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"Unlock your inner witch / warlock / forest spirit! Your journey to becoming an anarchic ethical forager extraordinaire continues in Purdown in the second of 8 monthly exploratory workshops. Study the mystical Hawthorn berry and gather leaves for heart-healing teas + carve your own rubber stamp!"
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A event on Saturday 18th May. The event starts at 14:00.
This workshop is part an 8 month workshop series to learn about local wild food, medicine and crafts. We'll practice ethical foraging as an act of resistance. Check out the other workshops in the series: https://hdfst.uk/creative-foraging
Each session will include a guided foraging walk and an introduction to a range of craft and wild medicine making skills that you can build on throughout the year, leaving each session with knowledge to share with others.
In this May session, we'll focus on Hawthorn as medicine for the heart and ask: what does that actually mean for us as we build community care? We’ll share the deep history and folklore of May day and the May tree alongside other herbs for resilience. Learn how to preserve wild herbs and prepare them as tea, and carve your own rubber stamp for printing all your own future medicines labels!
ROUGH TIMINGS:
2pm - foraging: hawthorn and heart strengthening medicines, how we can preserve these for the year ahead
4pm - carve your own rubber label
5pm - leave, spread this knowledge elsewhere
Meeting point: Purdown Open Space, top of Lindsay Rd, BS7 9NP
Access: we'll walk along well trodden paths, these can be a bit steep, get in touch if you have any access needs so we can adjust for you
Bursaries: for this series we have bursaries available, as well as discounts for booking onto 4. 6 and 8 workshops
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Each session will include a guided foraging walk and an introduction to a range of craft and wild medicine making skills that you can build on throughout the year, leaving each session with knowledge to share with others.
In this May session, we'll focus on Hawthorn as medicine for the heart and ask: what does that actually mean for us as we build community care? We’ll share the deep history and folklore of May day and the May tree alongside other herbs for resilience. Learn how to preserve wild herbs and prepare them as tea, and carve your own rubber stamp for printing all your own future medicines labels!
ROUGH TIMINGS:
2pm - foraging: hawthorn and heart strengthening medicines, how we can preserve these for the year ahead
4pm - carve your own rubber label
5pm - leave, spread this knowledge elsewhere
Meeting point: Purdown Open Space, top of Lindsay Rd, BS7 9NP
Access: we'll walk along well trodden paths, these can be a bit steep, get in touch if you have any access needs so we can adjust for you
Bursaries: for this series we have bursaries available, as well as discounts for booking onto 4. 6 and 8 workshops
Entry requirements: no age restrictions