In-Person Retreats + Workshops
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Hidden Herbals with Glasgow Zine Library, Friday, 24 May 2024 18:30 20:00
We will be exploring how stories and folklore often reveal our historical and traditional relationships with plants and place, and how these secretive elements can offer aspects of autonomy and gift threads of quiet environmental activism.
Using plant based pigments, recycled and plant-based papers, we will create our own folded zines, which have the capacity to hold our own knowledge and stories 'hidden in plain sight'. We invite you to bring along your own favourite foraged or kitchen herbs and plants, and anyfamily folklore or well loved recipes. There will also be plenty of plant material, resources and information available to help form your creation. You will leave with an insight into the plants you live alongside every day and a plant zine of your own to hide or pass on.
For Details and to Book your place: https://www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/events/2024/5/24/hidden-herbals
Finding and Foraging:
Herbal Storytelling Retreats
with Botanica Fabula
News of our next adventure coming soon and enquiries being taken for unique Herbal storytelling adventures for small groups.
Book Botanica Fabula for a day retreat in rural Scotland, delving into a weaving of stories and herbal magic with Amanda.
We take you on an adventure into the realms of magical beings, social history and incredible plants.
We can advise groups on suitable beautiful, historic sites, where we can gather and then use as a base, from which we will take plant expeditions, make herbal preparations, and create our own folded loric books using handmade plant paper - all accompanied by stories and lore situated within the land we will explore.
You will go home with a full imagination, a medicine bag of favourite plants, and a few surprises.
photos by mentee Em Watson on recent retreat experiences with Botanica Fabula