Grass Roots Remedies Co-op

10/10/2025

🌹💗🌹 Rose Reflectioms🌹💗🌹

Yesterday evening saw the first online class for our new course - Grass Roots Herbal Foundations. We spent some time in deep reflection with our first herbal ally 🌹 Rose🌹 Rosa spp. 🌹

Themes of the heart, friendship, maternal figures, and feelings of a gentle strength reflecting the dichotomy of Rose's sweet floral nature combined with the assertive thorns 🗡🌹🌿

We'll be continuing these reflections until our next class, where we'll move our reflections to 🫚 Marshmallow root 🫚 Althea officinalis 🫚

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09/10/2025

🌜🌚🌛 A lunar deep-dive in appreciation of one plant ally per cycle 🌜🌚🌛

💚🌿💚 To close 2025, we will be travelling in to the world of Thyme 🌿 Thymus spp. 🌿 & Ginger 🫚 Zingiber off. 🫚

🌜💚🌛 Included in the course are all of our previous plant cycles, a free remedy making module and an optional module, the Moon and the Menstrual Cycle 🌜💚🌛

❄️🌚❄️ In this Winter edition, Plant Allies is 💯 online. Allowing you to journey with us cooried in with your favourite blanket and a mug of tea. The course costs £15 per cycle and booking closes on 21st October ❄️🌚❄️

Where will your plant allies take you?

https://grassrootsremedies.podia.com/770ba94c-22ec-415d-a3e6-b4948a84f9e7

03/10/2025

When Monica Wilde says there are hardly any mushrooms about - she means this - a MERE 40 species 🙀🍄

A great day with our Wild Things 2 students, mushroom hunting in the woods, followed by more exploration & learning back at Mo's 🌱💚

Our Wild Things courses are finishing up for the season and we'll be opening up bookings for 2026 very soon. As ever, we'll announce this first in our newsletter so get signed up if you're not already. We have a wee bulletin coming out early next week 💌🌿

02/10/2025

🔥 Fire Cider workshop with The Health Agency last month 🔥

🍂 Jillian & Kathryn shared stories & recipes for this warming Autumnal concoction 🍂

What's in your Fire Cider or 4 Thieves' Vinegar recipe?

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01/10/2025

💚🌱💚 Join Rhona on the farm this Friday for some Autumn plant tending, herbal teas and lots of plant geek chat. No experience needed - more details on Eventbrite and the Volunteer Sign-Up form 💚🌱💚

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lauriston-farm-herb-garden-volunteering-session-tickets-1635426226869?aff=erelexpmlt

We also have volunteer sessions on Friday 17th & 31st October - come and join us on the farm

28/09/2025

Head over to Granton Garden Bakery this morning for their delicious bakes & you can always pick up some of our head and herbal mixes at the same time 💚🌱

26/09/2025

🚜 Join us at the farm in October 🚜

We have volunteer sessions every other Friday afternoon - sign up link https://volunteersignup.org/JTL33?fbclid=PAT01DUANDNM5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp6L3gEvbbGBe04stHawxJkV4jFNSBevDHs1xaefRiSJZYUJPciQOBs5ZkRGt_aem_JsjbttG4E-apllI9rivitQ

🌳 We'll be tending to the saplings, seed saving & sorting, harvesting fruits & maybe roots, tea drinking & watching farm cats Hamish & Morag as they go about their duties 🐈‍⬛️🐀🐈‍⬛️

No experience needed, just an interest in growing in community 💚🌱💚

23/09/2025

🎉🎂🎉 10 Years of Wester Hailes Herbal Clinic 🎉🎂🎉

Some of the friendly faces we shared our celebrations with Greenway Garden earlier this month. Thanks to everyone who came along & helped make it such a wonderful afternoon

🍜 Amazing soup & scran from Stacey The Health Agency

🎂 Glorious birthday cake from Granton Garden Bakery

🌳 Garden logistics & general organising from Alan of Greenway Community Garden

🎶Rousing tunes from Karine Polwart & Katarina Juvancic

We're keeping on celebrating for the rest of the month, with a wee prize draw for mailing list supporters. We'll select a supporter at the end of the month to receive a Coorie in Bundle to a UK address. Sign up anytime this month. Next newsletter is for the Sutumn Equinox and is out very soon 🌱💚🌱

19/09/2025

Catriona is in Pollok Park tomorrow morning 11am-1pm with The Concrete Garden . Booking details below

After the walk you can also.pop along to Sir John Stirling Maxwell Allotment Gardens for their Doors Opem Day tours and talks - booking details for talks on the allotment page, open with refreshments 1-4pm.

Check out the link below for more details on the walk & meeting point-

Join us for a walk through Po***ck Park and learn about wild edible plants and their uses!

18/09/2025

Checking out some favourite foraging spots for walks in Glasgow over the next couple of weeks. Two rare-ish finds in the city

🫐 Flowering Currant - the bright pink flowers are a common sight in the Spring, peppered around front gardens and wild patches. The flowers make a glorious cordial, but the berries are less common - maybe too many flowers getting picked, more likely a combination of wind damage & other wild eaters 🐦

🤧 Sneezewort - a cousin of the much more common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) - this is a first find in Queen's Park, wondering if these ones have wandered down from the peat soils of Cathkin Braes 🤷‍♀️

There's always something new to see when foraging, even in a city park you've traipsed around for over a decade - the plants & other morethanhuman never stop evolving with the years 💚🌱💚

17/09/2025

🌱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌱 Plant Allies Milk Thistle Session 🌱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌱

We cared for the Milk Thistle bed by weeding out all the Dandelion growing there, handy as Dandelion is next month's Plant Ally. Everyone took some home to dry ready for the next season.

🌈🪴🌈 We had incredible stormy skies for our powdered decoction tasting and made it under the lean to just in time with beautiful rainbows afterwards. The rain was so impressive we almost got distracted from the plant 🌈🪴 🌈

We made Milk Thistle capsules and Milk Thistle electuaries and saved some seeds from these gorgeous and ferociously spiky thistle heads

🌿 1. Relaxing with tea brewing in the foreground & a glimpse of rainbow behind

🌿 2 & 3. Weeding the Milk Thistle beds

🌿 4. Milk Thistle seed head

🌿 5. Making capsules

🌿 6. Lots of Dandelion roots

🌿 7. Paper bag of Milk Thistle capsules

We'll be opening up our final Plant Ally lunar cycles next month. Email to be added to the Waiting List & look out for more info in our Autumn Equinox newsletter - out in a few days

14/09/2025

Celebrating 10 years of our low-cost cost community herbal clinic in Wester Hailes, South Edinburgh 🎉💚🎉

Soup, songs, cake and good chat - thanks to everyone who came along & especially those who fed and roused our spirits on an admittedly slightly dreich day. A wee polytunnel concert from Karine & Katarina included some audience participation to warm us up & bring us together 💚🌿💚

Here's to another 10 years in this and other communities. If you live or work in Wester Hailes and want to know more - give us a wee shout. You can also find loads of other ways to get involved with us in our newsletter - sign up in the next week or so for our Autumn Equinox mailout 🌜🌱🌛