Upcoming Events
I am excited to share some information about ongoing and upcoming workshops and events. Please see more information below:
I offer a regular Plant Allies for Women group, an opportunity to deepen connection with local plants through sensory and intuitive practices - see more below. I will also be running a Women's Herbs for Health series on Thursdays evenings in June-July this year, see more details below.
I am excited about our Earth Medicine Collective Herb Garden Fundraiser event, happening on 1st August. I am grateful to live and work within the beautiful grounds of Bowden House Community, Totnes. There are many herb beds in and around the vegetable gardens, in the walled garden and the forest garden. There is new enthusiasm from us and the herb gardening volunteers to clear weeds and plant more herbs. This will create a more diverse learning environment as well as resource for making herbal medicines. Both Peter Neumann and myself run workshops and courses and love to inspire others about herbal medicine and offer a space to connect more deeply with plants as beings and allies. See below for more information on what we are offering and how to book your place.
Herb Gardening Volunteer Afternoons: Please come a long and get to know the plants through weeding, planting and beautifying the space with us at Earth Medicine Collective, Bowden House, Totnes.
Herbs for Women's Health Series
This series offers the opportunity to deeply explore women’s health and its relationship to herbalism. The workshops are designed to be accessible and useful to all interested in women’s health, whatever stage of life you are in, and when possible, sessions will be tailored to the interests of the group.
Workshops will be a mix of theory and practical herbalism. Each session will involve connecting with the herbs through sensory and intuitive practices, diving into a specific health topic, meeting relevant plants and getting to know their actions and uses. Through demonstrations and recipes you will be shown how to make your own healing remedies, and during the series there will be the opportunity to make two herbal remedies to take home. We hope that through this series you can feel more empowered in supporting your own health and wellbeing.
You are welcome to book onto individual sessions or join the whole series at a discounted rate. Currently booking is open for those wanting to book the to attend all the sessions. Later it will be open to book any individual sessions that still have spaces. You can join a waitlist if interested in attending just some of the sessions (see link below).
The series will begin with a talk on women’s herbal health, led by Annie Gardner and Radical Plant Folk founder Mariam Mohamed.
Introduction to Women’s Herbal Health Talk
With Annie Gardner and Mariam Mohamed - Thursday May 21st, 6-7.30 pm
Herbs for Women's Health Series
Digestive Health - Thursday 18th June, 6-8.30pm
Hormonal Health - Thursday 25th June, 6-8.30pm
Womb and Reproductive Health - Thursday 2nd July, 6-8.30pm
Herbal allies for sexual and breast health - Thursday 9th July, 6-8.30pm
Nervous System Health - Thursday 16th July, 6-8.30pm
Topics covered:
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Introduction to holistic herbal support for women
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Learning about the physiology, tissue states and energetics in each topic
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Learn how herbs interact with your body to restore balance
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Prevention and how to optimise your wellbeing, resilience and health
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Choosing a type of preparation appropriate for your symptoms
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Herbal self-care as an honouring of our bodies, ourselves and our time of life
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Connecting with plants through intuitive and sensory practices
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Traditional and modern uses of herbs
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Plant identification through meeting the plants in the garden
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Harvesting & making two herbal remedies
Both the talk and Herbs for Women's Health sessions will be held at the community herb garden at School Farm, Dartington.
For more information on each session and booking details, please go The Radical Plant Folk Website:
Note: This series covers topics designed for those assigned female at birth, which may not be the gender you identify
with. Even if you do not identify as a cis-women we welcome a diversity of genders for whom these topics might be of interest to.
Earth Medicine Collective
Herb Garden Fundraiser
Help us raise funds for regenerating our herb garden, set in the beautiful grounds of Bowden House Community. These gardens are a wonderful resource for the wider community through the workshops and courses that are offered here.
Come and join medical herbalists, Annie Gardner and Peter Neumann for a day of herb related workshops and Tales from the Story-garden with Laura Salmon, our resident storyteller.
There will be the opportunity to enjoy lunch and other refreshments from our pop-up cafe and browse our small shop (a percentage of sales towards the herb garden).
Schedule
10am-12pm: Plant Journey to Yarrow with Peter Neumann
Break for refreshments
12.15pm: Herb Walk with Peter Neumann and Annie Gardner
1.15pm: Talk about Earth Medicine Collective
1.30pm: Lunch: vegan seasonal fare: soup & bread
2.30-4.30pm: Herbal Energetics with Annie Gardner
Break for refreshments
5-6pm Tales from the Story-garden with Laura Salmon
Plant Journey to Yarrow with Peter Neumann (MNIMH)
Traditional plant healers met with the plants they used, and let those herbs be their guide. Similarly Peter will guide you in a technique he learnt from the late Eliot Cowan to meet the being of Yarrow, spending time in the "Living Room of the Plant" - outside, with colours and paper if desired - and then returning indoors to participate in a drum journey to meet the spirit of the plant. [Peter reserves the right to change the chosen plant but most likely it will be yarrow, abundant at this time of year].
Peter practices from Totnes Natural Health Centre and his herb course can be found on www.plymouthherbalist.com/herbal-wisdom-course/
Herbal Energetics with Annie Gardner (MURHP)
An experiential workshop exploring the diverse energetic qualities and actions of plants, how the different tastes and energetics relate to the elements and how they interact with our individual constitutions, physiology, mind and emotions.
This is an introductory workshop which aims to give you a felt sense of the different qualities and actions inherent in plants through specific examples. You will get to taste, touch, smell and sense these different qualities and also see how their appearance can give us clues about their actions and indications.
Annie practices from Dreaming Earth Apothecary (Bowden House, Totnes), offering herbal medicine, bodywork and workshops locally.
Tales from the Story-garden with Laura Salmon
Tales from the Story-garden are grown out of the good Devon soul and woven with plant magic! Take a walk with me and step through the Portal of your imagination. Together we can meet the land around us with wakened senses and discover our place in the Web of Life.
For more information about Laura and what she offers, go to: www.skysalmonstories.com
Earth Medicine Collective supports the following:
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Resource for harvesting and making medicine
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A learning environment
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Hosts volunteer afternoons
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Beauty
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Diversity
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Attracts insect pollinators
Multiple DatesWed 01 JulTotnesDeepen your relationship with plants in a held space with other women and learn ways of connecting with plants through your senses, feeling body, intuition, deep imagination, creative expression and embodiment practices. The sessions will take place outside (with indoor space if needed).
Sold OutFri 27 FebTotnesLearn How to Use Simple Home Herbal Remedies for Acute Illness We will discuss common first aid issues and acute illnesses you or your family experience and herbs that can be used to address them. You will get to taste, touch and smell a range of herbal preparations and learn how they are used.
Sold OutSun 15 FebTotnesJoin Samara Hawthorn for a deeply grounding and nourishing day of Holding the Bones, a lay practice of woman to woman hands on holding, tending to that which we carry in our hearts and the bowls of our pelvises. £75 for the day, please bring lunch to share.- Multiple DatesWed 19 NovTotnesDeepen your relationship with plants in a held space with other women and learn ways of connecting with plants through your senses, feeling body, intuition, deep imagination, creative expression and embodiment practices. The sessions will take place outside or in the outdoor shelter.
Multiple DatesWed 24 SeptBowden HouseAn introduction to the programme, meet the facilitators and a space for questions.
Multiple DatesWed 13 AugTotnesDeepen your relationship with plants in a held space with other women and learn ways of connecting with plants through your senses, feeling body, intuition, deep imagination, creative expression and embodiment practices. The sessions will take place outside or in the outdoor shelter.
RSVP ClosedSun 26 JanTotnesLearn how to use simple home herbal remedies for common first aid issues and acute illness. You will get to taste, touch and smell a range of herbal preparations and learn how they are used. Make a herbal cough syrup to take home, as well as a comprehensive handout.
Sold OutFri 21 JunCommunity CentreA space to explore your relationship to this season, the full moon and this time of blossoming & opening with the support of our plant allies. With journeys and practices to connect with and embody these allies and the feminine archetypes of Mother and Lover.
I am so excited to offer this immersion with Rose with Turiya Ma this July!
Join us for a deeply nourishing and transformative workshop where we journey with the Rose — as plant, spirit, and guide.
Held in sacred sisterhood, this gathering is an invitation to soften, open, and remember the ancient wisdom that lives within your heart and womb.
Led by Rose Path Guide Turiya Ma and Herbalist and founder of Dreaming Earth Apothecary Annie Gardner, we will explore the Rose through physical, energetic, and spiritual lenses.
Through embodiment practices, gentle ritual, and sensory exploration, you’ll come into deeper relationship with this sacred plant and all she has to teach.
Empower
Growth
I will be offering A Dream Lodge to Meet Ladie's Mantle a beautiful plant ally for women.
In circle together we will call in Mugwort and make a Womb Balm in sacred ritual
"This gathering is not just an event—it’s a return to the village. It’s a heartfelt call to lay down your armour and remember the medicine that lives within you, nurtured by the legacy of our grandmothers, the ancient ones. In this sacred space, every woman is invited to step into her power, weaving her sorrows into golden threads of connection and hope."
"Step onto this sacred soil and reawaken the wild essence within you as we, as women, rekindle our profound connection with the Earth. Here, we embrace her wisdom and rediscover the art of living in harmony, reestablishing our sacred bond with our Earth Mother and relearning the dance of reciprocity. Because Medicine Woman is more than just a gathering; it's a journey of self-discovery and remembrance. As we immerse ourselves in the sisterhood and connect with our greatest mother, the Earth, we open the door to a world of endless possibilities.
Join us in reclaiming the wisdom of our ancestors. Step into the circle, reawaken your wild essence, and reconnect with the earth and with one another. Together, we will weave a tapestry of healing, empowerment, and love—reminding us that we are not alone, but a vibrant, living collective that is creating a herstory to remember."
Lucy Wylde, Founder of Medicine Woman Gathering.
I love being part of this camp, creating beauty and bringing in the plants through journeys, invitations to go out and meet a plant on the land and by weaving them into the ceremony.
Immersed in stunning nature, deep in the wilds of Dartmoor National Park, we’ll come together to connect with the land, the solidarity of sisterhood and the spirit of our voices. Calling on the depth and wisdom of the dark moon to take us inwards, allow what is alive in us to move through our voices and bodies and help us remember our wild nature as women, rooted in the earth and the cycles of nature. In ritual we will weave the threads of our longings together, moving and voicing in circles on the land and around the fire.
What to expect
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Guided journeys to awaken and empower your authentic voice
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Solo time in nature supported by vocal scores as a framework for free expression and intuitive plant wisdom
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Workshops in co-creative circle singing, song-weaving inspired by the land and Collaborative Vocal Improvisation
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Morning movement explorations into the landscape of feeling, where we will connect to the nature of our bodies and with each other
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Ceremony with the dark moon - singing, drumming and dancing around the fire
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A welcoming sanctuary for creativity and connection, to yourself, the wild and a gorgeous group of women
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Lots of fun and frolics!
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