Summer Herb Walk and Workshop
Join us on our annual summer walk and workshop. on the walk guided by a practicing, qualified herbalist we will identify and collect medicinal herbs and learn how they can support our health and wellbeing. When we get back to base we will use these and other herbs to make teas, tinctures, ointments and syrups. You will get to take a handbook and some remedies you made home with you. All materials are provided. Always a highlight of the year.
Date: Sunday 2nd June, 2024
Time: 9.30 till 4
Cost: £70.00 (£20.00 deposit to secure place)
Venue: The Little Mill Shoot, Rowarth, High Peak. SK22 1EB
Herbs for Animals
Specifically aimed at pet and livestock owners, This will consist of a walk exploring local plants and how they can benefit the health of your animals. Back at the cabin we will see how these can be turned into remedies to be taken internally or applied topically and ways of administering them to treat everyday problems and routine treatments. A lot of the principles can be applied to all animals but we will gear it to specific animals depending on the requirements of those that attend.
Date: Sunday 21st July 2024
Time: 9.30 till 4
Venue: The Little Mill Shoot, Rowarth, High Peak. SK22 1EB
Cost: £70.00 (£20 deposit secures your place)
Nutrition and Outdoor Cooking
A day looking at nutrition and healthy eating, but focussed on cooking outdoors over an open fire.
The day will start with an introduction a smoothie and a foraging walk. Returning to our venue we will start cooking over an open fire and at the same time learn what a balanced nutritional diet looks like while enjoying a taste of the food we cook in a natural way as possible. Vegetarian and meat eaters catered for.
Date: Saturday 1st June 2024
Time: 9.30 till 4
Venue: The Little Mill Shoot, Rowarth, High Peak. SK22 1EB
Cost: £80.00 (£20.00 deposit secures a place)
Natural body care workshop
Come and join us to learn how to make natural products to use at home such as moisturising creams, lip balm, hair care products and much more at our 1 day workshop. Using only natural products, herbs you can collect, culinary herbs and spices and a few simple ingredients the day will give you confidence to be self reliant and make your own products, plus you take home all you make. All materials and equipment is provided.
Date; Saturday 7th September 2024
Time; 9.30 till 4
Venue; The Little Mill Shoot, Rowarth, High Peak. SK22 1EB
Cost; £80.00 (£20 deposit secures your place)
Join us on our autumn walk and workshop. On the walk we identify and collect useful berries and the roots of common medicinal plants. On our return to the base we will use these to make warming teas, cough syrups and winter remedies as well as skin creams for cold damaged skin. We will also look at common kitchen herbs and spices that can be utilised through the winter. Take some remedies you made home with you along with the Autumn handbook.
Date: Sunday 8th September 2024
Time: 9.30 till 4
Venue: The Little Mill Shoot, Rowarth, High Peak. SK22 1EB
Cost: £70.00 (£20.00 deposit secures your place)
Herb Walks
Every year we do a series of walks based in Rowarth. Come for a leisurely 2 hour walk in the high peak countryside and discover the medicinal and traditional uses of many of the common plants that are all around us
Dates: TBC
Time: 10.15 till approx 12.15
Cost: £10.00 per person
Venue: Rowarth, High Peak
Organise your own walk
Organise a walk for your social group, clinic, family or friends. We can explore the plants, and discover there uses, in your own area. Again an approximately 2 hour walk works well and this can be daytime or evening with various days and evenings available from May to September.
The cost is still £10 per person (minimum group of 5)
For groups of 6 or more the organiser comes free!
Get in touch for more details and availability.
For any groups outside of a 25 mile radius of SK22 then there will be an expense charge in addition to the normal fee.