Apothecary volunteer sessions: making medicines together for the local community and learning as we do it - please email us for info about how to join!

Session details for this month below:

Wednesday 1st April: The wild greens of spring: making medicinal pesto with fresh foraged seasonal herbs + starting off insect spray for summer

Wednesday 15th April: Making remedy for piles & varicose veins

Fortnightly Wednesdays at the Hornbeam Centre in Walthamstow, north London (1st + 3rd of each month): making seasonal remedies with our herb harvests from the gardens, learning & knowledge-sharing across cultures, exchanging health and wellbeing stories, journeys, support and care, eating nourishing food together.

Join the morning session 11am-1pm - usually a mix of herb processing & medicine making, with practical learning, with our herbalists Rasheeqa, Odhran & Jayne, healthcare sharing circles, hanging out & chatting, reading and learning.

We share lunch together 1-2pm - we provide food like bread, hummus, home-cooked seasonal offerings (soup, stew, curry, salad), fruits - you are welcome to bring something to add to the table.

Apothecary shop open 2-4pm - a wide range of communally-grown, collectively-made remedies including dried herbs (dozens of different ones from gardens & local lands), topical balms/creams, infused oils, herbal vinegars, tinctures, syrups.