STROB Apothecary

01/09/2026

Dear STRŌB Community,

We've been planning a new tea for over a year, and it's finally here, plus new clean beauty on our shelves, an essential oils class, and a Galentine's poetry event that's anything but traditional Valentine's fare. Ready? Here we go!

🍎 Introducing: Appleberry Bliss Tea 🍎
Available January - May

After more than a year of waiting, our newest limited-season tea is finally on our shelves. We wanted to create something that felt special and also a good-for-you, caffeine-free treat, perfect for evening wind-downs or afternoon pauses when you need gentle sweetness.

Appleberry Bliss combines green rooibos with apple, raspberry, and dairy-free white chocolate for a creamy, dreamy cup that makes winter feel a little softer. Available through May, then it's gone until next year.

Stop by for a sample—we're brewing it all month.

🧼 New Vendor: KoKo Beauty Essentials 🧼

We're excited to welcome KoKo Beauty Essentials to our shelves—a Black-owned, Baltimore-based clean beauty brand specializing in herbal soaps, skincare, and perfume oils. Owner Bryanna Greene has been learning and crafting skin care products for well over a decade!

Now available in-store:

• Lemongrass Peppermint Liquid Soap - Refreshing cleanse with herbal goodness
• Rosemary Turmeric Soap - Soothes and brightens
• Olive & H**p African Black Soap Bar - We're especially excited about this one!

African black soap is incredible for safe, natural cleansing. Some users report seeing impurities being drawn from the skin. For those who've always felt disconnected from their bare skin and rely on makeup, try a fresh-faced, makeup-free weekend with black soap; it can clean, reset, and reveal what your skin actually needs this season.

🌿 Virtual Class: Learning Essential Oils with Olivia 🌿
Monday, January 20th | 7pm

Olivia's beginner-friendly essential oils class is perfect for anyone wanting to understand how to use these powerful plant extracts safely and effectively. Bonus - you get an extended Q&A and custom recipe advice with Olivia.

$11 general admission | FREE for Collective members (https://thestrobcollective.mn.co/)
Live on Zoom with recording available later.

💜 February 14th: Reclaiming Lilith - Poetry, Perfume & Power 💜
With Local Poet Kim Malinowski

This Valentine's Day, skip the romance and step into your power.

Join us for an intimate Galentine's evening celebrating Kim Malinowski's newly published poetry collection on Lilith; an ancient archetype of the woman who refused to bend, the banished one who chose wilderness over submission.

This isn't a passive event. You'll create, you'll listen, you'll reclaim.

What to expect:
🌿 Guided grounding meditation
📖 Poetry reading with book signing
🍸 Themed mocktails plus hors d'oeuvres
🕯️ Blend-your-own perfume oil station
✨ A "Power Reclamation" activity
🌟 and more!

Early bird pricing through January 31st!

This is for anyone ready to reclaim something wild, ancient, and unapologetically theirs.

Your presence here—whether for tea, beauty products, poetry, or just to exist in a space that feels right—matters to us. We'll keep the tea warm and the door open.

See you soon,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

The Collective offers monthly astrological forecasts, weekly herbal formulations and tarot updates, free workshops and classes, live monthly gatherings, a community herbalism course, and more—hundreds of dollars in value from our team for $15-33/month sliding scale.

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01/08/2026

Calling all readers! Did you know we have two book clubs meeting monthly? 📚✨

Spice Rack Readers (our spicy romance book club)
📅 Wednesday, January 21st @ 7pm
📖 Reputation by Lex Croucher and/or Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (your choice or read both!)
🍷 21+ | BYOW

Cozy Bites Mystery Book Club
📅 Wednesday, February 4th @ 7pm
📖 Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien
🍜 Bring a themed snack!

Both clubs meet📍 STROB Apothecary, 2111 Baldwin Ave in Crofton.

New readers always welcome—please RSVP our our registration page and get ready to chat about books, sip tea, and hang with fellow book lovers.

See you there! 💚
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01/07/2026

Dear STRŌB Community,

As winter deepens and we look toward spring, we're making strategic space in our apothecary for exciting new arrivals we're planning—which means great savings for you on beautiful herbs and teas we're carrying in limited quantities going forward.

🍵 25% Off Select Teas 🍵
These wellness and fine teas are moving to limited availability:

Earl's Midnight Elixir - Our extra-caffeinated creamy Earl Grey
Birthday Cake - Celebratory sweetness any day of the year
Radiant Resilience - Adaptogenic support blend
Vital Harmony - Body balance in a cup
Nurture Nectar - Gentle nourishment

Plus our holiday teas remain 25% off while supplies last (and they're almost gone!): Yuletide Cheer, Wintertide, Winter's Delight, Chocolate Orange Truffle, Roasted Chestnut, Toasted Almond, Spiced Cranberry, and Maple Cream Oolong.

🌱 25% Off Select Herbs 🌱
Making room for expanded offerings means limited-time pricing on these herbal allies:

Bilberries, Bilberry Leaf, Black Cumin Seed, Blackberry Leaf, Cedar Tips, Cut & Sifted Chaga, Horehound, Horse Chestnut, Nutmeg, Red and White Lily, Tribulus, and Uva Ursi

Stock up on these versatile herbs while they're available at special pricing!

🌙 January Herb of the Month: Mugwort - 20% Off 🌙
This powerful ally for dreams, intuition, and menstrual health is our featured herb all month—including our locally grown Mugwort from Fox Haven Farm, cultivated specifically for our community on land stewarded with intention.

🌿 What Herbs Do YOU Want Us to Carry? 🌿
Here's where you come in: We want to know what herbs you wish we had on our shelves.

Are there herbs you use regularly that you'd love to source from us? Specific wellness needs we could support better? Traditional remedies from your heritage you'd like to see available?

Reply to this email or tell us in person—your requests directly shape what we bring in. We're actively expanding our selection and working with Fox Haven Farm to sustainably grow as many herbs locally as possible.

Your voice matters here. Tell us what you need.

✨ What's Coming ✨
We're bringing in elderberry syrup and other herbal supports you've been requesting. More details coming soon, but we're excited about the planned growth ahead!

Whether you're stocking up on sale items, exploring Mugwort's dreamy magic, or sharing what herbs you want to see—we're grateful you're part of shaping this apothecary's evolution.

With introspective winter blessings,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

P.S. Seriously—email us (wearestrob@gmail.com) or stop by to share your herb wishlist. We're listening as we're growing!

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

Explore The Collective (https://thestrobcollective.mn.co/) →

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01/02/2026

Dear STRŌB Community,

Welcome to 2026! The calendar has turned, and with it comes the expansive horizon of a new year—but let's talk about timing.

Winter isn't a season for new starts. It's a season for new thoughts that grow into plans that sprout into new starts around mid-February when the Year of the Wood Snake gives way to this exciting Fire Horse energy that has been exploding across the social media feeds, but don't be fooled! We've still got time in these slowly brightening days to prepare with intention. Plenty of time, friends, after all, early western peoples tapped into that new-start energy at Spring Equinox, March 20th, which btw is fiery Aries season!

We often fight against our own nature and the nature of our world without pausing to ask: what if the better way is to use the flow of the natural world to adjust our own rhythms?

We didn't do New Year's resolutions and huge celebrations. We held a quiet, contemplative event that drew us inward and asked questions that can only make the ground more fertile for expansive growth in 2026.

All that to say: Welcome to 2026. We're here to keep you nourished, educated, properly hydrated with herbs, connected, learning, growing, exploring, and thriving.

🎨 TONIGHT: The Artist's Table | 6:30-8pm 🎨
Every First Friday
Our new monthly creative gathering starts tonight! We've got art supplies, prompts, and tea. All you need to bring is yourself. Free event, donations gratefully accepted.
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🔮 Seeker Saturdays | 1-4pm 🔮
Every Last Saturday | Next: January 31st
Walk-in tarot, astrology, and crystal readings with our rotating circle of professional readers. For exploring, growing, and seeking guidance wherever you are on your journey.
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📚 Book Clubs: Connection & Nourishment 📚

Cozy Bites Mystery Book Club
Every 1st Wednesday | 7-8:30pm
Next: January 7th - Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
Bring snacks themed to the book!
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Spice Rack Readers (21+)
Every 3rd Wednesday | 7-8:30pm
Next: January 21st - Reputation by Lex Croucher and/or Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
BYOW welcome!
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NEW: Hearthside Lounge Virtual Book Club
Launching Late February
Non-fiction topics like herbs, crystals, astrology, tarot, and metaphysics. Complimentary with Collective membership!

🌟 The Collective: Your Year-Round Learning Home 🌟
Stay connected, educated, and growing all year long with access to:

📙Village Library full of resources
📘Blog with regular wisdom drops
📗The Seedbank & Study featuring Sean's Community Herbalism course, Olivia's Plant Alchemist Formulary, Kona's Magical Herbalism class, and so much more

This is where we learn and grow together, beyond what any single event can offer.
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🌿 At the Shop 🌿

✨Wellness teas restocked and ready
✨Holiday teas on special sale until they're gone
✨Everything you need to clear your home with fresh energy as you settle into winter's gift of inner work

Whether we see you at the shop, in The Collective, or through our website, we're grateful you're part of this community as we move through winter's slower rhythms together.

With intention and warmth,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

P.S. Remember: The Artist's Table is TONIGHT at 6:30pm. Come create with us!

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12/30/2025

The apothecary's last hours of the Gregorian year!

See you then or see you later ♡

12/31, New Year's Eve: 12-4
1/1, New Year's Day: closed
1/2: Resuming regular hours

12/26/2025

Dear STRŌB Community,

As 2025 comes to a close, we're offering two powerful opportunities to reflect, release, and prepare for what's ahead—one in-person gathering in the space between years, and one virtual deep-dive into your relationship with earth and abundance.

✨Saturday, Dec 27th: Pathways & Portals |
1-5pm ✨
Preparing for the New Year

Step into the liminal space between years for tarot readings, astrology sessions, flash tattoos, wellness shots, cleansing bundles, and a community New Year's altar where you can place your intentions.

Offerings available:

🎴 Tarot readings with Miss Elizabeth
🌛 Mini astrology readings with Kona Kito
💎 Crystal readings with Bonnie Parry
🧚 Flash tattoos with Beka ($60-$150, transformation & new beginnings designs)
🥤 Fresh juices & wellness shots from Wake Cup Call
🎇 Curated cleansing bundles on sale
❤️‍🔥 Community altar for setting intentions
🌟 Create a take-home reminder of your Word-of-the-Year

All services first come, first served. Walk-ins welcome, but space is limited—register to guarantee entry!

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🌍 Sunday, Dec 28th: Earth, Money & Spirituality | 7-8:30pm 🌍
Virtual with Jahnavi Iyer

Join us and guest practitioner Jahnavi Iyer from Good Flow Restoration for a profound exploration of money and earth energetics.

This isn't your typical money mindset workshop—this is about understanding wealth through ancient Vedic wisdom and elemental Earth's connection to your physical, material, and 3D needs.

What you'll experience:

✨ Opening prayers and grounding
✨ Guided meditation to connect with Earth element
✨ Ancient Vedic understanding of wealth
✨ Elemental Earth's ties to material needs
✨ Ways to refine your relationship with Earth element
✨ Money as energetic, collaborative, social expression of wealth
✨ Group reflection and discussion

BONUS: Complimentary 40-minute 1-on-1 follow-up for every attendee!

This virtual gathering offers tools to transform how you relate to abundance, resources, and your own worthiness to receive.

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🌟 Two Ways to Close the Year 🌟
Saturday offers in-person ritual, divination, and body art to mark the turning of the calendar. Sunday offers deep reflection on your relationship with earth and money—two of the most fundamental elements of embodied living.

Both create space to approach 2026 with intention rather than resolution, with awareness rather than autopilot.

However you choose to mark this transition, we're honored to be part of your journey.

With gratitude for 2025 and anticipation for what's ahead,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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12/24/2025

Dear STRŌB Community,

Planning your holiday week? Here's when you'll find us open with tea and warm welcomes.

📅 Holiday Schedule 📅

Christmas Eve (Dec 24): 12-4pm
Christmas Day (Dec 25): CLOSED
Friday, Dec 26: 12-6pm
Saturday, Dec 27: 12-5pm ✨ Pathways & Portals event 1-5pm!
Sunday, Dec 28: 12-5pm
New Year's Eve (Dec 31): 12-4pm
New Year's Day (Jan 1): CLOSED
Friday, Jan 2: Back to regular hours

Don't forget to register for Pathways & Portals on Dec 27th—our space between years gathering with tarot, astrology, crystal readings, flash tattoos, wellness shots, and a community altar for your New Year intentions!

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See you through the holidays!
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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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.

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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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