Farmacy Herbs is located at 28 Cemetery St. Providence, RI.

We have a large selection of bulk dried herbs, tea blends, tinctures, books and herbal products.
We offer sliding scale natural health consultations and herbal education programs/classes.

The Farmacy herb shop and community health center opened in 2008. Our gardens were founded in 2000.

Farmacy offers holistic-based information, referrals and resources to cancer patients. 
Classes in detoxification, healthy eating choices, exercise and lifestyle changes,
herbal information, Reiki, Energy work and Emotional Support groups are offered.

We do not treat cancer. This program provides information and referrals to people looking to
complement their medical treatments.

We cultivate, wildcraft and formulate our herbal formulas on the premises and on local farms. 
Our collection of tinctures, tea blends and herbal products are sold at local stores and farmers markets and are produced by Farmacy/Seven Arrows Farm Herbal Education and Training Program (www.sevenarrowsfarm.com).

Volunteer with us on Sundays and Mondays.
Farmacy volunteers commit to coming once a week for 2-5 hours for a month or longer.

Quote from a recent volunteer, Vanessa Jones:

Most of all, I am moved by the possibility Farmacy Herbs represents: growing, not outside the city, but blossoming smack in the middle of this chaos. Like a bee buzzing and zipping about, I slow for a moment, land on this flower and taste its sweet healing nectar. Though a brief time, my spirit is nourished. I fly on, carrying pollen-laden possibility to the next place I land: just one more example of the power in plants.

Come by for a visit.

Spring Open hours are:
Sundays 10am-5pm
Mondays 10am-5pm

We do not accept credit or debit cards!

Note: Hours change seasonally!

Sliding scale natural health consultations (by appointment)

Thursdays 10am-5pm

Farmacy residents and supporters are working to create accessible community health care and wellness through environmental awareness and holistic practices. We strive toward sharing affordable, do-it-yourself methods of natural health-promoting practices.

 

Check out our new 2009 programs:

Community Supported Medicine Click here for info!

2009 Level 1 and 2 Herbal Education And Training, Click here for info!

 

For all interested parties: check out the federal and local laws that protect herbalists:

DSHEA Act, passed in 1994, which classifies herbs and vitamins as foods and makes it legal to sell them without licensure.

The Unlicensed Practitioner Act (RIGL 23-74) allows herbalists to practice without a license.

There is no governmental certification for herbalists, only recognized institutions.

 

In the past 10 years we have facilitated:

- a 1/4 acre urban community garden
- free food distributions in our neighborhood and downtown
- a neighborhood children's summer camp
- free/ sliding scale natural health/herbal consultations
- distribution of herbal products at farmer's markets
- biannual community celebrations

- Innovative Sustainability Skill Shares

- Numerous 7-month herbal apprentice programs

We are founding members of The Annual Northeast Community Herbal Convergence, and the Northeast Radical Healers Network, Radherb and active members of The Northeast Herbal Association, and Providence Recycle-A-Bike.

Over the last 3 years we have narrowed our activities down to Community Health and Herbalism. In supporting Farmacy by volunteering or with a financial contribution, you are supporting a nonprofit community based effort focused on supporting healthy and positive social change.

*The services of Farmacy Herbs are for educational and support purposes only and are not meant to substitute the advice and/ or treatment of your doctor/health care practitioner.

 

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