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Our Gardens:

You can find our Community Herbal Gardens here:

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• The Secret Herb Garden - Volunteer sessions every Monday at 10-12 with soup from the Soup Dragon Cafe. 

• Email us if you would like to bring your group to the garden.  We are near Drymen.​

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• Community Herbal Gardening - monthly gardening at Glasgow Autonomous Space, Govanhill, Glasgow.

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• Govanhill Community Garden - Community herb bed - a resource for the community

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VISIT US

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We would love to welcome your group to our Secret Herb Garden for a morning of gardening or medicine making or crafting or yoga and walks in the calm and tranquillity of the rural landscape, surrounded by mountains, fields and woodland.  There is a café onsite too.  We are just 40 minutes from Glasgow city centre and Stirling.  Gardening, or just being in nature, is such a therapeutic activity especially if you can get out of the city for a couple of hours of respte and nature connection.  We can run mini-retreats with a mix of activities or single-focused sessions.  All of our staff are PVG checked for working with vulnerable adults and we can make adjustments required to accommodate your group.  Please get in contact.

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‘my favourite part was walking along the nature trail and drinking tea made from fresh herbs’.

‘I liked everything.’

'We had fun and felt happy'

 

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Herbal First Aid Garden Beds Network

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As part of community resilience plans we are keen to help your community create herbal first aid beds.  We can get your bed started and show you how to use the herbs as herbal first aid remedies ready for disaster situations.  Join our Herbal First Aid growing network.

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Herbs and Climate Change Workshop

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Herbal medicine is used by 80% of the worlds population and yet the affects of climate change on medicinal herbs has been largely overlooked in the climate literature.  We have pulled together the main information around the potential climate change issues and how they might affect herbs.  The talk will include a few film snippets of other herbalists speaking around this topic, how herbs can be used in post-disaster situations and how you can get involved.  We will conclude with Solidari-Tea making for nervous system support.

 

 

From Garden to Medicine.  

 

Do you have a space in your garden, work or community to grow medicinal herbs?  Would you like to work with us to create a community herbal garden?  We will provide support to get you growing, harvesting and making your herbs into medicine.  The Garden to Medicine Project will enable your community to be involved in the entire process from start to finish.  The project aims to respond to the increase in demand of herbal remedies by giving people the skills to make their own and to reduce the increased demand on the climate and global herb supplies (some of which are being harvested to extinction) by growing and using local herbs.  The network will be able to share herbs where needed and extra herbs will be used in our other workshops.

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Organisations we are currently working with, or have worked with in the past:

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- Red Cross Youth Project

- Friends of Scottish Settlers

- Freedom from Torture

- Weekday Wow Factor

- Incredible Edible Neilston

- David Livingstone Birthplace Museum

- Women Concern in Democratic Republic of Congo

- Malawi Fruits - Peace Farm in Malawi

 

 

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