Tree Medicine Across the Seasons (Cardross Estate, Stirlingshire)
Participants can expect to be led on an immersive, arboreal journey to explore a handful of native trees and their uses across the seasons - to ensure this, numbers will be limited to 6 places only.
Lauren has developed a rage of activities and pauses, a balance of observations, conversations, group and solo work, as well as hands-on harvests and making; something for everyone to enjoy. Loos on site, including the Herbal Homestead workroom and kitchen facilities which will be available for appropriate remedy making activities.
The best way to really get to know any tree is to observe and work with it as it changes throughout the year, and by making room for deeper insights, you will simply start to see the forest in a new way. As we slow down to connect with seasonal rhythms and abundances, we too can learn to find a better rhythm within ourselves, appreciating what may have been overlooked before.
Depending on the time of year and tree focus, participants will learn about and prepare different remedies, crafts, and food stuffs from sap, leaves, catkins, roots, twigs, flowers, berries, bark, cones and associated fungi.
Our Summer Course Focus is with the magical rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia).
This course can be attended as a one-off or as an internship over the seasons (booking on to the Spring, Autumn, & Winter courses too). Throughout the year we will take different routes around the estate and more information will be sent out before each course.
What To Expect From These Courses:
- Native tree identification and habitat cues
- Exploring traditional and modern uses of Birch, Rowan, Hawthorn & Scot's Pine
- Trying pre-prepared foraged nibbles, teas and remedies
- Harvesting and working with different tree parts to prepare drinks, herbal remedies, tinder, ointments and other useful & decorative items depending on seasonal abundance
- Some activities exploring observational drawings
- Some group work exploring intrinsic value and ecological function
- Engaging with ancient tree wisdom
- Follow up recipes and information
Fees & Participants:
£54 per head/ course (plus booking fee)
18 years+
6 participants maximum
Dates & Activity Focus:
Tree Medicine Across the Seasons - Summer with Rowan - Saturday 10th June 2023 (10am - 3pm) @Cardross Estate, Stirlingshire FK8 3JY.
Meeting & working with - Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) - Flower buds, bark, berries, & twigs.
This ticket is for the Summer Course @Cardross Estate only.
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