Sacred Seeds Herbal Project Workshops 2024

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” ~ Indigenous proverb 

Below is the list of workshops Alice will be hosting this year, all based at her home at WoWo Campsite (Nr Uckfield, TN22 3QT).

There is a host of workshops available throughout the year offering the chance to learn all the wonderful things plants have to offer over the seasons. It is a great opportunity to ask any burning questions you may have about plants, to gain some tips and tricks for recipes and to enjoy the half day or full day surrounded by nature.

Alice and her team will also be offering some talks and running a stall at Into the Wild Summer festival on August Bank holiday.

Alice can also be booked to come to an event, festival or private workshop at a different location of your choosing, it is advised to enquire a year in advance. Private potion parties can also be arranged at Wowo campsite or another location.

Kind Words

  • I have attended workshops and regularly purchase her herbal products which my whole family use. Even though Alice is a distance from me it is always a delight to go and see her and attend the informative and restorative workshops she runs. If we lived closer we would spend more time with Alice to help her in the garden.

    Marina O

  • Alice is the face and heart of Sacred Seeds Herbal Project. I've been led on foraging expeditions one-to-one with Alice and also on group tours through the meadows and forests on East Sussex. I feel very content with the fun, informative, wild and extremely tactile approach Alice brings to workshops/tours.

    Luke M

  • I attended the herbs for emotional wellbeing course in July and loved every bit of it! A very rich experience with in-depth learning but also hands-on experience and a feast for all the senses. I can't wait to go again.

    Dash D

Beltane Wild Medicine Walk
May
1

Beltane Wild Medicine Walk

Come along to share this special seasonal festival, the peak of spring and the start of summer. Earth energies are at their strongest and most active. All of life is bursting with potent fertility and life force.

Share this informative short walk to teach you some basic botany and plant ID and to introduce you to all the wild medicine and food that is in abundance at this time of year. We will walk the land and learn about the plants, some basic ID features and the end with some tasting, activities or gentle ceremony to ground ourselves in that turn of the wheel.

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Summer Solstice Wild Medicine Walk
Jun
20

Summer Solstice Wild Medicine Walk

Join Alice for the longest day of the year as the rampant growth of the plants reaches its peak. Experience the peak time for wildflowers, a great chance to dive deeper into basic botany and plant ID. Learn about the healing properties of the wildflowers around us. Alice will talk through the medicinal and nutritional elements of each of the plants as well as give many recipe suggestions and an email will be sent with some basic botany teaching guides alongside seasonal recipes to help you along on your foraging journey. We will end this walk by sampling wild teas and tonics. We will make flower crowns together as well as herbal incense bundles to take home. We will celebrate all of our achievements and who we are individually.

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Herbs for emotional wellbeing and good quality sleep
Jun
23

Herbs for emotional wellbeing and good quality sleep

At the height of summer, with long days, very outward energies, burn-out highs and often insomnia parking for many it can be a challenging time emotionally. Nature however provides us an abundance of herbs in their prime that support our emotional wellbeing as well as sleep patterns.

We will make flower essences, an emotional wellbeing tonic, your own herbal incense bundle as well as a digestive bitter tonic to take home with you. Including an information sheet that will be emailed to you with recipes, additional advice and further resources to support your herbal journey of wellness.

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Lammas Wild Medicine Walk
Aug
1

Lammas Wild Medicine Walk

As the start of the harvest season technically begins, It is often a more barren time of year in the foraging diaries, as the flowers have mostly passed and the fruits and nuts are not yet ripe….. Let’s come together and see what we might find for food and medicine and let us gather to create a harvest ritual of gratitude and prayer together

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Autumn Family Foraging Day
Sep
7

Autumn Family Foraging Day

Come as a family to learn how to make some winter herbal remedies with the abundant hedgerow berries available at this time. Autumn is the time for deep nourishment, building up our stores of nutrients and supporting our immune systems ready for the cold months ahead.

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Autumn Foraging and Wild Medicine
Sep
21

Autumn Foraging and Wild Medicine

As the sap is fully flowing at this time of year, gather to join Alice to meet the abundance of spring greens and the medicine they bring. A time of rich cleansing and nutrient dense wild food. We will look at various root medicines, young tree leaves as well as the many spring greens that come through at this time.

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Samhain Medicine Walk
Oct
31

Samhain Medicine Walk

As winter begins, we adjust to a new season. A time to connect to our root energy and reflect. Lets mindfully walk the land and learn about the late medicine of this season available to us. Alice will talk through the medicinal and nutritional elements of each of the plants as well as giving many recipe suggestions and an email will be sent with some basic botany teaching guides alongside seasonal recipes to help you along on your foraging journey.

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Spring Foraging and Wild Medicine
Apr
20

Spring Foraging and Wild Medicine

As the sap is fully flowing at this time of year, gather to join Alice to meet the abundance of spring greens and the medicine they bring. A time of rich cleansing and nutrient dense wild food. We will look at various root medicines, young tree leaves as well as the many spring greens that come through at this time.

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Spring Wild Medicine Walk
Mar
21

Spring Wild Medicine Walk

As the sap is fully flowing at this time of year, gather to join Alice to meet the abundance of spring greens and the medicine they bring. A time of rich cleansing and nutrient dense wild food. We will look at various root medicines, young tree leaves as well as the many spring greens that come through at this time.

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Potion Making
Apr
30
to Sep 10

Potion Making

Potion making workshop 10am - 11am

With Alice Rose Betony from Sacred Seeds Herbal Project

Meet in the Village area in Lower Moat field

Join wowo’s resident Medical Herbalist to learn how to brew your own simple and safe potions. Learn about a selection of common wild weeds, cottage garden herbs and kitchen spices and choose what magic powers you want your potion to have….. You can choose from herbs that can ease digestive or respiratory complaints, boost immunity or aid anxiety…

Alice will be on hand to offer personalised advice for your family’s health needs and you can feel empowered learning about the ingredients and tools to make your own potions….

This workshop is suitable for all the family (under 8yrs accompanied by an adult), it is a sensory experience and educational too…..

The base of your potion will be apple cider vinegar (so not suitable for anyone that is allergic to this) and you will take your potion home with you to brew for 4-6 weeks before you can use it. Learning this simple recipe opens up a plethora of ways you can learn how to keep your family naturally healthy through the seasons and you will be equipped to reproduce these potions again at home.

Alice Betony runs Sacred Seeds Herbal Project and offers regular workshops in foraging, wild medicine and medicine making for all ages.

1hr. £10. Under 8yrs accompanied by an adult

18 people max per session

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Spring Equinox Wild Medicine walk
Mar
20

Spring Equinox Wild Medicine walk

Come along to share in the grounding and connecting experience of walking the land, as the sap rises and the days are longer, at this time of balance of day and night. Celebrate the dance of life, the elements and the sun gaining strength while being outside in nature. Learn about the very first wild food and medicine of the year that becomes available. Young shoots, roots & leaves a plenty for food and medicine. Alice will talk through the medicinal and nutritional elements of each of the plants as well as giving many recipe suggestions and an email will be sent with some basic botany teaching guides alongside seasonal recipes to help you along on your foraging journey. We will end the walk by tasting some wild teas we will make along the way, sampling tasters of seasonal wild medicines and planting some medicinal plant seeds for you to take home and grow. We will end in circle, taking turns to share what we wish to bring out into the world, either speaking aloud or to yourself, we will witness each other.

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Early Autumn Wild Medicine & foraging day
Sep
17

Early Autumn Wild Medicine & foraging day

As the hedgerows are bursting full of berries, nuts and seeds, come and learn about the abundance of nature’s medicine chest. Autumn is the time for deep nourishment, building up our stores of nutrients and supporting our immune systems ready for the cold months ahead. Along with the last few wild greens we have such an abundant variety of healing foods and medicines at this time of year.

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Herbs for emotional wellbeing and good quality sleep
Jun
25

Herbs for emotional wellbeing and good quality sleep

At the height of summer, with long days and very outward energies, Nature provides for us an abundance of herbs in their prime that support our emotional wellbeing as well as sleep patterns. It can be an exhausting time of year, with burn-out highs and often insomnia peaking for many. This full day workshop will focus on the herbs you can forage or grow at this time, as well as other herbs you can purchase to support your emotional wellbeing and sleep.

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Spring Family Foraging day
May
21

Spring Family Foraging day

Come together as a family and learn about the wild food and medicine available in abundance at this time. Wild spring greens have been part of the diet of our ancestors for thousands of years and we will learn some of their traditional and modern uses as well as how we can gain benefit from incorporating them into our lives.

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Family Foraging Bundle
May
21
to Sep 10

Family Foraging Bundle

3 workshops - spring, summer & autumn family weekend foraging days; 10am-3pm

Coming along to all three of these seasonal workshops would allow you to feel confident in harvesting wild plants, seeds, and berries to provide nutrient-rich and healing foods and medicines that can be used each year for your family’s wellbeing.

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Cross quarter seasonal midweek wild medicine walks bundle
Mar
21
to Oct 31

Cross quarter seasonal midweek wild medicine walks bundle

Attending all of these seasonal walks would offer the chance to really cement your wild food and medicine knowledge over the year. Witnessing the plants in their life cycle, in their prime for harvesting and then getting to recognise them when in leaf, flower & seed form as well will really embed your plant ID knowledge. These walks are rich in information and plant teachings. You will learn basic botany for the various plant families and a large array of plants to use in your medicine chest as well as in your kitchen.

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Adult Weekend Full Day; Wild Medicine and Foraging days
Mar
19
to Oct 8

Adult Weekend Full Day; Wild Medicine and Foraging days

These five days cover the main peak times in the forager’s calendar where the focus will change each day onto the plants that are in their prime for harvesting.

Including birch tree tapping, medicinal mushrooms, roots, spring green, flowers & seeds. Each day will contain different recipes for food and medicines which we will sample together and delight our taste buds with new flavours. These are practical learning days, with foraging in the mornings and hands-on food and medicine making in the afternoon.

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Herbal Home-Ed days NOW FULL
Dec
31

Herbal Home-Ed days NOW FULL

Come and join Herbalist Alice Betony on a seasonal foraging adventure aimed to engage young people in the wild medicine around us. Six or seven days over the foraging year enables us to follow the seasons, finding out what wild plants are in their peak to harvest and use for food and medicine.

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Medicinal mushroom day with Jesper Launder
Nov
8

Medicinal mushroom day with Jesper Launder

This is an immersive day event exploring the fascinating world of native medicinal fungi with herbalist and all-round wild mushroom nut Jesper Launder. The morning session sees us exploring local woodland for interesting fungi species, learning how to identify the common and important medicinal species, where to find them, and the basics of how to use them as medicines. The afternoon offers the chance to extend our learning beyond the species found in the morning, including species-specific practical methods of preparing your own high grade medicinal mushroom extracts. There will be a chance for the group as a whole to partake in some of the processes involved and there will be scope for extensive Q & A to help cement the days learning.

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Autumn Equinox Wild Medicine walk
Sep
21

Autumn Equinox Wild Medicine walk

Autumn is a busy time in the foragers and herbalist’s schedules, such an abundant time of year. Come along for this gentle walk to get a flavour of this celebration of natures harvests. We will end the walk sharing some wild teas and tasters of seasonal wild medicines. We will make a simple altar and share our gratitude as well as a short meditation to invite balance within ourselves

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Autumn Family Foraging day
Sep
19

Autumn Family Foraging day

Come as a family to learn how to make some winter herbal remedies with the abundant hedgerow berries available at this time. Autumn is the time for deep nourishing, building up our stores of nutrients and supporting our immune systems ready for the cold months ahead. Along with the last few wild greens we have such an abundant variety of healing foods and medicines at this time of year. We will gather and fill our baskets together in the morning and make food and medicine around the fire in the afternoon. You might take home a hedgerow oxymel or enjoy some wild hedgerow syrup as well as picking up some fire by friction tips

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Lammas Wild Medicine Walk
Aug
3

Lammas Wild Medicine Walk

As the start of the harvest season technically begins, It is often a more barren time of year in the foraging diaries, as the flowers have mostly passed and the fruits and nuts not yet ripe….. Let’s come together and see what we might find for food and medicine and let us gather to create a harvest ritual and prayer together

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Solstice Wild medicine Walk
Jun
19

Solstice Wild medicine Walk

Join Alice on a mornings forage to learn about which plants are in their prime for food and medicine at this bountiful time of year. We will end the walk by tasting a sun-tea and sampling some simple products that can be made with flowers at this time of year. We will each make a flower crown en route from plants we see along the way

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Spring Family Foraging day
May
16

Spring Family Foraging day

Come together as a family and learn about the wild food and medicine available in abundance at this time. Wild spring greens have been part of the diet of our ancestors for thousands of years and we will learn some of their traditional and modern uses as well as how we can gain benefit from incorporating them into our lives. On this day we will walk the land and gather some of the spring plants we find for making tea, food and medicine around the fire in the afternoon. You might take home a herbal vinegar or a healing ointment, feast on wild pesto and salad and pick up some fire by friction tips

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Beltane Wild Medicine walk
May
1

Beltane Wild Medicine walk

Come along to share this special seasonal festival, the peak of spring and the start of summer. Earth energies are at their strongest and most active. All of life is bursting with potent fertility...

Share this informative short walk to teach you some basic botany and plant ID and to introduce you to all the wild medicine and food that is in abundance at this time of year. We will end the walk by tasting some wild teas we will make along the way and sampling some love potions and jumping over a small fire.

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Refund Policy:  
30 days notice or longer - 90% refunded
15 - 29 days notice - 50% refunded
14 days or less notice - No refund

Photographs or films may be taken during the workshops for publicity purposes, if you do not wish yourself or your child/children to be photographed or filmed please let the workshop provider know before the workshop begins.

Dogs can not attend workshops.
The workshop provider takes full responsibility if an incident occurs during the workshop.
Please do not send any knives with the children to the workshops unless agreed by Alice.

Link to Wowo multimedia policy which is linked/same as to Sacred Seeds Policy
https://www.wowo.co.uk/multi-media-policy.html