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Medicine Buddha Botanicals

Also known as: Medicine Buddha, Krysia Kurzyca Herbalism

Krysia Kurzyca's herbalism practice and seasonal medicinal CSA — based in a small laboratory in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, lined with bottles, drying herbs, and roots. Trained at UMass and apprenticed under Chris Marano (co-founder of the Clearpath School of Herbal Medicine). Started Medicine Buddha as one of the Berkshires' first botanical CSAs; herbs are dried and used for tinctures, teas, and culinary seasonings.

What they do

A practitioner-led herbalism practice with a small [[great-barrington|Great Barrington]] laboratory. Krysia Kurzyca grows, harvests, and processes plant material into tinctures, teas, and culinary seasonings; the operation is structured as a seasonal botanical CSA (one of the first in [[berkshires|the Berkshires]]) — members receive a rotating selection of medicinal preparations through the growing season. Kurzyca trained at UMass and apprenticed under Chris Marano, co-founder of the Clearpath School of Herbal Medicine.

Why it’s listed

Three structural facts:

  1. The Clearpath / Marano lineage authorization. Marano is one of the senior teachers in New England’s contemporary herbalism transmission; apprenticeship under him places Medicine Buddha in a documented teacher-student lineage rather than only a self-taught practice.

  2. The botanical CSA model is the right shape. A medicinal-CSA brings the seasonal-rhythm logic of food agriculture into herbalism: members receive what’s actually growing, in the proportions the season makes available. That’s structurally different from a year-round retail apothecary.

  3. Densifies [[berkshires|the Berkshires]] herbalism cluster. With [[green-branch-urban-farm-apothecary]] (also Great Barrington Main Street) and Medicine Buddha, the town now has two complementary herbalism anchors — Green Branch retail-and-grow, Medicine Buddha CSA-and-tincture.

Bioregional fit

Anchors the [[great-barrington]] / [[berkshires]] botanical-CSA slot. Pairs with [[green-branch-urban-farm-apothecary]] for the town’s two-anchor herbalism coverage and with [[kripalu-center]] (Stockbridge) for the bioregion’s broader contemplative + plant-medicine pairing.

See also

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  • Instance of: [[herbalism]]
  • Member of: [[business]]
  • Contained by: [[great-barrington]] · [[berkshires]]

Sources

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[berkshires]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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