🌸🌿 Summer Foraging & Historical Remedies Walk
Come walk the fields with me…and rediscover the quiet knowledge of wild plants, ancestral remedies, and sunlit stillrooms.
This immersive foraging experience takes place at Thorncroft Farm on the edge of Leatherhead, overlooking the hills of Box Hill and Norbury Park. Together, we’ll explore the plants that thrive in summer — yarrow, elderflower, marjoram, and more — and trace their use in healing, cooking, and tradition from the Middle Ages to WWII.
🌿 What We’ll Explore:
- 🌸 Plant Identification: Learn to spot plant allies like elderflower, yarrow, wild marjoram, and red clover
- 📜 Historical Uses: Hear stories and remedies from medieval stillrooms, WW2 herb gardens, and old country kitchens
- 🌱 Foraging Etiquette & Wisdom: Harvest in harmony with the land and learn to read the rhythm of seasonal cycles
- 🧪 Hands-On Crafting: Make your own refreshing herbal oxymel and take home a ready-made herbal salve
🌿 What’s Included:
- Herbal tea or possets
- Light seasonal snacks. Usually cakes
- A jar of handcrafted herbal oxymel (made with what we gather)
- A small herbal salve to take home
- All materials and gentle guidance throughout
🌿 What to Bring:
- Notepad & pen
- Suitable outdoor footwear
- Gloves (for nettles)
- Small jar or bottle for your oxymel
- Water bottle
- Scissors (if you have them)
- A bag or basket for foraged plants
📍 Location: Thorncroft Farm, Leatherhead.Exact directions will be sent by email. On-site parking available.
🌞 Whether you’re brand new to foraging or have wandered hedgerows before, this walk offers a space to reconnect with the wild, the medicinal, and the beautiful.
