Foraging walk X pizzas X teas & tinctures workshop

Join us for bird song, unfurling buds, planning ideas, wildcrafting and light: Spring at Bridge Farm.

Sliding scale tickets available: book your space here

Collective Presences is run by a good friend Elena (some of you may have been to her yoga classes?). It is a community initiative to bring people together over shared rituals and open conversation. I went to one of these workshops over winter where we learned all about Reishi mushroom and it was honestly the rest I didn't know I needed so I'm super excited to be collaborating on this next workshop!

So, here, we offer you a curious & earthy afternoon exploring our symbiotic relationship with native plants; how they might support immunity and conscious transition to the season of new beginnings. And ways we can build skills, knowledge, everyday rituals with them in teas and tinctures.

This is a walk, workshop and pizza party in one. Expect muddy knees, mouthfuls of spongey-oven-fired dough, and an afternoon of beautiful company in the cobbled Bridge Farm, nestled right in the urban edges of the city. Learn how - through myth, play, fact and discussion - we might re-remember plants unique personalities, building a deeper awareness around their places within our wider ecosystem.

We'll take a foraging walk through the grassy verges and hedgerows of Bridge Farm, to teach you the naturally medicinal qualities of plants that live in the nooks of the community gardens and allotments here, and all around us.

I'll share lots of depth about native plants, herbs, trees and flowers, and will support you in finding them with ease. Some safety precautions and ways to ethically harvest from different wild areas are two practical aspects I'll teach, as well as why we are so disconnected from this medicine in the first place.

Lunch is handmade pizzas from Tuscan-born pizzaiolo Andrea, straight from the wood-fired Bridge Farm oven. With the wild edible plants and flowers collected from our walk, we’ll make some colourful salads to share alongside them.

As we settle back into the barn, the afternoon moves into a teas & tinctures making workshop. Skilfully infuse wild plants into different tinctures and teas to take home with you, so as to extract the most potent properties, essential vitamins and minerals, and find out how to dose each remedy for different times of support.