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Bee is passionate about sharing her knowledge and encouraging reconnection with nature at all levels. Bee is a medical herbalist and botanist with over 20 years clinical experience and has been incorporating wild foods into her diet and making medicines for over 22 years. Education, connection and empowerment are key to greater health autonomy, wellbeing and vitality.
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Events in 2026
Spring Cleansing and Nourishing
Date: Saturday 28th March, 10.30am – 5pm
Location: Bee’s Herbalist @ Home premises, Whitchurch, Shropshire
There are so many wild plants at our fingertips, which support spring cleansing and can really nourish us too! This workshop focuses on nutritional density and diversity, exploring common everyday ‘weeds’ (about 30) some of which are likely to be growing in your garden and are common in wild spaces too. Many of them are nutritionally dense power houses, supporting our body’s detox pathways, increasing our nutritional diversity and supporting a healthy gut microbiome. We will be exploring these Wild Allies as both foods and medicines.
This is a very hands-on workshop, which includes walking around the garden and field and foraging for ingredients. We will be making nourishing and cleansing foods from these foragings to enjoy. There will be a focus on 5 key plants and about 30 different plants will be covered during the day.
This workshop will take place on my 2 acre small holding, which consists of wild areas, permanent pasture and a number of garden ‘rooms’. Over 130 medicinal plants are grown onsite – some are wild and others cultivated!
Cleansing:
- What is meant by cleansing, when it is recommended and what else should be considered
- Key herbs to support cleansing and channels of elimination
- Practical ways to incorporate key herbs
- Hydration
Menu for the day:
- Vitality green juice
- Nettle soup (my favourite version!)
- Wild greens and beans Tuscan inspired stew
- Foraged salad
- Energy balls with a wild twist!
- Cleansing and supportive herbal teas
Come along for a day of learning, inspiration, fun and connection with like-minded folk.
Leave with more knowledge and confidence, with a tummy full of good food and notes to support your onward journey!
This workshop starts at 10.30am (please arrive at 10.15am) and finishes at 5.30pm.
It will be taking place outdoors in the Bee-Hive shelter. We will be heading out into the garden too, so please dress appropriately! Herbal tea will be available throughout the day and warming food and movement will help to keep us warm! Please keep the fall-forward date of 11th April available – if spring hasn’t sprung this workshop will be postponed to the 11th April.
Cost: £145 for the full workshop, including handouts with recipes for future use and all food and drink on the day.
Spaces are limited to 12 adults, early booking recommended.
Feedback from previous events:
Talks
Learn how you can proactively make changes to your lifestyle to improve your health – whether it be via the food you eat or the medicine chest at your feet! Every positive change you make will have a ripple effect – like a pebble thrown into a still pond.
If you belong to a local group or club and are interested in an engaging, information rich and practical session about health, wellbeing and the environment please get in touch. Talks are tailored specifically to the interests of the group – from WIs through to gardening clubs and specific health groups.
Bee has delivered talks to a large variety of groups over the years, including school children, students, specific interest groups, businesses, WIs, Probus Clubs and U3A.
Walks
I am passionate about getting folk outside in nature. Reconnecting with our beautiful plant allies and the earth. I love leading walks – whether their primary focus is on foods or medicines, or even basic plant identification.
When we go outside and do a spot of foraging not only do we increase the diversity of our diet (just think your average western person’s diet consists of approximately just 30 foods!) but we get outside into daylight (a chance to produce some Vitamin D), the light spectrum helps our moods, and healthy outdoor air can even provide us with a dose of probiotics dispensed by the soil beneath our feet!
A lot of our common wild plants are also powerful medicines – you will never look at a ‘weed’ in the same way again! Learning about wild medicines can also encourage health autonomy as there are many herbs which can be used to enhance health and treat basic illnesses.
Immersing ourselves in nature encourages mindfulness and is a beautiful reminder that we are part of something bigger and that we are all interconnected. We engage our senses (smell, sounds, sight, touch and even taste) and become more alive and present.
Walks are scheduled through the year, please look at my events page for future dates.
If you are part of a club or group that is interested in a walk do get in touch. Walks usually last 1½ to 2 hours and a range of habitats can be covered – locations and areas of interest can be accommodated for. Call to discuss.
Workshops
Workshops are a great way of getting hands on and learning experientially. Often you get to go home with something you have helped create and make!
If you are interested in a workshop for a group, please get in touch. Workshops can focus on everything from cooking with foraged foods, ointment making, to vinegars, tinctures, syrups, aromatic bath salts and more!
Options include, but are not limited to:
- Balms and ointments – these usually have a seasonal focus, in order to maximise fresh available plant material
- Children’s workshops (aged 5+) – look, smell, explore; lotions and potions; nettles galore!
- Getting ahead of the coughs and colds season – ideal for the autumn
- Kitchen cupboard medicine – not just food…
- Syrups and cordials
Previous Events
I have worked with charities and businesses like the Wildlife Trust and Fordhall Organic Farm, along with fermenters, chefs and special interest groups like gardening groups, WIs and children. Delivering information in a fun informative way and encouraging reconnection through sensory exploration is the name of the game!
Click here to explore some of the previous events I have led.