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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
A day of wild foods, herbal wisdom and seasonal renewal
Date: Saturday 28th March, 10.30am – 5pm
Location: Bee’s Herbalist @ Home premises, Whitchurch, Shropshire
Spring offers us an abundance of wild plants that gently support the body’s natural cleansing processes — while deeply nourishing us at the same time.
In this immersive, hands-on workshop, we’ll explore around 30 common wild plants — many likely growing in your garden or local green spaces — and discover how these so-called ‘weeds’ are actually nutritional powerhouses. Rich in minerals, bitter principles and diverse phytonutrients, they can support detox pathways, improve gut health and expand our nutritional diversity after winter.
Throughout the day, we’ll meet these Wild Allies as both foods and medicines.
What We’ll Explore
Understanding Cleansing
- What do we really mean by “cleansing”?
- When is it appropriate — and when is it not?
- Supporting the body’s natural channels of elimination
- The role of hydration, nourishment and gentle support
Herbal Support
- Key spring herbs for liver, lymph and digestion
- How to safely and practically incorporate them into daily life
- Food as medicine: integrating wild plants into everyday meals
A Truly Hands-On Experience
This is not a sit-and-listen workshop.
We’ll:
- Walk the land together, identifying and foraging seasonal plants
- Focus in depth on 5 key spring plants
- Meet approximately 30 plants over the course of the day
- Prepare nourishing and cleansing dishes from what we gather
- Share food, knowledge and connection
Menu for the Day
- Vitality green juice
- Nettle soup (my favourite version!)
- Tuscan-inspired wild greens & beans stew
- Foraged seasonal salad
- Energy balls with a wild twist
- Cleansing and supportive herbal teas throughout the day
You’ll leave with:
- Practical knowledge you can apply immediately
- Greater confidence in identifying and using wild plants
- A collection of recipes and detailed handouts
- A nourished body and inspired spirit
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!
Practical Details
🕥 10:30am – 5:30pm (please arrive at 10:15am)
📍 Held outdoors in the Bee-Hive shelter
🌿 Maximum 12 adults (intimate group)
💷 £145 including all food, drink and take-home recipes
Please also keep the fallback date of 11th April available in case the season is running late and the workshop needs to move.
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.