Each session will include a guided foraging walk and an introduction to a range of craft and wild medicine making skills that you can build on throughout the year, leaving each session with knowledge to share with others.

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!

For this series we have bursaries available, as well as discounts for booking onto 4. 6 and 8 workshops.

Get in touch with maria@healingweeds.co.uk / rscottgeddes@gmail.com if you’d like to book using these discounts.

This workshop is part an 8 month workshop series to learn about local wild food, medicine and crafts. We'll practice ethical foraging as an act of resistance. Check out the other workshops in the series: https://hdfst.uk/creative-foraging

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After such a beautiful first series last autumn, we’re here to share even more knowledge that we’ve found over years!

For these creative foraging sessions, we'll delve even deeper into our immediate environment, exploring our inner-city green spaces and find new ways to connect with wild medicine, food and craft.

Rough timings:
2pm - foraging: hawthorn and heart strengthening medicines, how we can preserve these for the year ahead
4pm - carve your own rubber label
5pm - leave, spread this knowledge elsewhere

Meeting point:
Purdown Open Space, top of Lindsay Rd, BS7 9NP

Access:
We'll walk along well trodden paths, these can be a bit steep, get in touch if you have any access needs so we can adjust for you

Bursaries:
For this series we have bursaries available, as well as discounts for booking onto 4. 6 and 8 workshops