Midsummer is fast approaching and the long days have brought us some beautiful weather to harvest herbs for our first few CommuniTea sessions in Wester Hailes, South-West Edinburgh. We have been running our Community Herbal Clinic there for a while now, alongside growing, foraging and making medicines with folk in the local area. This year we …
Since July 2015, Grass Roots Remedies Herbal Medicine Co-operative have been working on and consolidating an integrated herbal healthcare model in Wester Hailes, South West Edinburgh. We want to share the model now as an inspiring example of forward thinking, collaborative responses to health inequality by the NHS and local agencies; to encourage discussion about …
At Grass Roots Remedies Co-op, we align our ethics and ways of working with the three Permaculture Ethics of Earth Care, People Care & Fair Shares. In keeping with our ambitions to empower through providing accessible herbal medicine in Edinburgh we are working towards building short supply chains for our herbs & medicine. We have …
September was a special month for our community herbal clinic as it officially turned 2 years old. We can’t believe how quickly it’s gone! Since opening in 2015 our clinic has been going from strength to strength, and at the two year mark we’ve now seen nearly 200 patients for 650 appointments, and treated a …
We are delighted to be part of the organising crew for the next Scottish Radical Herbalism Gathering taking place in May 2018. The crew is looking for workshop proposals for the event – so please spread the word! Exciting News – *Call out for Workshop Proposals* We’re looking for people to facilitate workshops at the …
We are very happy to be helping to organise this event this weekend as part of the Scottish Radical Herbal Network. We’ll be taking part in the workshop about Health Inequalities in Wester Hailes, as well as running a herb walk in the garden of North Edinburgh Arts Centre – both on the Saturday. Check …
After so much joy created by the first year of this course in 2016, we are excited to be offering it again next year. For more information, check out our Wild Things page
The last Sunday of every month a small group of us gather at our shared medicine garden in Blackford Glen. After plenty of hard work its now starting to look really beautiful. Yesterday we planted more herbs including Wood Betony, Sweet Violets, Agastache and the delicious Balm of Gilead. More photos to follow next month …
Gate 55 is a community centre in South West Edinburgh. Today I had great fun sharing recipes for making herbal creams and body butters with the Young Mum’s Group. We made a whole range of products from body lotion to nappy rash, with lovely soothing calendula, nourishing wheatgerm oil, healing comfrey oil & St John’s …
In the communities in which I work, drug use and addiction is a widespread problem. I have been interested for a long time in what role herbal medicine can play in supporting people who are withdrawing from drug use, and to that end I went and spent a week in Dublin at Sankalpa, a wonderful …
