The Wild Weeds of Spring: A Foraging Afternoon at Wildwood

Spring is a season of reawakening – when Wildwood begins to hum with life and the first tender green medicines emerge from the soil.

This hands-on, guided forage begins outdoors, moving slowly through Wildwood's ancient woodland to learn how to confidently identify the wild weeds of Spring, understand their medicinal and nutritional uses, and harvest them respectfully and sustainably.

We'll be wild harvesting nettle, cleavers, plantain, chickweed, dandelion and many other seasonal gifts from Nature.

Then we’ll congregate back in the apothecary kitchen to turn our freshly foraged plants into medicine. Sitting together around the table, we’ll work with our hands - chopping, infusing, stirring - learning simple, traditional methods for making remedies you can easily recreate at home. This is a deeply nourishing part of the day: unhurried, communal and rooted in the ancient practice of making medicine together.

Along the way, you’ll learn:

• How to safely identify key spring plants
• When and how to harvest with care for the plant and the land
• Traditional ways to prepare herbs as medicine
• Simple apothecary skills you can use in your own kitchen

You’ll leave with three remedies you’ve made yourself, along with a deeper confidence, a sense of connection, and the quiet joy that comes from shared experience around a table.

This course is suitable for beginners - no prior knowledge needed. Just a willingness to be curious, to learn, and to work with your hands.