Food: foraging & wild food courses

Being Nature: mindfulness & re-wilding days in the woods

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Being Nature: mindfulness & re-wilding days in the woods

East Sussex - Next course on 26th April 2020

£95

Days to de-stress, re-charge and resource yourself in beautiful woodland surroundings. The focus of each day is on being. By connecting to yourself and to nature in a supportive group, through various activities, including guided mindfulness practices and nature connection activities, you can sink into a more relaxed sense of being. You’ll learn simple practices to take away with you, to help develop self care and well-being in your life. Each of the days will be connected closely to its season: Spring, Summer, Autumn. You can book the series of...

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Our Healing Garden - Herbal Medicine

Dorset - Next course on 18th April 2020

£80

Introduction to herbal remedies An introductory day of plant knowledge, traditional healing and remedies. Learn how to use herbs medicinally, including sensory sessions and tastings. We will look at ... Herbal medicine: how the plants help us to heal The plants: identification and how we use them The remedies: we will cover the basics - teas, tinctures, oils, salves Your first steps: growing your own herbs, wild harvesting, preparation, preserving

Introduction to herbal medicine - weekend courses

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Introduction to herbal medicine - weekend courses

Herefordshire - Next course on 25th January 2020

£195

Introduction to herbal medicine - A weekend course covering the basics of using herb in the home Course Overview An Introduction to Herbal Medicine Making. An exploration of the uses of herbs and learn to make your own top quality cosmetics and herbal preparations. Includes ID, growing, harvesting from my organic garden, drying and storing herbs. A practical 2 day workshop making teas, decoctions, infused oils, ointments, creams and other remedies This herbal medicine making course run by qualified herbalist Rowan McOnegal, who has 30 years experience of working as...

Summer dyes from the countryside - one day course

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Summer dyes from the countryside - one day course

Shropshire - Next course on 7th June 2020

£65

Summer Dyes from the Countryside - one day course at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm. Take a basket and wander through the meadows, investigate our hedgerows and gardens to identify and collect traditional dye material. Participants will prepare dye baths of vibrant colours and dip and dye wool samples to take home. The historic use of dye plants and fibres will be explored through studying examples from the museum social history collection. Early Summer Dyes June and Late Summer dyes August, the courses will use different produce for the dyes...

The natural health chest: assemble your own herbal medicine chest for health and wellbeing

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The natural health chest: assemble your own herbal medicine chest for health and wellbeing

Herefordshire - Next course on 18th January 2020

£95

The Natural Health Chest: Assemble your own herbal medicine chest for health and wellbeing, including herbal approaches to common conditions Course Overview We will be using the principles of holistic natural medicine for maintaining health and wellbeing and discussing herbal approaches to, and useful herbal preparations to have on hand for, common ailments. We will look at many different herbs in different forms, and make preparations from them. This will include making a tisane, an infused oil, an ointment, a cream, which you will take home with you, together with...

Bronze AWARD

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Wild Food Day: Walk & Forage

Cardiganshire

£45

Foraging Day at Hafod Estate, Ystwyth Valley, Ceredigion (about 12 miles from Aberystwyth) Join professional forager Jade Mellor for a full day of wild food foraging. Spring is a time of abundance and new life. Of fresh, green leaves, edible blooms and the most tender, tasty and nutritious wild food. Join me in this very special opportunity to spend a whole day foraging in the heart of the beautiful, magical, Hafod estate . We will explore woodland and meadows, next to waterfalls, along meandering paths and streams. We will be...

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Botanical gin and wild cocktails

Herefordshire - Next course on 16th August 2020

£95

Botanical gin and Wild Cocktails Find out about the history of gin and explore the huge range of fresh and dried herbs and spices that you can use to make your own gin blend. From its origins in the Middle Ages, gin has evolved from a herbal medicine to an artisan product. Create your own botanical gin using freshly foraged herbs from the garden, together with dried herbs and spices, and learn to identify and blend these botanical ingredients to make your own gin creation, which you will take away...

Foraging walk

Northumberland

£10

Join us on a guided walk exploring the wild foods of spring in Northumberland. You will be truly amazed by the diversity, abundance and the incredible flavours the landscape has to offer at this time of year; you will taste shoots, leaves and flowers long lost to our everyday diet, which you may then be inspired to add to yours!

Gourmet Mushroom Cultivation

Shropshire - Next course on 2nd May 2020

£85

Mushrooms are a valuable food-source with an important role to play in our lives: nutritionally, medicinally and environmentally. This course will be run in collaboration with Mushrooms for the Masses, who aim to encourage interest in the home production of mushrooms and also give an insight into the bigger picture of the world of mushrooms and the positive impact they can have within ecology. You will create your own Oyster mushroom starter kit as well as a log inoculated with Shitake mushrooms to take away with you at the end...

Growing Fruit

Powys - Next course on 7th March 2020

£60

Learn how to propagate, prune and protect from disease as you get started with growing your own fruit trees. Thriving fruit trees are a joy to behold, but the practices of propagation, pruning and disease control can seem confusing. This course unlocks the mysteries by looking at the science behind fruit growing, and puts it into practice with hands-on sessions. We concentrate on apples and pears, but cover other fruits such as damsons, figs and soft fruit. Each student will graft and take home their own apple tree. This course...