Walking around the hedgerows and open fields of Brandon Hill, we will learn how common wild plants can be used as food and medicine; what these plants feel like, look like and taste like to build confidence finding them again.
Fairly easy – mainly flat on paved surfaces with some features such as step and hills. Walking at gentle pace.
Foraging walk for Active Recovery, supporting survivors through nature connection activities
Fairly easy – mainly flat on paved surfaces with some features such as step and hills. Walking at gentle pace.
A spring morning reconnecting families with magical plants in St George's Park
Maria and Holly shared drawing and wild plant haircare in this relaxed session for the Mama Hub at Project Mama.
Ground yourself with this folkloric forage among the banks of the Avon on Palestinian Land Day - an annual celebration of cultural resistance and indigenous knowledge.
Forgotten plants, new folklores – A workshop exploring the power of stories, and how they help us remember our connection to the world around us.
✦ Identification skills and sensory learning
Learn where plants grow , what they smell and taste like and how you can use them in food and medicine.
✦ Gain practical skills and take home what you make
Workshops offer hands-on learning, meeting the plants where they grow and then spending time to process them into different medicines using traditional recipes.
✦ Identification skills
Learn where plants grow and how you can use them in food - learn which ones are poisonous too!
✦ Sensory learning
Always an invitation to touch, taste and smell as we use all our senses, curiosities and memories to reconnect.
✦ Accessible for all
We'll stick to the paths as much as possible and all foraging walks can be adjusted easily for wheelchair access.
The Environmental Humanities Postgraduate Research Showcase is an event open to all to discover the amazing range of Environmental Humanities research by PGRs and PGTs at the University of Bristol.
Empowering people through nature connection and foraging skills.
Foraging walk for ARA Recovery For All
Maria and Holly shared drawing techniques and info about wild plants in this relaxed session for the Mama Hub at Project Mama.
This short course is grown out of a new landmark publication by the campaign group ‘Right to Roam’ Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You (edited by Nick Hayes and Jon Moses) and lays out a vision for repairing nature. Featuring the contributions of five featured authors who have written about education, healing, belonging and community, Wild Service is more than a book. It is a philosophy, a call to action, a meditation, a celebration and an invitation.
Mindful Moments - Foraging Basics - Nature Connection
Bristol Green Social Prescribing 🪲
This is a free program for anyone who feels called, register at info@soultrailwellbeing.com, message us with any questions. Please share with anyone who might benefit!
Foraging walk for Active Recovery
An 8 month workshop series learning about local wild food, medicine and crafts. We'll learn about ethical foraging as an act of resistance.
In this June session, we'll find how summer graces us with abundant flowers; gentle medicine to calm the nervous system and the heart. We’ll take time to get to know how flowers such as lime, rose & elder can help us navigate this world. Learn how to forage for and make your own glycerite tinctures and rose water.
Mindful Moments - Foraging Basics - Nature Connection
Bristol Green Social Prescribing 🪲
This is a free program for anyone who feels called, register at info@soultrailwellbeing.com, message us with any questions. Please share with anyone who might benefit!
Join Ryan and Maria for an afternoon of yoga and foraging, take in the season of spring, reconnect with yourself and the plants all around us.
An 8 month workshop series learning about local wild food, medicine and crafts. We'll learn about ethical foraging as an act of resistance.
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!
Foraging walk X pizzas X teas & tinctures workshop
Artists: Maria Fernandez - Healing Weeds & Andrea Pizzaiolo
Tone: Bird song, buds, emerald. Unfurling, planting, planning. Ideas, poems, light.
An 8 month workshop series learning about local wild food, medicine and crafts. We'll learn about ethical foraging as an act of resistance.
In this April session, we want to share the foundational skills of wild basket weaving and how to make nourishing spring vinegars. You’ll leave with the beginnings of a basket, and skills and medicine to share with others.
Foraging walk for Active Recovery.
We’ll be sharing the fundamentals of medicine making in this sweet syrupy session, showing you how to extract the medicine from these powerful plants. As well as making your own medicine, we’ll also show you how to craft your own medicine labels printmaking techniques.
We’ll be sharing the fundamentals of medicine making in this sweet syrupy session, showing you how to extract the medicine from these powerful plants. As well as making your own medicine, we’ll also show you how to craft your own medicine labels printmaking techniques.
We’ll be collecting seeds and sharing how to plant wild plants in public places: which seeds will work well, where to plant them, what to consider in your local area and what to do with your wild medicine once it grows.
Join us for a Talk and Walk starting at Sprout Lawns and heading around Grove Park, connecting with your surroundings and the natural environment.
A beautiful day combining foraging and botanical printmaking to learn new skills and connect us to nature.
Discover a furrow of earth under the road. Collect wild plants. Draw a mantra of flower petals on the ground. Lie down. Breathe.
Whether you’ve got a question or want to work together, I’m always up for chatting so contact me anytime.
Email: maria@healingweeds.co.uk
Call or text: +447961927453
(Mon - Fri, 9 - 5pm GMT)
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