Unruly Herbalism

Unruly Herbalism will be delivered through in-person and online sessions. These can be taken as a blended course or individually.

The delivery of this course utilises radical approaches to community learning.

You can expect to explore:

• 8 plants in depth.
• Deepen knowledge on Queer Theory, Feminism, Systems Thinking.
• Botanical Folklore specific to the British Isles & Scotland.
• Practical skills; foraging (plants, pigment & natural fibres) medicine making.
• ‘Tactics of Togetherness’ - Mutual Aid, Cooperativism, Restorative Justice & Community as Activism.
• Deepen knowledge of Medicinal Herbalism & application & uses of plants.
• Wild Food Recipes.
• Your own creative practice.

In many ways Unruly Herbalism is a carnival of ideas - an approach to herbalism that centres both a rigorous experiential study of plants & their constituents alongside an accessible & approachable criticality of the structures & scripts our human lives are enmeshed with.
It aims to foster a foundational practical knowledge of medicine making, native medicinal herbs & foraging alongside a nurturance of ideas within critical cultural theory & possibilities to continue this work in your communities amongst others.
Fundamentally, Unruly Herbalism aims to invite participants into a process of shedding; the shedding of a pattern of perception that harms rather than helps. This offering is an invitation to reclaim relationship, to replenish the ways in which we relate, both to one another & other kin.