You may have noticed that everywhere you go, there are ‘weeds’ growing out of pavement cracks, walls, at the bottom of lampposts and all over your garden! If you are frustrated by their tenacity, you might like to also know that most of them are wild medicines, used for millennia for health.
It’s true. Wild medicines are absolutely everywhere.
Join me, Lucy Blunden, your local, professional Medical Herbalist, after the Kings Langley Local Produce Market (where I have a stall!) and explore the medicines you are ‘tripping over’ every day!
We will wander in the churchyard and a little way along Church Lane as I have spotted 22 medicinal herbs in this area. It will be a gentle amble which stops frequently and ends sitting on logs in a circle for a tea tasting. PLEASE BRING A MUG!
Leave feeling inspired and astonished by nature’s abundant medicine chest.
Date:- Saturday, 20th June, 2026
Time:- 12.30-2pm
Venue:- Meeting point - by the Church sign on Church Lane, Kings Langley, WD4 8JS
Price:- £10 per person EARLY BIRD - until 19/5/26 - £15 on the day (cash or card)
Tickets:- Buy your tickets here: https://dandelion.events/e/wildmedicines
Clothing:- Please dress for the weather and wear shoes for uneven terrain and pavements.
Equipment:- Bring a mug. Camera. Notebook (all optional)
Parking:- Free Car Park 2 Langley Hill, Kings Langley WD4 9HD and free street parking in the area.
Meeting point: Meet by this sign on Church Lane, Kings Langley, WD4 8JS
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 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.
