The People's Medicine Project believes that all people have a right to wellness, and empowered connection to their health, including access to traditional and alternative medicine. We acknowledge, and work toward healing the systems of oppression that prevent individuals and communities from accessing care that has cultural relevance, and/or offers healing modalities outside the realm of pharmaceutical-based medicine. Running mobile free alternative health clinics in multiple locations in the Pioneer Valley, including Greenfield, Springfield, and Great Falls (Turner's Falls.)
2. Running a medicinal herb garden at the Just Roots Community Farm. Here, clinic clients and community members tend and harvest herbs; and learn to make their own herbal medicines.
3. Coordinating skills shares and educational programming around herbal medicine in a culturally relevant context.
4. Coordinating the Acupuncture Access Program, in collaboration with Greenfield Community Acupuncture. Through this collaboration, individuals in early opioid recovery receive unlimited access to acupuncture.
