Let’s get outside. The medicine is already there.
Joyfully-led 2.5hr foraging walks through Bristol's parks and riverside paths; we learn to identify, understand and use the wild plants growing around us.
Always seasonal, sensory and practically transformative.
★★★★★ (130 Google review ratings)
What you’ll leave with
✦ Identification skills
Confidence to identify the most abundant edible and medicinal plants in Bristol.
✦ Practical knowledge
An understanding of when to harvest, how to use them and why this knowledge matters.
✦ Applied insight
A new relationship with every park, verge and riverbank you pass by for the rest of your life.
What's included in every walk
2.5 hours outdoors in a small group (max 15) so everyone gets space to ask questions and get hands-on
All materials included
Sensory approach - we touch, taste and smell as we learn
Fully accessible routes, adaptable to your needs
Certificate of participation on request (for CPD, community groups)
Donations
Healing Weeds is a Community Interest Company — all income goes directly towards making foraging education accessible and sustainable. If you'd like to make a donation when you book, you'll find the 'tip' option on the booking form. Donations help us keep our bursary places funded and our sessions accessible to all. Every contribution is gratefully received.
Bursary Places
Healing Weeds is committed to removing barriers to outdoor education. A limited number of free places are available on each session for low-income applicants. We prioritise people from refugee, asylum-seeking or racialised backgrounds; global majority learners; trans and non-binary people; frontline activists; and anyone experiencing or recovering from trauma.
To apply, fill in our bursary form.
Book your season
Each walk is shaped by what's growing in each season. Spring brings tender green shoots and the first medicinal herbs. Summer brings bright flowers and the first seeds. Autumn brings rich berries, nuts, seeds and fungi. Winter brings nourishing roots, evergreens, the bark medicines and the things most people walk straight past.
"I walked the same park every day for five years. After one walk with Maria, I realised I'd never actually seen it." - 5-star Google review
Spring
Sticky weed, tender hawthorn leaves, wild garlic, linden leaves
£36 per person
2.5 hrs · small group · materials included · all abilities
"I didn't know any plant names before. I left with a whole new relationship with the park at the end of my road." - Sarah, Bristol
Summer
Yarrow in flower, meadowsweet, elder, nettle seeds forming
£36 per person
2.5 hrs · small group · materials included · all abilities
"Maria's knowledge is extraordinary. She turned a Bristol park into a living pharmacy." - Tom, Clifton
Autumn
Ground growing seeds, burdock, plantain, trees with berries and nuts
£36 per person
2.5 hrs · small group · materials included · all abilities
“This was such an informative and enjoyable experience. Received this walk as a gift and it was one of the best gifts I've ever got!” - Orla, Bristol
Winter
Ground growing seeds, burdock, plantain, trees with berries and nuts
£36 per person
2.5 hrs · small group · materials included · all abilities
“This was such an informative and enjoyable experience. Received this walk as a gift and it was one of the best gifts I've ever got!” - Orla, Bristol