Who we are

Apothecarey 107 is a tribute to lineage, memory, and transformation. The number 107 is sacred. It represents the address of our grandparents’ home in Madison, Wisconsin. Built with love, intention, and vision, that home became a sanctuary where Black life could root, dream, and grow in a time when homeownership was nearly impossible. It was more than a house; it was a symbol of stability, learning, and possibility. A place where the next generations could imagine futures beyond survival.

This story begins long before us: with a 14-year-old boy, Bernard, leaving Americus, Georgia during the Great Migration with only a bus ticket north, and with Kathlyn, who was born in Chicago and raised in Paris, Tennessee after the loss of her father. These journeys from Americus to Madison, from Chicago to Paris, and back to the Midwest tell a story of movement, resilience, and survival. That story lives in Apothecarey 107.

The name itself is a reclamation: Apothecarey (a play on our last name “Carey”) honors ancestral homes where medicine is made by hand, where healing is intimate, and where plants are revered as sacred. Apothecarey 107 is a living ourchive of healing, remembrance, and reclamation.

Apothecarey 107 is a prayer. A reclamation. A transgenerational whisper between ancestors and descendants, between the gardens of our great-grandmothers and the possibilities yet to bloom. It is a place to lay burdens down and be held by the land, by medicine, by Spirit.

Today, Apothecarey 107 offers herbal remedies, ritual tools, custom care boxes, and community workshops that weave together herbalism, ancestral remembrance, and healing justice. It is both an altar and a gathering place where healing is not only personal and collective, and where communities can return home to ourselves, to each other, and to the Earth.

To those seeking healing, to those carrying grief, to those longing to root deeper into the Earth and themselves: this is for you.


May we remember that medicine is not only what we take, but what we return to. May we always find our way home.

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Our Herbalist

Alysia Mann Carey (they/elle/elu/she/ella/ela) was birthed from the sweet and saltwater crossings of Harbour Island, Bahamas and Madison, WI. Born and raised with her 4 younger siblings in Madison, Alysia played many afternoons with the Gingko tree her grandfather planted and nurtured back to health in the 1950s, planting many seeds of healing they are still uncovering each moment of everyday.

Alysia is a godmother, mama-auntie, auntie, sister-sibling, queer beloved soul that seeks to offer and embrace healing magic with Mother Earth. Through their work and un/learnings with herbalism and earth medicine, Alysia weaves together somatic inquiry, trauma-informed practices and the wisdom offered by plants and herbs to support loved ones and beloved communities in the US, Colombia and Brazil. 

As a multiple language learner, translator and interpreter, they connect Black diasporic communities by bridging languages and co-creating spaces and experiences where Black folx can re-encounter, thereby transforming language barriers into expressions that explore the different meanings of the world that we carry within ourselves. Alysia works as a transformative & healing justice facilitator and curriculum developer consultant and offers workshops around embodiment & trauma, intergenerational healing in Spanish, Portuguese and English with the purpose of weaving these knowledges into the creative efforts that continue to work of liberation.

Alysia, a graduate of the Sacred Vibes Spiritual Herbalism Apprenticeship (2022–2025) where they journeyed with Nettles, grounds this work in spiritual herbalism, somatic practice, and Black diasporic healing traditions. Their sister has since joined them in this path, co-creating Apothecarey 107 as a collaborative space where care is collective, embodied, and rooted in liberation. Together, they are committed to weaving community, offering medicine that nourishes both body and spirit, and creating spaces where Black, Indigenous, queer, and diasporic people can return home — to themselves, to each other, and to the Earth.

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Our Orientation: A World Rooted in Healing & Remembrance

I envision a world where Black, Indigenous, and diasporic communities are deeply nourished where we no longer over-promise ourselves to systems that extract but instead pour into ourselves, kindred, and the land with reciprocity. Our vision is a world where healing is not a privilege but a birthright, where our ancestors' wisdom is not forgotten but woven into every ritual, sip, and salve.

This is a world where communities do not have to beg for care, where our spirits are not neglected, where we do not have to sacrifice our own bodies to survive. A world where plants, stories, and spiritual practices guide us home to ourselves, to each other, and to futures of radical, abundant wellness.

Apothecarey 107 exists in service of that world, where herbal medicine is about healing the body, and also about re-membering ourselves back into being.

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Our Mission: Weaving Earth, Memory & Liberation into Medicine

Through Apothecarey 107, we are honoring the hands that came before: those that planted, harvested, and mixed medicine with intention and prayer. We are continuing a lineage of healing by offering plant-based remedies and spiritual tools that support the body, nourish the spirit, and reconnect us to our roots. Our work is both intimate and collective. It may look like a womb oil echoing the care of birthworkers and midwives, a tea blend carrying the strength of the land, or protective medicines crafted for those navigating grief, displacement, and the violences of policing, imprisonment, borders, and repression. Our mission is to create remedies and rituals that tend to personal healing while also fortifying communities and strengthening collective resilience in the face of climate crisis, capitalism, and state violence.

We are here to support you:

  • Heal through Earth medicine – Crafting herbal remedies that center grief tending, birth and loss support, protection, and ancestral reclamation.

  • Offer liberation-based healing – Co-creating spaces where somatics, herbalism and healing justice come together to help us unlearn harm and cultivate self & collective care.

  • Uplift the wisdom of Black & Indigenous healing technologies – Preserving and re-membering plant relationships that have nourished our people for generations.

  • Make medicine accessible – Offering sliding scale, community-supported remedies for those most impacted by systemic barriers to healing.

  • Bridge the spiritual & the practical – Honoring plant spirit medicine, dreamwork, and ritual-based healing alongside physical and physiological support.

  • Weave herbalism with community practice – Supporting caregivers, birthworkers, and organizers in sustaining their bodies and spirits through plant medicine.

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Who We Serve:

Our work is for those who are longing to return home: to their bodies, to their ancestors, to their power, to themselves. We offer healing support to:

  • Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) seeking to reclaim ancestral medicine.

  • Queer, trans, and non-binary folks desiring gender-expansive herbal care.

  • Those moving through grief, trauma, and ancestral healing who need Earth’s medicine as a guide.

  • Birthworkers, caregivers, and parents tending to new life and community wellness.

  • Activists, organizers, dreamweavers and movement workers needing support for nervous system regulation, burnout, and boundary protection.

  • Artists, writers, and creatives looking for herbs to support visioning, dreaming, and manifestation.

  • You.

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General Offerings:

  • Herbal Support – Handmade tinctures, teas, oils, smoke blends, sprays and spiritual baths that nourish, protect, and restore.

  • Healing Justice Herbalism – Courses and workshops weaving somatic care, spiritual herbalism, and healing justice.

  • Community-Supported Herbalism – A sliding-scale medicine fund offering accessible remedies to those most in need.

  • Spiritual & Ritual-Based Herbalism – Custom medicine for grief tending, protection work, ancestral connection, and dream medicine.

  • Liberatory Birth & Reproductive Care – Herbal support for fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, loss and womb/uterine space healing.

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