Foraging walk X pizzas X teas & tinctures workshop
Artists: Maria Fernandez - Healing Weeds & Andrea Pizzaiolo
Tone: Bird song, buds, emerald. Unfurling, planting, planning. Ideas, poems, light.
An 8 month workshop series learning about local wild food, medicine and crafts. We'll learn about ethical foraging as an act of resistance.
In this May session, we'll focus on Hawthorn as medicine for the heart and ask: what does that actually mean for us as we build community care? We’ll share the deep history and folklore of May day and the May tree alongside other herbs for resilience. Learn how to preserve wild herbs and prepare them as tea, and carve your own rubber stamp for printing all your own future medicines labels!
Join Ryan and Maria for an afternoon of yoga and foraging, take in the season of spring, reconnect with yourself and the plants all around us.
Love plants and want to learn about foraging and the art of cyanotype?
Join us on this collaborative workshop with Healing Weeds and Daisy Bow. We’ll share an afternoon of foraging and making prints using plants and sunshine. All levels welcome.
You will leave with five beautiful prints, feeling closer to nature and like an expert of cyanotype.
An 8 month workshop series learning about local wild food, medicine and crafts. We'll learn about ethical foraging as an act of resistance.
In this June session, we'll find how summer graces us with abundant flowers; gentle medicine to calm the nervous system and the heart. We’ll take time to get to know how flowers such as lime, rose & elder can help us navigate this world. Learn how to forage for and make your own glycerite tinctures and rose water.
This short course is grown out of a new landmark publication by the campaign group ‘Right to Roam’ Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You (edited by Nick Hayes and Jon Moses) and lays out a vision for repairing nature. Featuring the contributions of five featured authors who have written about education, healing, belonging and community, Wild Service is more than a book. It is a philosophy, a call to action, a meditation, a celebration and an invitation.
An 8 month workshop series learning about local wild food, medicine and crafts. We'll learn about ethical foraging as an act of resistance.
In this April session, we want to share the foundational skills of wild basket weaving and how to make nourishing spring vinegars. You’ll leave with the beginnings of a basket, and skills and medicine to share with others.
We’ll be sharing the fundamentals of medicine making in this sweet syrupy session, showing you how to extract the medicine from these powerful plants. As well as making your own medicine, we’ll also show you how to craft your own medicine labels printmaking techniques.
We’ll be sharing the fundamentals of medicine making in this sweet syrupy session, showing you how to extract the medicine from these powerful plants. As well as making your own medicine, we’ll also show you how to craft your own medicine labels printmaking techniques.
We’ll be collecting seeds and sharing how to plant wild plants in public places: which seeds will work well, where to plant them, what to consider in your local area and what to do with your wild medicine once it grows.
Join us for a Talk and Walk starting at Sprout Lawns and heading around Grove Park, connecting with your surroundings and the natural environment.
A beautiful day combining foraging and botanical printmaking to learn new skills and connect us to nature.
Discover a furrow of earth under the road. Collect wild plants. Draw a mantra of flower petals on the ground. Lie down. Breathe.
Edible plants around my allotment?! This is a walk focusing on plants that are often classed as weeds, we’ll be reframing their use as food and medicine and hopefully reducing the amount of weeding you’ll need to do!
Climate Emergency Network’s Summer Climate Circle: Urban Foraging with Healing Weeds
What plants can be found in south London?
Natural England’s LGBTQAI+ network - diversity within teams and our wide nature network.
How to forage in your local area, what plants can you eat straight away and which can you make into delicious teas.
On a walk around Brandon Hill, you’ll explore the vast range of wild ingredients including hogweed, elderflowers and much more, before collecting your own ingredients and returning to Hyde & Co where our expert bartenders will teach you a variety of different methods to create your own dried plants, powders and syrups, before sampling them in two specially created cocktails using the exceptional Four Pillars Gin, distilled in the woodlands of the Surrey Hills.
Foraging walk for Kin House, ARK Hair and Vogue UK.
Sharing through quizzes, stories and tastings - which wild plants can I use from my garden?
We will take you on a collective journey through your local plant world using folklore, myths and legends to inspire your own story to emerge. We want to introduce you to the wonderment of plant life all around us and how we can use this ancient folklore to help us manage our difficulties today.
A beautiful spring day combining foraging and botanical printmaking to learn new skills and connect us to nature.
We will take you on a collective journey through your local plant world using folklore, myths and legends to inspire your own story to emerge. We want to introduce you to the wonderment of plant life all around us and how we can use this ancient folklore to help us manage our difficulties today.
We will take you on a collective journey through your local plant world using folklore, myths and legends to inspire your own story to emerge. We want to introduce you to the wonderment of plant life all around us and how we can use this ancient folklore to help us manage our difficulties today.
I’ll be sharing more about how to start foraging in Hackney Marshes, in the depths of winter.
Excited to announce a free foraging walk for Knowle West residents at Northern Slopes. This will be guided by Maria at 1pm on December 2nd. Thank you to Knowle West Alliance for making this happen. If you are a Knowle West resident get in touch.
Foraging walk for Kin House, FitFlop and Good Culture Inc.
On a walk around Brandon Hill, you’ll explore the vast range of wild ingredients including hogweed, elderflowers and much more, before collecting your own ingredients and returning to Hyde & Co where our expert bartenders will teach you a variety of different methods to create your own dried plants, powders and syrups, before sampling them in two specially created cocktails using the exceptional Four Pillars Gin, distilled in the woodlands of the Surrey Hills.
Foraging walk for Active Recovery, supporting survivors with community activities.
Join us for an earthly weekend of community, ceremony & reflection deep in the Forest of Dean, circled by orchards and the winding Wye river.
A beautiful day combining foraging and botanical printmaking to learn new skills and connect us to nature.
Join us as we bring you a summer evening of moving through the trees, taking time to breathe and share wild tea and nourishing snacks.
As we celebrate Autumn Equinox with a guided foraging walk from Healing Weeds, music around the fire from Bethany M. Roberts. Folktales, Mabon traditions, poems and more. An intimate nourishing evening to take you back to nature and connect with the changing of the season, set on a beautiful allotment site with views over Bristol.
Edible plants around my allotment?! This is a walk focusing on plants that are often classed as weeds, we’ll be reframing their use as food and medicine and hopefully reducing the amount of weeding you’ll need to do!
Join us as we bring you a summer evening of moving through the forest, taking time to breathe and share wild tea and nourishing snacks.
Hyde & Co’s third summer session. In collaboration with Healing Weeds and Silent Pool Gin
Whether you’ve got a question or want to work together, I’m always up for chatting so contact me anytime.
Email: maria@healingweeds.co.uk
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