These workshops are for you if:
✦ You’re ready to learn practical skills and make something to take home
✦ You want to find wild plants near you!
✦ You enjoy meeting others and you value hands-on learning
✦ You’re want to fill your food and medicine chest with wild plants!
What you’ll do:
Please note: these foraging workshops will always involve a foraging walk for the first half, finding wild plants, learning identification techniques and where to find these wild plants in different environments.
✦ Learn with others
How to identify wild plants alongside others, great if you like listening, sharing ideas or asking questions.
✦ Take home what you make
Learn different ways to make herbal medicine and how to find and use the wild plants around you to do this.
✦ Hands-on learning
Forget reading about it, let’s meet the plants in their environments and embed the knowledge into memory.
Frequently Asked Questions
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All our workshops are slow, we incorporate 2 hours of a walk and 1 hour of a workshop, we will go at the pace of those with us.
If you have any additional needs e.g. finding uphill difficult, please let me know so we can make sure we adjust the route accordingly.
This is no problem and can be arranged for any workshop so just get in touch.
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Yes! Life happens, so if you’d like to reschedule your workshop, you can do. Just get in touch.
Please note: you can apply for a refund before 14 days of your original bookings date but reschedules made within 7 days of your event will be not be possible.
In this case, you can rebook onto another date with a 50% cancellation discount but unfortunately we can’t accommodate reschedules or refunds within a 7 day timeframe.
Any questions or queries with the above, please do let me know!
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Buses are available from the centre of town to all workshop locations (+15min walk max) - they are all in BSX postcodes.
If you need help, get in touch and I can share some travel routes with you.
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If you are pregnant, do let me know, as above, we can adjust the walk part for your pace, no problem. This is also essential in case there are any contraindications with some plants we encounter.
If you’ve got a specific place in mind you’d like to explore which is easier for you, email me at maria@healingweeds.co.uk
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There is free parking surrounding all meeting points and places to lock up bikes.
You will be sent specific details about your meeting location in your booking confirmation email so you can make travel plans.
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Yes absolutely, we have an offer to learn with a friend. Receive 10% off your booking if you enter FORAGEPALS at the checkout when booking for two people. Applicable to any workshop.
We also have discounts for NHS / Key Workers and bursaries available for those in financial difficulty, get in touch maria@healingweeds.co.uk to find out more.
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There’s plenty of time to ask questions, make notes, take photos and I will be encouraging a lot of touching, tasting and smelling these plants to help you recognise them again!
As you’ll be getting hands-on with medicine making, you’ll be sure to take in so much more than you can imagine!
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A great foraging friend, dogs are welcome! Please send a message to let me know if you’d like to bring your dog, I will ask you consider the temperament of your dog and how they are with groups of people.
We’ve had some lovely four-legged pals join us, so all welcome!
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Yes, I’ll send you resources after our time together.
I’m aways here to chat through anything you like afterwards and will support you as you continue learning about wild plants in anyway I can!
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I love having children join these events, so if your child is okay learning with adults, we’ll definitely make this relevant for them too.
You may want to consider learning with a small group of young people then all activities can be geared towards their collective learning.
