Mobile Herbal Clinics | Tea Talks Roundtable

In this Tea Talks Roundtable, Jiling discusses mobile herbal clinics with the Herbalists Without Borders | Healing Project Mobile Clinic Coordinator, Carolyn Jones, and Botanical Bus Co-Founder and community leader, Jocelyn Boreta. 

Carolyn and Jocelyn share how mobile herbal clinics work, how they can help increase access to healthcare, and what role education plays in their work. They share about the importance of partnerships, meeting people where they are, and the importance of culturally-centered care. Listen for stories about yarrow, other plants that have lit up their communities, and healing community wounds through sharing food, medicine, culture, and love. 

🌿 CAROLYN JONES is an herbalist, author, certified aromatherapist, reflexologist, flower essence practitioner, acupuncture detoxification specialist, and bereavement chaplain. Carolyn is also a faculty member with the Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism, and the Clinic Coordinator for the Herbalists Without Borders | Healing Project Mobile Clinic. Carolyn is the author of Pick Up Your Bed and Walk: A Self-Care Guide to Improved Health and Incantations.

Visit Carolyn at BeHealed.info and on Instagram @thp_the_healing_project

🌿 JOCELYN BORETA is a community organizer, herbalist and the granddaughter of an Indigenous Farmworker. She is committed to health equity through culturally centered care, and is the co-founder of The Botanical Bus. Before co-founding The Botanical Bus, Jocelyn organized weekly bilingual, bicultural wellness workshops with Cultivando para Salud at LandPaths Bayer Farm and worked as a clinical herbalist at Farmacopia for four years. Her activism has roots in 10-years working as Program Director of the Global Exchange Fair Trade Stores. Jocelyn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology from University of California Santa Barbara and certification in herbalism from the California School of