AS THE APOTHECARY TURNS...

Dr Henry Skinner built what is now Battle Ground Healing Arts as a home side by side with his medical clinic in 1930 and served as a primary care physician for all of North Clark County, WA

Dr Stansbury had a wonderful  friendship with the elderly Dr Skinner and she is currently only the 2nd owner of the property in nearly a century.

Dr Stansbury completed a medical assisting program with an internship at Stanford Hospital, went on to graduate from San Jose State University with honors and was accepted to the naturopathic medical school in Portland, OR.

She moved to Hockinson and commuted to the med school, and also served on several Clark County health and environmental boards.

Dr Stansbury graduated from medical school and established Battle Ground Healing Arts, renting the clinic on Main Street from Dr Henry Skinner.

In this hard-working decade, Dr Stansbury wore many hats: mother, physician, business owner, professor, author, gardener and cheif bottle washer.

Dr Stansbury purchased the BG Healing Arts property from Dr Skinner using the advance she received from her first herb book as a down payment.

Dr Stansbury grew the business into a thriving multidisciplinary facility with acupuncturists, massage therapists, and aestheticians.

Dr Stansbury began to convert what was a 1 car garage on Main Street into a medicinal apothecary to be called our NATURAL GOODS store or "apothecary".

Here is a photo of Dr Stansbury's daughter's lemonade stand in front of the garage that is now the BG Healing Arts Apothecary.

The Reflector, Battle Ground's weekly paper announced the opening of the Natural Goods apothecary,  the town's first such business.  

 We stocked all manner of natural medicines and began filling our patient's medicines in this new apothecary space.

We eventually relinquished the term "Natural Goods" upon terminating affiliation with a former apothecary partner as she had incorporated the term in her LLC.  We are still waiting for her to relinquish 

BG Healing Arts.

As Dr Stansbury built out the apothecary, the  affiliated  "Family Practice" was rebranded as "BG Healing Arts" in 2002 to better reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the clinicians practicing alongside the NATURAL GOODS apothecary.

This Jan 2002 Photo features the new signage.

The NATURAL GOODS apothecary, eventurally known as the HEALING ARTS APOTHECARY, was a huge success and brought in patients to our practice and people curious to learn more about alternative medicine.   

Our NATURAL GOODS apothecary continued to flourish and required  hiring additional staff as the supplements, teas, and natural medicines were well received by the community.

 This photo features one of our most popular teas, the HEART CHAKRA blend, formulated by Dr Stansbury and employs flavonoid-rich hawthorn for its  vasoprotective properties.

Dr Jill Stansbury  continued to teach natural products chemistry and research herbal medicine around the world.  

Our apprentices  learned how Dr Stansbury made her medicines, obtained her goods, ran her alternative medicine apothecary, and other skills unique to the BG apothecary biz.

Dr Jill Stansbury was awarded an ethnobotany research grant and traveled to South America frequently, plus taught at 6-10 conferences per year, adding up to being away from Battle Ground  over half of the year for a decade.  

Dr Stansbury built a humble home in Cuzco, Peru  that still serves as her basecamp for Ethnobotany Field courses.

Dr Stansbury was traveling so much she considered transitioning the apothecary employee to run or her own profit, and this agreement was implemented at the tail end of 2011.

However, this did not go well and we had to terminate the agreement after a few years of strife.

Dr Stansbury published another herbal medicine book, the

 PCOS Health and Nutrition Guide, and in these years published dozens of scholarly articles for medical journals and gave over 100 lectures at professional conferences.

Dr Stansbury prepared for the next phase of growth for the business and thoughtfully assessed what was working and what was not.

We had several stressful years as we struggled to communicate effectively enough to resolve troubling issues and ultimately implemented necessary changes with apothecary management.

Dr Stansbury continued to lead ethnobotany field courses in Peru but cut one trip short this summer to fly home early and address urgent issues with the business team.

We terminated our partnership with the LLC operating our apothecary and relinquished the term Natural Goods to avoid confusion with their continued use of the term.  However, they continue to use BGHealingArts as a web domain causing confusion anyway.

Upon addressing dysfunctional apothecary operations, the Happy Days Returned!!

We rebranded as the

Healing Arts Apothecary and worked with an architect to consider options for expanding apothecary operations.

We held classes on site, in the beautiful gardens, and in front of the fire in the winter.

  With the several challenging years now solidly behind us,  the business flourished  and grew.

We installed a new roof and added a new solarium on to our apothecary to  give us more space to accommodate the growing business.

A life long plant lover, Dr Stansbury has filled the solarium with healing plants creating  a unique and welcoming space.

 Dr Stansbury's Reasearch Grants were renewed!

Dr Stansbury also received a 5 book contract to codify her life's work in the study of Herbal Medicine into a textbook series entitled 

Herbal Formularies for 

Healthcare Professionals.

Dr Stansbury illustrated the  series herself using her rusty undergraduate degree in scientific illustration.

2018 was another stellar year! 

 We invested in a solar roof, installed a rain catchment system and became a 

GREEN BUSINESS!

 Dr Stansbury received an academic  award!

Dr Stansbury was honored with The Order of the University  from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR  for her textbooks, her ethnobotany research and for mentoring doctoral students for 30 years.  

3OTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY! 

In the summer of 2019, we celebrated 30 years in business with a 

FARMER'S MARKET

every Saturday throughout the summer that included 

Yoga in the Garden

 LINK TO OUR

ANNIVERSARY PHOTOS

We were thrilled to host actress Judy Greer at the Healing Arts Apothecary after she and Dr Stansbury worked on a project together in April.  They collaborated with others to develop the Wile line of perimenopausal herbal products.

We had such fun and it finally put a fire under us to touch up the paint on the dingy door jamb - because there was a Movie Star visiting and all.

2022 IS GOING REALLY WELL SO FAR!

Dr Stansbury's 5 Volume textbook series was selected for an Excellence in Botanical Literature Award by the American Botanical Council at their 2022 awards banquet held at the Natural Products Expo.

Dr Stansbury's textbooks have become recommended or required reading at a number of medical schools throughout the United States.

We celebrated 20 year anniversary of opening the Apothecary on Main St.  Started in corner of the medicals clinic's  laboratory in 1989, our apothecary has grown to  a thriving hub of natural medicine for the entire county.

Originally known as the Natural Goods apothecary, we have evolved in the vital hub known as BG Healing Arts Apothecary on Main St  to avoid confusion with another business to whom we relinquished the term "Natural Goods" upon dissociating.

This is a fun Then & Now photo showing the garage that was converted into the original Natural Goods apothecary and then expanded with our solarium addition.  

Dr Jillian Stansbury received ANOTHER award!  The Vis Award from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians.

With the pandemic winding down, Dr Stansbury began making plans to start up the Ethnobotany Tours in the Andes and Amazon.

Any plant-loving adventurers can join the Perurvian excapades.

2024 marks our 35th year in business!  We will be celebrating the Healing Community we have created with special events this summer during our Farmer's Market Season.

Watch for Upcoming Announcements, Events, Classes, Sales, and Celebrations!

We are Expanding Hours and Services this Year and converting the "house" into a Yoga Studio and more Clinician Suites.  Stop in to check out everything  we have going on including classes, coaching, and services.

We are pleased to announce the expansion of our professional medical group with the addition  of:

Alisa Sebastian RN and Certified Holistic Health Coach offering nutritional and wellness services.

And Massage Therapy Suites for pain management & stress relief.

And  we are expanding our Summer Yoga classes to offer Year Round Yoga in a new studio and class space.

Follow our Classes & Resources page for regular class updates.