In this episode, Nicole (she/her) shares all the offerings of the Solidarity Apothecary in 2025. Including courses, workshops, books, free resources and more.

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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 thought before diving into the Herbs first Sustaining Resistance series and all the

things, I'd just continue on with these, like, little announcement episodes.

So I've already done one, sharing the 2024 review of the year.

And I've also published an episod today about plans for 2025 other than just breastfeeding

and changing nappies.

But I wanted to record an episode with all of

the kind of offerings of the Solidarity Apothecary because I know sometimes they can

be, you know, like, with anyone, and their project is hard to know.

Like, all the things that are available.

We all have our own sort of, like, ecosystems of things that are happening.

And I just thought if everything was in the same place, it might be useful for folks.

So I'll put a link in the show.

Notes to a website post has got all this

information and links to the various things specifically.

So, yeah, I'm just gonna.

I'm just gonna make this brief and I'm gonna

dive in.

So, yeah, just at the top.

Solidarity Apothecary courses.

So maybe you've heard if you followed this

podcast.

I talk a lot about this course, but the kind of, like, signature course that I run is this

herbalism PTSD and traumatic stress course, which I launch once, sometimes twice a year.

It is, like, with all of these offerings, by the way.

It is like no one turned away for lack of funds.

So it's like a complete sliding scale.

People are welcome to access it for free if

needed.

Otherwise there's like, yeah, different rates of pay for different folks, you know, who have

different access to financial resources.

But, yeah, there's like, a bunch of episodes

on the kind of podcast history where I'm talking about the course.

So you can check those out.

It's basically got eight modules.

It's exploring all about how trauma shapes the body, different kind of political frameworks

around trauma.

How do we collectively respond to trauma and

traumatic stress?

We. There's like a nervous system deep dive looking at kind of anatomy and physiology and

various kind of nervous system states.

And then, yeah, and then we introduce all the

herbalism stuff to things about, you know, first steps in herbalism and medicine, making

skills and safe foraging and stuff like that.

But also this kind of real intense deep dive into plants called nervines, which are, like,

nerves with an affinity for the nervous system, herbs.

So all nerves have an affinity with the nervous system.

Herbs with an affinity for the nervous system.

And we look at different categories of those

and yeah, each kind of plan is quite in depth with different kind of like focuses and

traditional uses, but also, you know, different kind of articles and recent research

around the plants and experiences from my time as a herbalist and my self experimentation.

So yeah, it is coming from.

I'm gonna launch it on the 22nd of March and

I'm gonna close it on the 12th of April.

So I don't normally publish the closing date

because people will just end up buying it on the closing day.

And it just causes like weeks of anxiety for me that haven't made any money.

You know, just for transparency purpose.

This course is what like basically funds my

time and funds the apothecary.

If you've ever done herbalism, you'll know that the costs are really expensive.

Like little plastic bottles and glycerin and vodka and medic postage is eye watering for

all the like thousands of prisoner books that we distribute.

So yeah, it's.

Yeah, it's a big fundraiser for this, for the

Solidarity Pottery in general.

So I really encourage you to join the waiting list so you can find a link to that on the

course and like on the course kind of page.

The waiting list means that I get like a

flavor of how many people are interested in the course.

But it also means that like you don't miss it because I only email my main user a few times

about it and people regularly miss it and they're like, oh my God.

And I'm like, sorry, I'm not going to open it till next year.

So being on the waiting list just means that like, yeah, you have kind of access to it.

Yeah. So that's the main course coming up this spring.

I'm also teaching two face to face courses.

These are the practical medicine making

intensives.

So they are three day courses, like completely

outside.

I'm very grateful that no one's had Covid.

Like no one's developed Covid from coming to

the course.

Like you'll see about that stuff in the

welcome package.

Um, but yeah, again like it's not completely.

No one turned away for lack of funds.

Like it, you know, there's like paid places

that make the whole thing happen.

Um, but I do on every course I give about a

third of the places away to people who just kind of request them really, like who are on

benefits, who are on super low incomes, who are struggling financially.

Um, so yeah, if you are interested in kind of a free or subsidized place, you know, like

maybe you can afford something but not the whole thing.

Then please email me@infooldapothecary.org

otherwise I personally think it's still quite affordable.

Yeah, it's like, you know, you can learn all the skills that can take you years and years

to learn, like in three days.

Like we literally do everything from tinctures

to different kinds of glycerites to infused oils and ointments.

Like, people just love it.

And they literally come away with loads of

confidence to make medicine and go on to, you know, volunteer with a clinic in Calais, for

example, making medicine.

So, yeah, I'm very proud of the course.

It's tons of fun.

Get to meet me and my man and our doggy and our baby.

So people enjoy that.

And yeah, it's on this beautiful small holding

in Somerset.

So, yeah, anyway, so the dates for those are

the 16th to the 18th of May and the 13th to the 15th of June.

I generally just email my newsletter list telling them when they're available to be

booked.

And they tend to get booked like very quickly,

like a week or so.

So if you're interested, please join the

newsletter list.

I'll put the link in the show notes so again, you don't miss it.

Okay. And then there's also various like free online herbal workshops or sliding scale

workshops.

So there's one about making herbal medicine

with glycerin which is like a paid offering, but there's codes on the page if you need to

access it for free.

So this is all about, yeah, how to work with glycerin as an alternative to alcohol to make

accessible medicine.

Because not everyone in our communities can

consume medicine with alcohol.

So, yeah, I have experimented for years and how to make like effective, potent, strong

glycerites.

And yeah, I can make them very quickly in like

one to two days using a slow cooker.

I talk about the ones that you don't use a slow cooker for that are best fresh, for

example.

And I talk about these as like warm and cold methods.

So anyway, it's a very geeky offering, very focused on that one aspect of medicine making.

But it's like, yeah, again, all the funds go towards the apothecary.

And then, yeah, I have a bunch of like recordings of workshops that I've done like

over the last few years.

So there's one that was at the New York

Anarchist Book affair about herbalism and state violence that was back in 2020.

So that's just Like a general introduction to the solidarity apothecary.

And like, what are the roles of herbalists and responding to state violence, you know, like,

beyond just like being a street medic, for example, like, how can we show up for people

in prison?

How can we show up for communities that are, you know, traumatized by the state and

capitalism, etc.

There's also a free.

And again, these are all accessible on the

website for free.

You can just, like sign up.

There's one about herbalism, incarceration and abol.

So this is all about how does, like, herbalism relate to kind of like abolitionist struggle

and how does it relate to prisoners? You know, we have millions of people in prison

across the world who are excluded from herbalism, who are experiencing really intense

medical neglect.

I literally just got off the phone from Farah, who I put an action alert for on my website,

who's in prison, being denied cancer treatment, eating horrific food, like,

terrified of dying.

Um, and yeah, that's just like a terrain of struggle that we need to fight.

So, yeah, please check out that workshop.

There's also one that I did for folks from the

kind of like, Stop Cop City struggle with a comrade called Cindy Milstein, anarchist

author.

Yeah, about state repression, trauma and the body.

So that's looking at the role of kind of state repression in terms of PTSD and trauma and

ways our bodies express distress and the role of solidarity and kind of mitigating some of

that trauma and distress.

And I haven't uploaded it yet, but the recent workshop I did with Railway Art Apothecary,

who are amazing, who've been doing these workshops with me as like fundraisers, and

this one raised like 500 quid or something, which is just so amazing, which will cover

like a bunch of medicine making costs for Cali and stuff.

So, yeah, that's herbalism and border violence.

It shares all about the work with the mobile herbal clinic in France, working with people

on the move and refugees and asylum seekers, as well as kind of other herbal, like,

solidarity efforts that have taken place with folks in kind of like detention centers here.

Sorry, I don't mean detention centers.

I mean like my brain.

It was like a camp in South Wales where people were held during the pandemic.

But it wasn't the same as like a detention center, like a prison, if that makes sense.

Anyway, and it also talks about Ukraine herbal solidarity as well.

So, yeah, I will upload that soon.

Yeah, the webpage shares about my herbal care packages, so I'm gonna do like a separate

podcast episode about these soon.

But if you go to the link, you can see that

I've kind of like standardized some of the things I offer after years and years of just

kind of like making individual blends for people or like sending very unique things.

I'm just not in the kind of stage of my life right now, like being a kind of full time

breastfeeding parent to, you know, have that many hours and that much support to kind of be

in my shed.

And Lee is so heavy.

He is a chunky monkey.

So it's like, yeah, I can't just have him in the harness while I'm doing herbal stuff as I

dreamed about.

But yeah, I've basically like refined these herbal care packages and I've made like

explicit forms to kind of like our open source database.

So people can yeah, just like submit a request basically.

So I've got anti repression care packs, I've got prisoner family care packs, I've got care

packs for hunt subs, care packs for grassroots groups, and also like a kind of sites of

resistance care pack where people that are for example, living on like an occupation or some

other site of resistance can kind of request like more medicine in bulk and like first aid

kits, things like that.

So yeah, please check out the website link for that.

Yeah. And just.

Yeah, they're mostly orientated towards people

in like England, Wales and Scotland.

But I am happy to post things abroad like if

there can be a little bit of like collaboration with that, you know, like

organizing punk post or fundraising for postage, stuff like that.

Because it's like, it's a real challenge like posting things abroad with herbs.

Anyway.

Yeah, scrolling down.

So we've also got the prisoners herbal books.

So these were published, if you don't know, in 2019 and they go to prisoners around the world

for free.

There's various translated copies that are on the website, including in Spanish and Italian

which are available as ebooks and also available as printed books in the, in the kind

of various countries like in Mexico and Chile and in Italy and the Spanish state.

So yeah, so the prisoner's Herbal is available.

I put the form, like the webpage.

The link to the form is on this webpage.

So if you need to request a copy of the book, please like put the prisoner's details through

that and we'll get, get it off in the post.

We have had a few returns recently from some folks from the US so we will be getting back

to you soon if that's one of your friends or family members.

Unfortunately, other books available.

So I've stopped like physically Posting books

out.

But I'm selling these books as kind of PDFs or

ebooks and the website has got links to where you can buy physical copies if you prefer

those.

So, yeah, the books are available are the Prisoner's Herbal, like I just mentioned

Overcoming Burnout, which is kind of a collection of writings from like, you know,

like over a decade ago, nearly now, but all about, you know, like, collective care.

And it's basically like a bunch of rants about the anarchist movement and a bunch of rants

about collective care and ableism and patriarchy and all the things and repression

and trauma and grief.

And. Yeah, I've recently published that as a podcast and you're going to hear a little

announcement about that soon.

But I. Yeah, I spent some time recording the

episodes to make them more accessible for people.

And I've also added in some journal request journal prompts.

Um, so, yeah, I'm hoping it's kind of like a useful, like, movement resource for folks.

Other books.

There's also medicinal herb coloring books.

So I collaborated with my.

One of my closest friends, Imani, who does

like these amazing illustrations.

So there's 50 beautiful plant illustrations

and little paragraphs about that plant's like, medicinal qualities.

Excuse me.

You can download that as a PDF and print them

off.

We also send copies of that book to folks in

prison as well.

Excuse me.

Yeah, and then the book, the Herbalism and State Violence Book.

So this was the book that I published last year, which has got contributions from folks

all around the world.

I was working on it since like 2020.

It's kind of.

Yeah. Bringing together examples of herbal

solidarity in practice.

It introduces various forms of state violence.

And yeah, it's 444 pages and it's got loads of recipes in it.

It's got plant profiles in it.

Yeah, I'd like to think it's got shitloads of value for people.

Like, if you're, like, remotely interested in like, kind of political herbalism stuff, you

will love it.

So, yeah, please check that out.

That's available for £6 as an ebook.

But again, like, no one's turned away for lack of funds, so just drop me an email if you want

a free copy.

Yeah, and then I've mentioned the podcast, the Overcoming Burner Podcast, and there's just

like a couple of other little resources on my website.

So there's a guide to making elderberry cough syrup and there's also a guide for herbal

support for panic attacks that you can check out.

In terms of other offerings that I do.

So I'M I'm still not doing onetoone support.

I mentioned it in the last podcast, but it's just so timec consuming and I just have two

afternoons a week where my mom looks after my son and my partner is kind of in full time

recovery land.

So yeah, he, you know, he does his best around the house and stuff, but I just don't have

like the quality time to like offer that kind of dedicated support to people individually,

which I think when you're experiencing an illness you really need.

So yeah, I'm not doing that for the time being and I'm hoping when Lee's kind of like 18

months old or something I can, I can work on that more.

Yeah, and I'm obviously unfortunately not going to Calais myself, but the project is

continuing.

The folks were there this month.

So yeah, look out for the trip report on their kind of Instagram with the mobile Herbal

Clinic Calais.

So yeah, that's just like a little one stop

shop of all the Solidarity Pothecary offerings this year.

You may have heard in the plans episode there's like a bunch of stuff on Horizon as

well.

But yeah, these are the things that are kind

of there.

They're available.

Please make use of them.

And yeah, again, if you're interested in the Herbalism PTSD course, I would love to welcome

you in.

Please.

Yeah, please sign up for the waiting list and yeah, just check out all the links in the show

notes.

Okay, thanks so much.

Take care.

Bye.

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