Española Healing Foods Oasis

12/17/2024

Calling all volunteers to come help shuck white corn and process cushaw squash! Hope to see you there!

When: Dec 18th, 2024 from 4pm-6pm
Where: Tewa Women United Office

12/10/2024

Want to learn how to process herbal medicine? We are hosting a volunteer day this Tuesday from 4-6pm at Tewa Women United office to process the rest of our medicines. We could use the help! Hope to see you there!

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.

09/09/2024

The EJ Program is hiring for all positions! Send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] to apply!

https://tewawomenunited.org/about-us/employment

08/16/2024

Grapes are fully ripe and are ready to pick at the Healing Food Oasis! Better get them now!

06/28/2024

A peaceful moonrise over one of our apricot trees! The first phase of fruit harvest season is just arriving at the Healing Foods Oasis with our cherries, apricots, and chokecherries just days away from peak deliciousness. ♥️

We’re so excited to thank the Oasis for the abundance this Sunday at our June volunteer day! Come join us for a morning tending & supporting our beautiful garden & all the nourishment it gives us.

06/25/2024

Join us this Sunday at the garden for our June community volunteer day! 🍇🧑‍🌾

One of our favorite parts of each growing season at the Healing Foods Oasis is to gather with community to share what we're learning, open the garden to helping hands, and celebrate our new growth. We're proud to include our neighbors & relatives in the projects that keep our garden thriving.

We’ll be at the garden from 8:30 am - 11:30 am this Sunday to give the garden some love & support our garden caretakers with their projects. We’d love to see you there! Snacks and tools will be provided!

05/20/2024

Sending love & blessings to our bee relatives on this ! 🐝🌿✨

One of the pillars of the Healing Foods Oasis is our commitment to tending urban habitat for pollinators, acknowledging the need to maintain the availability of all their needs throughout the Rio Grande Corridor, which is home and a critical migration pathway for so many species. While most people may be familiar with honeybees and their many beautiful offerings, we are especially grounded in ensuring our garden is a safe & nourishing home to our native bees (like this bumblebee enjoying one of the EHFO’s Palmer penstemons! ♥️).

Today and always, we celebrate our bee relatives & thank them for tending our ecosystems. Let’s all do our part to !

05/20/2024

Please join us for a very special evening of getting to know the people and programs of Tewa Women United and celebrating our beautiful new home in Española. Everyone is welcome!

June 5, 2024
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
TWU office, 1003 E. Fairview Lane, Española, NM

For more information and to RSVP click here ⤵️
https://tewawomenunited.org/events/open-house

05/17/2024

New community herb class! Herbal Care for Babies and Children 5/27/24 2-4pm 🌱🌺🌱 FREE!! Call to register, space is limited

05/16/2024

We are so excited to include an herbal medicine workshop in this year’s garden planting celebration! 🌿✨

Today we spent the afternoon pouring our “Working Hands” salve, a remedy for dryness & pain made from our locally-gathered cottonwood bud oil & snakeweed oil - both incredible plant allies who can be gathered at the Healing Foods Oasis! These salves will be gifted to everyone who joins our planting celebration this Saturday, where we will also be hosting a talk on the salve’s creation, as well as a workshop on glycerites made with more of the medicinal plants growing at the garden!

While many may be familiar with the abundance of edible plants & tended crops at the Healing Foods Oasis, we love every opportunity to uplift the many medicinal plants who also call the garden home. Come by the garden this Saturday to learn more! 🌻

05/09/2024

Happy planting season, relatives! 🌿🫘

Tewa Women United's Environmental Justice Program invites you to join us in celebrating the new growing season at the Española Healing Foods Oasis - this will be our 8th year of opening the garden in beloved community! Starting at 9 am, we will gather to extend our gratitude and blessings over the Española Healing Foods Oasis as we journey into the coming months of tending, harvesting, and sharing all the garden's gifts. Tewa Women United’s Environmental Health & Justice staff and our garden caretakers will lead attendees in a planting workshop of beans, corn, squash and medicinal herbs in our rainwater-harvesting spiral gardens. We are also excited to host a herbal medicine workshop alongside our plantings, to share recipes and practices for creating herbal salves and hydrosols to support farmers and gardeners.

All tools and materials will be supplied, as well as breakfast and refreshments. Everyone is welcome - come learn & celebrate with us! 🌼🌱
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How to find the Española Healing Foods Oasis: The garden is located behind Española City Hall (405 N Paseo de Onate) on the slope leading down to Valdez Park. Parking is available at the Española Public Library/Lucero Center lot, or on Vietnam Veterans Memorial Road adjacent to the park.

04/30/2024

04/26/2024

Our friends at the City of Española Public Library have free garden kits available for community members through the Center for Southwest Culture's Sembrando Salud program! This is a great offering to help get your growing started for the year.

02/14/2024

Register at this link! https://forms.gle/9L8332KG7VXgxBZH9

Join our Towa Bi Woh~Barrio Remedios project for a special workshop to learn about the basics of distillation, led by special guest presenters Feather Catcher Apothecary and FireMoon Botanicals. We will be firing up our very own copper still and also showing participants how to make a simple distillation at home. Take a lavender hydrosol home with you!

This workshop is in person and space is limited to 10 participants! Participants must register to secure a space by clicking here:
https://forms.gle/xgK5oZ7p9vntd2tg9

For more information, please contact our Wellness Coordinator, Pilar Trujillo [email protected]

12/12/2023

This week, come help us re-stock the Española Healing Foods Seed Library!

Weds, Dec 13
2 - 5 pm
at the City of Española Public Library

Friday, Dec 15
2 - 5 pm
at TWU office, 1003 E Fairview Ln, Española

The Espanola Healing Foods Seed Library is one of our Environmental Justice’s key projects in the program’s food and seed sovereignty work. This seed home is housed at the Espanola Public Library, and is on a mission to provide open and free community access to locally-adapted, heirloom and organic seed for vegetables, herbs, medicinal plants, fruits, grains, native plants, dye plants, and fiber plants. At the beginning and end of each growing season, we “restock” the seed library with more seed ahead of the next planting season.

All are welcome to lend a hand and learn about seeds at this free event!