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.

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 nature's harvests on this day of balance.

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.

Interested in Herbal Home-ed Programme? Join Alice at The Autumn Family Foraging Day for a taster.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Come along to share this grounding and connecting day in nature as the earth’s energies are at their peak of spring fertility and life force potency. We will spend the morning walking the land, foraging and filling up our baskets full of spring greens & flowers.

Join Alice for this early spring adventure into the wild medicine of this time. We will explore the ancient craft of Birch tree tapping, forage for early spring greens as well as medicinal roots and look at a few medicinal mushrooms as well.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.