ABOUT

Jacaranda Road Apothecary offers heart-centered, ancestor-guided plant medicine for social justice warriors + beloved community.

ROOTS

Naa Hammond is an herbalist guided by her ancestors’ love of plants, justice, and healing. She is a Black immigrant queer femme from Zimbabwe and Ghana and now calls Lenapehoking (NYC) home.

Between 2015 and 2018, Naa apprenticed with master spiritual herbalist Karen Rose of Sacred Vibes Apothecary. She is a current student of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine under clinical herbalist 7Song.

Our Name

Jacaranda Road Apothecary is named for the vibrant purple flower trees that line the streets of Naa’s hometown Harare, Zimbabwe. Originating in South America, this tree now calls many places home. Like other migrants, the Jacaranda tree offers its adopted homelands many gifts: shade, medicine, magic, beauty. and strong roots to hold the soil more firmly in place.