Creative Foraging Workshops / Maria x Ruby

For these three creative foraging sessions, we'll explore our inner-city green spaces and show you how to find, make and use wild medicines. We’ll get to know and remember the plants and fungi we encounter through collecting, crafting, sketching, journalling and printmaking. We’ll engage all of our senses and learn practically as we form our own personal and creative approaches to foraging and wild medicine-making.

Suitable for any level of experience, including all foragers, medicine makers, friends of fungi and pals of plants both new and old.

SESSION ONE - MEADOW MEDICINE & WILD GARDENING: OCTOBER - Greenbank Cemetery, BS5 We’ll be collecting seeds, learning about their medicine and sharing how to successfully plant them in your own spaces and in public places; which seeds are best for your space, where to plant them and how to get other materials, what to consider in your local area and what to do with your wild medicine once it grows.

SESSION TWO - ELDER, HAWTHORN & ROSE: NOVEMBER - venue TBC 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.

SESSION THREE - MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS & DRAWING: DECEMBER - Snuff Mills, BS16 We’ll be getting deep into observation this session, learning what the medicinal mushrooms are like inside and out; we’ll be drawing their finest details, learning how to mirror their distinct shapes. Expect to find out which of them love to emerge in our inner city parks as well as how to use them in tinctures, stocks, soups and the ultimate healing teas.

Minimum fitness level required.

Age restrictions: 18+

Standard £22
Low Income £17
Pay It Forward £27

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Ann
Nov 2021

Maria is very welcoming and knowledgeable. The whole event was well planned and inclusive. We lea...

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Facilities

  • Family friendly
  • Experience takes place outdoors
  • Refreshments available
  • Toilets

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You'll be hosted by

Maria Fernandez Garcia

Maria is a Bristol-based forager and herbalist who started Healing Weeds to create a fun, human and relatable way to access foraging, no matter your experience.

Maria absolutely loves sharing this easy-to-learn knowledge through foraging walks, workshops and courses in Bristol where she shows people how to confidently identify and use some of the most common (and often most healing) plants in their local area.

Ruby Scott-Geddes (They/Them)

- Ruby (they/them) is an artist, a forager, a mycological and botanical illustrator, printmaker and craftsperson who will facilitate the creative elements within these workshops

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