124 – Don’t miss these two things this weekend!

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 in a car park again, a different one, though, in a slightly posh Somerset village.

So I feel a little bit self conscious with everyone walking past, but what can you do?

I just wanted to hop on to share a couple of quick announcements and then I'm gonna do a

proper episode tomorrow, not in a car park.

So, yeah, there's two things coming up.

So they are the herbalism PTSD and traumatic

stress course,

and new sexy merchandise for the Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais.

So I'm gonna chat about the merchandise first,

so if you are a new listener.

Basically,

I'm heavily involved in a project called the Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais.

And before I got Pregos and had my little one,

I was.

I spent four years going back and forth to

France with the team.

And the team still go out now.

The projects, like, you know, continued to grow.

And basically it's a mobile clinic that goes the first week of every month where it tries

to.

We don't always have the financial resources for that,

but it works with refugees and asylum seekers and people on the move in northern France.

So,

yeah, people living mostly in Dunkirk and Calais and the kind of surrounding area.

And, yeah, people are trying to,

yeah, cross into the uk and because there's no safe or legal options to do that for most

people,

people are forced to literally risk their lives crossing the Channel.

It's one of the most dangerous crossings in the world in terms of the amount of people

who've died.

And, yeah, people are forced to live in extremely horrific, hostile conditions

outside,

like, **** all infrastructure.

And the most basic of kind of, you know, a

simple cold or upper respiratory infection can escalate into much more serious respiratory

conditions, for example.

And, yeah, so the team works with people with a lot of respiratory infections and GI issues

and things as well as we've got like, an external medicine station where we do vast

amounts of, like, first aid and, you know, like, wrapping, like sprained ankles, things

like this and loads of,

like, medical advocacy.

So we drive people to hospital regularly and,

yeah, advocate for people in the local clinic.

It's called La Paz.

It's like a free clinic, but most people don't know it exists.

So, like, a huge part of our work is, like, spotting people that have, like, you know,

clinical red flags going on that really need, like, certain, like, investigations or other

medical care.

That we can offer and yeah, supporting them to know where to go, taking them if needed,

translating if needed.

But all of the medicines are made pretty much like 90% of them are made by a team of

volunteers.

Amazing herbalist called Louise who lives on an organic farm in Hampshire and she hosts

volunteers like the third weekend of the month.

So if you ever want a nice weekend at a beautiful place to get stuck in with

harvesting herbs and making medicine, they would love your help there.

There's details about that on the mobile herbal clinic website.

But yeah, basically like everything we make, like cough syrup, immune tonic,

you know, wound sprays, like all the are like from plant medicines that we've yeah, made

ourselves.

And I think that makes the project like super

special to be honest.

And there's not many similar things happening

around the world.

So yeah, so basically we are completely grassroots, like grassroots capital G. Like no

one ******* funds herbal medicine projects.

Very few people fund kind of like medical things that are like, you know, just like

response work and not,

you know, all this like community building, blah, blah.

But like, yeah, basically we have no ******* money left like and we depend entirely on

people donating like every month if they can or doing like other grassroots fundraisers.

And we near enough have like staggered on the last few years with these like massive like

merchandise fundraisers where we're selling like T shirts and hoodies and things online.

And we launched one a couple of weeks ago and it is flopped like we have only made like a

grand or something and each trip costs like £3,000 and we normally raise enough for like

five or six trips.

So I don't know what the is going on, whether it's the algorithm, whether it's like mercury

retrograde, like who knows.

But we need your help basically.

Please buy a T shirt.

There's T shirts and patches and tea towels

with two different designs that are gorgeous.

So yeah, please put it on your social media, please text your mates, please direct message

people, forward it on your email, send on your newsletters.

The deadline to order is this coming Sunday the 22nd of March.

So yeah, just.

I would just be devastated if we don't even

make enough for one trip.

Do you know what I mean?

Like I just,

yeah, I would be pretty down about that.

So yeah, please support the project.

It, you know, we are living in an age of like full on fascism and you know, even just the

far right are like coming to France and harassing people and targeting people and you

know, volunteers and mostly racialized people,

people.

But like, you know,

we need solidarity.

Like we need to be supporting each other.

Like, we need to be supporting grassroots projects that are doing the work to keep

people alive, to keep people safer.

And, you know, God knows what it's going to look like in France in the coming months with

everything that's happening in Iran and everything else.

Like,

yeah, lots of people are going to be displaced, so the needs are going to escalate

in terms of, like, health care.

So anyway, please support.

And the merch is gorgeous.

Like, if you want to attract a super f Cking cute babe who likes plants pants.

You know, maybe they're queer, maybe they're not.

I'm pretty much aware that everyone that listens to this show is queer.

So I'm just assuming that as a baseline.

But I'm just saying you will look gorgeous in

these T shirts, so please order one.

Okay. And the other thing that's happening this weekend is my herbalism, PTSD and

traumatic stress course is open for enrollment on Sunday.

This, if you haven't heard me go on and on about it, is a epic body of work with eight

modules where you are introduced to herbalism and how to build relationships with plants.

All the practical medicine making, things like herbal medicine, safety,

like, everything you need to know if you're kind of new to herbalism.

But if you're not new to herbalism and you're passionate about herbalism, you will find so

much ******* depth and value.

Because I'm constantly sharing my experience

of working with these plant medicines in practice.

So there are 32 plants that are profiled in depth who are all nervines.

So these are plants with an affinity for the nervous system.

And we look at relaxant nerve ions, we look at nerve tonics, we look at sedative herbs, we

look at stimulating nervines.

Like, we go through all the things.

There's a big, lush, geeky lesson all about, like, nervous system physiology and different

nervous system states.

Yeah, it's just like a really massive body of work.

And I've recently been kind of collating more recent testimonials, and they're gorgeous.

And I should have checked to read one out on this show.

But I will be, you know, sharing these a lot more over the next couple of weeks.

Weeks.

But, yeah, basically there's a waiting list.

So this is just a email list.

There's no, you know, commitment to buying or anything.

But if you can join the waiting list, it just soothes me to know that people are interested

and then you don't miss it because the amount of people that miss the program because of

just information overwhelm in our society.

If you sign up for the email list, you will get emails from me reminding you like when

it's open, when it closes.

It only opens twice a year, like in March and

the end of September.

So yeah, now is like the best time to learn herbalism because you're just entering spring,

well, depending on where you are in the world.

But you know, you're just heading straight

into this amazing spring and summer with loads of plants around and an opportunity to put

this stuff into practice.

So yeah, I personally am a real spring person.

So anyway, it is.

No one turned away for lack of funds, which

means you don't have to pay, you can access it for free.

I will not turn away people because they're experiencing poverty in bucking capitalism.

So, you know, you're welcome to access it for free.

You're welcome to access it on a signing scale or like a monthly donation.

You know, you could put in three pounds a month, the cost of a posh coffee.

I mean, posh coffees are like four or five quid now.

What the ****? Anyway, I'm just saying that money shouldn't

be a barrier.

I know there's like other factors like time

and energy and things, but it's completely like, no stress learning.

Like you can dip in and out.

Like even if you just logged in and did a

couple of lessons a year, that would be fine, you know, if you were like, right, I really

want to learn more about Hawthorne.

I'm just going to go listen to that lesson on Hawthorne.

Like, you're getting value from the course.

Does that make sense?

But yeah, I will be talking about it a lot more over the coming weeks before it closes

for enrollment.

But yeah, I'll put the link in the show notes to the waiting list.

Please, please, please, please, please sign up to that if you can.

If you are going to pay the like normal kind of standard fee, which is like *******

awesome.

If you can,

then if you join the waiting list, you basically get a discount code there as a thank

you.

So that's the only place I share that code.

And yeah, I'm gonna potentially change how the solidarity access works in terms of the code,

just because it's like, it's like a metrics thing of like knowing how many people have

accessed it.

So the first place I'm going to share that is the waiting list.

So please, please, please join the waiting list.

Yeah, and I'm hopefully going to be back tomorrow.

Thank you for listening.

Please, please, please buy a T shirt.

Please join the waiting list.

Thank you for supporting grassroots herbalism.

Like herbalism has so much potential and so

much impact in the world and need plant medicines more than ever in these times of

climate change and fascism and all the ******* things and escalating state violence and yeah,

herbal solidarity I think is.

Yeah, just like a wonderful thing to be organizing right now.

And yeah.

So anyway, thanks for supporting it.

Please check all the things out in the links.

And yeah, take care.

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 forward/podcast.