On a blustery evening on February 7th 2022 we headed down to Grey’s Inn Road, LDN where the Autonomous Winter Shelter has been holding down a dry, warm and friendly squatted space to house people over this cold winter. We went down to distribute the medicines we made at the Winter Weekender back in Nov.
Labelled, packaged and with an accompanying zine we proudly showed and shared the medicines and recipes to anyone interested passing by and living in the building. Medicines were distributed on a donation basis and what wasn’t taken has been left for people to use as they want, to support healthy immune function during these cold, drizzly months. Granted, we are on the flip side of winter now and getting the remedies out a little earlier would have been good but it’s been a huge learning process; bottling, labelling and distributing the medicines and creating an accompanying zine. We now have templates for everything and hope to get the medicine distribution process somewhat smoother! We thought it was really important that the zines should be readily available and accessible to anyone who would be interested in making the medicines themselves. We want to keep knowledge sharing open, accessible and horizonal.
We drank some of the delicious nervine blend and felt sleepy (:, had some great discussions @ AWS from local community gardeners, community kitchen volunteers, compost fanatics and fellow herbalists. We learnt what medicines were useful for those in the shelter and what people would like more of. We smoked some of our nervine tea blend which was not what we were expecting but was a very nice tobacco alternative! And we swapped seeds for the incoming Spring.
Big up the AWS and thanks for having us! Thank you to everyone involved in making the medicines over the winter.
We also distributed the rest of the medicines and some more zines to 56a info shop @ Elephant and Castle.
love, rage and plant power
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