FORAGING & WILD MEDICINE WORKSHOP

FORAGING & WILD MEDICINE WORKSHOP

Foraging, Wild Medicine and Potion Workshops with Alice Rose Betony from Sacred Seeds Herbal Project. Wowo’s very own resident medical herbalist.

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Prices: Family Foraging days £65 for 1 Adult & 1 Child; £20 for additional child / Wild Medicine Walks £35pp / Full Day Workshops £65pp / Potion Making £10pp

Scroll down below the calendar to see the list of foraging and wild medicine walks and workshops on offer.

POTION MAKING WORKSHOP IN THE VILLAGE AREA IN LOWER MOAT FIELD

Join Wowo’s resident Medical Herbalist to learn how to brew your own simple and safe potions. Learn about a selection of common wild weeds, cottage garden herbs and kitchen spices and choose what magic powers you want your potion to have. You can choose from herbs that can ease digestive or respiratory complaints, boost immunity or aid anxiety.

Alice will be on hand to offer personalised advice for your family’s health needs and you can feel empowered learning about the ingredients and tools to make your own potions.

This workshop is suitable for all the family (under 8yrs accompanied by an adult), it is a sensory experience and educational too.

The base of your potion will be apple cider vinegar (so not suitable for anyone that is allergic to this) and you will take your potion home with you to brew for 4-6 weeks before you can use it. Learning this simple recipe opens up a plethora of ways you can learn how to keep your family naturally healthy through the seasons and you will be equipped to reproduce these potions again at home.

Alice Betony runs Sacred Seeds Herbal Project and offers regular workshops in foraging, wild medicine and medicine making for all ages.

1hr. £10. Under 8yrs accompanied by an adult.

18 people max per session.

Potion Parties: Alice is available for birthday parties, family gatherings, corporate or other group activities to offer a potion party class. All ages enjoy making potions, learning about these common herbs and sharing in this experience together. Alice can offer this either onsite at Wowo or at another local venue.

To see all potion making dates please visit the Wowo Calendar. Scroll through the calendar between May and September to find all of the sessions.

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WORKSHOPS ON OFFER

Below are the details of what foraging and wild medicine walks and workshops are on offer.

SPRING EQUINOX WILD MEDICINE WALK

Thursday 21st March / 10am-12.30pm / £35pp

Come along to share in the grounding and connecting experience of walking the land, as the sap rises and the days are longer, at this time of balance of day and night. Celebrate the dance of life, the elements and the sun gaining strength while being outside in nature. Learn about the very first wild food and medicine of the year that becomes available. Young shoots, roots & leaves a plenty for food and medicine.

Alice will talk through the medicinal and nutritional elements of each of the plants as well as giving many recipe suggestions and an email will be sent with some basic botany teaching guides alongside seasonal recipes to help you along on your foraging journey. We will end the walk by tasting some wild teas we will make along the way, sampling tasters of seasonal wild medicines and planting some medicinal plant seeds for you to take home and grow. We will end in circle, taking turns to share what we wish to bring out into the world, either speaking aloud or to yourself, we will witness each other.

BELTANE WILD MEDICINE WALK

Wednesday 1st May / 10am-12.30pm / £35pp

Come along to share this special seasonal festival, the peak of spring and the start of summer. Earth energies are at their strongest and most active. All of life is bursting with potent fertility and life force.
Share this informative short walk to teach you some basic botany and plant ID and to introduce you to all the wild medicine and food that is in abundance at this time of year.

We will end the walk by tasting some wild teas and sampling some love potions and jumping over a small fire in honour of Beltane, a pledge to yourselves to leave behind what is no longer helping us. We will hang ribbons in a tree and make a wish or a blessing, thanking nature for all of their gifts to humankind.

SUMMER SOLSTICE WILD MEDICINE WALK

Thursday 20th June / 10am-12.30pm / £35pp

Join Alice for the longest day of the year as the rampant growth of the plants reaches their peak. Experience the peak time for wildflowers, a great chance to dive deeper into basic botany and plant ID. Learn about the healing properties of the wild flowers around us. Alice will talk through the medicinal and nutritional elements of each of the plants as well as giving many recipe suggestions and an email will be sent with some basic botany teaching guides alongside seasonal recipes to help you along on your foraging journey.

We will end this walk by sampling wild teas and tonics. We will make flower crowns together as well as herbal incense bundles to take home. We will celebrate all of our achievements and who we are individually.

HERBS FOR EMOTIONAL WELLBEING AND GOOD QUALITY SLEEP

Sunday 23rd June / 10am-3pm / £65pp

At the height of summer, with long days and very outward energies, Nature provides for us an abundance of herbs in their prime that support our emotional wellbeing as well as sleep patterns. It can be an exhausting time of year, with burn-out highs and often insomnia peaking for many. This full day workshop will focus on the herbs you can forage or grow at this time, as well as other herbs you can purchase to support your emotional wellbeing and sleep. We will make flower essences together, which you can take home to use.

You will make your own emotional wellbeing tonic as well as digestive bitter tonic to take home and brew. We will have a herb tasting exploratory session to further confound your learning and get to know more herb allies personally. You will also make your own herbal incense bundle to take home. We will end this session by sharing some foraged edible treats, wild teas and Love potion. An Information sheet will be emailed to you with recipes, additional advice and further resources to support your herbal journey of wellness.

Under 18yrs welcome if interested but need to be accompanied by a participating adult, charged at 20% off full price, contact Workshop manager to book this on: [email protected] Max 18.

LAMMAS WILD MEDICINE WALK

Thursday 1st August / 10am-12.30pm / £35pp

As the start of the harvest season technically begins, It is often a more barren time of year in the foraging diaries, as the flowers have mostly passed and the fruits and nuts not yet ripe….. Let’s come together and see what we might find for food and medicine and let us gather to create a harvest ritual of gratitude and prayer together.

There will be a basket of abundance; and I invite you all to offer a wrapped gift into this basket, each of us also taking out something which someone else has put in. It can be a hand-made thing, a bought thing, a written piece of prose, a special nature find like an acorn, rock or shell. Any offering will be welcome, Give from your heart something small you would like to receive.

AUTUMN FAMILY FORAGING DAY

Saturday 7th September / 10am-3pm / £65pp (1 adult & 1 child, £20 per additional child/adult)

Come as a family to learn how to make some winter herbal remedies with the abundant hedgerow berries available at this time. Autumn is the time for deep nourishment, building up our stores of nutrients and supporting our immune systems ready for the cold months ahead. Along with the last few wild greens we have such an abundant variety of healing foods and medicines at this time of year.

We will gather and fill our baskets together in the morning and make food and medicine around the fire in the afternoon. Alice will talk through the medicinal and nutritional elements of each of the plants as well as giving many recipe suggestions and an email will be sent with some basic botany teaching guides alongside seasonal recipes to help you along on your foraging journey. You might take home a hedgerow tonic or enjoy some wild hedgerow syrup as well as picking up some fire by friction tips

These days are also run as an alternative to the popular Herbal Home-Ed programme, for those that are only available on weekends or unable to commit to the year programme. Email to request additional kids/adults attending to [email protected] and pay cash on the day please. Max 10.

AUTUMN EQUINOX WILD MEDICINE WALK

Monday 23rd September / 10am-12.30pm / £35pp

Autumn is a busy time in the foragers and herbalist’s schedules, such an abundant time of year. Come along for this gentle walk to get a flavour of this celebration of nature’s harvests on this day of balance. Alice will talk through the medicinal and nutritional elements of each of the plants as well as giving many recipe suggestions and an email will be sent with some basic botany teaching guides alongside seasonal recipes to help you along on your foraging journey.

We will end the walk sharing some wild teas and tasters of seasonal wild medicines. We will make a simple altar and share our gratitude, we will take a moment to think about the seeds we would like to plant within ourselves, to incubate over the winter months and re-emerge in Spring.

SAMHAIN MEDICINE WALK

Thursday 31st October / 10am-12.30pm / £35pp

As winter begins, we adjust to a new season. A time to connect to our root energy and reflect. Lets mindfully walk the land and learn about the late medicine of this season available to us. Alice will talk through the medicinal and nutritional elements of each of the plants as well as giving many recipe suggestions and an email will be sent with some basic botany teaching guides alongside seasonal recipes to help you along on your foraging journey.

Learn about wintery potions to nourish and heal us. We will gather decaying foliage and make a crown, which we will then burn in the fire, letting go of the old year and welcoming the new cycle.

ABOUT ALICE BETONY

Alice is the eldest daughter of the Cragg family, the original owners of Wowo Campsite. Alice now owns the campsite with her siblings Bea & Staff. She set up and still runs all Workshops at Wowo. Realising the potential to help inner city kids and families experience nature connection and bushcraft as part of their camping experience. This then expanded to the general public in the surrounding area to also offer full day workshops in foraging and wild basketry plus more. The master forager Anna Richardson became and remains a dear friend and mentor to Alice, for which she is eternally grateful. Alice went on to deepen her own bushcraft skills by attending the year long survival course called Trackways which culminated in a 4 day survival quest in the Pyrenees.

Over the years she was so inspired by the plants that she also underwent a 3yr full time Herbal medicine course in London and is now a qualified medical Herbalist and Naturopath. Alice’s main passion is to empower and inspire kids and families to help themselves stay healthy through the abundance of nature’s medicine around us. Alice also grows herbs in her herb garden at wowo and turns many of her harvests into her product range of herbal tonics which you can buy from the campsite reception shop or from her online shop.

Alice host’s wild medicine walks and practical herbal medicine making workshops for all ages in the East Sussex area. She also offers seasonal days of foraging, practical medicine making, basic botany and biology workshops for Home Education groups. Her Home-Ed herbal groups have become very popular in recent years, find out more here. Alice is available for private 1:1 herbal consultations, private foraging events for groups either at Wowo or a location of your choice. Visit her website to find out more: https://www.sacredseeds.org.uk.

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alice betony foraging and wild herbalism workshop

FORAGING & WILD MEDICINE WORKSHOPS

Foraging, Wild Medicine and Potion Workshops with Alice Rose Betony from Sacred Seeds Herbal Project. Wowo’s very own resident medical herbalist.

Prices: Family Foraging days £65 for 1 Adult & 1 Child; £20 for additional child / Wild Medicine Walks £35pp / Full Day Workshops £65pp / Potion Making £10pp.

Refund Policy: 30 days notice or longer – 90% refunded. 15 – 29 days notice – 50% refunded. 14 days or less notice – No refund.

Scroll down below the calendar to see the list of foraging and wild medicine walks and workshops on offer.

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