FARMACY HERBS is located at
28 Cemetery St. Providence,
RI.
Click here to watch the FARMACY MOVIE
Open hours are:
Sundays: 12-5pm
Mondays: 10am-5pm
Tuesdays: Closed
Wednesdays: 10am-5pm
Thursdays: 10am-5pm
Fridays: 10am-5pm
Saturdays: Closed: Find us at the Wintertime Farmers Market on Saturdays 10am-1pm
We do not accept credit or debit cards!
We have a large selection of bulk dried herbs, tea blends, local honey, books and herbal products.
Click here for a list of our products
Farmacy is a 5.5 acre farm raising medicinal herbs and honey.
Farmacy's
herb shop/community health center opened in 2008 in Providence, RI. This urban space is also home to our teaching gardens, our store and our health and education center. These urban
medicinal herb gardens were founded in 2000. We purchased a 5 acre rural farm where we have honey bees, livestock, and fields of medicinal herbs in West Greenwich, RI in 2011.
Farmacy's eduation programs focus on herbal information, nutritional healing and gardening.
Since 2000 we have been offering free/sliding scale classes at elementary schools, nursing homes, and for non-profits. We offer educational programs for Colleges, Hospitals and Garden Clubs. We offer a 6 month and a 4 month Herbal Education and Training Program (HEAT) every year in our education center.
We cultivate, wildcraft and formulate our herbal formulas on the premises and on local farms and on our 5 acre farm in Southern Rhode Island.
Our collection of herbal products, bulk herbs and local honey are sold at local stores and farmers markets and are produced by Farmacy apprentices and volunteers.
Farmacy
offers holistic-based information, referrals and resources to cancer
patients.
We do not treat
cancer. This program provides information and referrals to people looking
to complement their medical treatments. We also offer free herbs and supplements to low income cancer patients.
You can find Farmacy products at
these venues:
The Wintertime Farmers Market
Saturdays,
Hope Artist Village, Pawtucket, RI
Casey Farm Farmers Market
Saturdays June-October
Hope St. Farmers Market
Saturdays,
June-October
Farmacy Herbs, a small sustainable business, is working to create accessible community health care and wellness through environmental awareness and holistic practices. We strive toward sharing affordable, do-it-yourself methods of natural health-promoting practices.
Awards and Newspaper Articles:
Providence Pheonix, "Best of 2010" Award
http://thephoenix.com/thebest/providence/2010/shopping/naturalalternatives/
Providence Monthly , July 2010, Growing a Greener Providence Issue
"Urban Farming Flourishes in Providence"
East Side Monthly, June 2010 Issue
"East Side Eden" article
Rhode Island Monthly "Best of Rhode Island"
August 2009 Issue
* Health and Beauty Award*
International Herbal Symposium, June 2009
*1st Place Prize in the Herbal Product Making Contest, Purely Medicinal Category
Northeast Herbal Association
*2008 Community Herbalist Award*
It's a Good Look.com
*Martin Luther King Day Award *
Providence Business News
*Weekly Small Business Feature, July 2009*
Providence Journal
*Front Page Article, Urban Oasis, and Grand Opening, September 2008*
In the past 10 years we
have facilitated:
-
a 1/2 acre urban garden
- free food distributions in our neighborhood, downtown Providence and for cancer patients
- a children's summer camp
- free/sliding scale natural health/herbal consultations
- distribution of herbal products at farmer's markets
- biannual community celebrations
- Innovative Sustainability Skill Shares
- Numerous 7-month herbal apprentice programs
We are founding members of The Annual Northeast Community Herbal Convergence, and the Northeast Radical Healers Network, Radherb.
In supporting Farmacy, you are supporting a community based effort focused on supporting healthy and positive social change.
Quote from a recent volunteer, Vanessa Jones:
Most of all, I am moved by the possibility Farmacy Herbs represents: growing, not outside the city, but blossoming smack in the middle of this chaos. Like a bee buzzing and zipping about, I slow for a moment, land on this flower and taste its sweet healing nectar. Though a brief time, my spirit is nourished. I fly on, carrying pollen-laden possibility to the next place I land: just one more example of the power in plants.
*The services of Farmacy Herbs are for educational and support purposes only and are not meant to substitute the advice and/ or treatment of your doctor/health care practitioner.
For all interested parties: check out the federal and local laws that protect herbalists:
DSHEA Act, passed in 1994, which classifies herbs and vitamins as foods and makes it legal to sell them without licensure.
The Unlicensed Practitioner Act (RIGL 23-74) allows herbalists to practice without a license.
There is no governmental certification for herbalists, only recognized institutions.
