Open roads apothecary9/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “I spent the last 15 years developing my palate, and using my palate successfully to build up businesses and eventually create D20, and now I’m stuck not being able to do what I’ve trained myself to do,” he said. While D20 remained successful, it halted his ability to participate in activities he previously enjoyed. Then, in December 2022, Sparks suffered an illness that resulted in him being unable to drink alcohol. The universe definitely threw a bunch of roadblocks there.” “We opened in March 2020, so that did us no favors,” Sparks said. However, the expansion was quickly done in by the pandemic, and the space has since been used for offices and storage, Sparks said. The couple purchased the storefront that will be Bitter Blossom in 2019, intending to turn it into a retail gaming store with a focus on local game designers. The board game-themed bar offers hundreds of card games, board games, and tabletop RPGs as well as a wide selection of cocktails, mocktails, craft beers and ciders. ![]() Want to find out more about Community Apothecary? Visit their webpage or contact them here.Andrew and Chrissy have run D20 in Kettering since opening its doors in December 2016. Rasheeqa shares that "Mulberry Close reflects this communal will to create healthier systems of relationship and care for us all, land and creatures and life".įollow their work on Instagram and YouTube for herb learning videos. Medical herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad and grower Izzy Vandergert-Wilson of Community Apothecary. That included Allotments Officer at Waltham Forest council, Mariela, who is leading on improving access to community food growing in allotment spaces for those who are not traditionally involved. The beautiful gathering couldn’t have happened without the team behind Community Apothecary (here's to you, Rasheeqa, Izzy and Randa!) and the rolling crew of fabulous people who have all played a part along the way. Poignant reflections on the journey so far and a deep appreciation for being able to harness the power of collective action in realising a shared vision also had their place. Our open eve was complete with delicious food, tours, chats and harvesting, to share the project with people. It's now a home to herbs, community connections and learning while appreciating the richness of life culture already flourishing here with birdsong, plants and wild beauty. Since they first got given the land from the council (by way of Organiclea) in April 2020, they've been gradually transforming this Waltham Forest allotment site that was left to scrubland over decades partly due to having no water source - into a medicine and forest garden. It was the very first time Community Apothecary had invited the wider London community beyond their trusty volunteers, friends and neighbours onto their largest site. On Friday 24 June from 4-7pm, we were at our June 2022 Spotlight Garden set up by Community Apothecary on Mulberry Close in Chingford for their Summer Solstice open eve. Copyright: Rasheeqa Ahmad | Community Apothecary ![]() Reflections on our Summer Solstice open eve People and plants buzzing with joy at the Mulberry Close Garden Summer Solstice open eve. You can find out about all this and be updated with their monthly newsletter that you can sign up to here. You can also get involved in medicine making with their herb harvests, and they offer monthly making workshops (first Sunday of each month) at the Hornbeam Cafe in Walthamstow. How you can get involved: You are very welcome to join Community Apothecary at weekly (Wednesday) garden days (10am-4pm through the summer months) where they rotate around our 4 sites in Waltham Forest. What support they’d like from the wider public: Local interest, joining their weekly garden sessions connecting with seasonal cycles, input into their understanding of healthcare needs to inform their medicine making, bring interest/skills in herbalism and land care, access the medicines they make, share in the joy! Who the garden serves: Its neighbours in the locality, their volunteer community - a mix of Londoners, herbal medicine students and apprentices, its ecosystems. Garden mission: A patchwork of medicine gardens facilitated by herbalists and growers where people can learn, share, do and make to support their collective healthcare & wellbeing - following a process of ‘seed to salve’ where plant medicine remedies are grown, harvested and made together for the local community, a circle of resource-sharing! Who’s behind the garden: Community Apothecary CIC Garden location: Mulberry Close, Chingford, E4 8BS Garden name: Community Apothecary Chingford ![]()
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