ABOUT THE COURSE
Learn how to use plants and herbal remedies to improve your health and wellbeing on this highly practical one day course in the Hampshire South Downs. Spend a day learning how to identify and use medicinal herbs growing in our gardens and the wider countryside to detoxify and revitalise the body.
Spring Course:
At this time of year the vibrant new spring growth is packed full of enlivening, detoxifying and invigorating properties. Join us as we identify and harvest the wild greens and flowers of spring and learn how to create preparations to ready our body and mind for the warmer, longer days ahead.
Morning session: Spring Greens
Summer Course: The height of summer sees a joyful abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants. Join us to learn which of our wild plants can best encapsulate the energy of this season and learn techniques and preparations that are perfect for this time of year.
Morning: Summer Greens
Autumn Course: Autumn is a brilliant time to take inspiration from the hedgerows. As nature draws it's energies inwards, we too can become more introspective. We can also turn our mind to stocking our wild medicine larders for the coming colder and darker days.
Morning:
Spring Course:
At this time of year the vibrant new spring growth is packed full of enlivening, detoxifying and invigorating properties. Join us as we identify and harvest the wild greens and flowers of spring and learn how to create preparations to ready our body and mind for the warmer, longer days ahead.
Morning session: Spring Greens
- Safety briefing about foraging and connecting with wild herbs for food and medicine
- Benefit of wild crafting
- Out for a forage focussing on Spring greens. These will include cleavers, nettle, wild garlic, dandelion, chickweed, garlic mustard and three cornered leeks
- Create an infused vinegar
- Discuss methodology, benefits and history of this herbal preparation
- Discuss suggested uses of the vinegar (internally, externally, culinary, how to make an oxymel from vinegar)
- Foraging walk focusing on Spring flowers (primrose, violet, dandelion)
- A little of the mythology about toxic spring flowers such as daffodils.
Summer Course: The height of summer sees a joyful abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants. Join us to learn which of our wild plants can best encapsulate the energy of this season and learn techniques and preparations that are perfect for this time of year.
Morning: Summer Greens
- Safety briefing about foraging and connecting with wild herbs for food and medicine
- Benefits of wild crafting
- A forage focussing on Summer greens including yarrow, mugwort, fennel and wood sorrel.
- Create a tincture and explore method, benefits and uses
- A forage focussing on elderflowers, rose, mallow, dandelion and daisy
- Make floral teas, discussing solar tea, herbal tea, drying herbs, tea blends and iced tea.
Autumn Course: Autumn is a brilliant time to take inspiration from the hedgerows. As nature draws it's energies inwards, we too can become more introspective. We can also turn our mind to stocking our wild medicine larders for the coming colder and darker days.
Morning:
- Introduction
- Safety briefing and foraging walk focusing on wild berries, hips and haws.
- Wild tea and biscuit
- Workshop about a wild glycerite
- Forage focussing on edible trees, roots and seeds· Sensory connection exercise
- Nature inspired meditation
- Back to create a herbal infused bath soak
THE COURSE WILL GIVE YOU
- The essential skills of foraging and safe identification of wild, edible and medicinal plants
- Knowledge to identify wild herbs, greens and flowers for culinary and medicinal use
- Several different techniques to create preparations to harness the plants properties
- You will take home the tonics and remedies you have made plus a detailed handout of the recipes
THE COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR
- Beginners and anyone wishing to improve their knowledge of herbal medicine
- When using wild plants medicinally if you have any existing health issues (including any allergies or contact dermatitis), any prescribed medication or you may be pregnant, please consult your doctor in advance
- For the foraging, we will be walking a fair way on a hillside with uneven terrain, if you have any mobility concerns, please contact the courses team using this email: [email protected] before booking
WHAT TO BRING
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Spring (April) Workshop
Autumn (September) Workshop
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Summer (June) Workshop
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ABOUT THE TUTOR
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My name is Sammie Longhorn, I am a forager, folk herbalist and storyteller. My passion is for reconnecting people with the incredible edible and medicinal properties of our wild and native plant life. I love showing people all the wonderful wild herbs and flowers flourishing in our meadows, woodlands and wild areas. I love to share these benefits along with tips for safe identification and an explanation of how the plants would have been used historically and traditionally. I will offer tips for culinary ideas and methods of how to convert our harvests into preparations to boost the health of ourselves and our friends and family. I have a passion for sharing each plants folklore and mythology, this is how our ancient ancestors would have passed along the knowledge of which plants can harm us and which can heal us. Each season brings its own gifts for the herbcrafter and I look forward to sharing them all.
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Check Out Accommodation
You can get 10% discount when you stay with us during your course in our campsite or eco lodge. Please call us on 01730 823166 to make your accommodation booking. Our reception is open Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm.
