Foraging walk for wild edible and medicinal plants
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What you'll do
This 2.5 hour foraging walk is a chance for you to take photos, notes and recordings whilst learning tactile and tangible information: touch, taste and smell these herbs in real life.
You’ll gain knowledge and experience to build on so you have a solid foundation in identification techniques, learning where plants grow and how to find them again to continue to use them in your life.
This is a relaxed walk with lots of time to ask questions, get curious about myths and misconceptions and expand into a new perspective of your local parks and green spaces.
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
Purdown Open Space Foraging Walk - Friday 23rd September : 2pm - 4.30pm
Eastwood Farm Foraging Walk - Friday 14th October : 2pm - 4.30pm
Conham River Park Foraging Walk - Saturday 15th October : 10am - 12.30pm
Greenbank Cemetery Foraging Walk - Friday 11th November : 2pm - 4.30pm
Eastwood Farm Foraging Walk - Sunday 13th November : 2pm - 4.30pm
Conham River Park Foraging Walk - Friday 9th December : 2pm - 4.30pm
Greenbank Cemetery Foraging Walk - Saturday 10th December : 10am - 12.30pm
Minimum fitness level required.
Upcoming dates
What you'll do
This 2.5 hour foraging walk is a chance for you to take photos, notes and recordings whilst learning tactile and tangible information: touch, taste and smell these herbs in real life.
You’ll gain knowledge and experience to build on so you have a solid foundation in identification techniques, learning where plants grow and how to find them again to continue to use them in your life.
This is a relaxed walk with lots of time to ask questions, get curious about myths and misconceptions and expand into a new perspective of your local parks and green spaces.
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
Purdown Open Space Foraging Walk - Friday 23rd September : 2pm - 4.30pm
Eastwood Farm Foraging Walk - Friday 14th October : 2pm - 4.30pm
Conham River Park Foraging Walk - Saturday 15th October : 10am - 12.30pm
Greenbank Cemetery Foraging Walk - Friday 11th November : 2pm - 4.30pm
Eastwood Farm Foraging Walk - Sunday 13th November : 2pm - 4.30pm
Conham River Park Foraging Walk - Friday 9th December : 2pm - 4.30pm
Greenbank Cemetery Foraging Walk - Saturday 10th December : 10am - 12.30pm
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
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
My friend got me this foraging experience as a birthday gift and I loved it! I learnt so much from Maria and the group. It was a beautiful day and having tea at the end with the foraged herbs was a particular highlight. Highly recommended. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Great experience. We learnt so much and Maria was a fantastic host.
Maria will be a passionate and kind guide through the wonders of foraging. She will pepper your tour with cultural easter eggs about the plants we find (and taste) which was a nice surprise. Really recommended!
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Upcoming dates
What people are saying
My friend got me this foraging experience as a birthday gift and I loved it! I learnt so much from Maria and the group. It was a beautiful day and having tea at the end with the foraged herbs was a particular highlight. Highly recommended. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Great experience. We learnt so much and Maria was a fantastic host.
Maria will be a passionate and kind guide through the wonders of foraging. She will pepper your tour with cultural easter eggs about the plants we find (and taste) which was a nice surprise. Really recommended!
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