Good things happen to people with good hearts. Lu Funk, founder of Cochise Harm Reduction, a grassroots mutual aid-based nonprofit organization focused on improving the lives of people who use drugs in rural communities, is one of those people.

Based out of Olympia, Washington for 11 years before traveling the roads and railways of the West for a few years, Funk ended up in Bisbee for a weekend with friends from Tucson. “I showed up and got sucked in,” said Funk. “Everything eventually landed here for me.”

The primary reason Funk’s friends wanted to come to town is to study with an herbalist, Mimi Kamp, and Funk’s own long-term recovery included herbalism. Funk ended up staying in Bisbee and working for Kamp, taking care of her land. The years of road traveling came to an end, planting seeds in a rural community waiting for their arrival.