La Botanica del Barrio

La Botanica del Barrio (Apothecary of the Neighborhood in Spanish)  is a social practice project created by Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes of Mujeres de Maiz which focuses on sharing, making and documenting wellness ways for and by the people. La Botanica del Barrio’s main project is a rolling remedy cArt which is an alterNative mobile medicine cArt that aims to educate, dialogue and document wellness remedies, recipes, herb and plant uses and Mexican traditional medicine.

As a social practice project the Botanica del Barrio highlights indigenous and people of color traditional, experiential, cultural and holistic knowledge and aims to make it accessible by creating a location for exchange, sharing, and teaching in non­traditional spaces. The cart specifically aims to make these exchanges more accessible by moving the conversation out of the home and/or traditional botanica or the high priced wellness space, where this knowledge is often held, and into the streets and other non-traditional locations, focusing on community and public settings. 

Felicia creates medicine with/by and for the people. Such offerings include tea blends, glycerites, tinctures, essences, aromatherapy sprays and more currently available at the Botanica.

The Botanica is available for skill shares and self care stations.

Fe and fellow holistic practitioners can also come to your community, campus or center to share a variety of bilingual wellness workshops including one off’s or series on self and community care, tea and tincture making, stress management, women’s wellness & more.  View more information at our Workshops page.