Exciting new arrival to the Grass Roots Remedies shop – this beautiful new educational poster by @nutblossom Herbs of Scotland – 11 species and their traditional uses in Caledonia 🌱💚🌱 On sale now for £8.50 +p&p – all proceeds go to supporting our community herbal clinic in Wester Hailes. A great stocking filler for your …
Category: Community Herbalism
Our Wester Hailes Community Herbal Clinic Turns 5 Years Old!
On Wednesday 23rd September our Wester Hailes Community Herbal Clinic will turn 5 years old. It’s been a wonderful journey & we couldn’t have done it without the support of so many – from our funders past & present allowing us to continue offering high quality herbal consultations by donation, to everyone who has bought a ‘Pay It …
Herbal Community Healthcare – Free Herbal Remedy Distribution During COVID-19
Grass Roots Remedies is an Edinburgh based workers’ cooperative whose central philosophy is that herbal medicine is the medicine of the people and therefore should be accessible to everyone. As well as running courses, community workshops and providing free resources in home herbalism we run two community clinics. The Wester Hailes Community Herbal Medicine Clinic …
Our Popular Wild Things Course is Now Available Online – Bookings Open Until May 14th!
As we pass the Spring Equinox and the plants are starting to show signs of life again, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to stay apart from each other and be mostly at home. We’ve taken the opportunity to turn our popular 8 month wild food & medicine course & make it available online …
New Growers’ Guides!
We are very pleased to have been working with local Edinburgh artist Mary Hutchison of Tangerine Blue to create some new Growers Guides – simple instructions to aid you in cultivating your own medicinal herbs. We are passionate about the sustainability of herbal medicine, and so growing your own own or buying from cultivated sources …
CommuniTea – our first harvests together
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 …
Project Report: The Wester Hailes Community Herbal Clinic – Integrated Herbal Healthcare in An Area of Poverty
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 …
Closing the Circle: Local Medicine for Local People
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 …
Happy 2nd Birthday to the Wester Hailes Community Herbal Clinic!
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 …
Callout for Workshop Proposals for the Scottish Radical Herbal Gathering 2018
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 …