Serenus Herbs

Serenus Herbs is the community herbalism practice of organizer and artist Stephanie Martinez Griffin. Serenus is a love letter to fellow sick, mad, crips living with chronic pain & immune issues. Products are small batch, low-waste, and local or homegrown when possible. The Serenus Herb Bank is a care network rooted in mutual aid and Disability Justice. Since 2021, the Herb Bank has provided dozens of Black &/or Indigenous folks across the U.S./Canada with free herbal care packages each month. It is dreamed up and run by one Black Indigenous disabled trans person volunteering their time and labor. Until now, it has been 100% funded by personal reparations and community members’ contributions. Black and/or Indigenous people may request a free care package of Serenus products and KN95/N95 masks, every 6 months, no questions asked.

Stephanie is in the process of starting Moonpence Farm, a small medicinal herb & flower farm in the Manzano Mountain of so-called New Mexico, where they will grow many of the herbs used in Herb Bank care packages. By growing their own plant medicine, they will be able to greatly cut overhead costs, lower their carbon footprint & up Herb Bank output. Sky High Farm’s grant will help to build out early farm infrastructure needed to expand the Herb Bank and provide even more free medicine to Black & Indigenous people year round.