​Medicine is already growing all around us.

Lavender spilling over a walkway. Rosehips ripening along a fence. Oregano that has taken over a garden bed. Nettle, yarrow, dandelion, rosemary, mint, and other useful plants growing in yards and on properties throughout our community.

Sometimes people know exactly what they have but don't have the time, energy, knowledge, or resources to use it. Sometimes they simply want it harvested. Other times, they want to learn more about the plants growing around them.

Samara Collective's Community Medicine Project creates a bridge between those plants and the people who can use them.

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Community members can offer eligible, unsprayed plants and herbs growing on their property for harvest. Depending on the plant and situation, we may help identify it, harvest it responsibly, leave some behind for the household to use, and share information about its traditional or practical uses. Plant material that would otherwise go unused can then become part of Samara's locally sourced supply for herbal preparations.

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The exchange

Community partners contribute plants, access, and local knowledge. In return, Samara provides harvesting, education and connection, along with a Community Harvest thank-you toward our herbal offerings.

For standard qualifying harvests, community partners may choose a rotating Community Harvest Gift when available or receive 20% off one Samara herbal product.

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Have a particularly large harvest, multiple useful plants, or land you'd like us to return to seasonally? Larger and ongoing contributions may become Community Growing & Harvest Partnerships, with an exchange arranged together based on the harvest.

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Where does the medicine go?

Some harvested plants become tinctures, teas, infused oils, salves, capsules, and other preparations offered through Samara Collective. Sales from these products help sustain the work itself: growing, harvesting, processing, supplies, education, labor, and the continued development of the Community Medicine Project.

As the project grows, these sales also help us build our Community Access Fund, supporting our goal of making herbal medicine, education, and wellness resources available at reduced cost when community members need additional support.

We believe community medicine can be reciprocal: land supporting people, people tending land, neighbors sharing abundance, and the resources created together circulating back into the community.

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Have something growing that you'd like us to see?

You don't have to know what it is. Tell us what's growing, send us a photo, or invite us to learn more about your property. We'll let you know whether it's something the Community Medicine Project can currently use.

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