Wild Workshops
“The earth has been our first pharmacy, our original teacher, our most patient guide. These workshops are invitations to remember what we’ve forgotten about living in relationship with the land.”
There’s profound satisfaction in crafting medicine from plants you’ve identified yourself, in preserving food using methods that have sustained communities for centuries, in creating useful objects from materials the earth provides freely. These workshops bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern necessity, teaching skills that reconnect us to the abundance that surrounds us if we know how to look.
Plant Medicine & Herbalism
Our ancestors didn’t distinguish between food and medicine – they understood that nourishment and healing existed on a continuum. In these sessions, you’ll learn to identify common medicinal plants, understand their properties and traditional uses, and craft simple preparations that support everyday wellness.
We explore the art of making tinctures, infusions, oils, and balms using wild and cultivated plants. You’ll discover which hedgerow inhabitants offer relief for common ailments, how to harvest sustainably without depleting natural populations, and the careful protocols that ensure safety when working with wild handmade products.
These aren’t prescriptive workshops – they’re educational explorations of traditional knowledge.
Foraging & Wild Food
Learning to recognise edible plants transforms every walk into a potential feast. These workshops teach you to identify common wild foods throughout the seasons, from early spring nettle shoots to autumn’s abundant berries and nuts. You’ll understand sustainable harvesting practices, discover preparation methods that make wild foods both safe and delicious, and explore the nutritional gifts that nature offers freely.
We cover the essential safety principles – positive identification, sustainable harvesting, avoiding polluted areas, and respecting protected species. You’ll learn to distinguish between look-alikes, understand seasonal availability, and gain confidence in your ability to supplement your diet with wild abundance.
Food Preservation Techniques
Before refrigeration, communities developed ingenious methods for preserving seasonal abundance. These workshops explore traditional techniques that remain relevant today: fermentation, dehydration, smoking, salt-curing, and other methods that transform fresh ingredients into shelf-stable foods.
You’ll learn to make sauerkraut and kimchi, smoke fish and meat, dehydrate fruits and vegetables, and create preserved foods that capture peak-season flavours for year-round enjoyment. These skills reduce food waste, increase self-sufficiency, and reconnect us to the seasonal rhythms that once defined human eating patterns.
Material Gathering & Craft
The landscape provides not just food and medicine, but materials for creating useful objects. These workshops explore traditional crafts using natural materials, teaching you to identify suitable resources throughout the seasons and understand sustainable harvesting practices that respect natural populations.
You’ll discover the meditative satisfaction of creating functional objects from raw materials, developing skills that connect us to generations of makers whilst building practical capabilities that reduce dependence on manufactured goods. These workshops focus on working with what the land provides, understanding material properties, and developing the patience and observation skills that traditional crafts require.
Bushcraft Fundamentals
Essential outdoor skills form the backbone of confident wilderness engagement. These workshops can cover your areas of interest including: cover fire-making, shelter considerations & construction, water purification techniques, weather reading, natural navigation, processing materials, natural hygiene methods, gear maintenance, and land access, wild camping, foraging & knife law
You’ll practice camp craft, tool use and maintenance, understanding wildlife behaviour, and developing the observational skills that keep you safe and comfortable in outdoor environments. These capabilities build genuine confidence that transforms your relationship with wild places from anxiety to appreciation.
Seasonal Workshops
The natural world operates on cycles, and these workshops follow those rhythms. Spring sessions focus on early greens and preparation for the year ahead. Summer explores abundant plant medicines and food preservation. Autumn celebrates nuts, berries, and preparation for winter. Winter workshops delve into tool-making, storytelling, and the crafts that sustained our ancestors through lean months.
Each season offers different lessons, different materials, different medicines. Following these natural rhythms reconnects us to the cyclical thinking that once governed human communities and can inform more sustainable approaches to modern living.
Safety & Responsibility
All workshops emphasise safety, sustainability, and legal compliance. You’ll learn positive plant identification, understand dose-making for herbal preparations, recognise when to seek professional medical advice, and practice harvesting methods that support rather than deplete natural populations.
We respect access rights, private land boundaries, and conservation areas. These workshops teach traditional skills within modern legal and ethical frameworks, ensuring that this knowledge enriches rather than endangers the wild places that provide these teachings.
The Deeper Learning
Beyond practical skills, these workshops cultivate a different relationship with the natural world – one based on reciprocity rather than extraction, observation rather than assumption, patience rather than convenience. You’ll develop confidence in your ability to meet basic needs using natural resources whilst understanding your place within larger ecological systems.
This isn’t about abandoning modern life but about enriching it with skills and knowledge that connect us more deeply to the land that sustains us all. Whether you’re seeking practical self-sufficiency skills, curious about traditional knowledge, or simply wanting to deepen your relationship with the natural world, these workshops offer pathways back to ways of knowing that have sustained human communities for millennia.
The earth remembers everything. These workshops help us remember how to listen.
Get in touch to discuss how the wild calls to you
Get in touch with me today for more information, to discuss or book an experience, or to find out more about how Feral Therapy can help you find your wild. There will be no obligations or expectations, just a warm welcome!
Please be aware that due to the nature of my work, I may be in an area without signal for days or leading a digital detox. Please allow up to a week for a response.
