Lewes Herbalist & Storyteller

10/09/2024

16/07/2024

WINTER WELLNESS WORKSHOP - HERBAL MEDICINE IN THE HOME
***EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT £100 PAID IN FULL BY 30th AUGUST 2024 ***
28TH SEPTEMBER 2024 10am to 3pm

COST £120 – incl. materials /medicines which you take home.
St Peter’s Church Hall, Offham nr Lewes BN7 3PX (parking on site).

Full details kym.murden.com/events

This one-day workshop aims to support understanding of our body’s natural immunity and how herbal medicine in the home can help prevent, combat and recover from winter infections.

05/06/2024

Kym Murden - Lewes Herbalist

Nature Cure - Herb Walk
Saturday 15th June 2 pm - 4 pm
Meet at the Herbalist's House
for a walk on Landport Bottom
Booking essential - £10 per person (sorry no dogs). Please email kym.herbs@gmail.com to secure your place.

Come for a gentle walk with me to learn more about the plants growing around us, where we can learn to identify individual and associated plant families. We will have time to ponder and wonder about their long usage throughout human history whether as food, medicine or useful materials in everyday life. Alongside the scientific Latin names we may find that some of the old folk names may help us find Touch & Heal, Carpenter's W**d, or the Mother of Worts. I hope you will go home with a greater understanding of the abundant medicine chest that grows around us on the unique chalk downland.

07/05/2024

SUMMER HERBAL ONE DAY WORKSHOP 1st June 10am - 3pm Book Now.
FULL DETAILS at kymmurden.com/events

This workshop will cover:
A morning herb walk to gather and identify herbs (weather permitting).
First aid remedies for bites, burns & stings etc.and other common summer health challenges.
The difference between fresh and dried herbs and their usage.
You will learn to make an Infused Herbal Oil - which you will take home.
You will learn to to make an ointment to repel insects and heal bites etc. - which you will take home.
You will learn the difference between certain herbal medicine applications and how and when to use them such as poultices, compresses and lotions.
All this will take place in a friendly supportive and experiential workshop.

04/03/2024

The dogs love hanging out in the herb clinic...

14/02/2024

HERB WORKSHOPS & WALKS

1. HERBAL MEDICINE IN THE HOME - ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
20th April 10 am - 3 pm St Peter's Church Hall, Offham nr Lewes
Cost £120 - includes all materials

We often do not realise how much is medicinally useful within our kitchen, garden and around us out on a walk. This one-day workshop is designed to increase your knowledge and confidence in making and using herbal medicine. For much of human history, the knowledge of how to treat things that commonly afflicted members of a household would be handed down through the generations. While this lineage has been disrupted with the mechanistic medical model, traditional Western Medical Herbalists such as Kym Murden, believe this knowledge is accessible to all and enables families to understand many of their health needs are within their own hands.

This workshop will cover:
First aid remedies for bites, burns & stings etc. and other common summer health challenges.
The difference between fresh and dried herbs and their usage.
You will learn to make an Infused Herbal Oil - which you will take home.
You will learn to to make an ointment to repel insects and heal bites etc. - which you will take home.
You will learn the difference between certain herbal medicine applications and how and when to use them such as poultices, compresses and lotions.
All this will take place in a friendly supportive and experiential workshop.

Lunch - please bring your own.

Teas and coffees and light morning & afternoon refreshments are provided.

The workshop will take place at the Church Hall, St Peter’s Offham, The Drove, Offham, Lewes BN7 3PX - on-site parking.

Time 10.00 am - 3 pm

Cost: £120 - paid in advance. Includes all herbal materials.

You need to bring a pen & paper.

Space limited. Booking essential. Please email me at kym.herbs@gmail.com to book and secure your place.

23/10/2023

The latest YouTube video has been just uploaded and a final call to book your space on this coming weekend's HERBS FOR WINTER WORKSHOP...more details at kym.murden.com

23/10/2023

FINAL CALL TO BOOK YOUR PLACE ON THIS WORKSHOP

SATURDAY OCTOBER 28TH 2023 10 am to 4.30 pm
Offham Church Hall, Nr Lewes.

HERBS FOR WINTER. ONE-DAY WORKSHOP

COST £120 - includes materials & Home Herbal Winter Herbal Kit worth £60
The winter months are a time when our health can become more challenged and this one-day workshop is a great way to increase your knowledge and confidence in using herbal medicine to deal with a range of things that can trouble us such as infections, coughs, colds, tummy upsets, and general low energy in mood and body. For much of human history, the knowledge of how to treat things that commonly afflicted members of a household would be handed down through the generations. While this lineage has been disrupted with the mechanistic medical model, traditional Western Medical Herbalists such as Kym Murden, believe this knowledge is accessible to all and enables families to understand many of their health needs are within their own hands.

In this workshop you will learn how to use herbal medicines that either are sitting already in your kitchen cupboards, growing in your garden or easily purchased. We shall also look at which foods can help or hinder your general well-being along with recovery from illness.

We will undertake some hands-on making of herbal remedies and you will go home with a Home Herbal Winter Health Kit worth £60. It will contain:

Herbal Tea Blend for Cold and Fever Support - that you will mix yourself.
Herbal Infused Vinegar - that you will make.
Herbal Ointment - that you will make.
Ready-prepared ‘Banish the Bugs’ Herbal Tincture & Epsom Salts - Winter Season Mood Booster.
We will cover the use of:

Herbal infusions
Herbal compresses/poultices and herbal baths & inhalations
Herbal vinegar/oymels/syrups
Herbal Tinctures
And no doubt much more in a friendly, supportive, and experiential workshop.

Lunch - please bring your own.

Teas and coffees and light morning & afternoon refreshments are provided.

The workshop will take place at the Church Hall, St Peter’s Offham, The Drove, Offham, Lewes BN7 3PX

Time 10.00 am - 4.30 pm

Cost: £120 - paid in advance. Includes all herbal materials.

You need to bring a pen & paper.

Space limited. Booking essential. Please email me at kym.herbs@gmail.com to book and secure your place

26/09/2023

(Photo credit Ruby Taylor ©)
*** PLACES STILL AVAILABLE***

HERBS FOR WINTER. ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
SATURDAY OCTOBER 28TH 2023 10 am to 4.30 pm
Offham Church Hall, Nr Lewes.

COST £120 - includes materials & Home Herbal Winter Herbal Kit worth £60
The winter months are a time when our health can become more challenged and this one-day workshop is a great way to increase your knowledge and confidence in using herbal medicine to deal with a range of things that can trouble us such as infections, coughs, colds, tummy upsets, and general low energy in mood and body. For much of human history, the knowledge of how to treat things that commonly afflicted members of a household would be handed down through the generations. While this lineage has been disrupted with the mechanistic medical model, traditional Western Medical Herbalists such as Kym Murden, believe this knowledge is accessible to all and enables families to understand many of their health needs are within their own hands.

In this workshop you will learn how to use herbal medicines that either are sitting already in your kitchen cupboards, growing in your garden or easily purchased. We shall also look at which foods can help or hinder your general well-being along with recovery from illness.

We will undertake some hands-on making of herbal remedies and you will go home with a Home Herbal Winter Health Kit worth £60. It will contain:

Herbal Tea Blend for Cold and Fever Support - that you will mix yourself.
Herbal Infused Vinegar - that you will make.
Herbal Ointment - that you will make.
Ready-prepared ‘Banish the Bugs’ Herbal Tincture & Epsom Salts - Winter Season Mood Booster.
We will cover the use of:

Herbal infusions
Herbal compresses/poultices and herbal baths & inhalations
Herbal vinegar/oymels/syrups
Herbal Tinctures
And no doubt much more in a friendly, supportive, and experiential workshop.

Lunch - please bring your own.

Teas and coffees and light morning & afternoon refreshments are provided.

The workshop will take place at the Church Hall, St Peter’s Offham, The Drove, Offham, Lewes BN7 3PX

Time 10.00 am - 4.30 pm

Cost: £120 - paid in advance. Includes all herbal materials.

You need to bring a pen & paper.

Space limited. Booking essential. Please email me at kym.herbs@gmail.com to book and secure your place

18/09/2023

Want to make herbal vinegar...maybe this will inspire you!

Taking the mystery out of making herbal vinegar. Here I make one from some late-in-the-season elderberry. I hope you enjoy and feel inspired to have a go y...

18/08/2023

HERB OF THE MONTH is returning for the autumn.

TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm You can attend as a one-off or do a block booking.

DATES: Autumn 2023 – 19th September, 17th October, 21st November (Tuesdays)

COST: £15 per session or if block booking two or more £10 per session.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL. Please email kym.herbs@gmail.com with the dates you would like to attend and I will send on payment information.

Do you want to expand your understanding and usage of herbal medicine for yourself and your household, but find reading all those online blogs and books leaves you a bit lost and without enough confidence to know what to do? Why not think of joining this new evening class that will cover one herb at a time with a view to creating embedded knowledge and understanding about the herbs from a broad perspective, and not the endless reductive clinical model? We will engage in understanding the herbs from many aspects, including where and how they grow best; where they grow; folklore and historical perspectives – have they changed or do they still inform our use today; along with understanding their actions on our bodies, with some basic medicinal science and herbal therapeutics involved. We will also get to taste and explore the different ways you can use herbs effectively at home.

They will take place in the Herbal Clinic in East Way, Lewes, thus while spaces will have to be booked it means we are ensured a friendly, engaged, and supportive evening.