Who We Are

  • We are Pareja de Pacha, an herbal liberation collective dedicated to bringing plant medicine back to the people. We believe that access to healing herbs is not a privilege; it is our birthright. Through community care, local partnerships, and direct service, we are making that belief a living reality.

  • To break barriers and ensure herbal medicine is accessible to everyone.

    We see a world where no one is priced out of plant medicine, where knowledge flows freely, and where communities hold the power to care for themselves. Every delivery, every pop-up, every local partnership is a step toward that world.

  • I had just graduated from herbalism school, deepening the relationship with plant medicine, when Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina. The storm changed everything.

    As we watched the aftermath unfold, something became clear: certain communities were not receiving the care they deserved. Queer, Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority were falling through the cracks of relief efforts, left without access to the healing resources that should belong to all of us. We couldn't look away.

    "We had the knowledge, we had the plants, and our community needed both. It was time to act."

    So we got to work. We designed a customized Herbal Kit, “ The Remedy in Four” built around four pillars of whole-body wellness to meet people where they were:

    • Nervous System & Spirit

    • Digestive Health

    • Sleep & Rest

    • Immunity

    Through donations and community collaboration, We were able to provide 10 people with their first herbal kits. It was small, it was grassroots, and it was ours. That was the seed of our mutual aid and it has been growing ever since.

    Pareja de Pacha was born from that moment: the belief that a freshly trained herbalist, a community willing to give, and a few carefully chosen plants can quietly change someone's life. We are still that same collective just with more hands, more herbs, and more love.

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Our Team

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Steph Dasai

Founder

I am a Queer Peruvian and Guyanese herbalist, activist, and advocate whose work lives at the intersection of plant medicine and social justice. I believe that healing is political and that the communities most harmed by systemic inequity deserve the most intentional, accessible care.

My herbal education is rooted in both formal study and lived relationship. I completed the Essentials of Herbalism program at the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, studied under the mentorship of Rebecca Vann, and have had the privilege of practicing alongside local Black herbalists whose knowledge and wisdom continue to shape how I show up in this work. For me, learning herbalism has never been just about plants it has been about people, lineage, and the act of reclaiming medicine for those who need it most.

I bring that same commitment to community into my facilitation practice. I hold a facilitation certification from Voltage Control and have worked as a facilitator in racial equity spaces guiding groups through difficult, meaningful conversations with care and accountability. That experience taught me how to hold space, how to listen, and how to move people toward something better together.

Pareja de Pacha is where all of these threads meet. It is how I put my values into practice through herbs, through mutual aid, and through a deep belief that healing belongs to all of us.

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Caroline Schramm

My work is centered in a deep belief that food, land, and healing are inseparable. Through farming and community food access work I have dedicated myself to building systems rooted in care, dignity, and connection.

My background spans sustainable agriculture, food justice, herbalism, and community health programming. From managing food access initiatives and sourcing from local farms to working directly in the fields growing food, I have seen firsthand how deeply healing it can be when communities have meaningful access to nourishment, land, and collective care.

I am especially passionate about creating alternatives to systems that leave people disconnected from their food, health, and each other. Healing should be accessible, community-rooted, and grounded in reciprocity with the natural world.

Whether through farming, food distribution, herbal medicine, or community collaboration, I am committed to helping cultivate resilient and connected communities where people are supported not only in surviving, but in truly thriving.

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