STROB Apothecary

06/17/2026

Dear STRŌB Community,

We're going to let you in on something, because we're not sure everyone realizes how much lives inside the Brew Crew.

Most of you just know it as "that $7 membership thing." And that's fair. It's hard to share all that we are and do at the register and email boxes are overstuffed. But here's what actually happens in there, in a single month, for the price of a fancy latte.

Every week, there's a new tarot lesson, live, real teaching with Richard, our tarot guru, not just a card pull, building your own ability to read. Every week, we gather live for the Sunday Reset, a virtual meetup to land, breathe, and set the tone for the week together. Every full moon and new moon we gather live to learn astrology with Brittany, our counseling astrologer.

Every month, two study groups meet live: Seeker's Circle exploring metaphysical topics, from chakras to energy shielding to Human Design. And Tea Talk where Olivia or Sean go deep on a single plant or tradition (this month was Sean on Hawthorn).Every month we also go deep in on an herbal formulation, explaining the why behind each herb choice. And then there's the 10% off coupon, members-only, good all month long, every month, on everything in the shop or online.

Anytime you want it, you have the whole library: over 50 educational blog posts and more than 30 hours of recorded classes on crystals, aromatherapy, medicine-making, and community herbalism. It grows every single month. It's a pretty sweet flex if you can say you've finished absorbing all our content.

Now read that back and do the math. Weekly tarot teaching. A weekly live gathering. Two monthly study groups. Bi-weekly astrology learning. Fifty-plus blogs. Thirty-plus hours of class recordings. A standing 10% discount. All of it, every month, for $7.

We'll be honest: it's almost absurd. The coupon alone can pay for the membership the first time you use it.

We built it this way on purpose. The Brew Crew is how STRŌB exists when you can't be standing at our counter, hours away, working when we're open, or just needing the teaching at 11pm on a Tuesday. It's where we get to teach properly, where the questions get real answers in a space where we are comfortable to give them, and where this community keeps learning together long after the shop lights go off.

And right now, you don't even have to take our word for it. We've had a free 7-day trial open since spring, and it closes June 21st. So if you've been curious, this is the moment, step inside, look around the whole library, sit in on a gathering, and see for yourself before the trial goes away.

Start your free 7-day trial before June 21st --> (https://www.skool.com/strob-education-hub-1286)

It's been right here the whole time. Come see what you've been walking past.
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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06/17/2026

It's not just Seeker Saturday. It's Super Seeker Saturday. 🔮✨

On June 27th we're combining our monthly Seeker Saturday with a Metaphysical Swap Meet, and we are so excited to host this again!

Here's the deal: That crystal that did its work or the deck you outgrew and that candle or book or trinket that called to you once and is ready to call to someone else, bring it in! Let it find its next keeper.

Just grab a ticket and bring up to 7 gently loved metaphysical items to the swap table. Crystals, decks, candles, books, jewelry, ritual tools, oddities, whatever's ready to move on. Then take home up to 7 treasures that someone else brought.

Everything finds a new home and the energy keeps moving.

Didn't bring anything? No problem. Our table assistant will price any pieces that catch your eye and you can pay at the register.

🔮 Tarot & Astrology Readings

It's still Seeker Saturday, which means walk-in readings are happening all afternoon. Miss Elizabeth is your tarot guide and April McCoy is your astrology guide.

📅 Saturday, June 27th · 12–4pm
📍 STRŌB Apothecary · 2111 Baldwin Ave, Suite 1, Crofton MD (inside Vega Therapy Services)
🎟️ Tickets on Eventbrite · link in profile

Come swap, stay for a reading, and hang with us all afternoon. This one's going to be super special and a fun community time. 💛

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/metaphysical-items-swap-meet-super-seeker-saturday-at-strob-tickets-1991322959577

06/14/2026

Unboxing stock can be a chore for a small business owner on a Sunday off. 🪨✨

However…. Yeah… not complaining here!! 😍 Look how gorgeous these are!!! 🤩 The smokies even have rainbows!!!!! 🌈

New crystals coming to the shelves this week. Come see them in person.

📍 STRŌB · 2111 Baldwin Ave, Suite 1, Crofton MD
🕐 Wed–Thu 12–6 · Fri 12–8 · Sat–Sun 12–5

06/14/2026

Dear STRŌB Community,

Happy Sunday. The solstice is nearly here, and so is the most-anticipated arrival of the summer. Here's what's landing this week, and what's happening at the shop.

☀️ Golden Hour: pre-order now, fulfills June 20th ☀️

That last hour of sun when everything goes soft and gold.

Ripe peach and blood orange melt into honeysuckle, sweet, warm, and a little intoxicating, while sandalwood holds it all close to the skin like the end of a perfect day. Golden Hour is the second seasonal release in Olivia's STRŌB | Linger line, arriving right on the summer solstice. Roll it onto your pulse points and carry summer with you.

Peach · Honeysuckle · Mugwort · Sandalwood · Blood Orange

Pre-order online or reserve yours in the shop. (A few In Bloom roll-ons are still on the shelf if you want the spring-and-summer pair. They layer together beautifully!)

--> See Golden Hour (https://www.strobapothecary.com/product/golden-hour-str-b-linger-aromatherapy-roll-on/TVS34PBJRQBOZVPFFXQDUCON)

🍵 Silk Road Chai is here 🍵
We don't add a new chai often. It has to truly earn the specialness and feeling we feel when we hear that word, and this one really does.

Silk Road Chai is rich, warming, and built to stand up to milk and honey or hold its own straight. The kind of cup that makes the whole kitchen smell like somewhere far away. It makes an excellent creamy iced chai, too. It's in stock now in full size and sample size, though the samples are limited while they last.

In the shop and online. (https://www.strobapothecary.com/product/silk-road-chai/YJLTCMRSE52DHQ6DLGTOZP53)

📚 Two books we've been waiting for 📚
Dr. Aviva Romm's Hormone Intelligence finally arrived, and we're feeling pretty grateful We brought one in for our own counter, a resource to help us help you, and ordered extras to sell because we genuinely believe every household with someone navigating hormone health should have this one on the shelf. If that's you or someone you love, come find it.

Also in: Nicholas Pearson's new book on crystal divination, a beautiful next step for anyone who works with stones and wants to deepen the practice.

💎 New crystals out on display 💎
Three newcomers join the collection this week: Blue Lace Agate, Ruby, and Atlantisite, that last one is mostly gorgeous purple stichtite that's worth seeing in person. We also replenished a long list of favorites, including bloodstone, moonstone, sunstone, rhodonite, apatite, smoky quartz, rose quartz, aquamarine, lepidolite, and prehnite.

🌿 Also freshly stocked 🌿
New on our shelves from Heritage + Vine (https://www.heritageandvine.com/) : a refreshing Sunrise lotion bar and a sensual Warming massage oil, both worth a sniff next time you're in.

Restocked on the herb wall (https://www.strobapothecary.com/shop/loose-herbs/29) : dandelion root, catnip leaf, oatstraw, rosemary, and a limited amount of passionflower. The sea moss gummies (https://www.strobapothecary.com/s/search?q=gummies) are back too, both the ashwagandha and elderberry varieties.

🌐 Easier to find what you need 🌐
We've been tidying up the website. Our home page now has quick navigation to custom teas, event hosting, aromatherapy, and perfumery, so the things people ask about most are easier to reach. We've also added new practitioners to our Referral Network and made the page simpler to scroll, so if you're looking for a trusted herbalist, reader, or healer, it's all right there. Browse the Referral Network --> (https://www.strobapothecary.com/practitioner-referrals)

🎲 This Week: Unsupervised Wallflowers Union, Games Night 🎲
Our inaugural Wallflowers Union meets this week for board games, and we'd love for you to register early if you're coming. Here's the reason: when we go past the shop's capacity, we have to rent the front room, and we need to know in advance to do that. Your early RSVP genuinely helps us plan. Register for the Wallflowers Union --> (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unsupervised-wallflowers-union-tickets-1990113195139)

📅 Your Week at STRŌB 📅
A heads up: Olivia is away Friday through Sunday this week. Sean is holding down the shop, which makes it a wonderful time to come reconnect with him in person.

This week's walk-in note: There will be no aromatherapy walk-ins this Friday with Olivia away, but come in to the counter and ask Sean to help you build your very own custom tea.

Friday, June 19th — Shop open til 8pm.
Saturday, June 20th — Golden Hour launches. Please note: Playful Pandas is cancelled this Saturday and will return the following week.
Coming Friday, June 26th — Herbal Mocktails with Brittany Williams, 6 to 7:30pm. More below.

🍹 Save your seat: Herbal Mocktails | June 26th 🍹
Who says wellness has to be boring? Brittany Williams of Eudemonia Herbs leads us through herbal mixology, shaking, stirring, and sipping our way through two herb-infused mocktails built for flavor and function. You'll leave with a recipe and reference guide, a swag bag, and plenty of inspiration. Please register by June 24th as we must meet our minimum number of students to hold this class.

--> Register for Herbal Mocktails (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/steep-stir-sip-mocktail-moments-wellness-you-can-drink-tickets-1991315114111)

See you this week, in the shop or in the Crew.

The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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06/12/2026

A lot just hit the shelves and we wanted you to see it all in one place. 🫖

🍫 Single origin heirloom cacao from Cacao Adventures | Ceremonial Cacao just landed at STRŌB. This isn’t your grocery store cocoa with weird extra ingredients or from lab-grown cocoa. This is the real thing, carefully sourced in Peru and worlds apart from anything you’ve sipped before.

✨ GRACE Botanical Face Elixir is here. Our house-made botanical face oil with gotu kola, hibiscus, jasmine silver needle white tea, calendula, and schisandra berries, finished with rosehip, argan, and helichrysum. Handcrafted by us, right here in the shop.

🌿 We’re also welcoming two new products from Heritage + Vine Botanica . A warming massage oil and a lotion bar. Beautiful, intentional body care from a really cool maker we trust.

🍵 Raspberry Earl Grey just joined the tea wall. Classic bergamot with bright raspberry and cornflower petals. Sophisticated but playful. High caffeine. Your new afternoon ritual. Perfect with the new 70% dark cacao bar.

🫖 And if you’ve been wanting to try our teas before committing to a full bag, the sample size tea section is fully restocked. Come explore.

📍 2111 Baldwin Ave, Suite 1, Crofton MD (inside Vega Therapy Services)
🕐 Wed–Thu 12–6 · Fri 12–8 · Sat–Sun

The Brew Crew heard about most of this before it hit the shelf. $7/month on Skool, link in bio. 🫖

06/11/2026

New hours, same STRŌB. 🫖

We've updated our schedule and we want to make sure you know when to find us:

💫Wednesday & Thursday · 12–6pm
💫Friday · 12–8pm
💫Saturday & Sunday · 12–5pm

And about those Fridays... we're staying open late for a reason. Every Friday from 6–8pm there's something extra happening in the shop!

Workshops. Classes. Walk-in custom blending. Community hangs. Something different is planned for every week.

Your start to the weekend just got a whole lot better!

📍 2111 Baldwin Ave, Suite 1, Crofton MD (inside Vega Therapy Services)

Stay in the loop on what's happening each Friday — join the Brew Crew on Skool ($7/month) or get on our email list.

06/11/2026

Wellness you can actually drink. 🍹

We're teaming up with Brittany Williams of .herbs for a hands-on herbal mocktail class right here in the shop. Brittany is a clinical herbalist, wellness educator, and the founder of Eudemonia Herbs out of Baltimore and she is an herbal fun and relaxation EXPERT.

You'll learn the basics of herbal mixology, talk through how to build flavor and function in a glass, and make two herb-infused mocktails together. No alcohol and TONS of personality!

You're leaving with a recipe and reference guide, a swag bag, and enough inspiration to keep experimenting at home.

🗓️ Friday, June 26th
📍 STROB Apothecary · 2111 Baldwin Ave, Suite 1, Crofton MD (inside Vega Therapy Services)
🎟️ Tickets on Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/steep-stir-sip-mocktail-moments-wellness-you-can-drink-tickets-1991315114111

If you've ever wanted to do more with herbs than brew a cup of tea then this is your night. Come shake, stir, and sip with us!

06/10/2026

Dear STRŌB Community,

There's plenty of stories and folk wisdom about Hawthorn, but a favorite one is its lore as a boundary hedge. For centuries it was planted to mark the border between what was protected and what was wild. In folk magic it was believed it guarded thresholds It was believed that if you stand at a hawthorn hedge, you stand at a doorway.

There's all kinds of thresholds and one threshold that Hawthorn guards remarkably well is your heart.

Hawthorn is the great heart herb. Herbalists have reached for it for generations to support the physical heart. It is an herb that has had scores of studies done on its heart muscle effectiveness, but hawthorn's reputation runs deeper than the physical. It's the plant we turn to for the other kind of heartache too: for grief and loss, for the heart that feels too open, and even for the heart that's closed up tight to keep from breaking again. Hawthorn meets both. It softens what's guarded and steadies what's raw, in emotional and physical and soul ways.

For a thorny little hedge plant, it holds an enormous amount of medicine.

This Wednesday, Sean is doing what Sean does best, going deep. In this month's Tea Talk in the Brew Crew, he's diving into everything hawthorn: the parts, the uses, the medicine for body and spirit, the lore, the practical how-to. If you've ever sat across from Sean and just let him teach, you know it's one of the real pleasures of being part of this community. This Wednesday we have a seat waiting for you.

The Tea Talk is live and exclusive to the Brew Crew. $7/month gets you in, plus everything else we make in there, and a 10% off coupon you can use every month.

Join the Brew Crew for Wednesday's Hawthorn Tea Talk (https://www.skool.com/strob-education-hub-1286)

And if hawthorn is calling to you, we have it on the herb wall. Come sit with it. We'll help you find the form that fits, whether that's the heart you can feel beating or the one that's been a little heavy lately.

Take care of your heart this week, in every sense, please!
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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06/09/2026

Magic isn't meant to gather dust. It's meant to keep moving. 🤝

Think about everything that passes through your hands as a seeker: the crystals, the decks, the tools, trinkets, jewelry.... Some stay with you for years. Others do their work and quietly let you know they're ready to move on. They gather dust in a drawer or on a shelf when they could be supporting someone else's journey.

That's the whole idea behind our Metaphysical Swap Meet on June 27. 🔮
✨ $10 ticket
✨ Bring up to 7 gently loved metaphysical items
✨ Take up to 7 home
✨ Didn't bring anything? Our table assistant will price whatever catches your eye and you can pay at the register

We'll have a whole table for our community of treasures. Everything finds a new home, nothing goes to waste, and the magic keeps circulating!

It's all happening the same day as our regular Seeker Saturday which makes it a
💫Super Seeker Saturday💫

🎟️ Tickets on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/metaphysical-items-swap-meet-super-seeker-saturday-at-strob-tickets-1991322959577
📍 STRŌB Apothecary, Crofton (inside Vega Therapy Services)

06/07/2026

Dear STRŌB Community,

Happy Sunday. Here's what's fresh at the shop and what's happening this week, both in store and over in the Brew Crew.

🍫 Ceremonial Cacao is back (plus chocolate worth talking about) 🍫
Our ceremonial cacao has returned, now in easy-to-measure discs so you can portion your ritual without the guesswork. Alongside it, two bars we're a little obsessed with: a deep 70% dark and a 53% "milk" that uses creamy lucuma instead of dairy, so it's got that soft, mellow sweetness without the milk. Come taste the difference lucuma makes. Its only available in-store during seasons of hot weather due to REAL chocolate actually melting.

🌱 A quiet commitment we want to name 🌱
The chocolate world is changing. As cocoa prices climb and supply tightens, lab-grown and cell-cultured cacao is moving from idea to reality, and some of the biggest names in chocolate are starting to explore it. We understand why, but we don't agree.

Cacao has been revered as medicine and ceremony for thousands of years, and that lineage matters to us. It's a plant we love deeply and treat with reverence here. (And we need to name that Olivia can be a misery without REAL chocolate so...) Here's our promise: as long as we can source real, single-origin cacao the way we do now, you'll be able to find it at STRŌB. The real plant, with all its history intact.

🍵 The new teas are flying 🍵
You were not so subtle about loving these new teas. Sweet Summer Starlight sold out online its first day, so the only place to get it right now is in the shop. Come grab it before that runs out, too. We've also got that new Raspberry Earl Grey ready and it tastes amazing with a square from one of our new cacao bars.

Also freshly restocked, some with sample sizes available online: Sweet Berry Matcha and Lavender Peach Matcha are back. So are Midnight Muse, Margaret's Hope Darjeeling, and Ginger Peach. If you've been meaning to try one, the sampler size is the low-commitment way in.

EXPLORE TEAS (https://www.strobapothecary.com/shop/teas/129)

🍹 New class: Herbal Mocktails with Brittany Williams 🍹
Friday, June 26th | 6 to 7:30pm | $45

Who says wellness has to be boring? Skip the bland beverages and sip something with personality.

Brittany Williams of Eudemonia Herbs leads us through the foundations of herbal mixology, shaking, stirring, and sipping our way through herb-infused mocktails built for flavor and function. Together you'll make two herbal mocktails, learn simple techniques for building a well-balanced drink, and discover how everyday herbs can elevate what's in your glass.

You'll leave with a recipe and reference guide, a swag bag, and plenty of inspiration to keep the herbal sipping going at home.

REGISTER FOR MOCKTAILS (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/steep-stir-sip-mocktail-moments-wellness-you-can-drink-tickets-1991315114111)

📅 Your Week at STRŌB 📅
Tonight (Sunday) — Sunday Reset, live in the Brew Crew (https://www.skool.com/strob-education-hub-1286/about)
Wednesday — Tea Talk in the Brew Crew: Sean on Hawthorn and all its heart-loving goodness

Friday — Shop open til 8pm. Aromatherapy walk-ins with Olivia, 4 to 7pm. Crystal + Gemstone ID Station 6 to 7:30pm, with Dan on hand to identify your finds and answer any rock and mineral questions.

Saturday — Playful Pandas (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/playful-pandas-music-playgroup-tickets-1976924823364) , 10 to 11am, free toddler music in the front room.

See you this week, in the shop or in the Crew.
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

The Brew Crew - Your digital sanctuary for herbal wisdom and cosmic guidance. $7/month for herbal education, live classes, weekly content, and a 10% off coupon every month. Join on Skool (https://www.skool.com/strob-education-hub-1286/about)

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