Community Medicine Making: Caribbean Herbal Traditions for Reproductive Wellness: Reproductive Herbal Actions & Medicine
✊🏾 🌱 Are you hoping to deepen your toolkit of reproductive herbal knowledge?
Join us for a day of exploring medicinal plants that grow and thrive in the sub-tropical regions of the Caribbean that support and cleanse our reproductive systems. Together we will explore essential reproductive herbal actions and terminology that lend a deeper herbal scope of practice in whole-body wisdom, health and autonomy.
We will be discussing Caribbean materia medica that support hormonal health + replacement therapies, menstrual balance, full spectrum pregnancy & fertility.
🍃 About Community Medicine Making
These hands-on learning containers are meant to provide both intentional knowledge exchange between local facilitators and community members, paired with hands-on engagement where each learner leaves with new skills and medicines to take home. These sessions range from:
🌿 Tinctures
🌿 Incense
🌿 Herbal Tea Blends
🌿 Fire Ciders
and more!
About Our Facilitator | 2026 Spring/Summer Herbalist-in-Residence
Talyce Ketura (they/she) is a queer, gender-fluid, mixed afro-Caribbean village auntie, writer, herbalist, farmer and traditional birth attendant of nearly a decade. They are the founder of Àtúnbí Wellness, a multi faceted platform that provides education, holistic consultations and reproductive healthcare rooted in Black feminist praxis. Through their community work, they are devoted to curating and anchoring spaces for collective healing, and to supporting the thresholds of birth, death, loss & belonging. You can discover more of their work at www.atunbi-wellness.com
🤲🏾 About the Space
Freedom Community Clinic's Downtown Community Apothecary & Pharmacy is a donation based resource for for our community to drop in to learn, pick up medicines for themselves or loved ones, make tinctures and tea blends, rest, co-work and more. From seasoned and trained herbalist to those just stepping into their practice, our space welcomes you. We are located near Downtown Oakland.
In all our offerings, we prioritize Black, Brown, Indigenous and Immigrant community members and ask that allies be mindful of the space and resources they take up when visiting and signing up for offerings.
🫂 Accessibility
Our space wheelchair accessible and located near MacArthur Bart Station for those taking public transportation.
We are not a scent-free space and will have incense burning in the space with windows open.
We honor autonomy and have face masks available to folks who need it and will have air filters in the space as well.
We are a no shoes or shoe cover facility and have both slides in multiple sizes and shoe covers available.
Questions / Concerns?
Reach out to our Apothecary Manager Dan (Dan@FreedomCommmunityClinic.org) or Director of Creative Media & Programming (Bdukes@FreedomCommunityClinic.org)