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Love letter to the Blackford Glen Medicine Garden

Love letter to the Blackford Glen Medicine Garden

by Alexandra Hurcikova | Jan 29, 2025 | Blackford Herb Garden, Community Growing, Uncategorized

Like many community projects Grass Roots Remedies has slowly grown and evolved over the years. An arm sprouting here, a leg over there, and today (Imbolc 2025) we are proud to have a whole body of happenings with our small team working in our award winning low cost...
Herb Garden Volunteering in Edinburgh

Herb Garden Volunteering in Edinburgh

by Alexandra Hurcikova | Jun 14, 2024 | Blackford Herb Garden, Community Growing, Community Herbalism, DIY

Have you ever thoughts about growing or using medicinal and edible herbs but don’t have space or know where to start? Grass Roots Remedies Co-operative has two growing spaces in Edinburgh where you can learn to grow, tend and harvest medicineal plants either at...
Early Summer Foraging

Early Summer Foraging

by Alexandra Hurcikova | Jun 5, 2024 | Blackford Herb Garden, Community Growing, Community Herbalism, Foraging, Wild Things

Whether you’ve been foraging for ages or thinking about dipping your toe in to it sometime soon, now is a great time to start. Here in Scotland, it feels like Spring has definitely passed and our foraging thoughts turn to Summer flowers and maybe even some early...
Volunteer Learning with Grass Roots Remedies

Volunteer Learning with Grass Roots Remedies

by Alexandra Hurcikova | Jun 30, 2023 | Blackford Herb Garden, Community Education, Community Growing, Community Herbalism

Do you want to learn about growing, tending, foraging and harvesting plants to use as medicine? Do you want to learn in a relaxed, friendly environment with people of different backgrounds and growing knowledge and skills? We have opportunities in Edinburgh and...
Autumn Abundance

Autumn Abundance

by Alexandra Hurcikova | Sep 23, 2022 | Blackford Herb Garden, Community Education, Community Growing, Community Herbalism, DIY

Our receent month has been full with celebration and harvesting in the spaces we tend and in many other beautiful spaces as well. We wanted to share some photos of these offerings and a few links to how you can get more involved with some amazing projects and events...
EcoArt Dye Plants

EcoArt Dye Plants

by Alexandra Hurcikova | Sep 21, 2021 | Blackford Herb Garden, Community Growing, Foraging, Uncategorized

As we think of Mabon, the week of rest after the harvests (21st – 29th September 2021), we’ve been thinking about the people we’ve shared our harvests with this year. In August, Rose from the charity EcoArt came to gather some of the medicinal plants...
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