The mission of the Solidarity Apothecary is to materially support revolutionary struggles and communities with plant medicines to strengthen collective autonomy, self-defence and resilience to climate change, capitalism and state violence.

This episode is a review of the work towards this goal in 2024.

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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'm so sorry I haven't published any episodes in a fair while.

Had a little bit of a break after the kind of launch in the Herbalism PTSD and traumatic

stress course.

And yeah, I'm just in like, just in hardcore

babyland really.

Lee is 8 months old now and super adorable, but just, yeah, I used to be able to kind of

like sneak on my laptop during nap time and now it's just like impossible.

He'll just kind of notice and wake up.

So things have changed, but yeah, it's not,

it's not forever.

I know that I will have to go back to work

properly at some point.

But yeah, I'm loving being able to just kind of look after him full time and give him all

the love and nurturance in the world because this kind of first three years of life are

really when someone's nervous system is fully developing.

So I just, yeah, want to make him laugh and make him feel as content as possible for as

long as I can.

So yeah, anyway, how are you doing?

I have got lots of different kind of random bits and bobs to say, I guess different

updates on different projects and solidarity apothecary offerings and all the things.

So I will just dive in.

And yeah, I do hope to return with some more like podcast series soon.

I'm going to do a series on herbs for sustaining resistance, like how to kind of

like support yourself, you know, as you're engaged in kind of organizing or struggle or

just like surviving capitalism in general.

I was also going to do a series all about nervines, like in the build up to the next

herbalism, PTSD and traumatic stress course.

So anyway, keep posted.

I'm going to try and like move things to more herbal content.

It's basically impossible to do interviews at the moment, like around Lee's nap time and

yeah, like not having the sort of childcare infrastructure in place yet.

It's like, it's just really difficult, difficult to schedule anything even just to do

little calls.

So I kind of have to seize these little opportunities to like self record while my mum

has Lee.

So anyway, I'm just gonna do a bit of a 2024

review.

If you didn't know.

I kind of do this every year as part of my

sort of like planning and design process.

I think it's really important because different people kind of donate to the

Apothecary.

I like to share what I've done and like

different impact the project has had.

And obviously I know it's mostly me, but I

just want to emphasize that like you know, I'm part of this huge ecosystem of people doing

awesome stuff and you know, all of the pro like near enough.

All of the projects are like super collaborative organizing with other people.

You know, whether it's the clinic in Calais or people distributing the prisoners herbals

around the world.

Like yeah, nothing is like a solo effort.

Okay, so here is my 2024 review.

So the mission of the Solidarity Apothecary is to materially support revolutionary struggles

and communities with plant medicines to strengthen collective autonomy, self defense

and resilience to climate change, capitalism and state violence.

Each year I review the work towards this goal and I'm going to be reading the blog post I've

written and then just kind of like ad libbing here and there, but I'll put a link in the

show notes for you.

So I wrote One night during a 4am breastfeeding session, I came across the poem

the Beautiful and the Hard by Jess Ehrlichs on Instagram.

Sorry if I've mispronounced your name.

The Beautiful and the hard describe 2024 perfectly to me for so many reasons.

Behind the scenes, things went easy.

My partner, after five years clean, had a

major relapse that shook our lives to the core and created emotional and financial

instability at a time when I desperately needed both in pregnancy and afterwards.

My birth was traumatic cascade of medical interventions including preeclampsia, sepsis

and an emergency cesarean, all after the worst hyperemesis.

That meant I spent six months severely dehydrated and violently vomiting.

Thank God it shifted a little in the last months of my pregnancy.

The Hard, however, has been outweighed by The Beautiful, and 2024 closes.

With my family still together, my partner still alive, our beautiful son making us laugh

on a daily basis, and a sense of joy and hope amidst what feel like a collapsing world

around us of multiple genocides, climate change, rising fascism and state violence,

here are some of the things that went down in 2024.

1. Bringing my son into the World In May, I gave birth to my son Lee.

Every day since has been full of joy and delight as I witnessed the magic of him

learning and growing and figuring out this whole human thing.

I've never experienced a feeling like it, and I'm so grateful that Rob came into my life so

that we could create this amazing human together.

Alas, being what a full time, what feels like a full time anarchist housewife is also tough.

I went from an extremely full life of relentless organizing multiple projects,

clients and international travel to spending most days in our static caravan, breastfeeding

and changing nappies.

I wouldn't change it for the world, but it's a huge life change and identity shift that I'm

riding out right now.

Nurturingly, it's my priority and this period

of time is such a brief moment in the context of my life that I'm trying to focus on

cherishing it all without grieving everything I did before.

Freedom will creep back slowly, I'm sure.

From a herbal learning perspective.

I've loved learning about postpartum herbal support, experimenting with blends for myself

and various health needs that surface in pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

And yeah, on the blog you'll see a cute little picture of me and Lee.

Yeah, so I guess that's another reason why I had a kind of podcast pause is I kind of like

finally got swept up in a bit of baby blues, I think.

Yeah, it's just a lot like it's the best thing in the whole world and I'm so grateful to have

Lee.

And you know, I'm not like a mum living in

Gaza, you know, like it's, it's amazing, like in the sense that I have loads of support and

privilege and access to resources and all the things, but it's still just so hard and yeah,

I feel.

Yeah, it's just difficult.

It's just difficult.

Like I'm very isolated where I live in countryside, so anyone wants to visit, you're

welcome.

And yeah, most of my friends have their own

stuff going on, whether that's chronic illness or family things or.

Yeah, they don't live nearby so it's kind of.

Yeah, it's kind of like tender and challenging

and yeah, I feel a lot of like questioning of like who I am, what is this life like?

Because, you know, the days can be a little bit.

Not monotonous but just repetitive I guess.

But you know, I'm also like incredibly happy

and yeah, Lee is just like the, the best human and it's definitely the best thing I've ever

done.

It's just.

Yeah, it's just so different to my life before

and I think I've tried really hard to like meet other people who have kids and stuff and

yeah, have some close friends where that's like really working and is amazing but it's

just different.

Like I don't go to a baby group.

And I'm not like, hey, how does it feel to

know that there's this like ongoing genocide and you can just barely do anything about it

because you're just full time in babyland or, you know, I didn't see my friends in prison

last year, for example.

Like, that was really tough for me.

Yeah, it's just.

It's just different, but it's.

Yeah, it is really wonderful.

And yeah, I. I try and have like a long term

perspective on things of just like this.

Okay. I know I'm gonna be looking after him for a really long time, but in terms of this,

like, really intense period of like really next to no time for myself, next to no time to

work, it's really tiny in the context of my life, you know, it's like two, three, four

years be.

So, yeah, I'm just trying to ride it out and do the best I can.

Working on my phone in the evenings and things and organizing in the ways I can and just

trying to enjoy it.

Because everyone I know that has kids is just like, oh, just enjoy it.

You know, just like, you'll miss it, like.

And I already miss how small he used to be,

you know, and how he'd just constantly want to breastfeed and, you know, now he, like,

doesn't need me for a couple of hours.

Like if he's with someone else from like.

Oh.

So anyway.

But yeah, it's been a. It's been a big, life

changing year.

Okay. Number two, publishing the Herbalism and State Violence book.

In March, I finally published the Herbalism and State Violence book.

It's an absolute beast at 444 pages and brings together contributions from around the world.

The book focuses on state repression, police violence, prisons, the border regime,

genocide, occupation and war, While recognizing there are millions more other

forms of state violence shaping people's lives and bodies.

From herbal care for handcuff injuries to healing from incarceration.

The book looks at herbal solidarity in practice with examples from around the world.

Tools are shared for herbal medic responses at demonstrations, protests and uprisings.

To practicing herbalism in prison.

To herbal support for nightmares, panic

attacks and other expressions of distress and trauma.

You can learn more here and I'll put the link, or I'll put the link to this page and yeah,

you can find the book.

I'm no longer posting physical copies myself,

but I've included a link of where to order a physical copy.

And you can get a copy of the ebook on my website as well.

For six pounds and all the income from these books pays for like the Prisoner's Herbal

Books and the other projects.

I'm so grateful to my amazing friend Kez Otterleaf, who not only edited the book, but

was the best fem dom you could ask for in terms of accountability.

She's open to supporting other people with their book projects, so make sure you get in

touch with her@otolief.com.

so yeah, so Kez was just absolute dream.

Yeah, I paid her to help me, yeah, feel like structure the book and seek, you know, like

clarify things with contributors.

And we did lots of like talking and recording

and her editing the transcripts and kind of like not ghost writing but just doing a write

up that I would then do loads of work on and then she'd edit it and yeah, it just was

amazing.

Like it just felt so good to work together and yeah, meant that a project that I started in

2020 could like finally get kind of completed, which is what I wanted.

So yeah, please let me know if you've been.

Yeah. How the book is for you.

Okay.

Herbal Care packages is number three.

So one of my goals for 2024 was to systematize

my herbal care packages and make them more accessible for folks requesting herbal

support.

This autumn, I shared a Herbal Solidarity survey as a way of inviting feedback on what

would improve this work.

After loads of responses, I think like 60 people replied, which was really wicked.

Like it was so great reading everyone's feedback, you know, like some critical

feedback in there.

And that was also like very invited and you

know, I've been reflecting on that a lot and stuff.

So yeah, I just really appreciate everyone that filled it in.

So yeah, I've effectively redesigned the offerings to make them easier and simpler for

people to request with more specific packages for groups of people that the Solidarity

apothecary serves.

So you can, you can find a link to all the herbal care packages available and their

request forms.

I'll talk about that more in another episode.

But yeah, being pregnant and then on maternity leave, getting herbal support out to folks was

an area of work that was paused for most of the year.

However, I had an amazing comrade came to stay who just wants to be anonymous.

I can't even tag them in post, but they've just been absolute legend.

Like sorting out my herb shed, making loads of medicine, doing loads of bottling and

labeling, just like just.

Yeah. So it's really easy for me now to just collect the bottles, put them in a box, send

them off.

So yeah, that was amazing.

But yeah, herbal care packages have been Distributed especially this side of the year.

So yeah, to several individuals and groups.

This includes people organizing for

Palestinian liberation, some former prisoners and prisoner family members, a couple of folks

stabbing the badger call and some other close comrades herbs recently.

Also Kurdish Freedom movement organizers that have recently been arrested in like a wave of

repression by the British state defendants received my anti oppression herbal care

packages and the comrades on hunger strike received dried herbs for tea.

So I sent them nettle, a nervous system blend and a gut healing blend for after the strike

to help with recovery.

Medicines were also donated to Sleek who I did a podcast interview with before who are

amazing survivors of kind of sexual male violence that organize sort of mutual aid and

support for.

For survivors of sexual violence.

They're just absolute babes.

So yeah, we made 100 nervous system soother blends, immune tonics and lavender oils that

they distributed in packs for people this kind of around Christmas time.

And yeah, this October solidarity Pothcry also supported an amazing human called Elliot and a

few volunteers in a collective who yeah transported and prepared and organized 3, 000

bottles of tinctures and teas for nervous system support into Ukraine.

And yeah, organization called Insight has been distributing them to kind of queer defenders

and disabled elders living in different regions.

And yeah, we're trying to like still raise some money for the endeavor.

I, I put down like or I paid like £300 for a van for van hire to get the medicine in and

then like paid £500 for the deposit which got lost like, like the.

Something happened to the van.

So like we lost that deposit.

So that was, that was pretty br.

And also yeah, it's a really long story about Ukraine herbal solarity but we're in a little

bit of debt from kind of the previous iteration of the project.

So yeah, if anyone wants to donate for that then if you can whack it in the donation page

on the Solar Apothecary site, I would love you forever.

And I could reimburse the person who's owed some money.

I did launch a fundraiser earlier in the year with like ACAB T shirts and they just like

completely flopped.

Just like obviously I don't know if people

don't hate the cops enough or they don't want wear like an explicitly anti cop T shirt like

that.

But yeah, I've just never known anything like it.

It just did so badly.

I made like £200 or something which you know

isn't anything to sniff out but I was hoping to raise like a few grand to cover with

medicine making costs of the care Packages.

And yeah, we'll have to go back to the drawing board with that one, but okay, distributing

the prisoners herbals is number four.

So requests for Prisoners Herbal books

continue to come in week on week.

I'm so grateful to the legend that is Ellie.

She' oh no, I'm gonna get it wrong.

Is it Herbal Ellie?

Anyway, I'll.

I'll check what it is on Instagram and plug

her another time.

But yeah, she took on posting out books to

prisoners during my maternity leave, which has been amazing.

I've just been like forwarding her emails and she's just been getting them in the post, so

that's really exciting.

And also the book has now been published in

Italian, so there's a blog post about that on my website by the awesome crew that are there.

Yeah, and I've also put the.

The ebook to the Spanish translation on the

website, which is accessible.

So yeah, please keep requesting books for

prisoners.

Okay. Number five is the Frontline Herbalism Podcast.

So the podcast that you're listening to now went from strength to strength this year.

But one of my regrets was not timetabling in more interviews before my baby was born.

I have got a massive spreadsheet of people to interview, but no idea how to make them happen

with life being totally determined by naps and breastfeeding and not tons of baby care

support.

So alas, it will be solo shows for the time being until Bubs is a little bit older.

So yeah, if you're listening to this, you'll know where to get these episodes.

But some of the whole bunch of episodes were published this year, including a whole series

of PTSD and herbalism case studies.

Let me know.

Like, I haven't had much feedback on them, but

let me know if they were useful for you to hear.

I also did a series about herbalism, incarceration and abolition, which is

available to watch on my website for free.

There were also different episodes with articles from the Herbalism and State Violence

book, such as Herbal Support for Prison Visits and Stressful Days, Herbal Allies for Grief

Healing From Incarceration Police Raids and Herbal Allies for Shock and Herbal Support for

Nightmares.

And yeah, there were also some amazing interviews, including Sleek, who I've

mentioned, where we talked about sexual violence and trauma, as well as a kind of

second interview that they did with me.

But you know, we're all talking together about how sexual violence intersects with state

violence evidence.

I also interviewed the amazing Jackie Sumo

from the Solitary Gardens Project.

Please check that out if you haven't.

And the awesome Rocks from Movement in Time in Scotland about solidarity, medicine making and

of course beloved Rashika about community herbalism and Layla about herbalism,

resistance and remembrance.

So yeah, just awesome interviews.

Like I said, I've got a whole spreadsheet of people that I would love to interview on the

show.

I will try and sort it out so I can make it

happen.

But yeah, let me know if you've been listening to any of them and please, please, please

leave a review if you can, if you have been listening to the podcast and enjoying it.

All right, and number six was Herbal Solidarity and Border Violence.

So yeah, unfortunately my pregnancy meant time off from the Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais.

I'm working sort of directly in France as a herbalist medic.

However, I've done my best to contribute to the behind the scenes efforts in the UK that

help keep the project going.

So in January we launched a merchandise fundraiser with the infamous Plants no no

Borders T shirts that raised £10,000.

We had like T shirts and hoodies and aprons.

I did say then that it was the absolute last time we were using the design and the screen

printers chucked the, the screens.

But I get so many messages about them that I am tempted to maybe do it again just because

the project is always in need of funds.

But yeah, I'm not going to make any promises.

My friend's also done an amazing, gorgeous illustration.

Dandelion and birds coming out of it.

So like we might maybe we'll do like a new and

old design at the same time or something, I don't know.

So yeah, anyway, I took a bunch of time off the clinic and the project and then I stepped

back in this autumn.

Haven't been very consistent at making meetings and things, but I have been doing my

best to set up some fundraising infrastructure to allow for monthly donations.

So please, please, please, please, please, please, please.

I know I'm shooting myself in the foot because I also want people to donate to the solidary

Apothecary.

But like if you could become a monthly

supporter of the Mobile Herbal Clinic, I would literally love you forever.

Like that is what we need.

We need some financial stability to make the

projects happen, make the clinics happen very consistently because it's, yeah, it's been

difficult, a lot of kind of stop start.

So yeah, if you could just donate even a couple of quid a month, that would be amazing.

I also pre recorded a workshop on Herbalism and Border Violence which was kind of in

collaboration with the rail yard Apothecary again, which was a fundraiser which I will up

upload on my website.

Soon. So, yeah, thank you so much to everyone who signed up to that and donated and before

giving birth, literally, like, like two weeks or so before I gave birth, like finally

happened, we had to keep rescheduling for various reasons.

But I was honored to work with solidarity detainee support, who used to be soas,

detainee support to develop some training on like abolitionist responses to suicide and

distress while working with folks in detention and prisons.

So yeah, I do have plans to kind of do like another version of.

Let me know if you'd be interested.

Okay. Number seven was relaunching the Herbalism, PTSD and Traumatic stress course.

So the doors opened once again to the course.

It was really amazing to welcome more people

in.

I was just.

I'm always blown away by the interest and the

support and I'm really grateful to everyone who joined the course.

Please, please, please join the waiting list if you can, if you're interested in it and

I'll put a link in the show notes to the course.

And also, yeah, I published a herbal support for panic attacks guide that, yeah, you can

find on the website as well.

Number eight was teaching medicine making.

So yeah, another practical medicine making

intensive took place in September and it was just such a joy.

It was really hard for me.

Like my partner was in rehab for six weeks.

I was with the baby.

Yeah, his mum came to look after Lee during the course but like every single break of the

course I was like running back to the caravan to breastfeed, feed him and then, yeah, went

to bed with him at 5:00 because we co sleep.

So got him down at 6 and just like slept with him all night and just breastfeed, breastfed

through the night and then woke up and like taught the course for like three days in a

row.

And like, yeah, I was so nervous about it, but it did go really well and like the people that

came were just so awesome.

Like it was just an absolute bunch of queer

cuties and like everyone was so lush and like I honestly, I could cry thinking about it.

Like, it was just so great.

So yeah, they're going to take place again in May and June this year.

So please join the newsletter and I'm going to announce when they're ready to book.

I just want to kind of tweak some things in the welcome pack and stuff.

Yeah, and on the course we took a deep dive into tincture making, glycerites, ointments,

infused oils and loads of things.

And finally, number nine is mutual aid against genocide and more.

So we couldn't talk about 2024 without speaking about the ongoing horrors of the

world.

While my capacity has shrunk to using my phone during these naps, I've done my best to keep

organizing the best I can.

This includes various fundraisers such as for the Samir project, which I think raised like

nearly $600 where I was selling my ebooks.

I might try and do that again this year.

And yeah, also you know, offering various of my digital offerings to different auctions and

things.

So yeah, and yeah, even though kind of prison visits haven't been possible, I've done my

best to kind of ampl fight action alerts for various friends and comrades inside, including

Pharah, who has stage three cancer while in prison.

I'll put a link to that.

But yeah, please don't be afraid to reach me

on Instagram.

Like I've spent years like building up this

like platform right on building up my newsletter and everything else.

And like just honestly like drop me a direct message if you want me to like repost

something or share something in my stories.

Like, you know, I just want to use that

platform as much as possible for solidarity.

Okay. And then the last part of the review is like I do a little kind of goal accountability

check in.

So each year I sort of publicly share my goals

and yeah, it kind of like helps me stay accountable.

So yeah, these were the ones that were achieved.

So to finalize my herbal solidarity care packages and set them up on my website for

easier access.

So I'll talk about that in the next episode.

Continue with this podcast to finish the Herbalism and State Violence book.

Woohoo.

To support folks, to wrap up as as many translated versions of my book as possible.

Like obviously I can only do what I can.

I just kind of have to let the collectives go

at their own pace.

To redecorate my herb shed and organize my storage.

Ready to make it into an office too.

So I've yeah, I've kind of built more

shelving, moved all my like books and stuff down there.

So I have done a bit of that.

But it still needs a little bit of a kind of

makeover to support the mobile herbal clinic to develop a monthly donation program.

So I've done the tech, I just need the people sign up for it to relaunch the PTSD course

which I did.

Organize face to face medicine making sessions

and receive help more.

Yeah, so I've had that.

In terms of like individual comrades coming to

stay, I think I'm still a bit nervy about COVID If I'm honest, like, people that will

follow me on Instagram saw that basically, like Lee was in hospital for a week with a

fever, like, vomiting, wouldn't breastfeed.

Like, it was literally one of the worst weeks of my whole life.

Like, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

And yeah, he tested positive for Covid.

And yeah, I just, I don't know, I'm just

frightened.

Like, I'm in a bit of a weird anxiety place

with him.

And yeah, anyway, that's a whole other

podcast.

But yeah, I'm just anxious of having a bunch of random people come to my house, especially

people locally who don't believe that covet exists, which is a thing right near

Glastonbury and stuff.

So. Yeah, but I have been really grateful to have comrades come down and I think maybe

that's like the way forward.

And you know, I know I teach this medicine making course which is like a face to face

offering, so maybe I'm a bit of a hypocrite, but like, I've never had anyone get Covid from

one of my courses.

Like, we've always encouraged people to test.

I've always had like a really flexible refund

policy of like, if you're sick in any way, just I'll give you a refund.

Do you know what I mean?

Like, I'd much rather lose 2, 300 quid than like risk everyone's health, including my

babies.

So anyway, to enroll in some kind of foot care

training.

So I've done that.

I'm doing like the online version of it on my phone, but I'm enjoying that.

I'm only like, literally one module in and then you have to go and do like two weeks face

to face.

So I have no idea how I'm gonna do that with the baby, but you know, it'll happen

eventually.

Other goals.

So I'm going ongoing goals to continue to

invest in my clinical education and learning.

So I'm constantly listening to podcasts,

watching webinars, doing all the things, things to continue self education about

different areas of struggle.

Yeah, just like again, podcast reading, talking to friends, all the things to continue

to organize prisoner solidarity and stay involved in my various political collectives

through pregnancy and maternity leave.

The best I can definitely try my hardest with that one.

Personal goals, once planning permission is confirmed, support Rob to decorate the static

caravan and create the nicest rockabilly love, rockabilly love nest ever.

So, yeah, have achieved that one.

Living in a really beautiful mobile home now

and it's got all the cute Rockabilly pictures, tattoo art, prints, framed checkerboard floor.

Yeah, it's really gorgeous.

I'm really, really happy in there to give

birth to a healthy, beautiful, amazing human tick.

Joking.

To have a healthy rest of my pregnancy and

empowering birth and a calm and enjoyable postpartum period.

Well, definitely didn't have an empowering birth and I definitely didn't have a calm

postpartum period.

Jobs relapse.

But hey, you know, he's doing amazing now with

recovery and rehab and N A and all the things and I'm super, super proud of him to continue

to build spiritual skills, to hang out with friends more and make more local friends with

babies.

Still trying, but I have got a couple of awesome local friends now.

Not achieved, so didn't organize a recorded prisoner solidary training.

Didn't finish.

Or launch the do no harm course which is like

an offering all about clinical safety for grassroots herbal tabless.

It's in process but not finished.

It's something I try and work on on my phone

every single night.

When Lee's asleep and I'm lying next to him, I

just try and do like an hour and a half and then go to sleep.

I literally go to sleep at like 8 o'clock.

It just has to happen to offer one to one

support via my online clinic.

Yeah, just I don't know where I thought I'd

have the ability to do that.

To enroll in applying functional medicine and clinical practice training.

It's like two grand.

It's just not happened.

But yeah, again it's on the wish list to save up for a trip to Australia and New Zealand to

introduce our baby to our family living there.

So my stepmom and my brother live in New Zealand.

I mean, sorry, live in Australia, in Western Australia.

So I was really hoping that we could maybe go there and everyone's like, oh, go with.

The baby's young, you know, because it's like free.

But it's like, wow, literally.

Well, how did I think I would travel across

the world? Like I'm insane.

Like just.

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Like I can barely go to a coffee shop in my local town.

So it's just.

Yeah, it's so silly to get surf practice.

Practice.

Yeah, that's failed.

Don't live anywhere near the sea.

I haven't gone on holiday anywhere near the

sea.

So yeah, okay.

And goals I renegotiated was sorting out some sort of fulfillment center for my books,

finishing my endobiogenic medicine diploma.

So this is something I enrolled in a few years

ago.

And then I had to kind of just cancel it basically because of the pregnancy.

But they're happy for me to redo it in the next kind of group and to explore the

possibilities of organizing some sort of local her project.

So, like, I'm really missing that kind of like direct mutual aid, face to face stuff, like,

you know, like in Calais.

Like, I'm really good at wound care and

organizing and working with people directly.

And I just.

Yeah, I just hate having to just do everything

mediated by like a phone or a laptop, you know.

So that, you know, local project hasn't happened.

But I also laugh at myself of like, how I thought I'd be able to do that.

I have no idea.

So anyway, it hasn't happened.

But I would like to put a call out to the

universe that if people are in like Somerset, for example, doing anything, you know, with

like unhoused folks or, you know, like refugees or asylum seekers or, you know,

people in recovery, things like this, like, I would be so happy to just kind of slot in as a

herbalist and like support folks.

I just.

Yeah, haven't got the kind of energy to

organize those stuff or initiate things.

But I would just love to just kind of be able

to like, turn up, off, offer support, offer medicine, hold space for people, you know,

like in a kind of like low key way, like a few hours a month or something.

So. Yeah. Anyway.

Wow, this episode has got to half an hour, so

I'm gonna stop there.

That's my kind of like review of the year.

Yeah. I'll put the link in the show notes to all the things and then I'm gonna record an

episode with kind of like, yeah, some of the goals for 2025 and some of the solid

apothecary offerings that I hope you can check out.

Okay, thanks for listening.

Yeah, take the care.

Thanks so much for listening to the Frontline Herbalism podcast.

You can find the transcript, the links, all the resources from the

show@solidarityapothecary.org

podcast.