Farmacy is a blossoming nonprofit Community Health Care Center.  Since 2003, we  have been loosely offering free herbal/natural health consultations to our community and will be building a permanent home for the center and a space open to the public in September 1, 2008.  Inspired by the health struggles of Jessica Gill and Suzanne Hastings, a large part of the center will be focused  on offering holistic-based care to cancer patients and their supporters.

Thank you to Dave Baily for donating two months of his time to renovate the Farmacy Health and Education Center!

We are officially opening on September 1, 2008

Sundays 10am-7pm
Mondays 10am-7pm
Thursdays 10am-5pm Sliding scale natural health consultations (by appointment)

Become a Farmacy Volunteer on our Cancer Care days!

Being a Farmacy volunteer means volunteering your services to cancer patients once or twice a month. We will be organizing a monthly calendar with free sessions and treatments being held at Farmacy and in various spaces in the area.

Our goal is to offer these holistic based treatments to cancer patients:
Detoxification and Using Food as Medicine, Exercise and Lifestyle change, Herbal Medicine, Acupuncture, Yoga, Reiki, Homeopathy, Energy Work, Mental Health/Spirituality Support Groups and Massage.

Farmacy is holding a Practitioners Open House on:

Sunday August 31, 2008 from 2-5pm.

This is for anyone interested in volunteering on our cancer care days.
Feel free to call with any questions.
Thanks for considering being a Farmacy volunteer!

Volunteer practitioner application (pdf) click here.

Donations for the center can be made to:

The Jessica Fund
c/o Farmacy 28
Cemetery St., Prov RI 02904

Educational Programs

In collaboration with Seven Arrows Farm, we offer an Herbal Education and
Training Program (HEAT) which runs as a series.

Farmacy/Seven Arrows programs focus on the everyday uses of over 30 plants, Tincturing and Herbal Formulation, Herbal Medicine Making and Product Development, Herbal Terminology, Herbal First Aid, Natural Health/ Herbalism Consulting Skills, Nutritional Healing, Detoxification Methods and Wild Fermentation Techniques.

For more info on classes, click here or call the number above for: class schedule, descriptions, work trade information.

Upcoming classes:

Fall HEAT
September- December, 2008
Saturdays, 10-am- 2pm
Price: $400-$500 (sliding scale)

Winter HEAT
November, 2008- March, 2009
Wednesdays, 10am-2pm
Price $400-$500 sliding scale

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Community Supported Medicine (CSM)

In 2009 we will be offering an herbal medicine based CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). The goal of  our CSM is to promote preventative medicine and educate our community on the everyday uses and benefits of the plants that are native to our area.  We believe that through a healthy lifestyle, exercise and the everyday use of herbs, we can support our systems and avoid falling ill in the first place! The proceeds of the CSM directly support The Farmacy Community Clinic.

Like a CSA, a CSM consists of  individuals who pledge to support a farm operation, creating an investment in the farm, with the grower and consumer providing mutual support.  This gives the community the opportunity to share in the farm's bounty, as well as satisfaction gained from reconnecting to the land and participating directly in food/medicine production.  This philosophy will be applied to the herbal medicine produced by our Education Programs, grown on our homestead and on other local farms.

May-October, 6 monthly pickups of:

2 oz. of  Seasonal Tinctures
1 oz. of a Farmacy Salve or Infused Oil
Bunches of seasonal fresh herbs.
4 oz. of your choice of  Farmacy Tea Blends

Full shares and half shares also include:
A Nutritional/ Herbal consultaion and 1 follow up visit in the student clinic.
10% off all Farmacy Herbal Products in 2008 Full descriptions of herbs and products and their medicinal uses.

Full Share: $170.00

Members also commit to 4 hours a month working in the gardens or in the Health Care Center.

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Donation based Herb Shop/Health Center (Opening September 2008)

We will be open:
Sundays, 10:00am- 7 pm
Mondays , 10am- 7pm
Thursdays 10am-5pm Sliding scale natural health consultations (by appointment)

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Farmacy Products can be found at:

Seven Arrows Farm
Oak Hill Ave., Attleboro, MA ( www.sevenarrowsfarm.com )

Hudson Street Market,
68 Hudson St. (Parade St And Hudson St), Providence, RI

Foodworks, Smithfield RI
Cedar Swamp Rd # 6, Smithfield, RI 02917

White Electric Coffee ( www.whiteelectriccoffee.com )
711 Westminster St. Providence, RI 02903

The Good Seed ( www.goodseedmarket.com )
138 Central Ave, Seekonk, MA 02771

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