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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.

10/04/2026

On May 23rd & 24th I’m teaching a practical two day workshop, exploring the traditional uses of (mainly native) herbs and how to make a range of herbal remedies. We’ll be harvesting herbs from my organic garden in the heart of Herefordshire, & this weekend course will enable you to make herbal remedies safely and confidently from fresh and dried herbs.
We will make some top quality skincare and many other herbal preparations. The course also includes how to identify, grow, harvest, dry and store herbs.
The course covers:
The principles of domestic herbal medicine, using seasonal tonics, and self help guidelines
Identification (ID), wild crafting, growing, harvesting, drying and storing herbs
Skincare 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, nettle, ground ivy and cleavers in the spring, marigolds flowers in summer, and elecampane and other roots and berries in the autumn and winter.
There is always something to harvest! Contact me for more info and to join, it’s £295 all inclusive ( bring a packed lunch) you can also book to stay in my garden garden, pictured above

09/04/2026

Beautiful spring day, the garden bursting with blossom, including Honesty … you can eat the flowers, which are very tasty with a peppery flavour. You can see the garden cabin in the pictures, which is available to rent if you’d like a quiet retreat

06/04/2026

Bluebell therapy and some optimistic violets 💙💜

01/04/2026

The beautiful Malvhina water shrine. Great Malvern has a fascinating history. The culture of spas is close to my heart, the culture of water therapy still feels very alive here. I collect water from the spring at least once a week. This public drinking spout brought spring water back to the town centre for the first time in at least thirty years – from Happy Valley, Rushey Valley and Ivy Scar Rock. The design of the female figure sculpted in stone and bronze, has a triple theme incorporating elements representing the three springs that supply the spout , the three roads that meet here and the three most important periods in Malvern`s history, – the ancient Celtic origins, the coming of Christianity and the growth of the town in Victorian times. To meet current Environmental Health regulations, the supply of spring water to this new public spout is passed through U.V. and carbon filters to ensure it is safe to drink.

In response to an appeal in the local press for ideas to help regenerate Great Malvern town centre, in 1995/6 Rose Garrard independently proposed the “Spring Water Arts Project” to the Malvern Hills District Council. This was for a ‘Malvern Water Trail’ of sculptures by different internationally known artists on lost spring water sites throughout Great Malvern. In 1997 the Council commissioned her to become Malvern’s Artist in Residence in a vacant shop on Belle Vue Terrace, to research the water trail and spring water sites. For two months Malvern people related the histories and legends connected with Malvern and its wells and springs. They also marked over 240 remembered springs and water sites on two giant maps. And Malvern is also the home of Lea & Perrin’s Worcestershire sauce

31/03/2026

More spring beauties 💚 cuckoo flower/ milkmaids ( mustard family, a spicy nibble ), wild cherry blossom and ground ivy ( a minty herb great for colds and catarrh)

23/03/2026

More spring joy - I love the way the primrose appear in all different hues . Here too is a splendid pile of muck for future feeding the worms, and the garden 💚🌱🌸

19/03/2026

Welcome Spring! 💚 looking forward with renewed energy to my next herbal medicine making course in late May, please contact me for more details. The garden will be in full flower by then. We’ll be making lots of fresh herbal preps and discussing how to stay well and healthy with herbal tonics , and treat , restore and support yourself for any health problems that crop up. Given what’s happening to our NHS this is going to be even more essential knowledge.

16/03/2026

Another lovely group of women enthusiastic to learn about working with herbs. Thanks for your attention and interest in this, our healing tradition, in so many dimensions 🙏🏽 Always an honour to share

13/03/2026

Enjoying the scent of spring - freshly harvested nettles for making cold nettle infusion. Chop loosely, cover with cold water for 24 hrs , strain and drink. A delicious refreshing drink, packed with nutrients including iron in a readily absorbable form. Excellent spring tonic, especially for any one needing extra blood tonic / iron ( basically, all menstruating women). Together with clivers ( a lymphatic tonic) this mix is a great spring clean. More of that tomorrow. Preparing to teach my first introduction to herbal medicine course of the year, newsletter about to come out with new dates on - sign up via my website to receive it if your interested to come on one of my practical herbal medicine making courses

10/03/2026

One of the earliest glowering shrubs in my garden is the gorgeously aromatic flowering currant. I have a yellow one two, which is not far behind. Also pulmonarias, primroses, coltsfoot and milkmaids are coming out. Just in time for teaching my first herbal course of the year. We’ll be tasting cold nettle infusion and clovers tea, both fantastic cleansing herbs. 💚 it’s great time to plan what herbs you can grow for self sufficient herbal medicine - sign up to my newsletter via my website for a list of what I have available and 2026 course dates. The next one that has places available is in May. Enjoy the longer days!

02/03/2026

I really love seen g these little coltsfoot flowers appearing - they pop up as soon as the soil warms up a bit in spring, usually by roadsides , disturbed soil, tracks … rich in zinc, great for coughs and immune protection. The leaves come later ( shaped like a hoof print ) and have a felty , downy cobweb like skin on them. You can make tea from the leaves too.

26/02/2026

A kind friend gave me a large box of fresh rosemary from her much loved garden. I’m drinking the tea, drying some, making rosemary infused apple cider vinegar and will also plant some cuttings. I love this herb and I feel I need its solar energy at the moment too. Juliette de Baïracli Levy, a famous herbalist, said it was her favorite herb and planted it wherever she went. She describes making a tea for colds with rosemary, cayenne and ginger in hot cider ( alternating with sage and borage & honey). In the garden rosemary protects other plants from insect pests. It’s one of the most important aromatics, with many medicinal uses, including a ‘supreme heart tonic’. It in in ‘The Queen of Hungary’s Water’ ( valued as a cure-all & beautifier), is antiseptic and astringent, used for wounds and nervous ailments. It’s also good as a hair tonic, for bites & stings, as an incense & perfume and in cooking (eg a raw sprig eaten every day) . I love its aromatic, uplifting balsamic top notes & bitter scent & taste. And it’s evergreen 💚 and can root in the tiniest amount of soil - I’ve seen it growing out of rocks

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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.