family, to flee violence or persecution, to escape environmental disasters… too many reasons to list them all here.

We hope that all of us who call this land home will do our best to respect her and each other. May we be good stewards and honor our connection to this land.

By the People, For the People

While the Herbalista Free Clinic has a focus on serving the homeless and other vulnerable and marginalzed populations, we also recognize that under the current established models of healthcare in the U.S., we are all under-served!  So long as the medical and governmental structures prioritize pharmaceutical medicine and surgical intervention, the people are being denied their right to health.

Herb and food based tonic therapy have always been a necessary part of human evolution and survival.  Access to health care is a human right and our mission is to providing the tools, encouragement, and lived examples of how we can take back this basic right.

Inclusive Care (Non-discrimination Policy)

The Herbalista Health Networks welcomes students, volunteers, partners, patients, clients, guests, and friends of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, economic strata, ability, sexuality, and gender-orientation to join us!  We believe in diversity, not discrimination!

Herbal Medicine

We are herbalists, not licensed medical doctors, and do not diagnose or prescribe. We work WITH our clinic guests and value an open, honest dialogue about their current concerns and health goals.  We do our best to help them achieve those goals.

Thank You

We are both thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to  serve the people, the plants, and the planet.  Much appreciation to the communities who welcome us into their folds, love to the friends and family who share our journey, and gratitude to the mighty crew who holds it down in the ATL and now Dublintown to make it all possible.

And the crew I speak of is larger than Herbalista.  It is larger than the Big House or the Open Door Community or the Apollo House.  Our crew rolls deep.  We may not always know each other, but we are headed in the same direction.  We may not have realized we had each other’s backs, but we defend the same rights and stand by the same ideals.

A big shout-out to the urban agrarians; the homesteaders and humanitarians; the craftsmen and caretakers; the teachers and radicals; the permaculturalists and pacifists; the wellness warriors and earth champions.

Thank you friends of the field, the forest, the street, and the subway.  May we continue to rally together, for health and community!

💚 The Herbalista Crew

Herbal Safety

Herbalista and members of our crew are not licensed medical doctors and do not diagnose disease or prescribe medicines. We are herbalists and herbal apprentices who will work with our community to help folks achieve their self-identified personal health goals. Our services do not take the place of a medical doctor.  Conventional care and herbal care are quite complementary of each other so it is important to be transparent with your chosen health practitioners about the different medications and herbs you take. 

When choosing to gather and prepare your own remedies, please be careful!  Some plants are poisonous.  Some plants can cause allergic reactions.  Some plants can be  hard to properly identify.  It is important to be absolutely 100% sure before you ingest something or give something to others.  For more information on safe foraging, please visit our Forage ATL webpage.

We have loaded this website with many tools and resources and want to encourage you to explore the incredible world of herbal medicine.  As health is a complex subject,  it is important that we approach it with an open mind, but also put on our critical thinking hat!  We are sharing what we have learned via our own direct experience and education, but all humans are unique and therefore what might be true for Herbalista, might not be for you. It is important you listen to your body and double check things for yourself.  Move slowly when trying a new remedy for the first time.  Take your time and enjoy the journey!

Viva la Herb Bus!