Learn to trust yourself with wild plants around you
Build confidence making herbal medicine from local plants - and gain skills you’ll want to share with everyone!
Our mission
A message from our founder
Hi, I’m Maria
I'm an outdoor educator, trainee 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.
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Why we exist
Access to land and local plant knowledge is not evenly shared between us.
We’re here to close this gap and return practical wild plant education into the hands of the people.
What we do
Community walks in local parks
Free / low‑cost sessions, prioritising accessibility and building confidence outside.
Seasonal workshops and programmes
Outdoor sessions with plants to support mental, emotional and physical health.
Education and training services
Educating teams on valuable medicine growing around them.
We aim to always practice decolonial and anti-racist ways of working. Herbalism and foraging has a deep inequitable history, we aim to dismantle this in as many ways as we can, always learning with wild plants and people, guided by respect for land, lineage and consent in all its forms.
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 low-cost
Relationship building over extractive practice
We teach ethical foraging, learning with, not just taking, building relationship with land, plants + wildlife
Community instead of individualism
We believe we learn best together, all our sessions invite knowledge sharing and collective actions
Partnerships
