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Rowan McOnegal Kitchen Pharmacy, Herefordshire
🌿 Hedgerow Medicine
🌾 Herbal Courses

Come and learn how to make your own top quality additive free cosmetics and herbal preparations, explore and harvest herbs from Rowan's own organic garden. This practical weekend course will enable you to make herbal remedies from fresh and dried herbs.

27/11/2025

Time to rest 💚🙏🏽 it’s always helpful to observe nature and go with the flow. There are still seeds to be gathered, and roots to harvest, and there are shoots just waiting under the ground …. But on the surface everything is relaxed. Not dead but hibernating ….

10/11/2025

Some moments in autumn. The fire is in the beech leaves, serpents in the branches of the ancient mossy oak pollards at Croft Ambrey, one of my favourite places. It’s an Iron Age hill fort with a Romano-Celtic temple and a medieval warren of up to five pillow mounds ( used for rabbit farming) on the summit of a prominent steeply sloping spur overlooking Yatton Marsh and the valley of a tributary to Allcock’s Brook. Below the hill fort is the beautiful Fishpool Valley, landscaped during the late 18th century in the naturalistic ‘Picturesque’ style. There’s a chain of dams and pools, carefully planted trees and architecture such as the icehouse, grotto, pumphouse and limekiln. The ponds are so beautiful in the autumn. There are also some stunning g hornbeams at the gateways as you walk up, like sentinels, and majestic sweet chestnuts that are sadly dying but still standing in an avenue .

30/10/2025

Some gorgeous hawthorn berries ripe for the gathering in one of my favourite haunts. I’m going to dry these for use in the coming months as a cardiac tonic for my own use. ❤️🙏🏽 In the same family as rose, it’s similarly valuable for healing the wounded heart 💓 . Being out on the hills on a flaming October day gathering these berries is therapy too. The Latin name is Crataegus , this beautiful tree is also called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, Mayflower or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae,native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America. They like to grow on well drained, open hillsides, often gnarled and twisted, here with lots of lichen and here there is also mistletoe, which is coming into its own, a glowing golden orb with bright white berries in the winter months. Of course it’s a very traditional hedging plant here in the UK. It’s such a precious plant remedy and beauty

25/10/2025

I’m enjoying the cool stillness as Samhain approaches. Sometimes it’s not easy to be still in this busy technologically obsessed culture but it’s calming and feeds the soul if you can seek out a quiet place to commune with nature

18/10/2025

Bay wearing a necklace of hops, I love the way evergreens ramp up the scent in the winter. As if to say, this is our time! Rosemary does this too - and both flowerings take me by surprise 💚

12/10/2025

Autumn abundance

04/10/2025

Come and enjoy a glass of freshly pressed organic apple juice from Castle Orchard and stock up on bare rooted herb plants for your herbal remedies and general garden tending pleasure ( teas & creams also available! ) tomorrow 10-4pm let me know if you’re coming!

03/10/2025

The last herbal medicine making course of the year will be November 15th & 16th . Here is the info: An exploration of the uses of herbs and learn to make your own top quality cosmetics and herbal preparations. Includes ID, growing, harvesting from my organic garden, drying and storing herbs.

A practical 2 day workshop making teas, decoctions, infused oils, ointments, creams and other remedies.

Come and learn how to make your own top quality additive free cosmetics and medicinal preparations, explore and harvest herbs from Rowan’s organic garden in the heart of Herefordshire. This practical weekend course will enable you to make herbal remedies from fresh and dried herbs.

The course covers:

The principles of herbal medicine and self help guidelines

Identification (ID), wild crafting, growing, harvesting, drying and storing herbs

Cosmetics and medicinal preparations such as teas, tinctures, inhalations, baths, ointments, infused oils, creams, rubs, and syrups

The ‘hands-on’ approach aims to increase your confidence in and knowledge of the use of herbs for healing. You will make at least 3 herbal preparations and take away ideas for many more.

Courses are held at my eco home in rural Herefordshire and run throughout the year, using seasonal herbs, for example, elecampane root for syrup in the autumn and winter, marigolds for infused oil in summer.

There is always something to harvest!

Bespoke courses for groups can be arranged. Please contact me for details.

02/10/2025

In November I’ll be teaching my lady ‘Introduction to herbal medicine’ weekend course here in Putley, Herefordshire. We’ll be exploring native plants , digging up roots, making warming drinks, fire cider, ACV, and also nibbling on spices, which come into their own in the colder months to warm us here in the our northern climate. We’ll be discussing working with plants in many different ways. Contact me if you’d like to come.

01/10/2025

The chestnuts and haws are also fantastic this year.

30/09/2025

Magical morning, the last day of September … absolutely still…. The Michaelmas daisies are in charge 💚

26/09/2025

More apples because…. 💚🍏 🙏🏽

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I offer a range of one and two day courses for those who want to find out more about the healing powers of plants, and how we can benefit from a closer relationship with nature.

I have always been passionate about plants.

I advocate the living tradition of herbal medicine through teaching practical courses, writing and lecturing. I aim to raise awareness of environmental issues, to teach people about the qualities of common, easily found plants to make simple remedies, thus empowering people to look after themselves and to nurture and value their environment – to care for the soil.

Having studied herbal medicine at the School of Herbal Medicine (Phytotherapy), and botany at the University of Birmingham, I qualified as a Medical herbalist in 1990. Privileged to have learnt from Christopher Hedley (my first teacher), Carol and Stephen Church, Carole Guyett and many others, I was a consultant Medical Herbalist for many years, growing and making my most of my own medicines, whilst teaching others to do likewise.