Grounding herbal wisdom for the season of descent

Main details:
📅 Saturday 29th November 2025
📍 Burnwood Forest, Oxfordshire (pine woodland setting)
⏰ 10:00 am – 1:30 pm (half-day workshop)
🎟️ Limited to 12 spaces

About the workshop
As autumn deepens into winter, plants draw their vitality down into their roots, while the trees offer resin for protection and repair. This intimate half-day workshop invites you to slow down, reconnect with the forest, and learn practical, medicinal skills.

You will:

• Explore the gifts of roots such as burdock (Arctium lappa) and elecampane (Inula helenium).

• Learn to respectfully gather and use pine resin (Pinus sylvestris).

• Make and take home a pine resin salve—a protective, warming remedy for minor cuts and winter chests.

• Taste seasonal root decoctions and pine needle tea.

• Reflect together on boundaries, descent, and renewal.

What’s included

• Guided forest walk and plant teachings

• Hands-on medicine-making

• Pine resin salve to take home

• Seasonal teas/decoctions

• Printed worksheet (plant profiles, recipes, reflections)

Price & booking

• Client Loyalty Price: £45 (invite-only, limited)

• General Early Bird: £50 (until 29th October 2025 )

• Standard: £55
  Spaces limited to 12 for a personal, nourishing experience.

Practical details

• Dress warmly, appropriate to the weather conditions at the time; sturdy footwear recommended.

• Please bring something to sit on to insulate you from the ground

• All materials provided.

• Directions/meeting point sent on booking.

About your guide
I’m Sarah, a Master Herbalist and founder of Oxford Herbal. I blend traditional herbal medicine, iridology, and terrain-based practice to help people reconnect with nature and their own capacity to heal.