Foraging walk for wild edible and medicinal plants
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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
Greenbank Cemetery Foraging Walk - Friday 8th July : 2pm - 4.30pm
Purdown Open Space Foraging Walk - Sunday 10th July : 2pm - 4.30pm
Conham River Park Foraging Walk - Friday 22nd July : 2pm - 4.30pm
Purdown Open Space Foraging Walk - Sunday 24th July : 10am - 12.30pm
Leigh Woods Foraging Walk - Friday 5th August : 2pm - 4.30pm
Stoke Park Foraging Walk - Friday 9th September : 2pm - 4.30pm
Conham River Park Foraging Walk - Sunday 11th September : 2pm - 4.30pm
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
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
Greenbank Cemetery Foraging Walk - Friday 8th July : 2pm - 4.30pm
Purdown Open Space Foraging Walk - Sunday 10th July : 2pm - 4.30pm
Conham River Park Foraging Walk - Friday 22nd July : 2pm - 4.30pm
Purdown Open Space Foraging Walk - Sunday 24th July : 10am - 12.30pm
Leigh Woods Foraging Walk - Friday 5th August : 2pm - 4.30pm
Stoke Park Foraging Walk - Friday 9th September : 2pm - 4.30pm
Conham River Park Foraging Walk - Sunday 11th September : 2pm - 4.30pm
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.
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
We love Maria! After our time together, we spent the rest of the day identifying and nibbling on all the edible plants we passed by. Previously overlooked plants and flowers are showing up everywhere, and we’re now even more alive to the plants we don’t know in a way that we feel able to learn and add to the foundation that Maria gave us!
Go and do anything that Maria puts out because she has the most wonderful presence and warmth backed by an unwavering knowledge of medicinal plants ❤️
A fun time out learning about edible and medical plants.
Had a wonderful, Informative day out with Maria - I didn’t have much prior knowledge to foraging but she works really well with explaining the plants properties, how to harvest and what you can make it into to all levels of experience! I wish I picked more to bring home with me but feel like I can recognise and go forth with foraging and making now :) would absolutely recommend to anyone to get back in touch with nature
Any questions?
Ask your question directly to Healing Weeds.
Upcoming dates
What people are saying
We love Maria! After our time together, we spent the rest of the day identifying and nibbling on all the edible plants we passed by. Previously overlooked plants and flowers are showing up everywhere, and we’re now even more alive to the plants we don’t know in a way that we feel able to learn and add to the foundation that Maria gave us!
Go and do anything that Maria puts out because she has the most wonderful presence and warmth backed by an unwavering knowledge of medicinal plants ❤️
A fun time out learning about edible and medical plants.
Had a wonderful, Informative day out with Maria - I didn’t have much prior knowledge to foraging but she works really well with explaining the plants properties, how to harvest and what you can make it into to all levels of experience! I wish I picked more to bring home with me but feel like I can recognise and go forth with foraging and making now :) would absolutely recommend to anyone to get back in touch with nature
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