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Featured Member Business: Montana Farmacy & Rocky Mountain Herbalist

10/20/2017

 
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​We are going to be featuring HWB member businesses here on the blog. There are so many amazing members, we want to share!

Today - Indigo Cantor, Montana Farmacy & Rocky Mountain Herbalist.

Her shop looks amazing! (I may be far from Montana, but they ship!)

Montana Farmacy: 
Website:  http://www.montanafarmacy.com/
Store Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/montanafarmacy
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/farmacy/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/montanafarmacy/

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Rocky Mountain Herbalist:
http://www.rockymountainherbalist.com/

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Indigo is the chapter coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Herbalists Without Borders chapter. During the recent forest fires in Montana, she held Free Herbal Health Clinics with free kits for evacuees and fire personnel at the farmer's market in Eureka. ​
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​Thank you, Indigo, for your long-term support of HWB and your positive impact in your community! 

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Would you like your business featured on the blog? Email Denise at officehwb@gmail.com. I would love to hear what your business, practice, or school has been doing (and feel free to send a few photos). 

Meet A Chapter: Madison HWB Chapter

10/13/2017

 
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​On Saturday, September 30, the Madison Chapter of Herbalists Without Borders hosted a Community Herb Swap at Tenney Park in Madison, WI. The co-coordinators for the Madison Chapter are Carrie Ann Welsh and Shannon Renne. They have been leading this very active chapter for awhile, and always host fun & well-attended events. 
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The herb swap was perfect - a beautiful sunny autumn day, under the trees. Carrie Ann and Shannon brought many blankets to spread on the ground, and then everyone who attended brought something to share. The blankets held an array of fresh and dried herbs, seeds, tinctures, capsules and more. Some name brand items were traded, and some homegrown and homemade as well. ​
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"The herb swap was an opportunity for folks in Madison to be able to do something simple to connect with each other, to give freely and take what they needed. We had organized the herb swap before the hurricane devastation in Puerto Rico, and by the time we gathered at the park, it felt more like a drive for HWB clinics than for people to restock their home apothecaries. We ended up with a lot of herbal medicine to send where it's needed, in Puerto Rico and other places affected by recent disasters."    ~Carrie Ann
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The idea was to tie in with being mindful of our consumption and not letting things go to waste. By bringing something and taking something, everyone could find what they needed, and if they took less than they brought, the remaining would be donated to HWB for our herbal first aid kits. 
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"It's always amazing to me how much people are willing to stretch and give when they have the opportunity. All they needed was some blankets under a tree at the park and a time to show up! Madison in particular is a great place for an herb swap because so many folks are interested in making medicine and growing healing herbs, and it's a town that considers itself action-oriented, but I think this could work anywhere. These kind of events seem simple but their effects are profound--they result in generosity, connection, and care."  ~Carrie Ann

Many people attended throughout the afternoon, and as we sat in the grass we talked about Herbalists Without Borders, our vision and goals, our projects, and the critical need for accessible affordable health care for all. Everyone read labels and looked through the bottles, taking only what they needed, and HWB Madison raised a good amount of herbals for our herbal first aid kit stock. 
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Thank you for all you do, Carrie Ann and Shannon. Your activism and enthusiasm are inspiring! We appreciate you!

To find out more about this HWB Chapter, visit their facebook page.


Have you had an activity or event with your chapter recently? Do you have photos? Want to share your story? We would love to feature you and your chapter on the blog. Please email Denise at officehwb@gmail.com.

HWB News

10/3/2017

 
As many of you may have noticed, we have had a changing of the guard here at Herbalists Without Borders. Gigi Stafne, long time Executive Director of HWB has stepped down from her position to focus on her thriving business and speaking engagements. Thank you Gigi for all of your years of dedication, hard work, and tireless enthusiasm for HWB. 
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Naturopath • Master Herbalist  • Writer & Educator • Entrepreneur

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Gigi Stafne, MH, ND, MI, has been a practitioner of natural and botanical medicine for 33 years with substantial clinical, health, environmental, social justice and entrepreneurial experience. She pioneered and created the first natural medicine clinic in West Central Wisconsin near Minneapolis, the Center for Healing Arts, bringing on a team of 12 skilled practitioners. She then founded an affiliated botanical medicine school which to date is one of the few in the Upper Midwest United States, Ontario, Canada and Lake Superior regions of North America that offers a professional Master of Herbalism Progam. For one decade, Gigi created  and operated a United Plant Savers & Partners in Education project, the first UpS Botanical Sanctuary in Wisconsin, U.S.  For her work there, she was awarded the 2007 North American Plant Conservation Award.  She also launched a lake Superior regional chapter of Herbalists Without Borders, an international non-profit organization in 2006-2008.  Gigi was appointed as the Executive Director of Herbalists Without Borders International, and served in that capacity for the past decade, growing that non-profit from 7 projects to 73 national and international chapters. In 2017 the American Herbalists Guild  awarded Stafne the "National Community Service Award" for her work and volunteerism.   Gigi continues teaching at numerous national and global venues via Green Wisdom School of Natural and Botanical Medicine including  that of being a national-international trauma trainer.

Prior to natural medicine, Gigi worked in the anti-violence field, from crisis intervention to public policy making.  Her education began in Human Growth & Development and Family Social Science with the University of Wisconsin system. Furthermore, her education eventually lead to CAM degrees in Boulder Colorado which included a Master of Herbalism, Master of Iridology, Naturopathy & Natural Physician. Her continuing education and teaching is extensive, in women's health, environmental health, cross cultural medicine, ethnobotany, and beyond.
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Gigi Stafne states, "It was an absolute honor to work as a volunteer within the Herbalists Without Borders  national-international network for this past decade.  I look forward to organizing side-by-side and long distance with many of you into the future...helping humanity heal and protecting precious plants and this planet."

Gigi will continue in her role as Director and Lead Instructor of the Green Wisdom School of Natural and Botanical Medicine, as well as expanding her consulting business and founding the Fireweed Fund, a new micro-loan lending platform for socially innovating start-up small businesses and non-profits. ​

www.greenwisdom.weebly.com


Meet Denise Cusack, our new Executive Director

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Denise Cusack was appointed Executive Director of Herbalists Without Borders in September. Prior to becoming the ED, Denise worked closely with Gigi Stafne over the past year designing and producing the new website as well as media and marketing items to support HWB efforts.

Denise has volunteered and organized within her community with many organizations over the years (and founded her own) including grassroots community non-profits, neighborhood organizations, national non-profits, community gardens, youth and nature projects, and holistic family groups. She is passionate about social and racial justice, grassroots activism, radical herbalism, access to affordable health care, accessing fresh food in food deserts, saving our medicinal plants, community supported agriculture, youth volunteerism, and healthy kids & families.
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"I am so motivated and excited by how much dedication and enthusiasm all of the volunteers have and how many rush to help at a moment’s notice.  ​I am looking forward to getting to know you all and working together!" ~Denise

​Denise has a BA from Columbia College in Arts Business Administration and has been a small business owner for over 2 decades. Denise has studied herbalism, aromatherapy, permaculture, and holistic nutrition with many wonderful and respected teachers over the past 25 years. Denise is currently owner of Wholly Rooted LLC, and is an herbalist and aromatherapist consulting with clients as well as handcrafting a line of herbal and aromatherapy products. Denise has a background in design and marketing from fortune 500 companies to home businesses and currently consults with a select group of small herbal/environmental related businesses to help them succeed and grow their brands in a competitive market via print and web design, marketing and media management and helps guide small businesses to learn and understand how to meet or exceed current GMP and labeling laws.  She was Whole Foods and Herbal Health Editor for Tend Magazine for many years, and is a regular contributor to online and print magazines, writing about organic gardening, sustainable living, herbalism, aromatherapy, and whole foods.  Denise loves to learn and do different things and is a writer, photographer, artist, designer, herbalist, aromatherapist, recipe developer, musician, and avid reader.

Denise spent many years living all around the US, but now she enjoys spending time with her family, growing a ridiculous amount of culinary and medicinal herbs in her many gardens, distilling her own hydrosols, and concocting away in her herbal studio just outside of Madison, Wisconsin.

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