For these three creative foraging sessions, we'll explore our inner-city green spaces and show you where to find and how to use wild medicines.
We'll be growing our knowledge of plants and fungi, learning what they look like, feel like and each session you’ll make a medicine for you to take home.
This is a chance to get closer to remedies you may have heard of, empower yourself with home-made medicine and take time to nourish yourself in nature with others.
A little more on your teachers:
- Ruby (they/them) is an artist, a forager, a mycological and botanical illustrator and craftsperson who will facilitate the creative elements within these workshops
- Maria is a plant educator, forager and herbalist who will share plant medicine knowledge
Suitable for any level of experience, including all foragers and medicine makers, friends of fungi and pals of plants both new and old.
SESSION TWO: ELDER, HAWTHORN & ROSE
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.
You will:
Get to know this area, it’s plants and fungi, through a guided foraging walk
Collect and learn about the medicine of berries, haws and hips
Craft with others and make potent immune supporting medicine
Create unique medicine labels for your syrups
There'll be space to have breaks if you need, you are invited to join as much as you would like, make notes and take photos.
You will come away with new skills and practices to continue on your own and with others.
In terms of accessibility, the walk will take place outside so please be prepared for the weather on the day. The terrain will be easy on foot, mainly paved, but potentially a little tricky for some wheelchairs. Please get in touch if you have any access requirements and we can find a route that will work for you!
There will be up to 20 attendees in this session and 2 facilitators.
If you have any other questions about this event please get in touch!
Maria - maria@healingweeds.co.uk
Instagram - @healing.weeds
Ruby - http://linktr.ee/rscottgeddes
Instagram - @ruby.makes.art
