116 – 2025 Solidarity Apothecary Review

Welcome to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast with your host, Nicole Rose from the

Solidarity Apothecary.

This is your place for all things plants and

liberation.

Let's get started.

Hello. Welcome back to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast.

I am sorry for ghosting you for six weeks.

Life has been a bit full on and if you know me, you.

You know what's been happening.

And I'm going to talk about it in a minute.

I really like doing this because,

yeah, it just is like a big thank you to everyone who has, like, donated or, like,

contributed to their course.

For example, the herbalism PTSD and traumatic

stress course literally funds, like, 95% of the work of the Solidarity Apothecary.

So, like, I really want to show people who've joined that course that, like, it is an act of

solidarity to join it and that it has repercussions in terms of everything I'm able

to do.

And, you know, I just think, like,

especially in social movements, there's, like, often not much focus put on, like, looking

back and reflection.

And I think that stuff, like, I always do,

like, a really thorough kind of life review before I, like, design my next year, if that

makes sense.

I mean, I've also got four planets in Capricorn, so I ******* love that ****.

And at the end of this episode, I'm going to be talking about a new season.

Sexy. Very sexy.

I didn't design it myself, unfortunately.

My amazing graphic designer friend designed it for me.

But yeah, a new kind of sexy kind of planner which will just, like, help you design your

year next year and how you can connect with plants and all the things.

But I will talk about that later and I'll put a link in the show notes to where you can get

it.

It's free.

But, yeah, I'm just gonna.

I'm just gonna dive in.

So, obviously the reason I've been absent is it's been my best friend's inquest into his

death.

So a court case, but they're not assigning

kind of like,

oh, you're guilty or not guilty or that sort of ****, but, like, a jury is there and they

listen to, like,

all sorts of evidence presented about the sort of, like,

contributors to the person's death and what happened.

And, like, their job is to kind of like,

create a kind of narrative at the end of, like, why this person died based on the facts

that we know.

And yeah, so Taylor was my best friend for 14 years.

Who I met in prison when I was 21 years old.

And then I stayed in touch with their entire

sentence, basically until they killed themselves.

Sorry, content warning.

I will be talking about suicide a little bit.

And, yeah, like, a huge part of the solidarity apothecary has been my experiences both in

prison myself and supporting people in prison for a really long time, like, since I was like

15, 16 years old.

Yeah. But Taylor was like a workingclass trans man on this sentence called the IPP sentence.

It's like a really brutal,

indeterminate sentence for public protection.

So basically it's kind of like a life sentence

for minor crime.

So he just got under four years for burglary for stealing from his.

His neighbor, basically to fund his drug addiction, which, you know, isn't pretty.

And he experienced a lot of remorse and regret about that action.

But, you know, you know, people in active addiction who also live in poverty, like, it

is kind of part and parcel of that.

Anyway, the.

Oh, yeah, the inquest was like, super ******* intense.

So obviously had been preparing for it pretty much since Taylor died and had got in touch

with a solicitor team and yeah, they were going through their kind of processes with me.

And then, yeah, it just took a really long time.

Like, he died in July 22 and then the inquest wasn't until this November.

Um,

but, yeah, just like months of work and calls with the solicitor and the barrister and

answering loads of questions and reading, like, horrific disclosure of all these

statements of people and things.

And,

yeah, it's just.

I don't know, it's just been like,

really,

really full on.

And so, yeah, the actual inquest itself lasted two and a half weeks and it was a process of

every day court started at 10 and finished around and just like, witness after witness,

like, sharing their graphic testimony into, you know, like, everything from how he was in

prison to how they found him dead in a pool of blood and like,

yeah, it just was like,

harrowing.

And I knew it would enrage me, but, like,

yeah, I'm grateful that I'm in such a better place these days with ptsd and I just had so

many tools that I'd never had in my early 20s when this stuff was like, really,

I mean,

okay, not just my early 20s until.

I mean, it's still a big part of my life.

But,

yeah, like, I. I was grateful that I was able to,

you know, take a lot of herbal medicine and I was able to join online, thankfully.

So it meant that, like, I could look after Lee until 10 and then my mom or,

like, rob Rob's mum could look after him and then I would go and listen into the courtroom

and then I would come back and do these lunch and then I would go back again.

But it meant I could work in the herb shed.

So it was really nice to, like,

pack medicines and, like, decant things and, like, mix up teas and stuff and, like, yeah,

if I put an email out on my email list about it of, like, this reciprocity circle of, like,

while I'm listening to this ******* horror of this inquest and this injustice and how

******* violent the prison system is, like, I'm also just making medicine for prisoner

families and people experiencing repression.

And that felt kind of really nice.

But, yeah, that was a lot of challenges.

The day before, I had to go to court the first

day because I had to read, like, a statement out about Taylor's life as his, like,

registered next of kin.

And Lee got, like, hand, foot and mouth and like, literally the day before I went to

court, I didn't have any sleep, like, not even 10 minutes.

Like, it was horrific.

Like, I was just surviving on adrenaline, basically.

Anyway, I could talk about the inquest.

So much.

Like, there's just.

Yeah, so much that happened.

Billy got hand, foot, mouth and then he got a bit better and then took him to nursery and

then he caught the flu off of Rob's mum and,

yeah, just.

And then I caught it off him.

So it was like just, you know, this bug that's been going around, so it's been really full

on.

I've had some for astrology nerds, I've had some, like, gnarly, like, Saturn conjunct

Mars,

like Pluto on my midheaven, kind of like crazy astro weather, just, like throwing me against

the wall.

And then something happened with a close

friend,

like, in the middle of it that was, like, really upsetting and enraging in terms of,

like,

lies being said about me by one person.

And it just.

Anyways, so that didn't help anything.

But,

yeah, it's just been a lot of grief and, like, processing my 20s.

But, like, somehow the inquest kind of like brought Taylor alive.

Like, it brought him back.

And then when it finished, it was like, that's

when I got smashed.

Do you know what I mean? Which was last Wednesday.

So, yeah, I just haven't felt like coming on the podcast.

Okay, I might take a little pause.

So, yeah, that is exactly why I didn't want to come on the podcast, because if I talk about

it to anyone, I'm just like.

However, the independent did a really good Piece all about Taylor's life and the IPP and

the inquest.

I don't normally like, excuse me, like work with journalists like mainstream journalists

because, you know, like mainstream newspapers are just normally like horrifying and just

like reproduce all the horrific things in the world.

But she came recommended by some like IPP family campaigns and I knew that Taylor wanted

his story out there and you know, his story is going to get out there like much more via that

route than it is via like anarchist news or whatever, even though that's like my people.

So yeah, I will put a link in the show notes and if you want to learn more, you can read

that piece.

Just a trigger warning.

It's really upsetting and yeah, not the easiest but yeah, anyway, so that's been going

on and because of Lee being sick, I haven't been able to work very much.

But in the nighttime, you know, in the ******* baby life hustle of working when he's asleep,

show notes so you can read it.

But I'm gonna read it and then just like ad lib a bit as I do so.

The mission of the Solidary Apothecary is to materially support revolutionary struggles and

communities with plant medicines to strengthen collective autonomy, self defense and

resilience to climate change, capitalism and state violence.

Each year I review the work towards this go year I came out of the newborn trenches and

into the toddler phase.

Like I'm sorry if you're in the newborn

trenches, but the toddler phase is like legit harder.

I used to see like Instagram rules being like, just wait here.

He's a toddler and I thought there's no way it'll be harder.

But like, woo,

it's a whole new level of exhaustion,

but also just, you know, constant ******* joy.

You know, that kid is ******* everything to me and it's just, yeah, brings me endless

happiness.

But yeah, it's meant that I've been able to reconnect with myself again and focus more on

the sold out Apothecary and its offerings, which I've loved.

On a personal level, the year brought some of the most challenging months of my life,

leaving me as a single mother.

I will share more when it feels right.

And then I talk about the inquest.

So number one,

herbal care packages.

So yeah, care packages have been sent to people around the world.

And like, I'm so stoked that the request form has just been working so well.

Like, it's just reduced, like so much work and friction just having this simple form that

people can complete.

That, like, answers all my questions.

Yeah. And I think it's also created this, like, it's better for people requesting

support, like, to feel more confident, if that makes sense.

So I did crunch some numbers based on my ctable database where I track what I send, but

that doesn't include like all these informal requests where, like,

someone visits me and then I give them a bunch of stuff for someone that's struggling or

someone comes on a course of mine and then they take a bunch of like care packages away

with them.

So I need to get better at kind of like tracking those.

But yeah, I mean, I think this amount is like, pretty awesome.

And I was like, quite blown away, like calculating it all.

But yeah, 87 care packages went to people experiencing repression.

18 packages went to prisoner family members.

And you know, some people are in like both

categories.

Right.

But I don't Double count them.

192 packages went to people involved in grassroots groups working for liberation in

different ways.

And 56 medicines were also sent for use at the

Earthworm Winter Moot.

57 packages went to hunt saboteurs.

And two sites of resistance requested packages

receiving a bigger volume of medicines to distribute with an average of five items in a

pack.

This is around 1,780 medicines,

which is ******* awesome and explains where the money has gone.

No, I'm just kidding.

My course, like, slightly flopped, so things

are a little bit tight.

But yeah, this is exactly why I *******

fundraise to get these medicines out there.

So some of the groups happy to be publicly named.

So on the form people can say, like, if they are happy with,

you know, like if they want a solidarity post, for example, or if they just want it private.

And actually most people will just opt for private.

But, like, a few groups were happy to be named publicly, so.

So,

yeah, they included the Abolitionist Healing Collective, Black Youth Project, Jacksonville

Bournemouth Anarchists, Bristol Anarchist Black Cross, Bristol Free Shop, Devon County

Hunt, sabs, Mad Pride, Sheffield Motor City, Mobile, Wellness, North London Hunt, sabs,

Prisoners for Palestine Radical Use Space for Educations, Resist and Renew, Root and Riot,

Sheffield Radical Pride,

Trans Support,

Southampton animal action, stop, L3, Harris, three counties, Hunt, Sabs and trans kids

Deserve Better.

But yeah, there are a bunch of other projects as well.

But I'm ******* stoked that these guys are happy for me to share that I've shared

medicine with them and a few individuals also requested herbs.

So individuals with solidarity call outs included artist Tasnim Amin, who is a working

class artist who was violently arrested after stopping a raid on refugees and asylum seekers

who were being sent to Bibi Stockholm Barge.

And I put a link on the website there to donate to their GoFundMe as well as Kendra

Hannah who is asking for support to get out of a nursing home and into suitable disability

accommodation.

So yeah, if you are interested in requesting a herbal care package, please check out the page

with all the info and that's.

You can find that on the review post.

All right.

And the next one is distributing the

Prisoner's Hubble to prisoners worldwide.

So if you don't know, the Prisoner's Hubble is

a book all about herbal medicine based on my experiences in prison.

There's like 10 in depth plant profiles as well as like a big section about how to use

like spices and fruits and veg and stuff like medicinally.

So yeah, it's been a really big year for the Prisoner's Herbal Active Distribution.

So these are like the Anarchist publishers who printed the book.

Shout out to them fronted the cost for 3,000 more to get printed.

******* yes.

I call them my Anarchist Sugar Daddies.

Shout out to John Active.

I don't think he'd want to be called a sugar

daddy, but.

And you know, there's like other people

involved in Active as well, but it's just like my little joke.

But yeah, basically I get a pound for every copy sold.

So when they reprint things like Overcoming Burnout or the Herbalism and State Violence

book, that will then say, for example, if they print 1,000, that would give me a thousand

pounds which is then spent on printing the Prisoner's Herbal.

So I don't take any money from my books.

They all just kind of go in this nice circle

to fund the Prisoner's Herbal Distribution.

I'm still in like some debt to them for the

coloring books and for the Prisoners Herbal, but they're so laid back, I just move the

money when I can.

But yes.

So they printed 3,000 of them and 1,000 of

them came to the UK and 2,000 of them made their way across the Atlantic to the US and

some projects received them, including Midwest Books to Prisoners who are awesome and Irela

from Cosmic Rose Apothecary received them on the East Coast.

No, West Coast. Oh my God, my geography is terrible.

But I'm so ******* grateful that they just received these like palettes of books and have

been getting them out to people in prison.

The book was also translated by Comrades into Romanian.

So I put a link to that and I've made the translated versions available on my store for

the Spanish and Italian versions.

Yeah. And I just can't thank Comrades enough who are sort of quietly distributing the books

to prisoners across their.

Across their regions.

Yeah. And on the review page is a link to where you can request a copy of the Prisoner's

Herbal book.

I haven't asked if they're all right to say their name publicly, so I won't.

But just the comrade in London who's been like, packing and posting books.

Legend.

I do not miss that packing labor.

Like, it was years of parcels and post offices

and yeah, it's just lush that it just sort of works like a machine, you know, just like

other people posting the books and, you know, they enjoy getting them out to peep in prison.

And we've got a sexy spreadsheet tracking them all.

And yeah, it's just.

Yeah, I'm really.

I'm really, really grateful for that.

But you can still buy the book as an ebook on my site.

And, like, physical copies are available from places like Active Distribution.

And I haven't checked if I can share this publicly, but PM Press are going to be

printing the Prisoner's Herbal and Herbalism and State Violence, like, officially

publishing them next year and the year after.

So, yeah, I will do, like, a bigger announcement about that, but I felt like it

was a way to kind of make sure that, you know, people were getting access to the books beyond

ways that I'm capable of promoting them.

And excuse me, they are up for, like, sending copies to prisoners as well that I request to

them.

So again, it just gave us this, like, epic new

level of, like, potential distribution and stuff.

So,

yeah, I'm stoked with that.

All right, so part three of this review is Herbal Support through Repression with the

Hawthorne program.

So this autumn, I launched my first group program called Hawthorne.

And oh my God, it was dreamy.

For a long time, I've craved a more collective

setting in which to offer herbal support, where the medicine is in the relationships

between each other as well as the plants.

So Hawthorne was for people experiencing repression.

And obviously I want to safeguard people's confidentiality.

But all I can say is the group was like an amazing mix of humans.

We had calls every two weeks.

And I also had one to one course with everyone where I sort of created like, individualized

herbal recommendations for them and blends and then got them in the post.

And yeah, there was definitely lots of learnings like around the interruption with

childcare and how for group programs next year I'm gonna just like anchor in days with the

grandmas to know that like if Leah's sick it won't interrupt that kind of flow.

Because I felt like it was like quite a dramatic interruption a lot because it was

like virus season and Lee only like Lee only goes to nursery like a few mornings a week.

But it was enough to be like very disruptive when he wasn't a nursery.

But yeah, but they're like model of having like a group chat and group calls and herbs

that everyone had that we could do, you know, tasting with and share experiences with and

stuff.

Like it was so transformational.

And don't get me wrong, like I ******* love

one to one work.

And I should probably also announce that I,

yeah, I'm going to be seeing like clients like one to one people in January and I will put

that on my website, like how to book and stuff.

But I think like one to one is like so important and special for like so many people.

But I think yeah, for other people they really value that like group setting and that like

sort of social support.

But yeah, I'm gonna do another podcast all about the offerings for next year.

So I will dive deep into some programs, one of which is called Rooted in Struggle for people

Experiencing burnout and the is for prisoner family members.

And then I'm going to do Hawthorne again.

And then late in the winter next year I'm

going to do one for people healing from incarceration.

So yeah, keep your eyes posted on those.

All right.

And the next one is the Frontline Herbalism

podcast, which you know about because you're listening to it.

But yeah, it's been a real challenge to maintain.

I write on the post about Lee starting nursing.

Nurturing.

That's quite a good verb, isn't it?

But yeah, I. I failed basically to make interviews happen and I write here more often

than not.

I would record mini solo episodes in the car

park down the road from the nursery.

Talk about single mum life.

Guess where I'm recording this?

I'm recording this in Costa car park.

Ah. I. So I live in the countryside pretty much and like no cafes open until 9am so it's

like a real nightmare.

Other than Costa and Lee gets dropped off at

8.

So it's like most of the time I just drive home.

But yeah, I thought I would.

Yeah, we've got a Christmas party at the

nursery.

It's like the first party I've gone to since

I'VE got pregnant, so I'm very excited.

I'm wearing a nice little dress.

Anyway,

with the podcast interview, I have, yeah, big plans for it next year in terms of interviews,

but I'm not going to be hard on myself and because, you know, like, I did produce a lot

of good content and good episodes.

There's like a list of episodes basically on this post.

But you know, I've got this Herbal Support through Repression series which hopefully

you've listened to where I talk about my personal experiences,

support through court cases, stuff around self neglect and burnout, stuff around prisoner

support and defendant support, as well as making herbal care packages.

I did the Soothing survival series about herbal support for Fight Flight, like freeze

and shut down and sort of like a general one on herbal support for trauma.

And then yeah, I don't know if you missed it, but I had a three part series on learning

herbalism about my experiences with the plant medicine school and yeah,

DIY learning versus formal clinical training.

So yeah, you can check them all out.

Well, you know where they are because you're

listening to it.

But yeah, solid.

Apothecary.org forward/podcast.

Hello.

Okay, so section 5 is herbalism courses and workshops.

So this year I launched the Herbalism PTSD and Traumatic stress course twice.

And yeah, I'm really happy that I've anchored in this pattern now of launching with the

spring solstice and the autumn solstice, which feels really good.

But yeah, unfortunately this autumn Lee was off sick as I've mentioned a lot of the time

and pretty much like the whole launch window he was ill and yeah, basically.

And I like crunched all the data and I sent like a third less emails.

Yeah and I basically made like a third less than I normally do.

And it's so interesting that it like pretty much correlated like because the way.

Anyway, this is all boring digital marketing nonsense.

But like the waiting list was like similar size to before.

You know, the rates that people joined, like the amount like 75% people join on the

solidarity place and the average donation is about £25.

And like none of that changed but like literally just not closing on a Sunday really

affected the sales and yeah, just not being able to send as many emails basically.

So that sucked.

But I'm, yeah, I'm very grateful obviously

that yeah, loads of people joined and the main reason why I run the course is so that people

can,

you know,

get a handle on ******* trauma and the nervous system and the body and connect with these

incredible plants and nervines and collective responses to Traumatic stress and all the

things.

So yeah, I will be launching it again in March.

So please, please, please join the waiting list if you're interested in participating in

that course.

I also taught two practical medicine making intensives.

So these are like the face to face, three day courses.

Oh my God, they were ******* awesome.

Like such babes, like such incredible groups.

Melo, one of the learners who came in the like closing, like go round was like not a single,

like everyone was awesome.

So yeah, that was just like so nice and it's

such a joy.

And I have two amazing happy helpers, like a

different one for each course, but they're epic humans and it's just.

Yeah, it was just like tons of fun.

It's really hard being away from Lee.

Like I still see him through the day, but like,

yeah, that was tough.

Anyway,

and then my Making Herbal Medicine with Glycerin workshop continues to sort of gently

generate sales online.

And yeah, I've been happy to hear about people making glycerites, like really quickly and

effectively.

I was also honored to be invited to speak at various events online that included a workshop

on herbal support for trauma with survivors of sexual violence with the crew called Sleek.

Maybe you've listened to the Sleek podcast interviews on here.

They are awesome.

I also did a talk on Herbal Support through repression for a feminist congress in

Switzerland,

as well as a talk on the politics of burnout for Zagreb Anarchist Book Fair, which I also

share in the podcast.

And I did a little talk for the Plants, Mushrooms and Resistance gathering in Romania

about the prisoners herbal and they talked about how they translated the book into

Romanian.

And oh, the gathering sounded so nice, like so lovely and dreamy.

Everyone that went has just said it was wonderful.

So it's going to happen again this year in Poland in July.

So. So ******* Google that **** and get there if you can.

I was also on a panel for the wonderful project LETS About Madness, Disability and

Herbalism.

I barely spoke in that panel and I felt bad about getting paid, but they.

Yeah, I just had to leave early to get Lee to bed.

So it was tough.

But yeah, it was really an honor to be there with the other people.

And yeah, I also at the very beginning of the year published a talk on herbalism and border

violence, which you can also find on my website and on the podcast and I've written

here.

Honestly, I cannot say thank you enough for these invitations.

Looking after a little human alone can be incredibly isolating.

I miss traveling to gatherings and events and experiencing that affinity.

So it's nice to be Able to join online, however briefly to get that feeling of

connection.

So yeah, that is a ******* invitation.

Send us your invites.

No, I'm just joking but like it is true.

Like I ******* miss bopping about, you know, I

used to to bop around Europe doing tours about different repression cases and fundraising and

going to Calais and you know, and now I'm in a car park in street just living my best life.

But yeah, any invitations are really, really welcome.

All right, so number six is called system.

System systems.

I know that's two words,

I'm not going to lie.

Right.

I love systems and I'm a real systems thinker but prioritizing them over other projects,

especially new shiny ones, can take a lot of discipline.

But yeah, systems I focused on building for the Solar Apothecary this year included

improving the herbal care packages, requests and distribution systems as I've mentioned on

the Ctable database.

If you would be interested in a podcast with

all the behind the scenes stuff on SOFTW and yeah systems and how I organize things,

please let me know because I would love to talk about that but I just feel like no one's

interested.

But it is like the engine to the Soldier

Apothecary.

So if you would be into that, let me know.

I also work with the amazing Chantal who manages my.

Helps manage my inbox for two hours a week.

Game changer.

I made an online drive of all my files so that I could access them from my phone which was

like, like also a game changer because it means that I'm not just like dependent on the

laptop all the time,

which is very hard when you have a toddler.

So that's been really good.

I sorted out my website and improved the onboarding system for learners enrolling in my

courses.

So now like anyone enrolled gets like a eight

weeks.

Eight a reminder every eight weeks about how to log in.

Yeah, so that's been really good and I think it's like increased the amount of people that

actually work through the course.

I set up a frequently asked questions page on my website,

updated the Prisoner's Herbal database thanks to Chantelle.

Oh my God, that's amazing.

And yeah, I think the biggest thing was I set up all my clinical systems now on new software

called Write up and it means that I've made bespoke online intake forms and I've got all

my scheduling organized and yeah, we put it into practice with some one to one people and

the Hawthorne crew and that's like yeah,

been ******* epic.

And I'm excited about.

Yeah, kind of,

yeah.

Utilizing that like more strongly next year.

So yeah, like this kind of boring behind the scenes stuff.

Like it is boring but like, oh my God, it does save you so much time and energy in the long

run.

And I think when you have a baby you have to just be ruthless with prioritizing and just

optimize as much as you can.

So yeah.

And then round of applause.

The grand finale finale has been formalizing my good manufacturing practices system systems

for my medicine making.

So this basically means that everything is

traceable from production to distribution.

So any herbs coming into the apothecary, from things I harvest in the garden to you know,

things I might buy from the organic herb trading company, for example,

like I'm recording all of that, all the batch numbers, all of that stuff.

I'm keeping records when I'm like making a batch of something and every time I send

something out I'm tracking that.

So if anyone, God forbid, had a bad reaction to something I'd sent them, I would know

exactly who else has received that medicine from which batch and how to recall it.

So yeah, that's been a ******* mission.

And I'm very grateful that I did an online

course with the herbal Medics Academy in the so called US that just made all of this ****

make sense.

And then I've made kind of like bespoke forms.

I don't really give a **** about like state

compliance if that makes sense.

But I really care and I've reframed it for

myself to prioritize it that like I care about, about quality and potency of medicines

and I care about like safety basically like a lot.

So.

And yeah, through that process I've been trying really hard to like document all my

medicine making instructions because I have big plans for next year if I can wangle it

financially to hire a dispensing assistant who could help just a few hours a week to help

make medicines in the herb shed and get out out blends to clients and things because like,

yeah, I just have such limited time to work and I don't want to lose any more time with my

son.

So yeah, it's kind of.

Yeah, I feel like it would be a great opportunity for like a herbal student for

example.

So keep your ears open if you're interested in that.

Okay. So the last section is Solidarity beyond the solidary apothecary.

So I try and see the solidarity apothecary as just like one part of a broader solidarity

ecosystem, different social Struggles, different communities and like, yeah, just

kind of one little niche in this big ecosystem.

And, you know, I'm a human.

Like, it's hard to feel peace with what we can

do and what we can't do.

And yeah, like, for me, like, especially in adapting to motherhood and recognizing that,

like many of my sort of previous quote unquote, frontline roles are just not possible

now, especially as a single parent,

you.

You kind of just need to, like, do what you

can that makes sense and kind of optimize what you've got.

And I'm so grateful that this project has built up such an amazing supporter base.

Like loads of people on my email list and social media and all that ****.

But it just means that, like, if I put a call out for something, like, we are able to like,

mobilize resources and that's like,

awesome.

So, yeah, some of the things that have happened this year include like a large merch

fundraiser for the Mobile Herbal Clinic, Calais.

Maybe you saw those sexy plants.

No, no Borders T shirts.

Maybe you have one.

Maybe you're wearing one right now.

But yeah, that's always a big deal.

I'm going to do another one in January.

It kind of like, is a large factor in sustaining the project.

I also set up on the website, the Mobile Herbal Clinic website, the infrastructure to

enable people to donate monthly.

So, like, please become a supporter if you

can.

Like, if we had a few hundred people donating

every month, like, we wouldn't have to do all this fundraising.

So, yeah, I know.

Just keep the clinic going.

And yeah, I also, for the project for the Mobile Herbal Clinic Clinic, but kind of

offered to just solidly make the cough syrup as the main medicine maker.

Louise was like, struggling with it because she makes so much medicine and coordinates

volunteers and things.

So I've just been holding it down with the cough syrup and literally making hundreds.

And I've had some really lovely humans come and help bottle it and,

you know, do the marshmallow gloop and stuff.

hit me up.

Also raise funds for the crew in Mexico through the Plants no Borders fundraiser.

I did a ebook fundraiser for a family in Gaza that raised over £1,000.

And I also participated in this Seeds of Solidarity funding drive for Sudanese and

Palestinian farmers which raised like a thousand Canadian dollars.

So, yeah, and yeah, sorry, I'm just.

I'm just aware of time because I'm getting

cold and I'm in this ******* car park.

But yeah, the other project I've Been.

Oh yeah, sorry.

And I've also tried to promote the Guabamin Herbal Street Clinic fundraiser.

So this is an amazing herbal clinic in so called Canada and I've put it on my podcast

already in my newsletter and my Instagram.

But they're still really struggling to get enough donations to keep going.

So please, please, please check out the link on this review page for that.

And yeah, just hit me up if there's ever any sort of like herbal related projects that I

can share on my kind of networks, if that makes sense.

The other thing I've been stoked to be invol with is no Borders Herbals, which I also did a

podcast about in the global herbal solidarity episode.

And I would really love to do some interviews with folks involved in it and also with folks

that are resisting like border violence in the Balkans.

But yeah, no Borders Herbals is a self organized project of grassroots herbalists and

organizers distributing herbal medicine packs to people on the move along the Balkan route.

Rooted in mutual aid and solidarity, the project supports people facing border violence

and denied access to healthcare care.

So our gorgeous T shirts, our plants won't follow your law and order T shirts raised over

1700 pounds.

And yeah, we're definitely still up for people getting involved.

So I've put a link to that there and then.

Yeah, I always include a little bit of goal

account accountability of things I did achieve and didn't achieve.

But I didn't bother doing it thoroughly because most of them are integrated in what

I've just read out.

But things that I did not achieve were redesigning my herb garden when.

When the **** I thought I would do that? I don't know.

Doubling the enrollment in the Herbalism PTSD and traumatic stress course.

I'm just not there with like having a big enough waiting list for that.

Being involved in some kind of herbal harm reduction project locally fcking love to do

more local things herbally.

So if you are involved in any groups in Somerset, please contact me because now Lee's

in nursery, like that stuff is becoming more possible.

Organizing a prisoner solidarity training didn't happen.

Get fit postpartum.

Oh my gosh.

So I've lost a lot of weight, which I'm, you know, I'm not fat phobic.

But I'm just saying like I'm in my body how I want to be in my body, if that makes sense.

And what feels good to me.

But like how people manage to do workouts with

a toddler?

No idea.

Like literally no idea.

So give me some tips.

Get surfing and Paddleboarding in Cornwall.

Yeah, yeah, just ******* fantasy right now

unfortunately.

Unless, yeah, unless I have more childcare

help and yeah, and then there's like a list there of things that I decided to not do which

I'm not going to read out because I've been talking for ages.

But yeah, as always I just want to say thank you so much to everyone who supported this

project and this work.

It's such a weird ******* hybrid of like some,

a lot of solo work but, but like loads of collaboration and getting involved in

different things and then you know,

I'm not a charity or a workers co op, I'm like a soul trader.

But then I'm also doing loads of solidarity stuff and I know it's like a weird model but

like somehow it's like working and is enabling a lot of impact and I'm just so grateful to

everyone that has supported,

you know, like contributed to a course or made a donation or like just shared something on

social media or forwarded my email to someone, someone or just send me a email like through

the inquest.

Like people sent me such beautiful emails.

Like I could cry at how compassionate and

loving these emails were and how held I felt by people.

Like I had a whole little signal group of babes that were just amazing through the

inquest.

So I'm so grateful to that.

Oh my God, I'm gonna cry.

But yeah, it's been a full on year.

I don't think I'll be able to get out any other podcasts right now but I'm gonna

announce like a kind of plans post with things and offerings for next year.

So look out for.

My God, I've forgotten to talk about the planner.

So yeah,

this sexy planner has all the reflection questions you need to design your year next

year in terms of which plants you'd like to connect with, which medicine making skills

you'd like to develop.

How can you meet like plant nerd queer babes, you know, like all the things.

Okay.

It doesn't frame it like that but it's.

There's a section on like how to, how to find your people as well as questions around like

herbalism in action and you know like what would you like to,

you know, how would you like to kind of give back right to the plants?

So I will put a link in the show notes to it.

I'm going to promote it properly in January

but I know that like people get ahead of the curve and are in a like reflective space now

even though it's like stupid ridiculous Christmas time where everyone is just like

family trauma.

But if you've got 10 minutes and you're on your ******* phone and you want to download it

and check it out, please, it is a ******* beautiful resource that I think will help

people with their herbal journeys.

So, yeah, check that out.

And thank you for listening.

Okay, bye.

Way thanks so much for listening to the

Frontline Herbalism Podcast.

You can find the transcript, the links, all

the resources from the show at solidarityapothecary.

Org podcast.