![](https://images.opencollective.com/herbal-mutual-aid-network/1d4e7d4/background.png)
Herbal Mutual Aid Network
A peer-to-peer network providing free herbal care and education to marginalized people
![](/static/images/collective-navigation/CollectiveNavbarIconContribute.png)
Contribute
Become a financial contributor.
Financial Contributions
Top financial contributors
$1,000 USD since May 2023
$500 USD since May 2023
$350 USD since May 2023
$201.8 USD since Aug 2023
$100 USD since Jun 2023
$100 USD since Jun 2023
$95 USD since Jul 2023
$50 USD since May 2023
$44 USD since May 2023
$20 USD since May 2023
$20 USD since May 2023
$20 USD since Jun 2023
$20 USD since Feb 2024
$4 USD since Jul 2024
Herbal Mutual Aid Network is all of us
Our contributors 17
Thank you for supporting Herbal Mutual Aid Network.
Remy Maelen
Tyi Jones
Earth Arts
Guest
$1,000 USD
Sean Roland
$500 USD
Shui
$350 USD
Sarah
$202 USD
Guest
$100 USD
Guest
$100 USD
Guest
$95 USD
Will Harris-B...
$50 USD
Moth Morgenson
$44 USD
![](/static/images/collective-navigation/CollectiveNavbarIconBudget.png)
Budget
Transparent and open finances.
Credit from Guest to Herbal Mutual Aid Network •
Credit from Portia Maung to Herbal Mutual Aid Network •
$382.06 USD
$2,315.77 USD
$1,933.71 USD
$24.00 USD
![](/static/images/collective-navigation/CollectiveNavbarIconAbout.png)
About
To request care, please visit our website. :~)
As we create resources for those struggling to access care, we center the needs of people of color, trans, queer and disabled people.
"Wellness" is a $4.2 trillion industry and it’s not designed to get care to the people who need it most.
We believe...
✿ In the face of systemic oppression, equity should be an essential pillar of any business or practice providing care. “Wellness” without equity is hoarding resources.
✿ Working together as a collective, we can channel our creativity toward building mutual networks of care—connecting people with the resources they need right now.
Mutual aid is when everyday people get together to meet each other’s needs, with the shared understanding that the systems we live in are not meeting our needs and that we can meet them together, right now, without having to pressure power structures to do the right thing. Mutual aid is an idea and practice that is based on the principles of direct action, cooperation, mutual understanding, and solidarity. Mutual aid is not charity, but the building and continuing of new social relations where people give what they can and get what they need, outside of unjust systems of power. — Joel Izlar UGA Social Work
by:
✿ Listening to the communities we serve and adapting our structure and offerings as needs shift over time
➛ Commissioning Black artists for design and other creative work related to our initiatives.
➛ Building an Herbal Mutual Aid Garden where we will grow herbs for our free in-house formulas, to donate and to sell as a means of fundraising in partnership with Gentle Time Farm—a trans led cooperatively owned vegetable farm local to our studio in the Mahicantuck Valley of Upstate NY
➛ Supporting existing Black and Indigenous led community organizations (local to Hudson and coast-to-coast) by providing herbal formulas, bulk herbs and educational resources to share with the communities they've already been building.
➛ Developing free in-person peer-to-peer education + free herbal pick-up days for low income community members local to our Studio in Hudson, NY
➛ Developing a medicine making residency where herbalists from the communities we serve can formulate with plants from our Mutual Aid Garden in our sanitary commercial herb processing Studio in Hudson, NY at no cost.
H.M.A.N. was founded on May 30th, 2020 in the heat of the uprising in response to George Floyd's murder and an ongoing crisis of racial violence + injustice.
Our team
![](/static/images/collective-navigation/CollectiveNavbarIconConnect.png)
Connect
Let’s get the ball rolling!
News from Herbal Mutual Aid Network
Updates on our activities and progress.
Where We've Come From + Where We're Going!
Our Mind Map!