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A meaningful experience learning traditional folk medicine-making skills that foster a deeper relationship between the land and ourselves.
Nature provides us with an abundance of wild medicines perfectly suited to support and nourish our wellbeing. Join for this truly meaningful experience learning traditional folk medicine-making skills that foster a deeper relationship between the land and ourselves.
We’ll start with a guided foraging walk - exploring how to safely identify, harvest, store, and process seasonal wild ingredients. Then we’ll guide you to create a mini apothecary of potent folk medicines to take home - a gift to yourself and those you love.
Depending on the season, we might make medicinal tonics, tinctures or elixirs. Perhaps our much-loved medicinal mushroom chai syrup, or potent salves and balms using beeswax from our sacred bee garden - a precious gift.
This is a truly 'head, heart, and hands' day exploring plant lore and learning traditional practices and skills. You’ll leave with your own folk medicines to support you and your loved ones. Plus, the skills to continue this practice at home. Through foraging and medicine-making we learn more about our environment and nurture a resilience that serves both people and the planet.
“Our medicine grows under our feet and below our noses, we just have to choose to see it.” Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo, Head of Land & Food
Tasha Elena Stevens- Vallecillo is a mixed race English, Central American woman with a Buddhist Spiritual practice. She has been the visionary of many projects and she is a true creative force working with community, wild food, wild tending, food production and farming to address some of the core issues of our time. Her work is rooted in continuous learning and intuitive feeling, to explore and continuously develop methodologies and product development, creating food systems that work in harmony with nature through developing agri-wilding landscapes and products that draw on ancient or indigenous understandings of land,food and medicine coupled with new technologies or capabilities.
Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo
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