Herban Cura Summer CSA
A Community Supported Apothecary to tend to our hearts, nourish our bodies and ease our minds. 4 months + 4 boxes + over 20 remedies and lots of freshly grown herbs—all locally sourced and tended by Herban Cura on Lenape and Mohican Territory.
20 herbal remedies + 4 seed packets + 4 fresh plant bundles + 4 pamphlets
20 herbal remedies + 4 seed packets + 4 fresh plant bundles + 4 pamphlets
Every remedy has been prepared by hand from seed to harvest, to finding the most local and beautiful menstrums: honey, alcohol, sunflower oil, and apple cider vinegar. Every plant that has been integrated into the remedies is locally grown and tended to by Herban Cura on Lenape and Mohican Territory.
Locally Sourced
Community Made
The various goodies included in the boxes were all grown, tended & crafted by us- northeast-naturalized seeds, our personal recipes, throat spray, elixirs, oxymels, glycerites, tinctures, infused oils, body butters, preserved summer fruits, jam, herbal salts, & more!
Small Batch Remedies
These are small batch remedies intended to support you through the summer, fall and winter months. Our prayer is that the folks who receive this offering feel nourished, inspired, and curious to know their bodies and the land more intimately.
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What is a CSA and Why Does it Matter?
CSA, known as Community Supported Agriculture or Community Supported Apothecary. This is a way to support our land tending work, regardless of all the unknowns that come with the farming season. The CSA is a mutually beneficial relationship in that both members and Herban Cura heal. We practice regenerative agriculture; we are tending to the land without fertilizers or chemicals, growing the soil (no till practices), and creating and embracing biodiversity.
The CSA supports YOU by; receiving affordable herbal formulas to support your daily healing rituals and health, connecting you to herbs, building your own apothecary to support you and your community throughout the year, becoming part of the Herban Cura community.
CSA members support US by; tending to the land in a relational way, supporting other local growers, growing food for pollinators, healing the soil and growing herbs and creating herbal formulas for our mutual aid project Plants to the People.
Thank you for supporting and trusting this agricultural model based on regeneration and solidarity.
We want to honor Booker T. Whatley a Black horticulturist and agricultural professor at Tuskegee University for his contributions in creating the CSA model.
What does the Summer Herbal CSA Include?
The Herban Cura Summer Herbal CSA (Community Supported Apothecary) is a collection of juicy herbal formulas created from freshly harvested plants that we tend to or forage responsibly from what the earth is growing in abundance. The CSA subscription includes 4 boxes, 1 per month, June, July, August, & September. Each box will include 5 herbal remedies + a packet of seeds, plus bundles of fresh herbs, in addition to a pamphlet explaining each remedy + recipes. All herbs are tended by our hands on Lenape and Mohican Territory in the Muhheacannituck Valley (Hudson Valley).
By the end of the season you will have received a total of 20 delicious herbal remedies + 4 seed packets + 4 fresh plant bundles + 4 pamphlets
We are following the teachings of mystery, and therefore each box will be a bundle of surprises, depending on the month, what is happiest in our garden and on our tongues, and on our muse, the land! Build or expand your apothecary with the fruits of our ecological collaboration & inspiration.
By the end of the season you will have received herbal remedies that support each of your body systems. You will also be familiar with many herbs that grow in the Northeast Bioregion.
Example of what’s in a box:
8oz Sweet Relief Honey - A honey to support boosting your energy and immune system
Ingredients* Lilac Blossoms (Syringa vulgaris), Spruce Tips (Picea glauca), & Raw Honey
This jolly-rancher tasting herbal honey is the perfect treat for when you are feeling sick or low energy and need a pick me up. We suggest taking a spoonful straight in your mouth. You can also add to warm water or to the Nourish and Soothe herbal tea included in this box.
4oz Nourish & Soothe Herbal Tea - A nutritive herbal tea to support nourishing your blood, internal waters and soothe your nerves and gut
Ingredients* Nettles (Urtica dioica), Oats (Avena sativa), Calendula (Calendula officinalis), Chickweed (Scutellaria media) & Cleavers (Galium aparine)
As this is a nutritive herbal blend we recommend making an overnight infusion in order to get the most minerals and nutrients. Boil hot water and pour over 4 tablespoons of herbs in a half gallon mason jar. Strain and drink this infusion throughout the day.
2oz Digestive Cleanse Vinegar - Vinegar to support smooth digestion and clear skin, feel freeee!
Ingredients* Red Clover (Trifolium pratense), Spruce Tips (Picea glauca), Nettles (Urtica gioica), Yellow Dock (Rumex crispus), Dandelion (Taraxacum officinalis), Cleavers (Galium aparine), Apple Cider Vinegar & Raw Honey
A delicious vinegar, woven with gentle lymphatic, nutritive and bitter herbs. You can take a sip of this vinegar straight from the bottle or dilute 2 capfuls or tablespoon in a cup of water. Best taken in the morning, before or after a meal.
1oz Ache & Tension Release Oil - A topical oil to help move aches and pains out of the body
Ingredients* Saint John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) & Sunflower Oil
This oil is intended for topical use only, massaged over inflamed nerves or sore muscles to soothe and relax the pain you are holding. Supportive for any stiffness, sprains, or inflammatory conditions. This oil is very concentrated so a little goes a long way. You can also mix with another oil to dilute or add to your everyday body moisturizer.
1oz It’s Not That Serious - A glycerite to support relaxation and presence
Ingredients* Lilac (Syringa vulgaris), Honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii), Pink Peony (Paeonia lactiflora) Flower Essence, Spring Water, & Glycerine**
A delicious and calming remedy to support your gentle nervous system as well as strengthen your immune system during or after a cold. Take 3-5 drops directly into your mouth or in water to help you slow down when you are feeling urgency and spiraling, take a deep breath and feel your innate abundance.
Packet of Blue Vervain Seeds (Verbena hastata)
Best planted in the fall so that they can over-winter and have a period of cold. If you are planting in the spring it is best to cold stratify the seeds in a refrigerator for 1-2 weeks. These seeds are third generation, descended from a native Blue Vervain mother plant that once lived and thrived in the Taghkanic creek.
Bundle of Fresh Elderflower (Sambucus Nigra) - For drying or making an oil or tincture of your own
informational zine of each product and glossary of herbs and terms
30% off of the yearly subscription for the Living Library - An archive of past and new knowledge shares. Over 100 hours of knowledge shares.
*All Beyond-Organic & Local Ingredients
**Not local but organic
Every remedy has been prepared by hand from seed to harvest, to finding the most local and beautiful menstrums: honey, alcohol, sunflower oil, and apple cider vinegar. All ingredients aside from the glycerine are local to the Hudson Valley. Every plant that has been integrated into the remedies is locally grown and tended to by us or our friends. Our prayer is that the folks who receive this offering feel nourished, inspired, and curious to know their bodies and the land more intimately. We are so excited to be sharing our connection to the land with you in this way.
Cost:
Sliding Scale $333*-900
$333 early bird access is available until Monday May 13th. After this date sliding scale minimum will go up to $444
Our Sliding Scale is meant to make these offerings as accessible as possible while also honoring all of the labor and resources that have gone into the preparation and distribution. Please reference this sliding scale resource to support you choosing the honest amount.
The true cost of each box is $160. The true cost of all 4 boxes is $640.
Pick up dates & locations:
If you are unable to pick up we offer shipping throughout the USA! (however, fresh herbs are available for local pick-up only).
Hudson Valley at Lil Deb’s Oasis from 5pm-7pm
747 Columbia St, Hudson, NY 12534
Wednesday, June 26
Wednesday, July 24
Wednesday, August 21
Wednesday, September 25
New York City in Ilka Tanya Payán Park from 1-4pm
Edward M. Morgan Pl &, Broadway, New York, NY 10032
Saturday, June 29
Saturday, July 20
Saturday, August 24
Saturday, September 28
Antonia Estela Pérez
Hiii! I’m Antonia Estela Pérez Rojas @antonita_la_brujita, founder of Herban Cura and the herbalist that creates the remedies for the CSA and tends to the plants that go into the remedies.
I have been immersed in the world of herbs since I was born & have been learning about the plants actively since I was 12. My mom gifted me my first herb book at that age. I would go on plant walks with my mom, family friends and then when I would get home learn about their medicinal properties. I also went to a three year clinical herbalist school and have learned with many herbalists throughout the Northeast and throughout Central and South America.
I am so grateful to be in love in this way, always getting to recognize - learn with- re-learn- over and over again plants that I think I know. This life long path of learning about the plants not only for how they can support me but how I can tend to them and support them in thriving!
My current artistic practice is the Herbal CSA, formulating herbal remedies inspired by the plants I am tending and by what the earth is growing in abundance.
I am so excited to share these creations with you! 20 remedies over the course of 4 months, in addition to 4 packet of seeds from seeds I have saved and fresh plant bundles with each month’s offerings.
The Herban Cura: Plants to the People Farm is a place where we grow an embodied relationship with the land and the plants; a place for us to continue learning from the plants, the birds, the pollinators, as we live into what reciprocal relationship looks and feels like. We operate at the rhythm of the land and beings who live with it and because of it. We do not operate under models of production that use scarcity mindsets and patriarchal modes of relating. We honor and hold space for rest, prayer, deep reflection, open communication, joy, and abundance.
Why support the CSA ?
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This is an opportunity to support our land tending and mutual aid work!
We are tending land and growing the Herban Cura Farm in the Hudson Valley. We are growing the soil, and planting medicinal perennials and native species, and imagining how herbal mutual aid can evolve beyond simply delivering ready-made medicine to frontline communities, to integrate these communities more intimately into our medicine-making process. As part of our reimagining of what herbal mutual aid can look like, we are continuing to build community outside the farm in NYC to understand what support is needed. Many people in our community have diabetes, asthma, arthritis, digestive issues, amongst other ailments. We grow herbs that are culturally relevant and make herbal formulas to support their specific needs.
By becoming a CSA member you support low income, immigrant, BIPOC community in receiving FREE herbal formulas and fresh herbs!
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is an Herban Cura not-for-profit resource redistribution project this CSA supports.
The main mission of Plants to the People is to make herbs and plants more accessible to low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant communities. We redistribute fresh and dried, locally-grown, organic herbs at no cost for the general public. We set up our distribution events in publicly accessible spaces, most frequently in community parks and along sidewalks in residential neighborhoods. The locations of our distributions are chosen primarily to accommodate working-class people of color; those who have been here for generations, as well as first-generation immigrants and their families.
FAQs
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Known as Community Supported Agriculture or Community Supported Apothecary. This is a way to support our farming work, regardless of all the unknowns that come with the farming season.
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Yes we do!
You let us know what option of the sliding scale you wish to pay and we will set up 4 recurring payments.
Please email us to connect@herbancura.com with subject CSA payment plan
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We are happy to ship your CSA to you! Your CSA will be shipped in 2 parts, however, once in June and once in September. If you buy one box at a time, your box will ship around the pick up date for that month.
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Yes, we have each individual box for sale as well. Please make your selection from the drop-down menu on the sign up page! Please note, individual boxes do not include knowledge share access.
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Not at all! If you register for our local pick up or shipping options at any point, you will receive your boxes for the prior months together!