“BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SCARED INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND THE MODERNIZED ... FUNCTIONALITY OF OUR WORLD”. Her Story. Well Fed Apothecary is a women-owned and operated small business curated and created by Wilnise Francois. She belives the hand of women within healing, is a sacred source; that is the foundation throughout communities she tries to reach. Wilnise Francois is a Haitian-American Licensed Nurse and Herbalist that has worked in the allopathic modality of healing for over a decade. Working alongside physicians and caretakers alike facilitating wellness to those across the life span. Her role as an herbalist expanded with the personal need and integration of herbal medicines from her coveted traditional Haitian practices and studies in Western herbalism. As a community herbalist, she is working to revolutionize the cultural affinity of our plant friends through our relationships with the earth and stars. Her aim is to integrate the very love our herbs show us and implement that essence into our daily lives; creating a lifestyle of health and wellness. Herbalism and its cultural influence on Wilnise as a first-generation Haitian American shapes the healing modality she follows today, a blend of western folk medicine making to rooted ancestral herbal maji. Well Fed Apothecary is an e-commerce site immersing the use of herbal preparations and wellbeing. Bridging the gap between scared indigenous knowledge and the modernized technological functionality of our world. The goal is to expand community outreach through sacred plant medicine. Outsourcing through local communities and across the Caribbean; building sustainable jobs of farming and cultivating crop for healing. Reaching an audience that not only engages but is accessible to wellness is a hurdle she tries to overcome. “ We see the need for healing within spaces that we have not always seen. With the broad use of technology we now have a reach that not only engages but is an open door.” (Wilnise Francois)