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Rootwork Herbals, Jane Minor BIPOC Community Medicine Garden, Ithaca, NY (2025)

10/15/2025

i have few memories of my childhood but i remember in 1984 watching my mom wail when she learned that marvin gaye had transitioned. i didn’t really understand, but i felt her grief so deeply that it’s one of my few childhood memories. yesterday, when my daughter told me of d’angelo’s passing, i’m sure she didn’t really understand my tears and sadness….mom, i understand how you felt now and i hope that one day my daughter understands too. i want her to be touched so deeply by the music channeled thru beautiful black genius that she understands her soul more fully because of it.
thank you d’angelo, i understand my soul more fully because of you

10/13/2025

Jane Minor Community Medicine Garden Fall Celebration Weekend!
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as Fall takes hold and fascism so desperately attempts to take hold, we must remember how to prepare for the cold and dark times to come. community has always and will always come together to make sure every neighbor is ready for the hardships that come during the season of bitterness, increased illness and ice. on saturday 10/25 and sunday 10/26 we will carry on this tradition thru celebration at the new Jane Minor BIPOC Community Medicine Garden!!! we will celebrate the fall by enjoying this precious life together and remembering why we resist. we will appreciate the abundance of food and medicine that the land still so sweetly provides, we will dig roots, build relationships, drink tea, offer care, strategize safety, play games and make fire cider to keep us warm and well thru the winter. we will tap into the collective light of community that burns thru all forms of ice and carries us thru till the season of growth is here again. we hope that you can join us!
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:: Saturday October 25 ::
BIPOC MEDICINE MAKING CAMPOUT! 🏕️
2pm till morning!
fall medicine making, local seasonal dinner, fire, smores, camping, hot tub
and night sky gazing
everyone takes home plant medicine that they made!
FREE!
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:: Sunday October 26 ::
FIRE CIDER CELEBRATION! 🧄
1pm - 4pm
community fire cider making, workshops, open apothecary, tea, snacks, fire and friends
all ingredients and supplies provided
monetary donations and volunteer help also welcomed!
everyone takes home a jar of fire cider that they made!
OPEN TO ALL!
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RSVP by 10/21/25!!!

09/30/2025

closing out the month with some sweet moments from our September Garden Work Party & Community Apothecary day!
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friends from near and far came together in the Fall Abundance to make medicine and help build our hoop house! Goldenrod, Black Walnut, and Elderberry medicines will now be abundant in our Free Apothecary. hoop house space will also be available this Spring for folks needing a place to start seeds (more info on the Community Hoop House, coming soon!)
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special shout out to all the People's Medicine School fam who came to share the day with us, being in the garden with y'all is s special blessing! you can see all the PMS'ers being cute with to***co in the last photo💚
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and a huge thank you to for being such a dear friend & co-organizing anchor, to for bringing us to tears with her art and to for the incredible nourishment!
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together is the only way thru
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save the dates to join us for more free medicine making in October:
BIPOC Medcine Making Campout 10/25
Fire Cider Fall Celebration 10/26
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09/28/2025

making medicine in community is an antidote to fascism.
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please save the date for our annual community fire cider making fall celebration!
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and this year we will pre-game with a BIPOC medicine making campout!
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all the info coming soon! save the dates now!
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october 25- BIPOC Medicine Camp
october 26- Fire Cider Celebration
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please reach out if you would like to help support these gatherings. together is the only way thru

09/13/2025

Fall Equinox Work Party, Open Apothecary, and Seeds of Solidarity Support
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please join us on Saturday 9/20 for a day dedicated to celebrating the beginning of Fall and the portal of balance that ushers in this new season. during the day we will emulate this balance thru work/ play, local mutual aid /global mutual aid, medicine making/medicine taking.
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specifically... we will prep the ground for our hoophouse, w**d the Saffron bed, play volleyball, snuggle goats, make Elderberry syrup, share free medicine thru our free/pay-what-you-can Apothecary, collect support for Gazan and Sudanese farmers and enjoy an incredible meal from
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join us as we ground ourselves in community, soil, plant medicine and care. eclipse season hit us all hard and we look forward to sharing the Equinox balance point with you. work parties are open to everyone who support farming and freedom in Palestine, Sudan and all other lands thrown off balance by imperialism.
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please reach out if you would like to attend! and *PMS community*, please reach out if you would like to offer your brilliance in the apothecary!
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if you are unable to join but still want to support the Seeds of Solidarity Fundraising for Revive Gaza's Farmlands and We Must Plant... donate directly to , , -+/or- create your own Seeds of Solidarity fundraiser at -+/or- send a donation to us with the note 'seeds of solidarity'
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09/01/2025

Labor Day Appreciation ✊🏾
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today let's remember that Labor Day is about honoring the collective power of those who labor against those who oppress. that the working class, who sustain our lives, have always resisted the subjugation of those who only seek to sustain profits. to the unions, the s*x workers, the day laborers, the farmers, the organizers, the parents, the teachers, the waitresses, the janitors, the factory workers, the mechanics, the nurses...we owe you our lives. to those whose full-time work is trying to survive under empire...we owe you our humanity. together, across time, space and distance...we are legion, the power truly is ours. let's honor Labor Day by working harder to reclaim our collective power.
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some pics our our August Work Party and Community Apothecary Day to inspire and honor the beauty of collective power. gardening and making medicine together is power
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08/22/2025

this sunday! we are welcoming Virgo Season with thoughtful action towards building systems of community care.
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after several months of resting, recovering, and rebuilding...we are finally hosting our first Garden Work Party and Community Apothecary Day in our new location
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we will meet the new land, work on establishing new gardens, make pesto, make medicine, w**d, organize the herb cabin, prep for our Black August First Aid Training, frolic with friends, strategize and drink tea
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we will also open the apothecary to the community for free / pay-what-you-can fresh and dried herbs, teas and tinctures, with herbalists there to answer questions and share knowledge
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please reach out if you would like to join us

08/05/2025

FAST - STUDY - TRAIN - FIGHT
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FAST:
this Black August as we honor our Black political prisoners, freedom fighters, resistance workers, and organizers who have (and continue) to sacrifice and devote their lives to Black Liberation… we take time to not only educate ourselves but to look at how we are in service to self- determination. in what ways are we called to sacrifice for liberation? what comforts must we give up to serve the revolution? one ‘comfort’ that we must shed is the idea that someone else is coming to save us….the thought that the state cares about our health and safety… we must fast from these ideas so that we can make the sacrifices needed to take care of ourselves and each other.
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TRAIN:
in releasing ourselves from this programming, we must train so that we can take up the roles of community care. and in this light, we are offering a training aimed at fortifying our communities skills and resources for care work while honoring the Black traditions of resistance and care work that came before us.
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on August 25th we are hosting a free CPR, First Aid, Stop the Bleed, Naloxone and Intro to Emergency Medical Services Training. this training will provide participants with a depth and hands on knowledge of response protocols for a myriad of different emergency situations that are common in our communities. everyone who completes the training will receive certifications as well as the tools to be of immediate assistance in their neighborhoods and insights into further roles that can be pursued in emergency services.
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this training is open to all Black PMS students and alum as well as Black folks local to ithaca, ny area
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STUDY:
as part of this training we will host a screening of Freedom House: a documentary that follows the story of 26 revolutionary Black folks who in 1967 Pittsburgh became the country's first paramedic-run ambulance service.
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in addition to studying the roots of this care work in the Black community it is also important to remain clear about why this training is so important today… the neglect and abuse that Black folks face in medicine also carries over into emergency services:
📉 Black folks people are 37% less likely to receive CPR in public.
🚑 Black-majority neighborhoods have fewer trauma centers and slower EMS response times.
💼 less than 7% of EMTs and 4.5% of EM doctors are Black
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FIGHT:
the skills that you will gain to fight for our survival and against this racism inherent in the medical system include hands-on training in CPR, First Aid, Stop the Bleed & Naloxone with the following credentials:
📜a Stop the Bleed Certificate
📜a AHA Basic Life Support CPR Card
📜 a Red Cross First Aid Certification
as well as:
✔ an introduction to Herbal First Aid Plants
✔ an introduction to becoming an EMT or Paramedic
✔ the knowledge and skills to take action towards protecting our communities during emergencies
✔ fortifying our community bonds and the chance to build with other folks looking to be of service to Black Liberation in the same ways you are
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for more information, which is provided on the application, please look where you know to look! +/or reach out with any questions
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additionally, please keep in mind, spots for this free training are extremely limited. please only apply if you are committed to attending!
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we look forward to fasting, studying, training and fighting with you
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07/10/2025

high summer greetings garden friends ⁠
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We are so excited to be nearing the official opening at our new garden home!⁠
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In the last few weeks, Amanda and I (Taylor ) have been busy transplanting, harvesting, drying, and processing medicines from the old garden before we have to be moved out completely in a few days... spending so much time with the mullein, yarrow, monarda and elders has been bittersweet⁠
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As much as we would like to, there is no way we will be able to bring every one of our plant friends with us to our new home. And the new owners indicated they would like the garden mowed⁠
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so we are calling on community to once again help! We would like to extend an invitation to come by the old gardens and transplant any medicine friends that you all might like! We know its not the ideal season for this, but we have been doing it for the last couple of weeks with a a good amount of success!⁠
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Valerian⁠
Comfrey⁠
Applemint⁠
Lemon Balm⁠
Nettles⁠
Spearmint ⁠
Peppermint⁠
Elecampane ⁠
Tansy⁠
Monarda⁠
Wormwood⁠
Rue⁠
Echinacea⁠
Thyme⁠
Sage⁠
Oregano⁠
Black Cohosh⁠
Ladies Mantle⁠
and more....⁠
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we would love to give these friends a chance of survival in your gardens⁠
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Feel free to come by to the Jane Minor Gardens TOMORROW between 5:30pm and 8pm to dig some up!⁠
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Please bring your own tools!⁠
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For the address or if you have any questions, feel free to reach out janeminorbipoccommunitygarden @ gmail

03/26/2025

final criminal court date and update…

09/11/2024

Friends! we asked you to pack the court and you showed up! i am sharing a recent press release below to give an update... but the takeaway is - thru community all things are possible! we are celebrating this win and a few weeks of peace. we are so grateful! and the GARDEN is officially OPEN again til 10/20! so please come thru!! ⁠
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Anti-Racist Crowd Packs Caroline Courtroom For Hate-Crime Case as Judge Rules Repeat-Offender Remanded Into Custody until 10/21⁠
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Over 100 supporters of Rootwork Herbals, a BIPOC-Centered program, crowded into a small courtroom in Caroline’s Town Hall on Monday afternoon. After a brief rally in the court’s parking lot, the observers filed into the courtroom to witness proceedings in a criminal case against Robert Whittaker, Junior. The defendant, who was arrested on August 30th, has been charged with stalking as a hate crime and criminal contempt. ⁠
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Although Whittaker ultimately pleaded “not guilty” to the newest charges against him, Judge Gary Reinbolt decided to take what he called an “extreme step” of remanding Whittaker into custody. In making the decision, Judge Reinbolt discussed the potential safety risk of Whittaker remaining on his property and continuing his pattern of verbal harassment. “It is not physical harm, but living under intimidation, particularly when you don’t know when or where the next threat is going to physically be, even if the defendant is making it from his own property.” The judge also noted the defendant’s record of contempt of court orders to justify remanding him into custody. “He has twice shown utter contempt for an order issued by this court. Apparently I don’t get his attention just issuing an order of protection,” Reinbolt said. “Apparently, he doesn’t think the court has authority over him. It does.” ⁠
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Whittaker, who is white, is the next door neighbor of amanda david, a Black herbalist and founder of Rootwork Herbals. The newest charges come after Whittaker has been arrested multiple times and pleaded guilty to past charges pertaining to years of ongoing racist and s*xist harassment against david and her family. ⁠
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