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Herbal (and connected) Happenings, Callouts - Feb into March 2026 Sunday 1st February, 12noon-3pm: Hackney Herbal Imbolc Fire Gathering - welcoming the new life in the seed with warmth, herbal tea and soup in the lush garden at Hackney Wick Organiclea Traineeships 2026 (8-9 roles): 9-month supported learning placements in a range of different aspects of community food-growing, supported by mentors - April-December. Open afternoon 4-6pm Weds 4th Feb, deadline to apply Monday 9th Feb. Sunday 8th February, 2-5pm, Welcome Garden, Walthamstow: Skillshare in propagating from hardwood cuttings - learning together about winter time propagation of shrubs and trees growing in this community-run food forest, for spreading of knowledge through Waltham Forest Food Growers Network and beyond. Thursdays, 7.30-8.30pm, Finchley, In8 Space: Somatic Yoga with Gina Farzad - open to all - not an ordinary yoga class. Exploring the whole body-mind system, offering both deep rest and new movement possibilities. Pulse & Pickle Crowdfunder: this intercultural, radical kitchen community space in Walthamstow needs some support! There’s nothing like it in the area so do contribute if you can 🥙 Mobile Apothecary fellow project in Bethnal Green serving our rough sleeper community in that area with collectively-made herbal medicines, is also in need of financial bolstering, any donations welcome here William Morris Community Threads in Walthamstow are hiring: seeking a Community Project Coordinator (28 hours/4 days a week), closing date 16th February - email info@wmcommunitythreads.org for more details. Education & sales role with Local Honey Man in Walthamstow: sharing the passion of the hive 🐝 A Dash of Lavender at Chelsea Physic Garden, 1st Feb-29th March: exploring queer ecology and plant histories with events and installation as part of LGBTQAI+ history month. Including a Queer Herbal Medicine workshop with our very own herbalist Odhran (Mordica Herbs) on Sunday 22nd Feb, 2-4pm! Sense Ability Space at The Crypt Gallery, Euston, London
26th February-28th March 2026: a beautiful 5-week programme of grounding pause in central London, with sound and scent-scapes of land and plants, events and workshops through days and evenings, ‘shaped to forge deeper awareness and relationship with the living wisdom of the body and the land, a sanctuary to ‘re-root’ into presence.’ Community Apothecary will be offering some of our locally-grown dried herbs & teas for sale through the weeks of the programme, and there is a range of healing plant-related activity as well as plenty of other sensory, creative and ritual goodness. GRIEF IS THE MEDICINE (BPOC CIRCLE) An introduction to grief tending in community… 🤲🏾❤️🌹 📆 Friday 27th February ⏰ 6.30-9.30pm 📍Twelfth House, Walthamstow, E17 4PW Signs of Spring survey 2026: Field Studies Council x Royal Society of Biology are inviting members of the public to record ten signs of spring across the UK, looking out for any of ten indicator species or events and entering them into this survey (open til 14th June) London National Park City are looking for Fruit Harvesting Coordinators - providing you and your local group with support including training, access to funding and materials - find out more here 🍐🍎🍒 if you regularly see laden trees in your area and would like to be part of making sure they are not wasted! Exhibition: Against Nature by Georg Wilson at Savile Row, Mayfair, until 7th March: solo collection of works exploring the folklore and historic uses of uncultivated poisonous plants that grow abundantly around the british isles, their long histories and the gradual erosion of their knowledge through industrialisation. Next month: Saturday 21st March, 10am-1pm, Forest Road, Walthamstow (behind Clarkins and next to the Fire Station): social housing estate communal gardens - rubbish clearing and weed suppressing, some people power needed! Tools, gloves and lots of tea and cake provided for any helpers who can support. Find the crew at the Fire Station from 10am. 🌱 Spring equinox plant connection: A moving meditation with plants📍 London Fields, E8 🗓 Saturday 21 March 2026 🕙 10am–5pm A full-day, movement-led practice of learning with plants rather than about them. Attention. Presence. Relationship. Through slow movement, sensory tuning, and direct encounters, we meet local plants as living beings — unsettling the human-centred gaze and allowing more-than-human intelligence to speak through the body. What we’ll explore: • Movement as dialogue with plants • Sensory listening beyond cognition • Meeting plants individually and collectively • Outdoor wandering and plant-led attention • Embodied expression: movement, gesture, stillness, drawing, words • Seasonal attunement: emergence, balance, fragile beginnings Plants are chosen on the day, according to who is present and calling. All are common, non-toxic, non-psychedelic UK plants. Names may remain hidden until the end — perception first, concepts later. No experience needed. Just honesty and attention. 💷 £65 standard 💷 £55 concessions (2 available) 🔗 Book: movingmeditation.co.uk/plant-connection
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