EVENTS & WORKSHOPS  2012

If you are interested in the workshops and would like to be kept informed of any changes or additions please email us at herbs@herbsforhealing.net

10% discounts if you book with a friend

View PLANT SPIRIT JOURNEYING & celebrations of Imbolc and Candlemas

  
GIFT VOUCHERS for friends to attend workshops are available.
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Sunday March 18th 10.00 - 3.30 p.m.
SOAP MAKING using herbs
An opportunity to learn the basics of soap making so you will feel confident to go away and experiment at home. We will make three different soaps -  1. Glycerine,  2. Calendula and 3.Oatmeal with Honey. Participants can add essential oils from the large range that we have in our workshop They will also learn to make their  own colours from herbs and spices.
Tutor Davina Wynne-Jones
LUNCH NOT PROVIDED - bring your own. £65.00

  

Recommendation:  I am thrilled with my soaps. The quality is really superior to anything I have bought and I am even using them on my face! We all had a lovely day making them enjoying the beautiful gardens and tented area. Susan Brown Oct.2010

 

Sunday April 15th 10.00a.m. - 3.30p.m.
SOAP MAKING using herbs
A second day exactly as above - we only have room for 8 participants each day
£65 LUNCH NOT PROVIDED - bring your own

    

 

Thursday, April 12th 10.00 - 1.00 
CHILDRENS'  EASTER HOLIDAY WORKSHOPA  fun morning for children with Rowan Wynne-Jones, who has twelve years experience working with children in schools and play situations. Some time will be spent in the workshop and some in the garden. The morning will be geared towards 6 - 10 year olds but younger children can attend with an adult.  They should come dressed for outdoors. Further details will be posted nearer the time. 
£18.00 with refreshments.

  

 

May 6th Sunday 10.30 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
NATURAL SKIN CARE - creams and oils
Using natural ingredients from the herb garden and herbal suppliers we will make a face cream, a face oil, body lotion and cleansing grains that we believe match anything you can buy. We will look at the most appropriate ingredients for different skin types. The skin cream that we make seems to be univerally popular. We can supply the ingredients for you to continue making your own products with minimum of effort. One advantage is that you do not have to put preservatives in your own products and you can be entirely sure what you are putting on your skin. It is also an enjoyable pastime. Day lead by Davina Wynne-Jones

£65 BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH
Drinks and light refreshments provided		  

 

" I've been using the cream / lotion / face oil we made I just wanted to say I'm so impressed with them that I've thrown out all the other old bottles & jars I had lurking in my bedroom. I have rosacea as well as dry skin and my face is really clearing up - and it's only Tuesday!! " Hege 2011

 

June 10th Sunday 10.30 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
NATURAL SKIN CARE - creams and oils
AS ABOVE 
£65 Bring your own lunch
Drinks and light refreshments provided.

    "I have been using the face cream that I made at your class and it is really good, I mean really good. " Susi Dilllon 2011

 

June 24th Sunday 10.30 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
FLOWER ARRANGING DAY with Saskia Marjoram
Saskia ran her own floristry business for 10 years including doing flowers at Highgrove. She will show you how to make a hand-tied bouquet, a table arrangement and an arrangement in a vase. She will also show you how to condition flowers and you will leave with your own fabulous creations. Saskia specialises in naturalistic arrangements using local flowers.
Cost £63 including lunch.  

  

 

June 24th Sunday 5.00pm. - 7 p.m.
MIDSUMMER HERB WALK
This is St John's Day so the hypericum perforatum or St John's Wort should be just beginning to flower, ready to make into a good cream for sunburn. Traditionally also it is the day when maidens should sleep under an elder tree to dream of the man they are to marry. Both these plants have been considered to offer protection, the elder from mischievious spirits and the hypericum from holes in the aura.. you can take what you like from herbal lore - there is plenty of it out there. This is an opportunity to bring and share knowledge and identify plants in the meadow, garden and hedgerow.

£10.00 Pre-payment is not for once necessary, but please let us know if you may be coming. either email: herbs@herbsforhealing.net or phone: 07773687493 

  

 

Sunday July 8th 10.30 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
PROPAGATING with Richard Gatenby
An opportunity for the novice or the experienced gardener to gain from Richards down to earth approach and long experience. He will demonstrate the treatment of cuttings and dividing plants, and will discuss suitable compost and the use of cold frames. The day will cover annuals, biennuals and perennials, both hardy and tender plants. Late summer is a good time to take cuttings so participants will be able to put their new skills immediately into practice.

Richard is head gardener at Barnsley House, just a few yards from Herbs for Healing, but with a totally different style and scale to ours. Richard has many years experience as a hands on gardener and has risen to the challenge of giving Barnsley House Gardens a new lease of life making it worthy of its reputation as one of Britain's finest gardens.

Cost £65 including lunch

    "A truly brilliant – informative, fun, beautiful and memorable day. I am so inspired and can't wait to propogate everywhere!! You organized it so well in a relaxed way – a big thank you to Ellie (food)- Richard (teacher) (excellent ) and you (for the lift) See you in the market." Alice, Stroud. 2011

 

Thursday July 12th 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.
THE MAGIC HOUR
How to create beautiful photographs in the Garden.
With Ilene Sterns. 
This will be a practical workshop,  suitable for people at all
skill levels. The emphasis is on creative photography rather than
technical matters, although Ilene will be happy to answer technical questions as they arise..
The golden glow of dawn or dusk makes the best time of day to take
plant and garden photographs. This evening workshop offers a wonderful
opportunity to spend the Magic Hour in the tranquil gardens at Herbs for Healing, which are at their best in mid-Summer. With cameras in hand, we will be looking at the gardens with an artist's eye, exploring what makes a good photograph and learning how to shoot plants and gardens so that they reveal their inner beauty.

Cost £20 to include teas and herbal shortcake.

    

 

Thursday 5th July OPEN EVENING 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m.
In aid of the Cotswold Care Hospice
This will be a tickets only event with drinks and nibbles and a garden tour with discussion of the plants and their uses. 
£10 per person. Numbers limited.
Advance booking by email to herbs@herbsforhealing.net.

    

 

August 25th - 27th
 2012
AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY Weekend. 

This will be the sixth year we have run this popular week-end.
Camping is offered at £5.00 a night. Facilities basic but adequate.
Hire your own yurt for £10 - £20 a night.
Cost for the entire weekend £198.00

  

Thank you for your hospitality during the August Bank Holiday weekend, your workshops & garden are amazing. The children haven’t stopped telling everyone what a wonderful experience they had, (camping).   Michele Malcolm  2011 bank holidays

 

Day 1
August 25th (Saturday) 10.30a.m. - 4.00p.m
Herbal Oils Creams
A practical workshop making infused herbal oils for massage and face, also ointments, balms and creams. Lead by Davina Wynne-Jones .
Cost £75.00
Includes taking samples home that you will have made and a light lunch.


  

 

 

Day 2
August 26th (Sunday) 10.30a.m. - 4.00p.m.
Making tinctures and syrups
Learn to make your own herbal tinctures and syrups.  Bring a bottle of vodka ( with the highest percentage alcohol that you can find) and some jars with airtight lids.  Preserving the properties of a herb in a tincture is a way of storing the medicinal qualities of the plant in a way that is especially easy for the body to absorb.  We will also explore other ways of preserving herbs to take them internally as with syrups, cordial and glycerites as an alternative to alcohol.
COST £69.00 with lunch and refreshments 

  

 

Day 3
August 27th (Mon) 10.30 - 4.00 p.m.

Flower Essences

A short day exploring flower essences with Saskia Marjoram and Christine Felce of Saskia's Flower Essences.This introductory day will include practising your dowsing skills to help in choosing essences for yourself and others, exploring the properties of flower medicine and, if the weather is up to it possibly making your own essence, or, if not, making a combination essence from Saskia's Flower Essence range. Saskia and Christine developed their range of essences together inspired by the incredible beauty and wisdom of the flowers around us. They believe strongly that flowers growing where you live are the ones most useful for your healing. You will leave with a selection of essences for your own use.
COST £69 including lunch

For further information about Saskia's Flower Essences have a look at their website. www.saskiasfloweressences.com
Cost for the entire weekend £198.00

    
Gosh! Left the herb garden feeling so calm and wonderful on Monday night and wanted to stay Thank you.
It was total respite from the city which is exactly what I needed, but you chaps have created such a cosseting idyll at Barnsley both from the beauty and spirituality of the garden itself and from your collective warmth as people. It was such fun and such a giggle… and I learnt hugely (I know for sure others felt the same).
Tamsin C Bank hols 2011

 

September 30th Sunday 4.00 - 6.00 p.m

Harvest Herb Walk
This is a good time for harvest, so a walk round the edges of the Herbs for Healing field will provide plenty of food for thought. We will also venture up the 'Hairy Hedge', the old overgrown road to London. Visitors with their own specialist knowledge of hedgerow harvesting are also welcome to make this an information sharing walk.
£10.00		    

 

October 6th Saturday  10.30 - 4.00
Home Remedies Day One
Using the plants in our garden, field and hedgerow we will look at ways we can treat common ailment without having to visit the chemist. We will cover minor first aid solutions for cuts, bruises, bites and stings, burns and sunburn. Also other common ailments like indigestion, insomnia, stress, rashes, skin problems, aches and pains and headaches. We will make up some remedies to store in our medicine cupboards.

£69 for the day including lunch, or £130 the whole week-end.

  

 

October 7th Sunday 10.30 - 3.30

Home Remedies  Day two

Taking a different approach today - looking in depth at individual herbs, many of which are easily sourced from the wild or grown in the garden. We will choose whichever plants seem appropriate for the group...for instance, dandelion, nettle, chamomile or elder, are all complex and powerful healers with along lasting results if treated respectfully. We will start taking an intuitive approach, looking closely at the plants and how they grow, trying some teas, getting to know them as personalities. We will ask Saskia to contribute her understanding of the plant essence.  Later we can take a more academic approah and see what their reputations and history can tel us and what are their chemical constituents.
£69 for the day, including lunch
£130 for entire weekend
Camping available at £5  a night.
Yurts to hire at £10 and £20

 

  

 

November 4th (Sunday) 10.00 - 3.30 p.m. 

CHRISTMAS WORKSHOP (1)
with Davina Wynne-Jones.
This is a good value day as you go home with gifts as well as having learnt new skills....Holly wreaths, herbal garlands, face cream, bath oils, potpourri and other smelly items, sleep pillows, dream pillows. You can also experiment with soap adding your own herbs and essential oils to a previously prepared base. Additional gifts available at extra cost. Lunch provided. Numbers limited.
£65.00 Book early

Please bring your own lunch		  

 

November 11th (Sunday) 10.00 - 3.30 p.m. 

CHRISTMAS WORKSHOP (2)
with Davina Wynne-Jones.

as above and please bring your own lunch.

   "Thank you to you both for such a fantasitic day. It was a lovely time in your social place and I adore my smellies."  Shona McF.  Christmas workshop 2010

 

You are welcome to organise your own group or come for INDIVIDUAL CONSULTATION or help in making your own products. or if you are unable to attend any of the workshops but would still like to learn.

Email Davina at herbs@herbsforhealing.net. or if you do not do email phone 01285 851457, but this is not the best way to contact her as she is often working in the garden. mobile 07773687493		    

 

We seem to have been lucky with the weather so far, even in the autumn workshops,  and so are hoping our luck stays in!