Mary Blue Hastings, Founder of Farmacy
Activist, Herbalist, Community Organizer.
She facilitates a 7-month herbal education and training program for budding herbalists and offers classes and workshops to gardening, senior and special interest groups and organizations. Since 2004 she has been the Practicing Herbalist, Education Coordinator and Director of The Peace Gardens Botanical Sanctuary at Seven Arrows Herb Farm.

Over the last 8 years she has taught numerous free garden/nutrition/herbal workshops to children and high school students in Providence. She is a founding member of  the following community groups:  The Annual Northeast Grassroots Community Herbal Convergence,  Farmacy Community Clinic and Urban Sustainability Project, and Providence Recycle-A- Bike. 

She has been a student of Matthew Wood, Bill Mitchell, Deb Soule,  Isla Burgess, Stephen Buhner, Margi Flint, Richo Cech, Michael and Leslie Tierra, Rosemary Gladstar and many more wonderful herbalists.  From 1999-2002 she acquired three years of herbal experience and knowledge at Indigo Herbals, an herb shop in Providence RI. In 2004, she started her career as a Community Herbalist at Seven Arrows and currently sells a line of specialized medicinal tinctures and teas at Farmers Markets and local stores.

Julian Drix is a member of rising tide, an international network of
climate justice activists. He is part of the Farmacy project as a way to
learn and share urban sustainability skills. With rising tide he has
toured and presented interactive workshops on climate justice in high
schools, community centers, colleges, and conferences. He is helping to
organize this summer's northeast climate Confluence, which will create the
space to develop truly grassroots solutions to the climate crisis.

Farmacy volunteers and supports are many!

Past Members include (over a year residence)
Kate Merrill, Tara Cimini, Beth Truskoski, Sharon Ambielli, Seth, Mairade,
JC Lawrence, Dave Pike, Fletcher