Flora is a natural dyer, grower, and forager who loves to create inks, pigments, and dyes from plants for textile and paper, demonstrating how we can create a diverse and vibrant spectrum of colours from Read more…
Foraging Salad
Delicious foraged salad filled with herbal delights – The glorious activity of Foraging is seeing a revival and many many people are enjoying finding, gathering and harvesting their local wild foods, reconnecting with the natural Read more…
White Dead Nettle
White Dead Nettle (Lamium alba) – from the Greek ‘laimos’ meaning ‘throat’, referring to the shape of the flower. This jolly and super prolific herb is part of the Mint, or Lamiaceae botanical family which Read more…
Harvesting Herbs for medicine – Teas & Decoctions
Harvesting Herbs for medicine – creating Dried Simple Herbal Teas Check list – Choose a plant you are 100% sure of and can positivity ID – Look for healthy, vibrant plants growing away from sprayed Read more…
Molluscum contagiosum
Lots of parents get in touch regularly about Molluscum Contagiosum, which is a common viral infection a member of the poxvirus family, like small pox. It looks horrific but in truth isn’t anything to get Read more…
The Hawthorn Tree
Hawthorn Blossom The old English for Hawthorn was Haggathorn meaning hedge or encompassing fence thorn. Hawthorn has been utilised as a boundary marker by many farmers and country folk alike all over the globe, since Read more…
Herbal Tincture Making
Creating herbal remedies There are various ways to store herbs once you have gone out and harvested them – it is lovely to have fresh herbal infusions but fresh herbs are seasonal thus preparing them Read more…
Herbal support of the Respiratory system
Check List for Respiratory Infection Support: • Nurture and soothe the lung tissue – herbal teas of elecampane, liquorice, marshmallow root, plantain leaf • Thin and then expectorate mucous and debris – • drink lots Read more…
Spirits of the Garden – Growing herbs for health and love
Cultivating Change Cultivating plants for food and medicine is one of the most positive and proactive endeavours you can take on. It is so rewarding watching your own garden grow, seeing the magic of germination Read more…
Making Herbal Infused Oils
Creating Herbal Remedies We think the important thing about creating herbal remedies, is good preparation and being clear about what and why you are making what you are making. We take tie to choose the Read more…
