During the Covid-19 shut down in March 2020, Sarah Nuñez and M. Teresa Mabry dreamed up the vision of Aflorar Herb Collective under a mesquite tree in Phoenix, Arizona. Through the support of Mijente’s La Vida Local outside the state strategy, we launched with other Mijente members across the US (Lisa Castellanos, Marcos Morales, and others), providing herbal seeds and compostable pots to our communities to grow in our homes. Soon after, we transitioned to offering care kits to organizers, nurturers, and communities across the country to support many as they held down the organizing, movement-building, and activist work needed in Summer 2020. Since 2020, we have shown up, at the moment, for many groups, individuals, and organizations across the country. We are offering remedies, practices, art, and love on the frontlines of political threats and climate catastrophes. We are growing herbs and distributing them across the southeast, with a current focus on Kentucky and North Carolina, where our hubs are located.

We are a collective of folk herbalists, herbal enthusiasts, artists, gardeners, and community organizers working to relearn and remember our traditional ways through herbs, connection to the land, and healing through Chicanx, Latinx, Black and Indigenous traditional practices and values. We are working together using nature's tools to guide us on a journey to restore, remember, and reconnect to our shared healing, knowledge, and freedom to liberate our communities.