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January 24, 2018

Join our herbal team!

January 24, 2018/ Nat Mady

We are recruiting two herbal trainees to join our team at Hackney Herbal. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to gain experience of working in the community / urban food growing sector and gain skills relating to running a social enterprise.

Download the full application pack here.

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January 24, 2018/ Nat Mady/

Nat Mady

  • Herb Highlight // Pot Marigold
  • Herb Highlight // Thai Basil
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Support social enterprises and local businesses this season and give the gift of herbs! Every purchase you make from us goes towards funding community nature-based activities, workshops and courses in Hackney. Through this work we engage different m
Feeing the cold? Join us this Sunday afternoon for our winter remedies workshop where we share our top tips for keeping warm and well. This workshop is focused on herbs, essential oils and remedies that can support our bodies during the colder months
Last weekend we had the pleasure of having Ayo Ogundayo coming over to run a workshop on natural dyes for our Herb Group. In just a couple of hours, we learnt how to use different techniques to get amazing colours from plants, including a lot of co
🌿 M A R K E T T I M E 🌿 Just a little reminder we will be doing a stall at the @old_school_rooms Christmas Market this Friday 29th November 4pm - 8pm. We will be selling a range of herbal products including herbal tea packs, herbal journals and pam
Last week Nature Club had lots of fun looking for mushrooms at Hackney Marshes under the gentle guidance of the wonderful Maymana @fungi.futures It’s always lovely to welcome guest speakers and facilitators into these sessions to share their
🫖 T E A T I M E 🫖 As it gets colder it’s a good time to make sure your cupboards are stocked with herbal teas for keeping warm, cosy and well. Here are some of our favourites to sip on at this time. 🌸Echinacea - a powerful immune stimulati
Earlier this week, we had an amazing group from @goodgymhackney coming over one evening to help us gather autumn leaves for our leafmould. 🍂 Good Gym is a really great initiative that gets people together and combine physical exercise with helping
Filling your cup 💕 Last week we had a fun time in the Herb Garden making fire cider with some of our HH friends. We chatted, shared stories, sipped on fire cider brew and enjoyed a delicious apple galette made by @cornflower_e5 We also chatted abou
As we look back to our activities in 2024, another course we are happy to have been able to run this year was a Herb Growing Course for BPOC in Hackney. Following the same format we adopted last year, the course ran over 6 months, from April to Sept
🍁Gorgeous leaves🍁 It’s that magical time in autumn when the trees are letting go, gracing us with a beautiful display of warming colours. And for a little while it’s like the pavements have been painted in these striking tones. It&rsqu
🌿Herbs & Community 💕 As part of our commitment to making the wonderful healing powers of plants and nature accessible to people in our community we run a whole range of free activities. Part of this includes working in partnership with charitie
As the growing season comes to an end, we start to look back and evaluate what we did over the spring and summer this year. One of the community activities we ran was an 8-week ‘Herb Gardening and Craft’ course at @mindcharity Hackney.
Recent encounters with local creatures 🦊 🐿️ 🐦‍⬛ Who is your favourite? It’s often said you are more likely to have witchy tendencies if you have a strong connection and bond with the non-human world whether that’s with plant, fungi
Have you made your fire cider yet? One of our all time favourite winter remedies. This spicy infused vinegar supports the immune system, warms the body and is a powerful anti-inflammatory tonic. You can take it as a preventative remedy but it’s
This autumn we’ve been out and about running quite a few workshops focusing on how we can support biodiversity in the city. We focused on small and simple actions we can take within our local communities to support wildlife. One of our favourit
Guess the herb 🌿 Haven’t done one of these in a while! These are some of the plants we explored in our last workshop. Can you name some of these plants? Bonus points for names in other languages OR if you tell us how you like to use any of the
Upcoming Herbal Workshops // As we head further into autumn we would love you to join us for one of our upcoming herbal workshops. We’ve got a mixture of classes coming up where you can learn about the healing powers of plants. In these sessio