Natural healing store opens in Brighton

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For retired social worker Rhiannon Middleton, her new natural healing store is another way or helping people.

Middleton welcomed the Brighton Chamber of Commerce to help open her Verdant Healing Apothecary Holistic Health with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 6.

“We have welcomed the apothecary healing into our community, and we love that we have another new business. It’s extraordinary to keep adding businesses in Brighton as small town as it is and adding these businesses so please come and enjoy them,” Rachel Munoz, City of Brighton Chamber of Commerce Board of Director Board Treasurer.

Middleton is a Colorado native born in Denver and raised in Longmont, and I now live in Hudson with her business in Brighton.

She has been a social worker for the past 12 years, working with people, and she loves helping people. After retirement, she was at the moment in her life where she wanted to continue to help people but with something a little di erent for the community.

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Middleton said the Earth and plants bring people back to the connection of their roots and where we come from, so she decided to open an herbal healing store.

“I purchase most of my herbs from various di erent places, including a couple of Colorado. I reached out to di erent farms so I can start having a lot more herbs. I want to do as much business in Colorado as possible,” Middleton said.

Middleton herbs help with medicinal healing; they are good for your body and good for the Earth with no chemicals. She’s not a doctor and can’t prescribe anything, but

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She is going to teach people about herbs with classes and have a mushroom expert come in and teach about mushrooms.

“My hope for the future is to build a community to teach people about herbs. I love it out here because it is a farming community. So, everybody is already aware of what the Earth can do in the land,” said Middleton. For more information, call Verdant Healing Apothecary at 720-5694125. It’s located at 240 East Bridge St., Brighton, CO 80601.

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