Foraging walk for wild edible and medicinal plants
What you'll do
Expect to taste, smell and touch these wild herbs, learn their forms and qualities and how to find them again. You will learn more about common plants you already recognise and find out new healing plants that are growing around you too.
You will leave with more confidence to pick and find these herbs in your local environment and continue your journey using them as nutritious and free food and medicine.
During your experience, your knowledgeable host Maria will pass on essential tips for foraging, including what to bring with you, how to harvest safely and responsibly, where to find the best plants and, most importantly, what you can do with them once you’ve found them.
Bristol is filled with secret green spaces and small pockets of nature that are waiting for you to explore. This is a wonderful opportunity to head out on an adventure and see the city with new eyes!
- LOCATIONS *
- Saturday 22nd January – Greenbank Cemetery, BS5 6HP
- Friday 18th February – Conham River Park, BS15 3AW
- Sunday 20th February – Oldbury Court, BS16 2JH
- Friday 4th March – Leigh Woods, North Road, BS8 3PZ
- Sunday 6th March – Greenbank Cemetery, BS5 6HP
- Friday 18th March – Nightingale Valley, BS4 4QP
- Sunday 20th March – Eastwood Farm, BS4 4SX
Minimum fitness level required.
Upcoming dates
What you'll do
Expect to taste, smell and touch these wild herbs, learn their forms and qualities and how to find them again. You will learn more about common plants you already recognise and find out new healing plants that are growing around you too.
You will leave with more confidence to pick and find these herbs in your local environment and continue your journey using them as nutritious and free food and medicine.
During your experience, your knowledgeable host Maria will pass on essential tips for foraging, including what to bring with you, how to harvest safely and responsibly, where to find the best plants and, most importantly, what you can do with them once you’ve found them.
Bristol is filled with secret green spaces and small pockets of nature that are waiting for you to explore. This is a wonderful opportunity to head out on an adventure and see the city with new eyes!
- LOCATIONS *
- Saturday 22nd January – Greenbank Cemetery, BS5 6HP
- Friday 18th February – Conham River Park, BS15 3AW
- Sunday 20th February – Oldbury Court, BS16 2JH
- Friday 4th March – Leigh Woods, North Road, BS8 3PZ
- Sunday 6th March – Greenbank Cemetery, BS5 6HP
- Friday 18th March – Nightingale Valley, BS4 4QP
- Sunday 20th March – Eastwood Farm, BS4 4SX
Minimum fitness level required.
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Facilities
- Child friendly (0-16)
- Outdoors
- Parking
COVID-19 guidelines
- Social distancing will be maintained where possible
- The entire experience will take place outside
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About Healing Weeds
Healing Weeds started with a mission to spread accurate, scientific and forgotten knowledge about the wild edible and medicinal plants growing all around us.
Healing Weeds walks and workshops serve as a starting point; a place for you to gain confidence in foraging for your own wild food and medicine - and then letting your unique creativity and interests guide you onwards.
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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. Get in touch with her if you'd like to learn more www.healingweeds.co.uk/links or on Instagram @healing.weeds
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What people are saying
Maria was a fantastic tour guide, so knowledgeable and super friendly a lovely afternoon.
Had a fab afternoon foraging - great host too and brilliant to enjoy such a fun activity outdoors :)
A really relaxed and enjoyable course, Maria explained everything so clearly, it was so interesting and feel we learned so much in a couple of hours.
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What people are saying
Maria was a fantastic tour guide, so knowledgeable and super friendly a lovely afternoon.
Had a fab afternoon foraging - great host too and brilliant to enjoy such a fun activity outdoors :)
A really relaxed and enjoyable course, Maria explained everything so clearly, it was so interesting and feel we learned so much in a couple of hours.
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