Workshop: Harvesting Health: Herbal Remedies for Common Ailments
Herbal medicine has a long history of providing comfort for everyday ailments and promote overall wellbeing. In this exciting workshop, you’ll discover how to identify, harvest, and utilise both wild and garden herbs along with common kitchen spices to craft simple yet powerful remedies for common health issues. From soothing coughs and colds to easing digestion, calming stress, or supporting sleep, we’ll explore a wide range of herbs you may already have in your kitchen or growing around you.
Together, we’ll craft practical remedies like tinctures, cough syrup, calming teas, lozenges and balms. No experience needed — we warmly welcome everyone.
Whether you’re brand-new to herbalism or keen to expand your skills, you’ll leave with practical know-how, shared wisdom, and remedies you can use straight away to support yourself and your loved ones naturally.
Meet Claudia
Claudia (she/her) is a Medical Herbalist, plant educator, maker of botanical remedies and founder of The Floating Apothecary, a herbal medicine practice based on the narrowboat she calls home. With a BSc (Hons) in Clinical Herbalism, she blends clinical practice, teaching and remedy-making to support health and wellbeing through the power of plants and nutrition. Claudia is particularly interested in the ways climate change is affecting medicinal plants, and in how herbal medicine can foster resilience for both individuals and communities. She is passionate to making herbal knowledge accessible and her work connects plant medicine with wider conversations around ecology and social justice. @thefloatingapothecary
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per academic year (Sept 25- Jul 26). To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK26’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, this deposit will be refunded to you after you attend the workshop.
Please note that you will be required to fill in a Southwark Council form, including some personal information, in order to confirm your place on a workshop. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed in full.