Wild Folk Apothecary

Wild Folk Apothecary Online apothecary, foraging, folklore & wild medicine walks, courses in resonance with nature, as nature.
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Tend the Soul
Walk the Land
Reclaim the Sacred

If the songs you are singing did not bubble directly from the earth, the stones, the sea, the sky, from the roots who li...
02/09/2025

If the songs you are singing did not bubble directly from the earth, the stones, the sea, the sky, from the roots who lie embedded in the energies of the living earth: from the rivers who flow like the blood in your veins, then they are something else’s songs, singing something else’s dreams, making something else’s visions your reality.

We are deep now in the bosom of harvest-tide. The summer flowers are in their fullness, turning energies now to fruit, a...
01/09/2025

We are deep now in the bosom of harvest-tide. The summer flowers are in their fullness, turning energies now to fruit, and seed, and the sweet surrender of understanding in our inevitable bufferings on the winds of the ever-turning cycles. The cycles remind us that there is a chance for a new world in every shifting time, that these systems of power and domination will crumble, for they are built of nothingness, blindness, greed, and extraction. This is not the way of life, and we would do well to remember our allegiances with natural law to see our way out through this wasteland.

Have you ever felt that sense of wild expanse within when you’ve been submerged in the wild expanse without? A sense tha...
23/08/2025

Have you ever felt that sense of wild expanse within when you’ve been submerged in the wild expanse without? A sense that stays with you, there when you close your eyes, an alteration to your inner landscapes, held forever inside like a well of memory that can be drawn upon for sustenance when the concrete culture laps at the edges and the plastic of modernity overtakes the senses.

A part of us remains always in the mountains, and we are changed forever by them, ancient beings of murmur and resonance, beings who know they will see a time again when they are honoured for the wisdom they hold. Until that time I lay my wonder at their feet and give thanks for their solemn majesty.

Take me back to the marshes, where the sands move beneath me, where the salt lies gently on the breeze. Our salt marshes...
11/08/2025

Take me back to the marshes, where the sands move beneath me, where the salt lies gently on the breeze.

Our salt marshes are precious, soft, shifting, places wefted between land and sea. The plants here are rare, vital, and have their own succulent-salty ways of being.
Sea purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum) is a halophytic* plant with a salty, olive-like flavour and some fascinating properties. I spent much of my childhood living next to a salt marsh, and find great comfort and nostalgia in nibbling these rough fleshy leaves.

*A halophytic plant is one that is adapted to grow in environments with high salinity, like salt marshes. These plants have specialised physiological mechanisms to manage and tolerate the high salt concentrations in their environment. This can include fascinating features like salt excretion glands, succulent leaves to store water, and the ability to compartmentalise and sequester salt within their tissues. That’s why these plants taste salty and mineral-rich.

This beautiful silvery being has both anti-inflammatory and wound-healing properties, and can be applied topically to treat skin conditions, cuts, and sores. It is also used as a remedy for gastrointestinal issues.

Sea purslane is edible and tasty, and can be eaten raw or cooked. Wild sea plants are incredibly high in minerals, so are wonderful nutritionally as well as being delicious.

This plant is incredibly tolerant of saline environments and is sometimes used in phytoremediation to improve soil quality in salt-affected areas. Its ability to thrive in high-salinity soils can help reclaim polluted, over-farmed, and degraded lands, improving the soil for other beings to thrive.

**Recent studies have explored the use of sea purslane in bioremediation, particularly in coastal areas polluted by heavy metals. The plant has shown potential in absorbing and accumulating heavy metals from contaminated water and soil, thus helping to clean up polluted environments. This means it is really important to forage in the cleanest areas you can.

Yarrow has been calling so strongly of late. Her presence, sentinel, in the meadows and hedgerows. Her stems hard, dry, ...
09/08/2025

Yarrow has been calling so strongly of late. Her presence, sentinel, in the meadows and hedgerows. Her stems hard, dry, unyielding. She grows tall amongst the yellowed grasses of summer bold in her ability to thrive in arid soil. To bring medicine from the charred remains of life.

Yarrow is calling to the world right now. She sings;

“Your boundaries have been breached. Your leaders have failed you. Come back to the land. Wed yourselves in sovereignty to that which is real. Turn away from false power. Sink into the knowing that you are nature and as such, are indomitable in your magic.“

Our connections with the plants which grow around us are the same threads that connect us to each other, and the resonan...
09/08/2025

Our connections with the plants which grow around us are the same threads that connect us to each other, and the resonant wisdom of the living Earth beneath our feet.

Spring dates for Foraging, Wild Medicine & Folklore Walks in Suffolk are now open for booking. Guided always by the prin...
18/02/2025

Spring dates for Foraging, Wild Medicine & Folklore Walks in Suffolk are now open for booking.

Guided always by the principles of all-being equality and nature connectedness. We must enter and remain in a space of respect, gratitude, and connection before engaging in this work. In foraging with care and attention we are fostering and remembering our sacred relationship with the land.

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Poppet A beam of lightMy favourite hedgerow ❤️
26/01/2025

Poppet
A beam of light
My favourite hedgerow
❤️

24/01/2025

Wandering exhausted through the woods after a rather tiring bout of Dane slaughtering, King Alfred comes upon a homely hut. The woman inside invites him in and offers him food and rest, which he gladly accepts. Not recognising the king and assuming instead that she is in the presence of a mere soldier, she pops out to collect some more firewood and instructs the king to keep an eye on some cakes she’s baking in the embers of the fire. Now the king, being, of course, royally useless at basic household tasks, promptly falls asleep and burns the cakes. The woman returns and scolds him for being an incompetent fool. These little mushrooms have the glorious folk name of King Alfred’s cakes in reference to this story. They are magical little beings, holding a warm smoulder for many hours and allowing fire to be transported from one place to another. They look very much like little burnt black cakes hugging the branches of fallen wood in the forest. Every time you see them, remember the incompetence of poor old King Alfred, and how he burned the cakes, and you’ll remember what you’re looking at. They are not edible, but make wonderful fire lighters and hand-warmers.

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