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 7Song is director of Holistic Medicine at the Ithaca Free Clinic, an integrative clinic providing free consultations and herbal medicine for the Ithaca region community. 7Song gives a tour of the clinic and his herbal medicine program. Watch the entire Herb First Aid course free on this YouTube channel.  

7Song is a clinical herbalist, teacher, botanist, and naturalist. He is the director and main instructor of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine. 

Website: https://www.ithacahealth.org/

 Lorna is an herbalist, foot care worker, medicine maker, and teacher dedicated to community empowerment through herbalism. Through Herbalista, she specializes in building affordable models of care based on mobile medicine and community participation.  Lorna believes that in order to preserve our access to herbs as medicine we have to use them, plant them, eat them, preserve them, dream them, and share them! 

Website: https://herbalista.org/ 

In 2017, community organizer and activist Jocelyn Boreta cofounded the Botanical Bus, an innovative bilingual mobile herbal medicine clinic that promotes healing in Sonoma’s Latinx community. We meet our Latine and indigenous clients where they are- at vineyards, worksites and trusted family service centers. We provide bilingual, bicultural health services including massage, acupuncture, somatic therapy, diabetes prevention and care, clinical nutrition and herbalism. Our programs, led by Promotora CHW's, include Farmworkers Clnic and Wellness Workshops.

Website: https://thebotanicalbus.org/