Community Care Apothecary

Community Care Apothecary 🌈family owned herb shop est. 2021
come for the bulk herbs & small batch blends, stay for the nourishing connection🌿♥️💙🧡🧿
open Mon-Thur 10-5 & Sat 10-2

just to be clear…
01/30/2026

just to be clear…

✨next mutual aid workshop is on sustaining ourselves, our communities & our movements with herbal support✨This workshop ...
01/28/2026

✨next mutual aid workshop is on sustaining ourselves, our communities & our movements with herbal support✨

This workshop was originally held at Weaving Ecosystems of Anti-carceral Care in Holyoke last year when organizers, activists & community leaders from all over the state convened…and I fully intend on carrying the magic from that day forward.

Throughout our lifetime, so many of us engaged in carework, community organizing, activism, peer support and non-profit work have already been through major cycles of burnout, activation, deep fatigue, chronic pain and and and all while doing the very real work of surviving. and parenting. care giving and working.

Staying engaged to meet the moment while navigating all that we currently are on a personal and collective level, along with everything that has come before is just too fu***ng much most days. And yet we show up. we resist. we organize. we share what we have and tend to what is in front of us. We all have something to contribute, and keeping our communities nourished & fortified happens to be the very foundation of this little apothecary. Let’s geek out about it together.

During the course of our time together we’ll go over 10+ of Reede’s favorite herbs to:

•support the nervous system (rest & digest)
•nourish the adrenals during burnout and fatigue
•clear the blood of excess stress hormones (such as cortisol and adrenaline)
•fortify our bodies with tonic herbs
•get better quality sleep
•stay present in your body so we are better resourced to meet the needs of the moment
•tend to both the emotional and physical heart

Part herb share, part community discussion, part ask an herbalist- these workshops are designed to be super interactive, so you are encouraged to be an active participant in this class! The recording will be sent out for folks who are not able to join us live.

Thank goodness we have the plants and each other to see our way through. See you soon loves ♥️

welp, I’ve been shoveling all day and somehow there’s even more snow. Our driveway has not been plowed yet and from I ca...
01/26/2026

welp, I’ve been shoveling all day and somehow there’s even more snow. Our driveway has not been plowed yet and from I can see of the road over the waist high mountains of snow at the end of our driveway, it’s not looking so hot.

Calling it early for tomorrow “no school Foster/Glocester”!! (if you’re from RI and in your 40’s now, you know 🤣

We got around 2 feet of snow up in the hills, so we’re staying home for the big dig out today. I’ll be in touch about to...
01/26/2026

We got around 2 feet of snow up in the hills, so we’re staying home for the big dig out today. I’ll be in touch about tomorrow as we get closer!

Took this pic of Em yesterday late afternoon during our second round of shoveling and I cannot even fathom how another foot of snow came down after this ❄️

Hope you’re staying cozy warm with lots of tea ♥️
Local friends in Western MA and surrounding areas how much did you get?!

✨Deep winter rest & restoration✨storythyme! During the very last harvest of the season, I felt/heard the herbs whisperin...
01/24/2026

✨Deep winter rest & restoration✨
storythyme! During the very last harvest of the season, I felt/heard the herbs whisperings about the kinds of ***deep*** nervous system support that would be needed for the season ahead…and even after all these years of partnering with plants, it still amazes me how they just know- every single time.

These 5, very specific loves were quite persistent on coming together for some deep winter care.
When the plants share their wisdom, I listen…and wow…the synergy of these herbs are like a dream.

Slide through to meet the plants in this blend featuring:
✨fresh milky oat tops from
✨Passionflower from our dear friend Koko at Paradise Lot in Holyoke
✨California poppy & Blue Vervain from our gardens
✨and some dried rose petals from the summer solstice beach rose harvest

I’ve been working with it daily since it was strained last week and all I can say is that I’m so damn grateful for these plants♥️

Fresh batch of Tea For Times Like These…because woof…we sure are in some times loves.
01/21/2026

Fresh batch of Tea For Times Like These…because woof…we sure are in some times loves.

just over here letting my tears fall free from the surprise package of Armenian herbs that my dearest sent from GUM Shu...
01/14/2026

just over here letting my tears fall free from the surprise package of Armenian herbs that my dearest sent from GUM Shuka in Yerevan😭😭

As soon as I realized what was inside I clutched the bag of rose petals to my heart for a good half hour and bawled my eyes out right here at the community tea table. Big heaving sobs that must have been building up for some time, because at the first deep breath of vard my eyes closed, something shifted and the shop faded out around me. Suddenly transported 6,000 miles away, arev shining brightly on my face, laying belly to belly with the land and mountains and rivers that live so vibrantly in my cellular memory.
The weight of what I’ve been holding buoyed, and in this sweet dreamy state I received some much needed old country village guidance on allowing more help in…and after a while I couldn’t tell if I was holding the bag of roses, or if the roses were holding me 😭

Lily jan, a gift like this is invaluable and I cannot find words adequate enough to express what these herbs mean to me♥️♥️

ps, in the package is:
✨oortz = wild armenian thyme
✨vard = a SWANA rose that is unlike any other grown here
✨life everlasting flower (if you know the armenian way of calling it, please let me know!)

Coming to you live from the last day of deep hibernation with a few updates before opening shop tomorrow❄️I’ll start by ...
01/12/2026

Coming to you live from the last day of deep hibernation with a few updates before opening shop tomorrow❄️
I’ll start by wholeheartedly thanking you all for an absolutely incredible holiday season of gift giving from our tiny little small batch apothecary! Leading up to the final rush I experienced horrible vertigo for days at a time, and did what I could to slow down. After the second 3 day stint on the tilt o’whirl of doom I received treatment for vestibular migraines and made it through the last couple shifts before we closed for winter break. Unfortunately, I had a severe allergic reaction to the medication on xmas eve that resulted in Stevens Johnson Syndrome and I had no other choice but to surrender into stillness. my body said no more.

SJS is super rare, one in 1 - 2 million people kind of rare and as bad as it’s been, from what I understand I’m extremely lucky that it only affected my hands and feet rather than full body. 3 weeks out and I’m starting to be on the mend…but the impact will cause a few ripples in operation.

✨With help, I’ll be opening as planned tomorrow to welcome you back in & pack up all the orders that came in while we were closed

✨Usually I tinker over break, replenish stock, try out new creations, beef up the workshop calendar... Since it’s just my two hands that make everything here, I’m way behind. I’ll be enlisting help, keeping it simple this year and chipping away at it slow & steady

✨Realistically the chances of me being able to hold the in-person events I had scheduled this month are slim. I’m going to assess over the next couple days & will reach out if I need to cancel

✨Lastly, I’m currently looking into how to temporarily pause online orders until I can deal with the never ending bots that started flooding the web shop with fraudulent orders along with figuring out a way to continue sending you & your loved ones care packages, while avoiding the recent incidents with out of state randos that have nothing else better to do than harass q***r businesses. Lots to strategize on for sure..let’s talk about it.

Thanks in advance for your understanding ♥️ see you back here this week!

Happy Armenian Christmas janiks ♥️♥️♥️PS, I didn’t end up hosting this year afterall, but I’m wishing all those who cele...
01/07/2026

Happy Armenian Christmas janiks ♥️♥️♥️

PS, I didn’t end up hosting this year afterall, but I’m wishing all those who celebrate a day that is as connective as a good cup of soorj and as sweet & nourishing as gatnabour!

well friends, that’s a wrap!!This herbal shopkeep is signing out for our winter rest thoroughly exhausted, deeply conten...
12/24/2025

well friends, that’s a wrap!!
This herbal shopkeep is signing out for our winter rest thoroughly exhausted, deeply content and incredibly grateful for each and everyone one of you. what a year.
thank you for making it through together ♥️

Wishing you a peaceful holiday season and a generative new year. I’ll see you on the other side of my hibernation with deep winter treats. Until then, I’m sending you and yours all the love ❄️

last day to get your orders in before we close for break!
12/22/2025

last day to get your orders in before we close for break!

✨Blessed Solstice beauties✨
12/22/2025

✨Blessed Solstice beauties✨

Address

52 Main Street #8
Florence, MA
01062

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 3pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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+14133413490

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