What Drives Our Work...

Community Health Herbal Network is a network of communities in the South that offer free herbal care, education, and wellness services that are geared towards preserving and re-cultivating a sustainable relationship with herbal medicine.  Our resources are dedicated to our elders, our ancestors, our communities, and all those harmed by land and resource colonization, environmental racism, war, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, sexism, addiction, the prison industrial complex, and the medical industrial complex.

Modern industrialized systems of health care are profit motivated rather than outcome motivated, leading to the prioritization of profit over communal health.  True community health care is inclusive and is invested in the health and wellness of whole communities, not just the individuals of a community who have the resources to seek help.  We believe health care is a human right, not a commodity that should be afforded only to those who have enough money/resources to pay for care.

Our identities are multifaceted and we operate from within different communities that have formed individual and communal relationships among one another.  As people that are marginalized by the greed and stigma of industrial health care systems, we join forces to create a network of communities, supporting each other in reclaiming health for all our communities.  We practice mutual aid between our communities as an act of resistance against the oppressive 'conquer and divide' tactic that aims to keep our communities from linking up and empowering one another.

At the center of our work, we recognize and honor our elders and our ancestors, and the genius of indigenous, black, and brown leadership and the leadership of people and especially women, queer, and trans people, and people of color with disabilities who have birthed and continue to lead health justice.  We recognize and honor the suffering, strength, and resilience of all the peoples who have dedicated their struggle, their time, energy, stories, experience, and strength to the legacy of health justice in all of its modalities.