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Hackney Herbal

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Filling your cup 💕
Last week we had a fun time in the Herb Garden making fire cider with some of our HH friends. We chatted, shared stories, sipped on fire cider brew and enjoyed a delicious apple galette made by @cornflower_e5
We also chatted abou

As we look back to our activities in 2024, another course we are happy to have been able to run this year was a Herb Growing Course for BPOC in Hackney.

Following the same format we adopted last year, the course ran over 6 months, from April to Sept

🍁Gorgeous leaves🍁 It’s that magical time in autumn when the trees are letting go, gracing us with a beautiful display of warming colours. And for a little while it’s like the pavements have been painted in these striking tones.
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🌿Herbs & Community 💕
As part of our commitment to making the wonderful healing powers of plants and nature accessible to people in our community we run a whole range of free activities. Part of this includes working in partnership with charitie

As the growing season comes to an end, we start to look back and evaluate what we did over the spring and summer this year.

One of the community activities we ran was an 8-week ‘Herb Gardening and Craft’ course at @mindcharity Hackney.

Recent encounters with local creatures 🦊 🐿️ 🐦&zwj;⬛ Who is your favourite? It’s often said you are more likely to have witchy tendencies if you have a strong connection and bond with the non-human world whether that’s with plant, fungi

Have you made your fire cider yet? One of our all time favourite winter remedies. This spicy infused vinegar supports the immune system, warms the body and is a powerful anti-inflammatory tonic. You can take it as a preventative remedy but it’s

This autumn we’ve been out and about running quite a few workshops focusing on how we can support biodiversity in the city. We focused on small and simple actions we can take within our local communities to support wildlife. One of our favourit

Guess the herb 🌿
Haven’t done one of these in a while! These are some of the plants we explored in our last workshop. Can you name some of these plants? Bonus points for names in other languages OR if you tell us how you like to use any of the

Upcoming Herbal Workshops //

As we head further into autumn we would love you to join us for one of our upcoming herbal workshops. We’ve got a mixture of classes coming up where you can learn about the healing powers of plants. In these sessio

For yesterday’s Nature Club we gathered in our cosy studio to experiment with making herbal balms, combining different oils that had been infused with the heat of the summer sun.

Over a pot of fresh rosemary and lemon verbena tea we checked i

We had so much fun this summer running lots of lovely herbal activities, working with new partners, tending plants in the gardens and soaking up as much seasonal goodness as we could. Here is little snapshot of some of our summer herbal happenings 🌿

Guerilla Gardening Wildflower Workshop with House of Hackney //

Tuesday 8 October 6:30 - 8:00pm at @houseofhackney Mark Street EC2A 4ER

We are excited to be collaborating with House of Hackney on this autumnal workshop taking place in their gorgeou

As the days start to get cooler, it’s the perfect time to prepare herbal remedies for the autumn and winter months.

You can find recipes for a warming oxymel, fire cider, vinegars and herbal cough syrup in our Autumn / Winter Herbal Journal,

Thank you to everyone who came to our Equinox event last weekend @trowbridge_gardens It was so special to celebrate the approaching seasonal change with you all 🍃

A big thank you to our fantastic workshop facilitators Juliana, Rosie and Aishah Xeni

🌼 CALENDULA 🌼
We’ve been making the most of the warm and sunny days this week by infusing our dried calendula flowers in different oils. We’ve been using olive oil, sweet almond oil and apricot kernel oil. This is a great way to extract

This Sunday we are SOOO excited to be bringing some herbal goodness to @hackney_carnival
You will find us in the Wellbeing Area outside Hackney Service Centre on Hillman Street.
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We will be there between 2-4pm running a free drop-in herbal bath sal

Urban Herbal // Equinox Celebration

Join us at our garden in Hackney Wick this weekend for our last event of the season! We will be celebrating the transition from summer to autumn and acknowledging the importance of this time in the season.

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