Grow Your Own Medicine
It’s easy to make medicine from plants you can grow yourself.
But which plants should you chose?
And how can you turn them into effective medicines to treat yourself, family and friends for common ailments?
In this online workshop, I’ll introduce you to medicinal herbs that can transform your garden or
allotment into your own medicine cabinet.
Gain the confidence to identify and grow medicinal plants in your own garden.
We’ll be covering:
– What to consider when designing your garden
– Which herbal preparations are useful in your medicine cabinet for common ailments and why
– Which plants you can grow at home to make these preperations
– Which plants to harvest when
– How to nurture healthy soil and plants
– How to make cuttings
– Where to source medicinal herb seeds and plants
Herbs To Help You Sleep
Getting enough sleep can be a challenge in our well-lit, work-driven, screen-filled modern lives. The World Health Organisation has identified sleep deprivation as an epidemic.
Join local herbalist Belle Benfield for a talk introducing you to plants you can use and grow at home to enhance healthy, restful slumber.
Making Medicinal Chocolates 2020
Mary Poppins was right, a spoonful of sugar does help the medicine go down.
How about some chocolate with your medicine?
Join Belle for an evening of decadence and delight. Spend the evening learning about the medicine of cacao plant and meeting other herbs that can be combined with cacao to support your health. Finish by concocting your own bite size delicious, vegan chocolate medicines. Medicine for your body, medicine for your soul.
Making Medicinal Chocolates
Mary Poppins was right, a spoonful of sugar does help the medicine go down.
How about some chocolate with your medicine?
Join Belle for an evening of decadence and delight. Spend the evening learning about the medicine of cacao plant and meeting other herbs that can be combined with cacao to support your health. Finish by concocting your own bite size delicious, vegan chocolate medicines. Medicine for your body, medicine for your soul.
Chocolate Making with Medicinal Herbs
Mary Poppin’s was right, a spoonful of sugar does help the medicine go down.
How about some chocolate with your medicine?
Join Belle for an evening of decadance and delight. Spend the evening learning about the medicine of cacao plant and meeting other herbs that can be combined with cacao to support your health. Finish by concocting your own bite size chocolate medicines. Medicine for your body, medicine for your soul.
Herbal First Aid
Come and discover ideas and tips from the world of Herbs for creating a first aid kit.
What are the essential elements of a home remedy kit?
We shall be using all our senses to explore herbal medicine, this is a lively interactive workshop with plenty to taste, touch and smell. You will get an understanding of the basic principals of using herbs medicinally along with a comprehensive understanding of how to build your own herbal first aid kit.
£60 includes a balm we will make together that you can take home.
Booking essential.
The workshop will run from 10.30am – 3.30pm. There will be a morning and afternoon session with an hour for a bring and share picnic lunch.
We’ll have plenty of time to meet plants and talk about practical first aid solutions for you and your family. You will get to make some medicine to take home and start your own herbal first aid kit.
Belle Benfield has studied and practiced herbalism for the last six years. Her experience in using herbs for first aid spans the summer festival scene, new babies and mamas and anti-biotic resistant infections. She sees patients from her home in Cornwall and looks forward to sharing her knowledge in a fun, interactive setting.
Botanical Rose Drawing at Gazelli House
Calm and Sensuous…some of the medicine of rose. Who doesn’t want more of these qualities in their life?
So many of the plants that surround us offer us medicine if we know how and where to look.
Join expert botanical illustrator Belle Benfield as she introduces you to The Sensory Herbal Handbook* and teaches you that you can receive medicine from plants through drawing them. The evening will focus on drawing the sweet medicine of majestic rose. All materials provided, including light snacks and a complimentary cup of Gazelli’s signature rose tea. You will also get to leave with the rose you drew, plus a token for rose tea for two at a later date in our beautiful glass tea house.
Thursday July 4th, 6pm-7.30pm
Gazelli House, 174 Walton Street, London, SW3 2JL
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Drawing The Medicine of Our Gardens
Join The School of Botanical Arts and Heartfelt Herbs for a day of botanical art practise in the lush, verdant herb gardens at Rookery Farm on the outskirts of Bristol.
Botanical art has a long history of being used alongside recording the medicinal properties of plants. This workshop will develop your understanding and knowledge of the plants in our gardens by connecting with them through drawing. You will experience how the artistic process itself can bring you into contact with the medicinal characteristics and nature of each plant.
You will be guided through observational and imaginative techniques to develop your artistic skills. Free up your creativity with confidence and build your own unique relationship with the plants you choose to draw.
Taking the time to draw a plant is an unforgettable experience. You will no longer struggle to identify or remember its name, but will instead carry its medicine deep in your memory.
This will be a delightful day of herbal exploration and a chance for you to strengthen your intuition and art skills.
Rookery Farm has extensive gardens with meadows, ponds and herb beds that have been beautifully cultivated over the last 30 years by Paddy Dadd and her daughter Susie. One of the founders of The West of England Herb Group, Paddy’s legacy lives on in this beautiful garden. The workshop offers a unique opportunity to experience a day on this cherished land. In exchange for using these wonderful gardens, a donation will be made to the community project: Herbalists without Borders Bristol. (https://bristolhwb.org )
Saturday May 25th
10am-4pm
£55 (a small materials list will be sent on booking)
Tutors:
Belle Benfield weaves the power of plants into her creative and healing practices as an artist, a herbalist and a health coach. Her award-winning artwork has been written about in The New York Times and exhibited internationally. Illustrator of The Sensory Herbal Handbook, Belle brings the tools of Sensory Herbalism alive through drawing, giving you the opportunity to open and develop your connection with plant medicine in your own unique, deeply personal way.
Eleanor Darley makes our relationship with plants the centre of her work as an artist and art therapist. She brings an in depth knowledge of how plants inform the creative process demonstrating through examples of art history, observation skills and imaginative techniques developed in her teaching and art therapy. She trained in traditional medicine in Mexico, Anthroposophical therapeutic art, and is founder of The School of Botanical Arts which is based on a traditional and contemporary practise, and the acknowledgment of the medicinal properties of plants, and their effect on our awareness.
www.eleanorsara.com
Sensory Herbal Handbook Book Launch London
Come and Celebrate the launch of
+++The Sensory Herbal Handbook+++
This work of LOVE has taken 8 years in creation, the Seed SistAs are super excited to share it with you.
The wonderful Reel Rebels Radio, will be catering with some delicious herbal treats, sexy cocktails and mocktails with a fully licensed bar –
We shall be exhibiting the incredible, botanical art of Belle Benfield at the studio – she will be talking about each of the pieces.
Also having a Q&A sessions with us Seed SistAs about all things HERBAL and of course you will be about to get your copy of the BOOK
Please get a ticket so we can plan for numbers – it is £4.99 and includes the delicious heart nourishing, Seed SistAs famous Chill Hot Chocolate experience ….
Then dance the evening away with Herbal inspired music!
Sensory Herbal Handbook Book Launch Falmouth
Many of the plants growing abundantly around us as ‘weeds’ are an amazing source of medicine that can support us in building resilient good health.
Celebrating the launch of the Seed SistAs’ Sensory Herb Handbook, the Poly is collaborating with artist Belle Benfield to bring you an evening of herbal delights.
The film Juliette of the Herbs follows Juliette de Bairacli Levy: herbalist, author, breeder of Afghan hounds, friend of the Gypsies. She dedicated her life, travelling in search of herbal wisdom, and is the pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine. The screening will be followed by a live Q & A and book signing with Belle discussing the Herbal Handbook and the importance of knowing and planting medicinal plants in our communities. Herbal cocktails will be available from the apothecary bar before the film and at the interval.