Wild plants growing in your local park can ease a fever and heal your gut - but nobody told you
We’re putting herbal medicine knowledge back where it belongs:
right in your hands
6+ years, 2000+ participants, 100+ organisations
Trusted by universities, conservation charities, schools, the NHS and Bristol businesses
Our mission
A message from our founder
Hi, I’m Maria
I'm an outdoor educator, qualified medical herbalist and founder of Healing Weeds CIC.
I started this project back in 2019 after realising that access to wild plants - and the medicinal knowledge surrounding them - is deeply unequal.
Wild plant knowledge has been systematically removed from public life. We used to know which plants eased a fever, healed a wound or relieved eczema, but this knowledge has become isolated and almost secretive; completely taken out of modern medicine education and no where to be seen in our GP practices.
So I created Healing Weeds to put this knowledge back in the hands of everyday people, to guide our health professionals back to nature and train a new generation of young people to spread this learning far and wide.
Our values
Access for everyone, nothing is exclusive: our walks are £36 with a bursary fund for anyone who needs it + our community meet ups are kept low-cost through our circular economy
Relationship over extractive practice: we teach ethical foraging, building relationship with land, plants + wildlife
Community instead of individualism: we learn best together, all our sessions invite knowledge sharing and collective actions
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Access to land and local plant knowledge is not evenly shared between us.
Healing Weeds CIC exists to close to this gap and return practical wild plant education into the hands of the people.
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Our aims are to reconnect people with medicinal plants, teaching people of all abilities how to find and use local wild remedies.
Our work includes:
Community herb walks and workshops
Free or low‑cost sessions prioritising accessibility and building confidence.Seasonal workshops and programmes
Outdoor sessions supporting mental, emotional and physical health.Education and training
Packages to support teams to lead their own groups outside.Equity and inclusivity
All of our work is founded in values of equity and inclusivity. As much as possible, we practice decolonial and anti-racist ways of working with wild plants and people, guided by life-long learning, respect for land, lineage and consent. -
Our programmes prioritise:
people experiencing economic or social exclusion
communities with limited access to green space
those seeking grounded approaches to healing
We also partner with local schools, universities and healthcare practitioners to embed herbal healthcare into public knowledge, as well as alongside councils, charities and grassroots organisations in a way that feels accessible for everyone
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