Wild Folk Apothecary

Wild Folk Apothecary Handmade apothecary, foraging, folklore & wild medicine walks, courses in resonance with nature, as nature. www.wildfolkapothecary.com
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Yarrow has been calling so strongly of late. Her presence, sentinel, in the meadows and hedgerows. Her stems hard, dry, ...
23/05/2026

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 gave me a message last year, and she is still calling to the world. Then I wrote a book about her (well, quarter of a book, she’s one of the plants thresholds in The Wild Becoming.) 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.“

I work a lot with yarrow, and her deeply resonant strength has revealed itself slowly and with a stable self awareness and balance I would liken to a warrior of sovereign heart.

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a wild warrior, a weaver of protection, and a plant deeply woven into many stories of land and lineage.

Named for Achilles, the mythic warrior said to have used her to staunch the wounds of battle, Yarrow carries a legacy of fierce healing. She thrives even in dry and unforgiving ground, and reminds us of the strength that lives in softness.

In folk tradition, she was hung in doorways to keep spirits at bay, scattered to shield against unwanted energy, and used to anoint thresholds, both physical and unseen. Some of her strongest medicine is in the art of sacred boundary keeping, she tends those intelligent, living membranes between what is ours and what is not.

Her medicine speaks especially to those who give too much, feel too much, or struggle to hold their edges.

Folklore tells of yarrow placed under pillows to summon visions of future lovers.

You’ll find her spirit woven throughout my offerings - in Dreaming & Divination Salve, Dreamy Infusion Blend, The Wanderer Grounding Foot Balm, Wild Yarrow Lip Balm, and Wild Yarrow Face Oil.

Summer in the cottage. The cats threw everything off the shelf so I made them a bed there, and they stopped. The herb ga...
22/05/2026

Summer in the cottage.

The cats threw everything off the shelf so I made them a bed there, and they stopped.

The herb garden is still giving me all the nettles I can eat. The more you harvest the more they come, lovely nettles.

My second book is coming along, slowly. I realise being a writer is mostly staring out of the window waiting for inspiration.

20/05/2026

Foraging for wild food and medicine is an act of radical self-love, a beautiful rebellion, and a remembering of our place as natural humans, wild and free.

As we fall into the moment, into the senses, into the wild, we become more, time opens up, and we are whole again.

Eating wild foods and using simple wild medicines is a vital part of any truly healthy and nourishing lifestyle.

Wild plants are rich in minerals, vitamins, and deep, health-giving nourishment. They are gathered from a non-depleted soil, and that is why they are so vital to our health at this time, with many finding that they cannot effectively metabolise the vitamins in their foods due to severe, generational mineral deficiencies.

Foraging for our food and medicine brings us into the present, takes us outside into our natural environment, and reminds us that we are vital and connected pieces of the whole.

Join me for a slow, sensory walk through the hedgerows and wild edges of Lavenham, one of Suffolk’s most beautiful medieval villages. These seasonal foraging walks are an invitation to remember our sacred kinship with the land, through meeting the wild plants, listening to their stories, and learning the old ways of gathering food and medicine in deep respect.

Get on my mailing list for early bookings and discounts, and there’s a free guide to plant communication there too.

Blessings from the wild Suffolk hedgerows.

For long years I have walked this path of green, but it has not made me tough. It has not made me hardy or thick skinned...
15/05/2026

For long years I have walked this path of green, but it has not made me tough. It has not made me hardy or thick skinned. It has softened me in ways I never expected. It has introduced me to a wild patch within my soul, a meadow which is a great solace, and a home, and a guiding force. A force which drives me, and holds me fast as I wander through this strange modern world.

I am not good at introducing myself. I know exactly who I am, but these platforms do not feel like fitting environments for our real selves. To expose ourselves here, our soft underbellies, our vibrant and shimmering souls feels like folly; an unfitting exchange.

And so I speak of the plants, their magic and their medicine, as they are the ones who come first in restoration. And so I speak of my medicines, of the things that I make, of the world that I have created, and the world in which I live. That is how I introduce myself.

You are welcome here, in this space, a space I hope will support you as we allow the wild world to unfurl us into beings who remember our nature as connected, responsible, sovereign, and resonant.

A clearer channel of connection is via my website, if you sign up there you will get a free guide to plant communication and my monthly newsletter.

And once I have you there, in the clutches of my mailing list, lured in as you were by tales of talking plants, I will begin my campaign of spamming. I will hurl cans of virtual spam at your head. I will track you down and force feed you spam sandwiches. I will send you endless GIFs of aged comedians singing songs about wonderful spam. And I will not stop until I have convinced you that you are worthless, that you know nothing, and that the only solution to those problems is the one thing that I’m gonna sell you. (This is obviously a joke. I don’t send very many emails.) Lovely spam. Wonderful spam. If you get that joke, we’ll probably get on in real life.

13/05/2026

Listening to plants, and communicating with them, is a skill available to all humans. It is simple and straightforward, and I have written a short guide to help you. It’s free at the link in my bio.

Blessings from the hedgerows.

Foraging is one of my first loves. There is no better practice of connection and remembering than nourishing yourself an...
11/05/2026

Foraging is one of my first loves. There is no better practice of connection and remembering than nourishing yourself and the land with your heartfelt presence.

Foraging for food and medicine with care, reverence, respect, and connection is our birthright as human-beings-of-nature.

The laws of man are irrelevant to our natural ways.

Of course if people blaze in like the patriarchy ra**ng and pillaging and taking for greed and profit then that is a different thing.

Perhaps we need laws to bind those who live in the world of hierarchy and domination.

But to come from a place of deep respect, to tell the land and the beings who live there your intentions, to make offerings before taking and to give thanks and listen to hear if anything else is asked of you in return is the way of the natural human; the sovereign human who respects deeply the sovereignty of all other beings.

To come from that place is to understand that as a part of nature we cannot be bound and held by the rules and punishments of domination and control, but only guided by the laws of nature.

This Sunday’s foraging walk is all sold out. June walk just opened for booking.

Blessings from the hedgerows.

“The job of the artist is to act as the vessel through which the right aspects of the creative force can move and be mad...
09/05/2026

“The job of the artist is to act as the vessel through which the right aspects of the creative force can move and be made manifest. Artists and poets are the expressers of the creative forces of life, they are the channels through which the creative principle operates. There is discernment and responsibility in artistry. It is not for everyone.

The object of creation is not an inert thing. It does not exist for the sake of existing. It is alive already, it is just not here. The job of the artist is to pull it down or dig it up, to stare longingly into its depths, to let it change them as it comes, and to form it into an offering to the forces of nature.

To use AI to bring these creative energies into the physical world is an act of such astonishing irresponsibility. To use an inorganic, fake consciousness as a go-between in the creative process is to allow that inorganic thing to intervene in the very fabric of the creative process, which forms our animate reality. That intervention is fundamentally damaging to the balance of responsible right relationship.

Being the vessel is a responsibility so vast that we are altered by it, as the force flows through we become more, more aware, more powerful-full, more connected. We are in cahoots with the living universe, and if we circumvent that process we are diverting the forces of creation. Being changed by the creative force is the whole point. It is an act of being in relationship with a living cosmology.

To outsource the receipt of this energy is to abandon yourself as an organic being in an animate universe. It is to leave the forces of creation unmet, and to abdicate responsibility for the world you are creating.”

You can read the rest of this article on Substack. Link in bio 🔥

Mugwort has long been known as the bridge between the worlds, a sacred plant being of hedgerow and meadow who carries th...
07/05/2026

Mugwort has long been known as the bridge between the worlds, a sacred plant being of hedgerow and meadow who carries the power of dream, of vision, and of freedom. She is an opener of doors, a guardian of thresholds, a holder of ancient wisdom, a key to unlocking who we truly are beyond the confines of conditioning.

Mugwort has opened many doors for me in my practice and in my body, in my visions and understanding of my place here on this earth. She is a plant with the power to show us through the veils of corruption, culture, and capital, and to bring us back into resonance with natural law.

As I was reweaving these words a magpie came down and knocked on the window behind me. A bird of the liminal space. A message from spirit reminding me that we are never far from the unseen, we are never truly cut off from magic.

Is the call to remember stirring in your bones, calling from the hedgerows, whispering through the ether? I have gathered many offerings in my apothecary made with mugwort foraged by my own hands, in reverence.

Find oils, balms, infusions, smoke sticks, essences, tinctures, and a 12 chapter immersive course for those ready to walk with her more deeply. This is for the wild ones, the dreamers, the threshold keepers. Those falling into the arms of remembering. Find the link where links reside.

05/05/2026

My love for nettle. I could talk about her forever.

A tall green beauty who grows almost as high as me in my garden and all around is nettle, Urtica dioica.

Nettle grows with the same strength and reaching but has less support in her stringy stalk.

Nettle is a truly wonderful plant, later in the year she is often found industriously turning her flowers into copious seeds, which I like to harvest and dry to add to food throughout the winter. Only a small sprinkle of nettle seeds is needed to awaken and support the adrenals and give good balanced energy to the body.

It’s always more important to observe the life cycle of each individual plant rather than just going by time of year, as nettle tops before flowering (while most common in Spring) are good food, full of vitamins and bio available minerals that nourish from within, once she as flowered the leaves are no longer eaten, but this is the time to ask nettle if she can help to strengthen you from the outside, to use in skin or hair preparations.

Nettle has been used for weaving baskets, to make paper, as an iron supplement, to beat the legs of weary soldiers and to stimulate hair growth by intentionally stinging bald heads.

Nettle speaks to me of deep bone nourishment and strong strong boundaries. Her stings are medicine in themselves.

If you haven’t seen it, the incredible film is a journey through the wonders of this magical plant being and I highly recommend it.

You’ll find nettle in my Bone-deep Healing Balm, The Well Maiden .folk.apothecary for her wonderful pain relieving and anti inflammatory properties.

They told you that Earth was dirty when they took your medicine from you. They maligned your female body alongside the E...
02/05/2026

They told you that Earth was dirty when they took your medicine from you. They maligned your female body alongside the Earth, so they could plunder you both. They made you base, and filth, and wrong in your sacred body.

But you are holy, just as the Earth is holy.

We are reclaiming our medicine, re-rooting into the land, and remembering who we are.

The wisdom of the land could not be silenced, the plants could not be silenced, the body could not be silenced. Mugwort remembers, and she can guide you back into belonging. Enrolment open. Link in bio.

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