Farmacy Herbs is located at 28 Cemetery St. Providence, RI.
Open hours are: Sundays 12pm-5pm Mondays 10am-5pm
Thursdays 10am-5pm (starting Oct 1st), Fridays 10am-5pm
Our free student run clinic meets on Fridays, Call for an appointment!
We do not accept credit or debit cards!
We have a large selection of bulk dried herbs, tea blends, tinctures, books and herbal products.
Click here for a list of our products
We offer sliding scale/free 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.
Check out our new blog:
Urban Herbals A-Z
Urban Herbals A-Z is a Farmacy Apprentice project. Read their weekly reports on each herb in our shop and what's happening here at Farmacy!
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 Herbal Education and Training Program. Click for a Link.
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.
You can find Farmacy products at
these venues:
The Wintertime Farmers Market
Saturdays,
Hope Artist Village, Pawtucket, RI
The Alternative Food Co-op - Wakefield, RI
Seven Arrows Farm - Attleboro, MA
Brown University Farmers Market
Wednesdays, September-October
Hope St. Farmers Market
Saturdays,
June-October
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 it out our 2008/9 Awards and Newspaper Articles:
Rhode Island Monthly " Best of Rhode Island" August 2009 Issue.
* Health and Beauty Award*
click here for a link
International Herbal Symposium, June 2009
*1st Place Prize in the Herbal Product Making Contest, Purely Medicinal Category*
Northeast Herbal Association
*2008 Community Herbalist Award*
It's a Good Look.com
*Matrin Luther King Day Award *
Providence Business News
*Weekly Small Business Feature, July 2009*
Providence Journal
*Front Page Article, Urban Oasis, and Grand Opening, September 2008*
In the past 10 years we have facilitated:
-
a 1/4 acre urban garden
- free food distributions in our neighborhood, downtown Providence and for cancer patients
- a children's summer camp
- free/ sliding scale natural health/herbal consultations
- distribution of herbal products at farmer's markets
- biannual community celebrations
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Innovative Sustainability Skill Shares
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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.
In supporting Farmacy, you are supporting a community based effort focused on supporting healthy and positive social change.
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.
*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.
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.
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