Herbal Home-ed Programme
This is one of Alice’s most popular classes which she has been running since 2016.
For 2025 Alice will be running 6 different herbal home-ed groups. Group’s run on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. There are very limited spaces left atm.
The herbal Home-ed programme runs from March to October, we meet once a month (excluding August) so there are 7 days over the year to attend. These days are designed for the adults to attend and learn alongside their child, this helps integration of foraging and medicine making into your daily family lives.
Families must sign up for the whole year.
Age range is 6-13yrs for the kids
Cost is £40 per day for 1 adult and 1 child at the minimum rate on the sliding scale, maximum rate is £100 per day.
please fill out the form below to register your interest for 2025 or get on the waiting list for 2026
New for 2025 - Introducing the Herbal Holiday club
If you can’t commit to the whole year of herbal home-ed, or your child goes to school, then these are the days for you, to give you a chance to dip your toes into some family foraging and medicine making days
4 dates have been set over the year during school holidays and these can be booked as one off’s or come to as many as you can. Booking and more info HERE
Please fill out this form below to register your interest to join the herbal home-ed groups with Alice for 2025, Alice will check these forms with a view to organising next years groups from October 2024 with a start date for March 2025, so advance planning and enquiries encouraged to secure your spots.
It is also a first come first serve basis and many families continue year upon year so it is unknown how much space will open up each year.
FAQs
Kind Words
I volunteer for Alice on her Herbal Home Education days. If only I could start parenting all over again (my children are adults now), I would definitely home educate and bring them along to these events. The children are engaged in nature and learn so much about different plants. The best part is that adults and children work together to prepare food, tonics and medicines from the herbs we have foraged. It is inspiring and a wonderful opportunity for home educated children to come together in a fabulous setting for adventure, curiosity and fun!
- Xenia
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The home-ed groups run once a month between March and October (Excluding August).
It is the same group for the whole year, working through the seasons and learning about how to safely forage wild as well as organically cultivated herbs for food and medicine.
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The Herbal Home Ed sessions are designed for children ages 6-13yrs.
Unfortunately younger siblings can not attend the groups as it is already a very large age gap, which brings alot of magic in this aspect alone, but from experience Alice has realised that it’s a very long day for younger children and it becomes dispersing when they have joined.
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A parent is welcome to stay and learn alongside their child or it can be a drop and go option, but it is more common for the parent to stay and this means the family can take their knowledge home together and continue their foraging adventures together.
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Days of the week may change each year depending on availability of those that enquire and fill out the form below, if enough people are available on a Monday or Tuesday for instance, then Alice will consider running a group on that day of the week for 2024.
Currently 2024 days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays
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New for 2025 Sliding scale payment scheme
Basic cost: The lowest cost is £40 per child/£30 per sibling (£20 per 3rd sibling), per day.
50% of the annual fee is required to secure your place. Payment plans are possible.
Sliding scale - If you are able to pay more for these days, the market value goes up to £100 per day, per family. You can choose any increased amount to pay between £40-100 per day/per child according to your income.
All of the dates over the year need to be paid for to sign up to the programme. Dates will be issued well in advance, normally by November for the following year.
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Sitting on the forest floor, barefoot in the autumn dappled woodland light, kids working together to process the elderberries off the stems using a fork. These wonderful anti-viral elderberries were to be added to their own winter hedgerow tonics to take home and brew.
We added in hawthorn berries, blackberries, Japanese rosehips, fresh goldenrod and nasturtiums from the garden and some dried spices like cinnamon, star anise and licorice for extra flavour and medicine.
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A dreamy scene from Friday’s herbal home-Ed. Full foraged baskets of wild edibles and medicine. Clipboard at the ready to find elliptical shaped leaves. Cleavers, ground Ivy, wild garlic, daisies, rosemary flowers, ladies smock, and ground elder pictures here but this was not all we harvested.
I love teaching about plants to kids, I feel so lucky to be able to call this my work.
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Gasps of joy as the adults and children alike in the herbal home Ed groups see dandelion in full bloom.
Dandelion holds so much of what we need, it balances us from the inside and out. The leaves take out excessive water yet replenish the lost minerals. The roots detox our liver and replenishes our bowels with pre-biotics.
The sunny flower, the moon like seed head, and the shining stars of the dispersed seeds. Dandelions have a lot to teach us about resilience, restoration, and balance.
Snapshot videos of a Herbal Home-ed day
Below are some glorious captures of our herbal home-ed days. Many many thanks for the footage and skilled eyes from the various photographers that helped compile these (Individually credited on my insta)
A snapshot of an April herbal home-ed day. We looked at some poisonous plants like waterdropwort hemlock and lords and ladies as well as ate a delicious feast with all the spring greens abundance
Kind Words
Now into our second year of Herbal Home Ed with Alice and by far one of our favourite groups. Each session is full of engaging, fun and hands on learning for the kids and parents. We have learnt so much about plants, herbs, how and when to forage them and different ways they can be used in medicine, food and crafts.
Alice uses stories, songs and other useful resources alongside the hands on foraging on the day and we love when we get to the woods for camp fire and the kids are all involved in lighting the fire, cooking and making the medicines, for us all to share. It really develops friendships and sense of connection with people and nature.
Freddie loves sharing what he’s learnt with friends and family and it’s really lovely to see him recall facts about certain plants when we are out and about. Learning for life, it really has encouraged us both to continue our interests in foraging outside of the group too.
Alice is wonderful and the herbal home-ed sessions are the best!
-Hayley
