About the event:

This weekend at Braziers we will explore the natural histories, sacred connections and medicinal powers of wild and garden plants that are growing on this land. Touching into the herbal lore of ancient times here, we will go on a journey from garden to meadow to wood to experience the support of the wild world as the ancestors did. We will sit with an assortment of plants that were revered by people 1000 years ago, meet their spirits, learn their stories through time and make their medicine.

About the facilitator:

Rasheeqa Ahmad (Hedge Herbs) is a medical herbalist in her community in Walthamstow in north London. She has been practicing since 2012, offering treatment with herbal medicine and teaching about its many aspects, alongside a wider mix of work whose aim is reconnecting us as communities with the potential of this knowledge and craft as a way to support healthier living systems and relationships. She is inspired by her early involvement with the Radical Herbalism Gathering in exploring how to make plant medicine accessible and restore balance to its practice in the contexts of systemic inequalities and oppressions that are part of our shared histories.

She is part of Community Apothecary Waltham Forest in her locality, a social enterprise that brings community members together around a patchwork of medicinal herb gardens where they can learn about growing and making medicines together, exchanging knowledge and peer support and seeding the model in other neighbourhoods so that we create landscapes of healing everywhere.

www.hedgeherbs.org.uk