Come visit the apothecary! Our herb room is stocked with over 300 medicinal, culinary and fragrant dried herbs. We also carry an extensive selection of essential oils, fixed oils, butters, bottles, containers and more for product making.  A large percentage of our dried herbs and oils are *organic*. Come in and browse through hundreds of recipes in the resource library!

The Herbalist is in! 
 Our  herbalist Mary Blue is available to answer general questions by appointment. For a more in depth look at your health, call or come by to schedule a natural health/ herbal/nutrition consultation. 

Healing Through Natural Health

With Mary Blue, Herbalist and Nutritional Support Counselor

  Through the use of organic food, water, exercise and herbs Mary  supports community members in understanding their body’s ailments and the root causes of dis-ease.  She works closely with clients to support the lifestyle/food-based changes needed to “ease the dis-ease”.  Mary formulates specific herbal blends for clients and prepares an in depth food based healing plan tailored to each persons specific needs.

She is committed to accessibility and works within a sliding scale pay rate to ensure everyone who has the motivation and desire to work towards healing through natural methods  has the support they need.   Call to set up an appointment.

  Mary  Blue, Activist, Herbalist, and Community Organizer is currently the Practicing Herbalist, Education Coordinator and Director of The Peace Gardens Botanical Sanctuary at 7 Arrows.  She facilitates a 7-month herbal education and training program for budding herbalists and offers classes and workshops to gardening, senior and special interest groups and organizations.  As an active member of NEHA (Northeast Herbal Association) she was a guest speaker at their 2007 annual retreat and contributes a column on herbal activism in their newsletter.    Residing in her home town of Providence RI, she has been working towards reclaiming city green space by farming ¼ acre and developing urban sustainability practices in her home, called Farmacy. Over the last 7 years she has taught numerous free garden/ nutrition / herbal workshops to children and high school students in Providence.  She has been a founding member worked over the years to develop the following community groups:  The Annual Northeast Grassroots Community Herbal Convergence,  Farmacy Community Clinic and Urban Sustainability Project, and Providence Recycle-A- Bike.  She has been a student of  Matthew Wood, Bill Mitchell, Deb Soule,  Isla Burgess, Stephen Buhner,  Margi Flint, Richo Cech, Michael and Leslie Tierra, Rosemary Gladstar and many more wonderful herbalists.  From 1999-2002she acquired three years of herbal experience and knowledge at Indigo Herbals, an herb shop in Providence RI. She then moved onto working with family, friends and local healer Sakinah –Abdur- Rasheed to develop her practice and her medicinal herb product line, Farmacy Tinctures, which she currently sells in local stores and farmers markets.  In 2005, she started her career as a Community Herbalist at Seven Arrows.