Summer Herbal Apothecary: Crafting Botanical Bugspray - Herbalist-in-Residence Workshop

☀️ 🪲 Protect your skin during peak mosquito season with the potency of nature’s medicine.

Together, we will explore the topical and medicinal benefits of essential oils and herbs that act as a deterrent to insects and mosquitoes.

Each participant will take home their own uniquely crafted botanical bug spray and learn about the benefits of topicals for soothing rashes, burns, and bug bites.

About Our Herbalist-in-Residence | Talyce Ketura

Talyce Ketura (they/she) is a queer, gender-fluid, mixed afro-Caribbean village auntie, writer, herbalist, farmer, and traditional birth attendant with nearly a decade of experience. They are the founder of Àtúnbí Wellness, a multifaceted platform providing education, holistic consultations, and reproductive healthcare rooted in Black feminist praxis. Talyce is dedicated to curating spaces for collective healing and supporting the thresholds of birth, death, loss, and belonging. Discover more of their work at Àtúnbí Wellness.

🍃 Updated Waiver

We've updated our community consent waiver this year. Attendees of workshops, clinics, and workdays need to complete a new waiver. If you've filled out the form at another space (e.g., Fruitvale, Ancestral Healing Farm) since mid-April, let the team know. If not, click here to complete it.

🍃 About the Herbalist-in-Residence Program

Our Herbalist-in-Residence program features a community herbalist for three months in our Downtown Community Apothecary & Pharmacy. During their residency, they provide open hour consults one day a week and bi-weekly hands-on workshops. These sessions aim to facilitate intentional knowledge exchange between local herbalists and community members, allowing each learner to leave with new skills and medicines. Workshop topics include:

• 🌿 Tinctures
• 🌿 Salves
• 🌿 Herbal Tea Blends
• 🌿 Fire Ciders
• and more!

🤲🏾 About the Space

Freedom Community Clinic's Downtown Community Apothecary & Pharmacy is a donation-based resource for the community to learn, pick up medicines, make tinctures and tea blends, rest, co-work, and more. We welcome everyone from seasoned herbalists to those just starting their practice. We are located near Downtown Oakland.

In all our offerings, we prioritize Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Immigrant community members and ask that allies be mindful of the space and resources they take up when visiting and signing up for offerings.

🫂 Accessibility

Our space is wheelchair accessible and located near MacArthur Bart Station for public transportation. We are not a scent-free space and will have incense burning with windows open. We honor autonomy and provide face masks for those who need them, along with air filters in the space. We are a no shoes or shoe cover facility, offering slides in multiple sizes and shoe covers.

Questions / Concerns?

Reach out to our Apothecary Manager Dan at [email protected] or the Director of Creative Media & Programming at [email protected].