In 2023 we organized 53 Wellness Workshops, in addition to those offered at our clinic, to reach 310 unduplicated clients through 490 visits at vineyard works ...
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Apprenticeship Paths into Clinical Practices
In recognition of the disproportionate access to education and certification programs in integrative health and in alignment with our mission to empower holis ...
Promotora’s Community Health Work in 2023
The Botanical Bus is founded and led by Latine and Indigenous Promotora CHWs, many of whom identify as Campesinas . Promotora CHW workforce development is a d ...
Hearing from Our Clients: Consejos en Nuestra Lengua Materna [Advice in our Mother Tongue]
I sit across the table from Concepción (her name changed in this story to protect her privacy) at a café up the street from her current home, a shelter for yo ...
Our Way Back, with Maria Rivera
Maria Rivera was born in the pine forest, on a mountain twelve hours outside the nearest town in Michoacan, Mexico. “There was absolute green everywhere,” she ...
Love + Nopales with Juliana Jimenez + Norma Rico
Let me tell you a story about how plants connect us to each other and to our deepest sense of wellbeing. In a system that prioritizes individualism as product ...
Mobile Herb Clinics in 2023
In 2023 we organized 21 clinic events in Santa Rosa, Guerneville and Sonoma Valley at vineyard worksites and family service centers to provide 261 clients with ...
Mental health + culturally relevant care for farmworkers
At The Botanical Bus Farmworker Clinic: 88% of Latine and Indigenous clients report acute stress in the form of anxiety, depression and fatigue. 36% of this g ...
Hummingbirds “Joyas Voladoras”
by Katherine Tuider Over warm bowls of Chupe de Pescado (Peruvian fish stew), I sat down with our newest team member and The Botanical Bus’s Clinic Coo ...
We are launching a farmworkers clinic!
(Español abajo) This fall The Botanical Bus: Bilingual Mobile Herb Clinic is coming together with Lideres Campesinas, Nuestra Comunidad and La Plaza: Nuestra C ...
A Story of Latine Resiliency: Connection During COVID-19
(Español abajo) Last week we gathered online in our separate homes to learn about “La Cosecha”, the harvest of medicinal herbs, from promotora de salud, Mari ...
“La Cosecha Cura” Healing Harvest
Promotora (pro-mo-tor-a): community health worker who is rising up to lead, advocate, educate, mentor, and translate health programming in their own community ...