Upcoming In-Person
Events and Workshops
Mapping the roots
With Amanda Edmiston
Sunday 11 October
1-4pm, CAMPLE LINE
Booking required – tickets available on a sliding scale
£8 | £6 | £3
What wisdom, stories and memories do trees hold? Growing in community, communicating through complex root systems interwoven with mycelia, they are sentient beings that have lived so much longer than the people who walk amongst them.
Join herbal storyteller Amanda Edmiston for a workshop focused on trees and the materials they offer. Using stories and folklore, Amanda will trace the legends and remedies shared with us by the trees around us.
We will then make simple fungi spore prints on bark-based paper and connect them up with our own ‘word roots’, creating talismanic forest path maps to guide us on our journey into autumn and winter.
What to expect: The session will last for 3 hours and will include a short break. There will also be a short walk outside in our greenspace. Please bring weather-appropriate footwear and clothing.
Refreshments
Tea, coffee and cold drinks will be available. All materials included.
A Worcester (Herbal) Christmas with Amanda Edmiston
Monday, November 30, 2026
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
Free online event, thanks to the generosity of the George Marshall Medical Museum
George Marshall Medical Museum, Worcester.
Just in time for Worcester’s traditional Victorian Christmas Fayre, a accessible onlie alternative!
Join herbal storyteller Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula for a very special online time travelling event, stepping back into the seasonal festivities, Yule time traditions and the Christmas stories in Worcester's past.
The event will be live on Teams. Email gmmedicalmuseum@gmail.com to get your link. This will be sent on the morning of the event so it’s at the top of your inbox.
Inspired by her recent explorations of her own connections to Worcestershire countryside, the gathering of Mistletoe, cherries preserved for festive celebrations and infamous family cure all’s for her latest book, follow up to The Time Traveller's Herbal 'Collected Curiosities, more stores from the historical apothecary cabinet; Amanda’s sessions blend folklore, fairytale, social history, herbal remedies and historical ways of working with plants to create a layered and magical way to start to season
Thistle & Flame
A week honouring the women accused of witchcraft in Fife and East Lothian
East Lothian, Scotland
4 to 10 October 2027
Between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries, around four thousand people in Scotland, most of them women, were accused of witchcraft. None of them were witches. Most were poor, all were ordinary, and a quarrel, a curse or a sick cow could be enough to convict them.
Thistle & Flame walks the ground where they were accused, tells their stories, and gives them back their names. Not about spells. Not a ghost tour. About finding your own voice, which these people were denied.
A donation will be made to The Witch Trials of East Lothian campaign after the retreat.
This is tender ground and Inside Story Travel will hold it gently, but do not mistake it for a solemn week. The arc runs upward. First the history and the facts, then the remembrance, then what we carry home, with rest protected after the fuller days and a feast at the end of it.
Amanda Edmiston (Botanica Fabula) joins the fantastic range of workshop leaders, writers and speakers including Tree Carr and Dr Sally Gouldstone for a very special retreat brought to you by the fabulous Inside Story Travel.
There is laughter in this week, and singing, and a great deal of tea. Scotland at its most elemental: firelit evenings, big skies, and a house and a welcome to match!
Please ADD Amanda Edmiston as your introduction in the pop up box when booking💚🌿✨Thank you!
You can also catch Amanda’s recent podcast episode with Johanna, ‘The Foraging Gardener’, for her Folk Apothecary Podcast, filmed at Dilston Physic Garden in Northumberland…
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