Which of the wild and wonderful plants will make you wee? Which will make you poo? And, which of the plants we see every day can make your knee scrapes and elbow bumps feel better? Use your senses and explore the wild medicines surrounding us every day. Wild medicines are absolutely everywhere and we can all make use of them.
This event is aimed at children aged 6+ (but you know your child best)
Join me, Lucy Blunden, your local, professional Medical Herbalist, for an afternoon exploring and using your senses for some Summer Holiday fun. End with a medicinal syrup tasting.
Leave feeling inspired and astonished by nature’s abundant medicine chest.
Date:- Tuesday, 4th August, 2026
Time:- 2.00-3.30pm
Venue:- Bunkers Park, Car Park (beyond Poppy Fields Cemetery) off Bedmond Lane, HP3 8LL
Price:- £10 per child (early bird until 1/8/26) £15 on the day
Sibling discount 50% eg 2 related children = £15
Tickets:-
Clothing:- Please dress for the weather and wear shoes for uneven, grassy terrain, sunscreen and hats. Bring water.
Parking:- Bunkers Park Car Park, off Bedmond Lane, HP3 8LL (Go beyond the Poppy Field Cemetery)
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Meeting point: Meet in the car park as above. What 3 Words and Google Maps above
Meet your host and guide, Lucy Blunden:
I’m a professional Medical Herbalist with a lifelong love of plants, people, and the quiet magic that happens when the two come together. I discovered herbal medicine through the joyful realisation that healing plants grow all around us — in gardens, hedgerows, wasteland and even through pavement cracks. Once you learn to recognise them, you start seeing medicine everywhere (and I still regularly trip over it!).
I have a daughter who is aged 9 and has been raised on Herbal Medicines - where most people use Calpol, I use Chamomile!
I qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Herbal Medicine from Middlesex University in 2008 and have spent the years since supporting people through 1-2-1 practice, teaching the next generation of herbalists, and sharing the deeply nurturing wisdom of plants. Alongside herbal medicine, I also work with Bach Flowers and EFT, bringing a gentle, empathic and holistic approach to wellbeing.
I care deeply about helping people reconnect — with themselves, with nature, and with their own inner resilience. While becoming a herbalist took a lot of study and hard graft rather than waving a wand, I do sometimes suspect the herbs themselves may be a little magical… because the transformations I witness can feel exactly that.
