Do you like your medicine wild?

Then join us for a Wild Medicine Workshop with herbalist Jessie Martelhof on Sunday 22nd August at Saddlescombe Farm.

Jessie will be leading us on a gentle ramble around the hedgerows to learn about the medicinal properties of some of our native late summer plants such as Elderberries, Hawthorn berries and Nettle seeds. You will learn how you can safely identify and harvest these plants sustainably and you will get to make your own herbal remedy to take home.

Jessie is a qualified Medical Herbalist with a passion for native wild plant medicines that are available to everyone for free! She has a degree in Herbal medicine, she co-runs the Brighton Apothecary and offers health consultations in Fiveways. Website: www.gentle-medicine.co.uk

Booking is essential. Tickets cost £35 full price and £25 concessions and are available by clicking here

All profits go to supporting our charitable work.

Celebrate Solstice with Grow

We’re so delighted to announce that as things slowly come back to life, we’ll be restarting our popular monthly Natural Wellbeing days from June. And to kick things off in celebratory style we’ll be gathering together at Saddlescombe Farm for Summer Solstice - the time of year when we count our blessings, celebrate our achievements and each other - seems very apt for this year!

If you’d like to know more or to book then click here Natural Wellbeing — Growing wellbeing and see details of this and other events planned for this year.

Can’t wait to see you back out on the hills

Walkout of Lockdown!

With the imposition of a new National Lockdown on 5th November we’ve been considering how best to respond.

Whilst most of our services are still suspended or restricted, we all know how important it is to keep connected with nature and what a balm it can be to help us through these difficult times. Under the current government guidelines, charities and groups providing support can still continue in person and so we intend to carry on supporting people to get outside over the coming month with our Reconnect sessions. For more info visit our Reconnect sessions on our What We Offer page.

And if you can’t make our groups then we’re really delighted to welcome Doran, our guest blogger who is going to take over our social media pages for the next month to bring some nature connection to you. Doran has been one of our valued volunteers with Grow since last March and has developed his own practices and ways of connecting with nature. Each week he is going to share details and inspiration for a new practice you can try via the blog on our website, through Facebook, and on Instagram. We’d love you to practice along with us and to share any photos or pieces of creativity that they lead you to. Gently and with the guidance of nature we’ll get through this together

New events added to our Natural Wellbeing Programme!

If you’re looking for lovely ways to connect with nature then our ever-expanding programme of Natural Wellbeing events could be just the thing. Half or full day sessions at weekends in beautiful natural locations offering a range of different ways to connect with nature, the landscape and others - what could be better? Why not take a look at what we’ve got planned over the next couple of months here

Better still if you subscribe to our newsletter here you’ll always be kept up to date as new dates are added

And as an added incentive - if you book on to 2 or more sessions at the same time, we’ll give you a discount of £5 on each ticket. Just add the discount code GROWMORE to the booking

All profits from these days go to support our charitable work and help to make us more sustainable