Mary Blue, Alex Svoboda, Bridgette Dopazzo, Rachel Silver, Emma Scully, Jen Clifford, Kelly Nichols, Kathy, Alana, Christie Moulton, Linda Hazinski, Hayden, Jenn Baumstien, Dave Baily, Jimmy Hastings, Tony Kaminski, CJ, Michelle, Ann, Ariel Affigne, Vanessa Jones, Maria, Amber Shultz, Kim Trenholm, Steve, Linda Nedderman- Eaton, Katrina Clark, Katie Pasternack, Lee Cowan, Narcissa Segura, Paulina, Jocelin Rosas, Moe Lapre, Ruth, Mackenzie, Kim Andrade, and many more volunteers/ apprentices from the past years have made Farmacy what it is.

We would not be doing what we do with out many hands helping plant, weed, cut labels, make tea, tinctures, salves, cut labels and cut labels!

Thank to everyone who has volunteered here for a day, a few hours or two years!

Farmacy Crew 2010

Mary Blue, Founder of Farmacy
Activist, Herbalist, Community Organizer
Mary Blue facilitates the Farmacy's Herbal Education and Training Program and has been teaching aobut herbs for 10 years. She has taught classes on herbalism at local hospitals, colleges, high schools, nursing homes and to special interest groups and non profits. She teaches herbalism to children through the Farmacy Li'Sprouts program and with interns from local schools working at Farmacy. . She is the founder and Director and Practicing Herbalist of Farmacy Herbs.

Over the last 15 years she has focused on gleaning experience from herbalists in a professional and informal setting.  From 1999-2002 she acquired three years of herbal experience and knowledge at Indigo Herbals, an herb shop in Providence RI. In 2004, she started her career as a Community Herbalist at Seven Arrows Herb Farm and worked for four years under the tutelage of Judy and Michelle Marcelot, Botany and Medicinal Plant experts. She was a student of many wonderful herbalists while attending Sage Mountains advanced program in 2006.

She has been a teacher at the New England Women's Conference and The International Herb Symposium.

Mary works to support the Northeast herbal community by attending herbal conferences and organizing The Northeast Community Herbalist convergence.  In 2006-07 she volunteered in New Orleans as an herbalist in the clinics, farmer in the gardens and kitchen worker.

She is a founding member of  the following community groups:  The Annual Northeast Grassroots Community Herbal Convergence, Providence Recycle-A- Bike and The Northeast Radical Healthcare Network, Radherb (radherb.org).

She has been awarded The Northeast Herbal Association Community Herbalist Award, 2008, for her dedication and commitment to the herbal community (northeastherbal.org).