Healing gardens for medicinal plants, pollinators, and people
Our former name was The Herbal Classroom
Healing gardens for medicinal plants, pollinators, and people
Our former name was The Herbal Classroom
Our non-profit learning center, the Herbal Hummingbird Hub (formerly The Herbal Classroom), is a land-based classroom and Sanctuary with a focus on creating healing gardens for medicinal plants, pollinators, and people; a place for contemplation, for remembering the medicine plants of our ancestors, for learning how to tend herb gardens, and for participating in racial and environmental healing and ancestral medicine circles. We acknowledge the plants, pollinators, and Ancestors of this place as our teachers. Foundational to our curriculum is Reciprocity and Kindness.
We offer a variety of programs during the summer months that include scheduled herb walks, garden meditations, classes on growing, gathering and preparing herbal medicines, rejuvenating soil with biodynamic practices and compost, and internships and retreats for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color of all genders. We believe places of Sanctuary and stillness are essential in these times for supporting the health of peoples nervous systems. Quiet places of beauty offer opportunities to heal and envision a peaceful, equitable and harmonious world. When our hearts and minds have rested, we can return to our communities with plant knowledge and Earth-centered skills to share.
As part of our ongoing Herbal Mutual Aid project, we gift herbs to Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities and to activists, Seminarians, and Buddhist teachers who are standing and speaking for peace, for an end to the mass incarceration of Black and Indigenous people, and for new ways of restoring health to air, water, food, and health care systems. We welcome volunteers to help us blend, bag, and distribute herbs where needed. Please connect with us through this website and consider donating to our herbal mutual aid work.