STROB Apothecary

12/19/2025

Dear STRŌB Community,

The holidays are in full swing, and we're here to help make your gift-giving easy, meaningful, and delicious—plus we're excited to share what's coming in the new year!

🎁 Still Need Gifts or Stocking Stuffers? 🎁
We're your one-stop shop for thoughtful presents! From holiday tea samplers to crystals, herbs, books, tarot decks, handcrafted jewelry, and self-care essentials—we've got something special for everyone on your list. Stop by and let us help you create the perfect gift, complete with pretty holiday tissue paper.

🍯Holiday Tea Special - Through 12/28 🍯
While supplies last: Buy any 3 holiday teas and get your choice of 2oz honey bear FREE (Fall Blossom or Orange Blossom)!

Perfect for gifting or treating yourself to cozy winter evenings.

Holiday teas: Yuletide Cheer, Wintertide, Winter's Delight, Chocolate Orange Truffle, Roasted Chestnut, Toasted Almond, Spiced Cranberry, and Maple Cream Oolong.

🌱 Fresh Herb Restocks 🌱
Back on our shelves: Chamomile, Gotu Kola, Holy Basil (Rama variety), and Shatavari root.

Plus Vital Harmony tea has returned!

🌟 Looking Ahead: New Monthly Gatherings in January 🌟
While we're still savoring the holiday season, we're excited to share two new regular events launching in the new year!

🎨 NEW: The Artist's Table 🎨
Every First Friday | 6:30-8pm | Starts January 2nd
Gather around our communal table for creative flow and good company. We're serving tea and providing art supplies. Bring your journal, sketchbook, or just show up ready to create. Sketch, paint, color, or work on your own project while enjoying the pleasure of making art alongside other cool people. Fiber arts and artists absolutely welcome!

This is a free event. We gratefully accept donations toward use of the space.

🔮 NEW: Seeker Saturdays 🔮
Every Last Saturday | 1-4pm | Starts January 31st
Walk-in tarot, astrology, and divination readings with our rotating circle of experienced readers. Whether you're seeking clarity, navigating crossroads, or curious what guidance the universe has for you; our readers hold space for wherever you are on your journey.

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Are you a reader? If you or someone you know offers tarot, astrology, or other divination practices and would like to be considered for our reader rotation, email us at wearestrob@gmail.com!

For now, we're here through the holidays with warm tea, thoughtful gifts, and everything you need to make this season special. The new year's adventures can wait another week or two; let's savor the rest of December together first.

With wintertide's warmth,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🕎🎄❄️🌿✨

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12/17/2025

Dear STRŌB Community,

As we ease into the final days of 2025, here's everything you need to know about our holiday schedule, last-minute gifting help, and a sweet tea bundle deal!

📅 Holiday Hours 📅

This Week: Regular hours (Wed-Sun)

Christmas Eve (Wednesday 12/24): Open 12pm-4pm only

Christmas Day (Thursday 12/25): CLOSED

Friday 12/26: Open 12pm-6pm

Saturday 12/27 & Sunday 12/28: Open 12pm-5pm

✨ Saturday, December 27th: Pathways & Portals Event | 1-5pm ✨
Our Preparing for the New Year gathering happens the Saturday after Christmas (12/27) ! Tarot readings, astrology sessions, flash tattoos, wellness shots, cleansing bundles, and a community altar for your intentions.

Space is limited—please register!
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🎁🎁 Expert Gift Curation Available 🎁
Stuck on what to give? We're experts at curating presents! Stop by and let us put together the perfect gift bag—herbs, teas, crystals, self-care items, whatever feels right. We even have pretty holiday tissue paper to make it special.

🍯 Christmas Special: Free Honey with Holiday Teas! 🍯
Buy any 3 or more holiday tea varieties and receive a FREE Beekeeper's Daughter 2oz honey bear (a $4.95 value)!

Choose from Fall Blossom or Orange Blossom honey. If ordering online, please note which variety you'd like in your order.
Holiday tea varieties:

🎁Yuletide Cheer
🎁Wintertide
🎁Winter's Delight
🎁Chocolate Orange Truffle
🎁Roasted Chestnut
🎁Toasted Almond
🎁Spiced Cranberry
🎁Maple Cream Oolong

Perfect for gifting or stocking your own tea stash for cozy winter nights!

Whether you need last-minute gifts, want to mark the New Year with intention, or simply need to restock your tea collection, we're here through the holidays and we can't wait to see you!

With cheerful spirits,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

The Collective offers monthly astrological forecasts, weekly herbal formulations and tarot updates, free workshops and classes, live monthly gatherings, our 12-month Community Herbalism course, and more—hundreds of dollars in value from Olivia, Sean, Bonnie, and Kona for $15-33/month sliding scale.

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12/13/2025

Come visit us at the Holiday Arts Market today 12p-4p!!

12/12/2025

We're pleased to welcome Russell Graham to our Holiday Arts Market this Saturday!

He will be gracing us with beautiful music from 2:30-4:00 while you shop and sip on seasonal tea 😊

✨️Find skin care, ceramics, handmade journals, soap, jewelry, nature photography and so much more this Saturday at STRŌB Apothecary from 12-4.

📍2111 Baldwin Ave. Suite 1. Inside Vega Therapy Services, Crofton, MD
♿️ accessible.
🚗 plenty of parking.

12/12/2025

Dear STRŌB Community,

This weekend brings our biggest community gathering of the season, plus exciting news about marking the New Year with intention and brand new monthly events launching in January!

🎄 THIS SATURDAY: Holiday Arts Market | 12-4pm 🎄
Our annual Holiday Arts Market is HERE! Find one-of-a-kind handmade gifts, sip complimentary holiday teas and treats, and enjoy live violin music from professional violinist Russell Graham (performing 2:30-4pm).

This year's incredible vendors:
🕯️ Heritage and Vine - Ritual + self-care products for spiritual practice
🌿 RHaw Creations - Aromatherapy, ceramics, and gallery art pieces
💎 Glazener Glassworks - Judyann's dichroic glass jewelry and home goods (all profits feed the unhoused in Bowie + support orphans in Honduras)
🌸 Blooming Presence - Pressed flower cards, seed paper, and journals
📸 Vega Ventures - Nature photography and wearable fiber arts
✨ KoKo Beauty Essentials - Baltimore clean beauty with soaps and perfumes

Plus shop the full apothecary while you browse—herbs, teas, crystals, books, and everything you need for winter wellness and ritual.

This beloved community tradition only happens once a year. Don't miss it!

✨ December 27th: Pathways & Portals ✨
Preparing for the New Year | 1-5pm
Step into the space between years to reflect, release, and set intentions for what's ahead.

Offerings available:

🎴Tarot readings with Miss Elizabeth for insight on the year to come
✨Mini astrology readings with Kona Kito to understand what the stars hold
🗝️Flash tattoos with Beka centered around transformation, new beginnings, protection, and growth (2-5", $60-$150, arms/legs only)
🎇Cleansing bundles on sale, including a special New Year's Home Cleansing Bundle with PDF guide
🕯️Community New Year's altar to add your intentions, images, or objects representing what you're calling in or releasing

All services first come, first served. Walk-ins welcome.

This is your opportunity to approach the new year with intention rather than resolution, with ritual rather than rush.
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🌟 New in January: Monthly Gatherings 🌟
We're launching two new regular community events to start 2026!

🎨 The Artist's Table
Every First Friday | 6:30-8pm
Gather around our communal table for creative flow and good company. Sketch, paint, color, or bring your favorite art materials. Art supplies available, thoughtfully crafted teas flowing, no pressure or expectations—just the quiet joy of creating among fellow makers.

🔮Seeker Saturdays
Every Last Saturday | 1-4pm
Step into sacred space with our rotating circle of readers offering tarot, astrology, oracle, and other divination practices. Whether you're seeking clarity, navigating crossroads, or simply curious, our readers hold space for wherever you are on your journey.

--> More Events (https://www.eventbrite.com/o/strob-apothecary-32610795749)

From holiday shopping to New Year rituals to new monthly gatherings—we're closing out 2025 and opening 2026 with intention, community, and magic.

Can't wait to see you at the market this Saturday!
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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12/11/2025

📚✨ Book Club Updates! ✨📚
Grab your coziest blanket and your favorite tea; we've got exciting reads coming up!

🌶️ Spice Rack Readers - December 17th
Get ready to turn up the heat (or chill!) we're discussing your choice of:

• Chilly Little Thing by Sonia Lawson
• Walking in a Witchy Wonderland by Juliette Cross

Pick between these spicy Christmas-themed romance (or read both!) and join us for a fun meetup!

🔍 Cozy Bites Mystery Book Club - January 7th
Start the new year with murder and mahjong! We're diving into Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien. This delicious cozy mystery is the perfect way to kick off 2026.

Both clubs meet right here at STRŌB. New readers always welcome!

Drop a 📖 in the comments if you're joining us, and let us know which book you're picking up first!

12/10/2025

We're holding space between the years. ✨

Join us December 27th from 1-5pm for Pathways & Portals — an afternoon of tarot readings, astrology insights, flash tattoos, cleansing rituals, and intention-setting as we prepare to step into the new year.

Miss Elizabeth Tarot will be offering readings.
Kona Kito will guide you through what the stars have in store.
Beka will have flash tattoo designs centered around transformation, new beginnings, and protection

We'll have cleansing bundles on sale, including a special New Year's Home Cleansing Bundle with a guide to help you clear and reset your space.

And throughout the day, our community altar will be open for you to add whatever intention you're carrying into 2025.

All services are first come, first served. Walk-ins welcome.
📍 December 27th, 1-5pm at STRŌB
2111 Baldwin Ave, STE 1 Inside Vega Therapy
Crofton, MD 21114

12/10/2025

STRŌB WRAPPED 2025

A year of growth, giving, and gathering together

1,787 customers walked through our doors (virtual doors too!) this year. You showed up. You trusted us with your wellness, your questions and your stories. Every single visit mattered and we are so grateful for our time together.

Your Top Picks

Most Beloved Teas:
🍵 Equanimi-tea
🍵 Systematic Lymphatic

Herbal Favorites:
🌿 Nettle
🌿 Lemon Balm
🌿 Chamomile

Most Requested Crystal Companions:
💎 Amethyst
💎 Selenite

By the Numbers

• ☕ 3,000+ cups of tea sampled (That's a LOT of sipping).
• 🍵 1,541 sacks of tea sold and kept homes stocked with health and wellness.
• 📚 197 books + tarot decks of knowledge and divination went home with you.
• 💎 2,254 crystals found their people.
• 🌱 3,354 ounces of herbs were measured, packaged, sent home with intention.

We Gathered

🎉 35+ events!! From spell jar workshops to moonlight markets, book clubs to sound baths—we created space for connection over 35 times this year.

We Gave Back

Because of you, here's how our community care extended beyond our walls:
💚 $600+ to families in Gaza (https://chuffed.org/project/120005-help-evacuate-mohammed-and-his-family) and our Sudanese sisters
🏳️‍🌈 $100+ to Bowie PFLAG
🍲 45-gallon tote filled with food for Bowie Interfaith Food Pantry
Plus we were Platinum Sponsors of Crofton Pride 🏳️‍🌈

We Launched

✨ The Collective - Our digital sanctuary for herbal wisdom, astrological guidance, and community connection.
📚 Community Herbalism Class - The same training our interns receive, now available to everyone.
🌟 New Wellness Tea: All Systems GLOW - Vitality in a cup.
🍵 New Fine Teas: Kenyan Purple, Genmaicha, Sweet Berry Matcha and Hojicha.

Plot Twists We Loved

🌲 Customers traveled all the way from Germany and Oregon to visit us!
🎨 We welcomed incredible new vendors: Ritual Riot (https://www.etsy.com/shop/ritualriotsoaps/) , Heritage + Vine (https://www.heritageandvine.com/) , Artemisia Goldworks (https://artemisiagoldworks.com/) .
📖 Local authors Kim Malinowski (https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/17189250.Kim_Malinowski) and Tiffany Bloom (https://www.authortiffanybloom.com/) joined our community.
🙏 Kona Kito (https://www.pathstosephiroth.com/) brought us gifts we didn't know we needed and shaped practices we'll never unlearn—plant consent, astro-herbalism, and the magic of being rooted in relationship.

What 2025 Meant

This year wasn't just about numbers, though all those nifty numbers and cool factoids do represent real people and real connections.

It was about showing up for each other. Supporting families across the world while feeding neighbors down the street. Creating spaces where q***r joy thrives and herbal wisdom flows freely. Building something that puts community over consumerism, always.

You made this possible. Every purchase, every event attendance, every time you told a friend about us (we're looking right at you R and L.) you helped us grow while staying rooted in what matters.

Thank You
For five years now, you've chosen this little apothecary. You've trusted us with your wellness, shown up for our events, supported our values, and helped us support others. We are humbly grateful for the continued opportunity to serve.

We can't wait to see how you like our plans for 2026—more gatherings, more learning, more magic, more community care.

Here's to another year of growing together.

With overflowing gratitude,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

Ready for 2026?
Join The Collective and be part of our most intimate community space—where herbal education, astrological wisdom, and genuine connection thrive. Sliding scale $15-33/month.
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12/09/2025

Glazener Glassworks will be joining us for our holiday market !

Featuring: Handmade dichroic glass jewelry, dishes and platters 😍

🫖Join us this Saturday for tea, shopping with local vendors, and live music!
✨December 13th
✨STROB Apothecary
✨2111 Baldwin Ave., Crofton
✨12-4pm

12/05/2025

Dear STRŌB Community,

December's Herb of the Month is a super-favorite around here: Rooibos!

This South African bush has been a beloved tea base in our collection for years. We drink it year-round at the shop, and now we're thrilled to offer plain red Rooibos by the ounce—perfect for enjoying solo or blending into your own custom creations.

🌿 Why We Love Rooibos 🌿
Beyond its deliciously refreshing taste, research shows Rooibos does some impressive work in the body. Studies demonstrate it may enhance lipid profiles, boost antioxidant status, and lower blood glucose levels; benefits for both healthy individuals and those at higher risk. It may even be neuroprotective!

And here's something fascinating: oxidized rooibos (the red variety we carry) shows immune-boosting properties when used topically. Who knew?

☕ Our Rooibos Tea Collection ☕
We've built some of our most beloved blends on this South African foundation:

Let Your Freak Flag Chai - Our year-round PRIDE chai (a percentage of every sale supports Bowie PFLAG)
Roseberry Rooibos - Lavender and berries reminiscent of Provence
Vanilla Lemon Cloud - Creamy, lemony comfort in a cup
Spiced Cranberry - Green rooibos with cinnamon, ginger, cranberries, and a touch of cream (perfect for the season!)
Yuletide Cheer - Almond marzipan, orange, and lightly spiced red rooibos (holiday magic in every sip)

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🎁 20% Off All December 🎁

Red Rooibos by the ounce is 20% off all month as our featured Herb of the Month!

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Enjoy it plain, blend it with other herbs, spices, and fruits from our apothecary to create your perfect cup, or stop by and let us craft a dreamy custom rooibos blend just for you!

This caffeine-free, antioxidant-rich herb deserves a spot in your December wellness routine—whether you're sipping it solo or mixing it into something magical.

With seasonal warmth,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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12/03/2025

✨ Mark Your Calendars: STRŌB's 5th Annual Holiday Arts Market ✨
Saturday, December 13th | 12-4pm | Live music from 2:30-4pm

Join us for an afternoon of artisan treasures and festive cheer! Browse a curated collection of local handmade goods perfect for gifting (or keeping for yourself 😉). From ceramics and art pieces to handcrafted jewelry, aromatherapy, nature photography, clean beauty products, and so much more—you'll find something special for everyone on your list.

This year's incredible local vendors:
🌿 Heritage and Vine - Ritual + self-care products
🎨 RHaw Creations - Aromatherapy, ceramics & art
✨ Glazener Glassworks - Dichroic glass jewelry & dishes (all profits support feeding the unhoused + orphans in Honduras)
🌸 Blooming Presence - Pressed flower cards & journals
🌲 Vega Ventures - Nature photography & fiber arts
🧴 KoKo Beauty Essentials - Clean beauty soaps & perfumes

While you shop, warm up with complimentary holiday teas and seasonal treats. From 2:30-4pm, professional violinist Russell Graham of Pop City Strings will fill the space with beautiful wintry and holiday music favorites.

Support local artisans, connect with your community, and find one-of-a-kind gifts in a space that celebrates creativity and connection. We can't wait to see you there! 💚

Shop local artisans, sip holiday tea & enjoy live violin at our Holiday Arts Market! Dec 13, 12-4pm. Handmade treasures for everyone on your list.

12/03/2025

Dear STRŌB Community,

A few quick updates, two upcoming events you won't want to miss, and all the details on our big holiday market next weekend!

🌿 Product Updates 🌿
You may notice some of our products or product descriptions are missing from our website. We're working on getting everything back up and running smoothly.

In the meantime, if you need help figuring out how to use one of our products, or if you need guidance selecting the best product for you, please call us at 301-246-0070 or email us at wearestrob@gmail.com. We're always happy to help you find exactly what you need.

Want deeper herbal education and guidance? The Collective offers workshops, courses, weekly herbal formulations, and direct access to our practitioners for questions about herbs, supplements, and wellness. It's where we can really teach and share everything we know.

—> Join The Collective for Herbal Education (https://thestrobcollective.mn.co/) & more

🎉 This Saturday: Atlas Salon Holiday Pop-Up | 6-9pm 🎉
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Whether you're celebrating with us at Atlas, finding treasures at the Holiday Market, or both—we're looking forward to gathering with you.

With gratitude,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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