Event type: Workshop

Events

Medicinal Plant Summer School

Monday 21 June – Thursday 24 June

£400 includes all materials and lunch each day

This practical four-day course explores the history of medicinal plants and botanical gardens from a European context, from the 1st Century AD to the present.

Chelsea Physic Garden

Living Medicine: Self-Care Basics

Sunday, 30 May 2021, 10am–4.30pm

This one-day workshop is the first of a five-part course to give you a grounding in self care using foods and herbs. It will cover the basics of herbal therapeutics, identifying mint and other plant families, basic food self care, remedy making, herb chewing, herbal tea, breakfast smoothie and herb crush.

Chelsea Physic Garden

Mother’s Day Wreath Making with Stems Wilder

Tuesday 9 March, 6pm–7pm

Join Stems Wilder for an online workshop and learn how to make a signature, dried flower mini wreath to send to your Mother, or keep for yourself this spring. For this workshop Stems Wilder will send you a wreath-making ket in advance, so make sure you book early.

Living Medicine: Digestive Discomforts

Sunday 09 May, 10am-4.30pm

Join this fascinating course to better understand how digestion works, from common digestive problems to plant actions, how to identify parsley (and/or cabbage) plant family, food & herb know-how kit, and remedy making: grain/pulse dish, digestive decoction, mucilage powder mix and pesto.

Chelsea Physic Garden

Living Medicine: Sleep, Anxiety & Fatigue

Sunday 11 July, 10am-4.30pm

This one-day workshop will cover how our nerves and hormones function, understanding insomnia, anxiety, fatigue and headaches, plant actions, identifying the bean family food & herb know-how kit, remedy making: hot valerian chocolate, essential oils bath & pillow, tincture.

Chelsea Physic Garden

Living Medicine: Skin & First Aid

Sunday 12 September, 10am-4.30pm

This one-day workshop will cover food and herb know-how for first aid and skin problems, identifying the daisy family, and remedy-making: infused oil, ointment, cream, lotion.

Chelsea Physic Garden

Living Medicine: Coughs, Colds & Allergies

Sunday 7th November, 10am-4.30pm

This one-day workshop will cover how our immune system functions, understanding coughs, colds, allergies, identifying rose family, plant actions, remedy-making: inhalation, vapour rub, throat decoction spray & gargle.

Chelsea Physic Garden

Living Medicine to boost our immune responses to viruses, coughs and colds

Monday 8 February 2021 5:30pm - 6:45pm

£15 per device (limited spaces available)

Join Living Medicine course leader, Alex Laird, for a special digital talk and demonstration in her kitchen. In this hour's digital workshop, she will share with us some tips to help boost our immune system.

Chelsea Physic Garden and Botanical Art with Mary Ellen Taylor

Monday 2 February 2021 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Digital Talk and Demonstration Ticket: £15 per device. Recording only: £5

Herald Spring with Chelsea Physic Garden's Florilegium Society Chair, Mary Ellen Taylor. Join us digitally with Mary Ellen who will share a brief history of botanic art at Chelsea Physic Garden and guide us through a botanic watercolour demonstration.