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Herbal medicine clinic & education. Physiological, emotional and mental health and wellness. Rewilding & connecting with nature. Organic wild products.

14/10/2026

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11/10/2026

• Autumn •

Today it really felt that autumn is upon us. We went foraging for Fly Agaric and found many many apples, chestnuts, different fungi and some of our beautiful red fungi kin.

As we wandered about with our baskets we bumped into various people out foraging some local kids who knew the botanical name for Fly Agaric and wished to find some, some adults who were foraging for chestnuts, a family who had found some edible mushrooms the week before and lots and lots of students from Hong Kong and the local area who were doing their DofE expedition. As we wandered, it felt like people weren’t looking at us in that weird way they do when they see someone with a basket but rather they were curious about what we had found and how we might use these plant kin and fungi kin.

With these Fly Agaric, we are going to cut them up and dry them and bring them into ceremony with students.

We will also find more mushrooms to make a tincture to use externally for sciatica but these ones are for ceremony.

Times are really hard in terms of the collective conscious with so much suffering, needless suffering, and spending awhile with our kin from the wild lands can help us to connect in with deeper meaning and truth and this is what these mushrooms will be for.

We also found Penny buns, different boletes including a king bolete, different Agaricus species, puff ball babies, funnel caps and some we didn’t know.

This is an amazing time to get out and find mushrooms even if you don’t know what the mushrooms are, you can just observe them, notice them. How do they look? Where do they grow?

It is really easy to mix up mushrooms so we don’t recommend picking any to eat or make medicines with unless you are trained or with someone who is - and even then there is a risk which could be fatal so absolute care is needed.

Thank you land for today - these beauties are so magical.

(I do still have a few postcards of fly agaric I drew,if anyone wants one - they are £5 for a pack of 2).

Enjoy autumn.

Carla Lucia Atkins Five Valley Seed Savers thanks for the mushroom soup!

29/09/2026

• Retreats •

2027 retreats are here! More info to follow soon but we’ve taken our beautiful plant kin deep dives in North Cornwall and opened them up to a different kind of depth.

These retreats will all be centred around our connection with self, plant kin and land.

They are all different in their energy, intention and connection but all nestled in the beautiful Halamiling farm and held with the same wonder and care.

If you have been wanting to work with these kin, the details will be on the website within the week.

I’m so looking forward to them! And of course our Mugwort Deep Dive coming up after Samhain this year.

28/09/2026

• Flower Remedies •

I love these remedies. They are easy to make and can allow some beautiful time spent with kin learning their energetic and emotional ways of being and how they affect self.

This video is a little choppy but when you make your own the water needs ~3 hours in the sun (or moon) and if you have time, you can make remedies from kin you have spent time with.

You just need a few drops of the remedy when needed and you can have a simple (one plant) or a blend (with more than one plant as I’ve made here).

Make sure you know the plants you collect from as even with such a short time in a cold infusion you are making a remedy that has physiological effects too.

Share your makes with me!

24/09/2026

• Calendar •

Tis here! I love these cyanotypes - they were fun to do, used the sun as artist and were magical!

Each page has some info about the plant in the cyanotype and energetics and magical uses.

It’s also printed on lovely thick card - both writable and sturdy for longevity. Thanks to my local printers for that!

£20 - going in shop this week. Dm me is you’d like one if I haven’t managed to upload when you check!

Btw I have lots in my website shop - some people didn’t know this when I spoke with them last wknd so a reminder 🩷

21/09/2026

• Earth Medicine •

Lovely to start this year’s cohort of Earth Medicine, our year long foundation in herbalism.

We began with the Earth element weekend and worked with hawthorn, rose, elder and baobab.

We looked at wild crafting and cultivating herbal medicine, community medicine gardens and community herbalism, food as medicine, connecting with land and painting with botanical inks.

We used our senses to see, hear, smell, taste and feel our herbal kin and and deepen our relationship with hawthorn through their berries and seasonal kin.

We made hawthorn prayer arrows and felt into our own needs in terms of connection with land and self through threshold crossings and mindful time.

We made medicines as food such as syrups, oxymels, vinegars and teas.

It was a beautiful weekend and an honour to meet all the students and so may it continue through water, ether, air and fire and into deeper community.

Thanks to Carla Lucia Atkins Hippopot Clare Bear for being awesome.

17/09/2026

• Earth Weekend •

Putting together the welcomed packs for this weekend’s first wknd in our year long herbal medicine training. Really looking forward to it!

Have shared some snaps of the last cohort and hope we’ll have a beautiful deep journey with each other and plant kin.

We have a few students from the last few years coming at points in the year to support and the wonderful team of Hippopot Carla Lucia Atkins and Clare Bear sharing their experiences and expertise.

Our threshold will be Earth this weekend and we will feel into all that Earth offers and holds.

Will post more pics after the weekend!

08/09/2026

• Mugwort •

Going to seed now 😍

Well done - mugwort is soon to be on its way too you!

We are hitech here Wild Apothecary - for all the entries we made little written notes and cut them up then pondered whether we should make them into stars, curls or leaves… ease won and you were all muddled up in a bit of a label scrum. So to speak.

If anyone else would like a bundle be in touch! But you’ll have to invest your hard earned pennies ✨☺️😊

Thanks for all who engaged and shared! 🩷❤️

04/09/2026

• Earth Medicine •

Sorry about the building noises! Ongoing work along the lane…

So Earth Medicine Foundation in Herbalism starts this month! Books close at the end of next week so this is the last opportunity to enrol.

It’s gonna be super fun, centred around connection with plants, each other, self and landscape and we’re gonna build our little community so that herbal teachings ripple through each of our communities.

Lots of experiential work, outdoor work and inner work. We have a beautiful year long schedule with all kinds of gorgeous offerings.

Can’t wait to start with the new cohort - there’ll be soups and cakes and rose chocolates no doubt to guide us in 😍

Be in touch if you’d like to join - all deets on website.

03/09/2026

• Yarrow •

Yarrow tea is a must for any herbal first aid. Also essential oil is amazing! (We’ll have to talk about that soon!).

This is the kin I adore and often use for protection and empowerment. Yay!

Gorgeous too and makes amazing tea as aerial parts or just flower heads.

How do you work with this gorgeous kin? 😍

And remember the chai for Nepal & Tibet! £15 a bag and I’ve 3 bags left at present. All proceeds to the charities. And thanks to those of you who simply donated!

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