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 discover:
- Essential foraging tips
- What to bring with you
- How to harvest safely and responsibly
- Where to find the best plants
- What you can do with them once you’ve found them
Step away 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.
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!
UPCOMING LOCATIONS
Friday 29th April – Purdown Open Space, BS7 9UP
Friday 6th May – Leigh Woods, North Road, BS8 3PZ
Saturday 7th May – Stoke Park, BS16 1BZ
Friday 13th May – Conham River Park, BS15 3AW
Friday 10th June – Greenbank Cemetery, BS5 6HP
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 discover:
- Essential foraging tips
- What to bring with you
- How to harvest safely and responsibly
- Where to find the best plants
- What you can do with them once you’ve found them
Step away 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.
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!
UPCOMING LOCATIONS
Friday 29th April – Purdown Open Space, BS7 9UP
Friday 6th May – Leigh Woods, North Road, BS8 3PZ
Saturday 7th May – Stoke Park, BS16 1BZ
Friday 13th May – Conham River Park, BS15 3AW
Friday 10th June – Greenbank Cemetery, BS5 6HP
Minimum fitness level required.
How to get there
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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
On the day
Feel free to bring a notepad if you like to draw or take notes, a bottle of water and weather appropriate clothing.
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About Healing Weeds
Healing Weeds was created to reconnect us to both the traditional and scientific knowledge about the abundant wild edible and medicinal plants around us.
Through walks and workshops, these experiences are a place for you to gain confidence in foraging for your own wild food and medicine - and letting your unique creativity guide you onwards.
View more experiences by Healing WeedsYour host
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
What people are saying
Maria was an excellent host, a perfect balance between informative and chilled we very much enjoyed our morning and highly recommend!
Really good fun, would recommend!
I so enjoyed the afternoon. I know many wild plants but learned many more along with how I can use them.
Maria showed me where elms grow (something I've not seen for over 50 years) I was a sceptic about herbal teas made from foraged plants - I'm a convert, courtesy of Maria.
I'm still smiling from a few hours well spent.
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Upcoming dates
What people are saying
Maria was an excellent host, a perfect balance between informative and chilled we very much enjoyed our morning and highly recommend!
Really good fun, would recommend!
I so enjoyed the afternoon. I know many wild plants but learned many more along with how I can use them.
Maria showed me where elms grow (something I've not seen for over 50 years) I was a sceptic about herbal teas made from foraged plants - I'm a convert, courtesy of Maria.
I'm still smiling from a few hours well spent.
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