Monthly Herbal Home-Ed Programme

Wild Medicine & Foraging with Alice Betony

Location address: Wowo Campsite, Uckfield
Chosen age group:

Ages: 6 - 13 years

Available tickets:
1st Child £352nd Child or Sibling £20
Next date: None - Register your interest
What we'll do
The Herbal Home Ed sessions are designed for children ages 6-13yrs and they run once a month between March and October. It is the same group for the whole year, working through the seasons and learning about how to safely forage wild as well as organically cultivated herbs for food and medicine. A parent is welcome to stay and learn alongside their child or it can be a drop and go option. This is one of Alice's most popular classes which she has been running since 2016. For 2023 the sessions run on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and 3 x Groups on Fridays. The cost is £35 per child/£20 per sibling, per day. 50% of the annual is required to secure your place. The dates for the groups are as follows - Tuesday 1st Group - 12th March, 23rd April, 14th May, 11th June, 2nd July, 3rd September, 1st October Wednesday 1st Group - 20th March, 17th April, 8th May, 26th June, 24th July, 18th September, 16th October Thursday 1st Group - 28th March, 25th April, 23rd May, 13th June, 18th July, 12th September, 10th October Friday 1st Group - 8th March, 5th April, 10th May, 7th June, 5th July, 6th September, 4th October Friday 2nd Group - 15th March, 19th April, 24th May, 21st June, 19th July, 13th September, 18th October Friday 3rd Group - 22nd March, 12th April, 31st May, 28th June, 26th July, 27th September, 11th October Please visit https://www.sacredseeds.org.uk/new-page to register your interest or alternatively email alice@sacredseeds.org.uk for more information.
About your mentor
Alice
Herbalist & Forager
I’m a Sussex lass, born and bred, and I’m happy to be based here again, living close to my family home, the bustling Wowo Campsite – a very special place for me. I love to grow herbs and go wildcrafting and foraging in different terrains to top up my dispensary with fresh, local and organic herbs. I am involved in the set up and management of two herbal gardens; The main garden is at Wapsbourne manor farm, Wowo campsite, Nr Uckfield and the other, an established herbal allotment in the quaint village of Firle, was recently given to my herbal sister friends and I. I will be growing an impressive array of medicinal herbs in both gardens, running workshops and holding community days in celebration of particular plants. If I’m unable to grow the herbs needed to make a particular herbal preparation or tincture I will buy them from reputed organic suppliers of the highest quality. I studied two diplomas at The College of Naturopathic Medicine in London – one three year full time course in Herbal Medicine and one two year course in Naturopathic Studies. I undertook 500 hours of supervised clinical training in herbal medicine and am able to assess patients medically as well as holistically. It’s vital to have medical as well as traditional knowledge. As primary health care professionals we need to be able to spot any danger signs of serious undiagnosed conditions and refer clients when necessary. I grew up on a working strawberry farm. My father is a farmer and his father before him. I have always loved the outdoors but I’m all too aware that it is easy to love the outdoors and yet still be quite disconnected from the natural world. It was only as an adult – when I started exploring how to use nature’s abundant harvest for food, medicine and crafting – that I fell fully in love with the more-than-human world of nature around me. I was inspired to become a herbalist because of a desire to do something I love and be in service to my family and community and as a way of helping us all to be self-sufficient in every aspect of our lives. Having experienced time and again the healing power of plant medicine I feel such a deep gratitude to Mother Nature and our plant allies. I look forward to sharing some of this gratitude with you!
Pricing information
Ticket name1st Child
Price£35
Ticket name2nd Child or Sibling
Price£20
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Where we'll be
Wowo Campsite, Wapsbourne Manor Farm, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 3QT
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Cancellation Policy
Refund Policy: 30 days notice or longer - 90% refunded 15 - 29 days notice - 50% refunded 14 days or less notice - No refund Photographs or films may be taken during the workshops for publicity purposes, if you do not wish yourself or your child/children to be photographed or filmed please let the workshop provider know before the workshop begins. The workshop provider takes full responsibility if an incident occurs during the workshop. The workshop provider reserves the right to not accept a participant if they appear to be intoxicated with no refund. Please do not send any knives with the children to the workshops. Dogs can not attend workshops.

My experience consists of a leisure activity, on a specific date(s), and therefore the 14-day ‘cooling off period’ under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 does not apply.

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