Make. Hamilton: Autumn Herbs for Health

Join us in the garden-café for a day to explore different ways to use dried herbs to make your own herbal remedies.

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Would you like to know how to use herbs to support your wellbeing but don’t know where to start?

In this beginners workshop, you will be introduced to a variety of herbs and shown how to use them to make teas, tinctures, oil infusions and balms. An opportunity to indulge in herbalism to discover and connect to the plants growing around us.

The workshop will include:

– how to dry & store herbs

– how to make herbal tea infusions

– how to make a herbal oxymel (using our own Hamilton Honey)

– herbal cake & tea break

– how to prepare an oil infusion

– how to make a soothing balm (using organic beeswax from our hives)

All materials will be provided but please wear clothing suitable for the outdoors as we will try to spend some time in the garden (and we can’t guarantee sun unfortunately!).

Please note – we will be using honey and beeswax from our sustainably managed bee hives located on site in our community garden.

If you would prefer not to use honey / bees wax, please get in touch ahead of the class and we can organise alternative products for you to use.

Everything you make in the session will be yours to take home, including:

– a herbal oxymel

– a herb infused oil

– a herbal balm

There will also be a selection of sample tinctures and oxymels for you to try!

The herbs you will be using during the session have been grown and dried on site in our community garden or foraged from local wild spots.

The herbs we will work with during the day will include:

– rosehip

– sage

– mint

– calendula

– lavender

– and more seasonal delights!

About the Teacher

The Herbs for Health workshops are led by Rosie Ashton a self taught community herbalist who has been working with plants for several years in community gardens across the UK.

Rosie has a background in permaculture and is an experienced food grower and plant-based chef. She has been creating community gardens and facilitating food growing and wellbeing sessions since 2016.

With a passion for plants, she spends her free time deepening her herbal knowledge foraging and in her allotment where she grows an ever growing collection of medicinal herbs .

Follow Rosie on @rosie_urbanherbal