by Alexandra Hurcikova | Nov 29, 2023 | Community Education, Community Herbalism, DIY, Foraging, Wild Things
2024 UPDATE: We have had feedback that applications for this fund are very competitive and they are looking for people with a current or hoped for role in agriculture. Further, the funders are not considering community gardening as a part of agriculture. WILD THINGS 2... 
by Alexandra Hurcikova | Sep 22, 2023 | Community Education, Community Growing, Community Herbalism, DIY, Foraging, Wild Things
Teaching Herbal Medicine We have always wanted to make herbal / plant medicine as accessible as possible. We love sharing our knowledge and skills with others so that they can make their own medicines at home. Our members have been teaching herbal medicine courses in... 
by Alexandra Hurcikova | Jun 17, 2022 | Community Education, Community Growing, Community Herbalism, DIY, Foraging, Plant Medicine School Scotland
We had a wonderful time last week at the beautiful Beechbrae – a Woodland Resource Centre and beautiful pocket of woodlands and bog habitats. It was our very first intensive in-person session with our Year 1 Plant Medicine School Scotland students Medicine... by Alexandra Hurcikova | Mar 11, 2022 | Community Education, Community Herbalism, DIY, Foraging, Wild Things
Wild Things: A Year of Wild Food and Medicine, has been listed as part of the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Practical Training Fund – we’re calling it Climate Change Fund for short… If you’ve thought about... 
by Alexandra Hurcikova | Jan 29, 2022 | Community Education, Community Herbalism, DIY, Foraging, Wild Things
We learn so much having guest tutors on our courses, always popular is the lovely Monica Wilde. In 2021, Monica led our Wild Things 2 students on an epic mushroom foraging walk, The Scottish weather threw a lot at us and we still had a wonderful afternoon learning how... 
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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