The Crafty Herbalist

The Crafty Herbalist Medical Herbalist, Educator & Founder of The Crafty Herbalist Academy. Welcome to the Crafty Herbalist Academy! Join us on a journey to holistic wellbeing.

Accredited herbal immersion course, foraging guidance & community support - online & in person - based in Chilterns, UK - International students very welcome ☺️💕 Founded by Kristine, a university-trained medical herbalist and mother, we empower women to explore the world of herbal medicine and natural health. Discover affordable and enriching community learning, deeply rooted in ancestral wisdom. Our approach is friendly, approachable, and designed for all ages.

04/06/2026

Most people who come to herbal medicine are not short on information.

They have books. Saved posts. Screenshots. Dried herbs in jars. A half-used notebook. Maybe a herbal planner they downloaded with great intentions and then forgot about when life got full.

The problem is not usually lack of interest.

It is knowing what to do next.

Which herb do you start with?

How do you know what is safe?

How do you move beyond “this herb is good for that symptom”?

How do you build actual confidence instead of collecting more bits and pieces?

That is really why I created The Crafty Herbalist Academy.

Not as another pile of content to keep up with, but as a clear, seasonal path through herbal medicine. Something you can return to slowly and properly, with guidance along the way.

The Academy opens again for the summer intake on 21st June.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing more of what’s inside, how I teach, and who it’s for - so you can get a proper feel for whether it’s the right place for you.l ☺️

The Herb Society's new website is now live at herbsociety.org.uk!The project has been a year in the making, with the Soc...
04/06/2026

The Herb Society's new website is now live at herbsociety.org.uk!

The project has been a year in the making, with the Society's trustees, support staff, web developer and volunteers working hard to make the new site a reality. This is just the beginning - as they will work to add new content and new features as they move into their centenary year in 2027.

Visit the new site to learn more about herbs and join if you’re not already a member!
Individual membership is £40 annually, and includes some great benefits:

🌿Herbs, the Society’s acclaimed magazine

🌿Archive of past publications

🌿Regular e-newsletters

🌿Exclusive Member benefits including special offers and discount codes

🌿Reduced fees at Herb Society events

🌿Write articles for our website or Herbs magazine

🌿Free listing on our online Find A Speaker resource

🌿Free online listing for your events

🌿Volunteering opportunities

🌿Herb Society Book Club

🌿Student Group

🌿Write book reviews for our website

The Herb Society

02/06/2026

Summer is not short of herbs 😏🌸

The hedgerows are currently so abundant, the flowers are out, and everything feels slightly overflowing - roses, elderflowers, yarrow, calendula, lemon balm, plantain, all of it asking to be noticed.

On Friday 3rd July, I’ll be teaching a full day of summer herbal living at Where Inspiration Blooms in Penn Street.

We’ll be working with the plants of the season in a very hands-on way - making beautiful, useful herbal preparations to take home, while exploring the medicinal, emotional and traditional side of summer herbs.

Expect flowers, scent, jars, practical remedy-making, proper herbal teaching, and definitely some lovely herbal cake and herbal seasonal treats 🥰

This is for you if you want to feel more confident making your own herbal remedies at home, without needing to know everything first.

No experience needed - just curiosity and a love of plants.

Friday 3rd July 2026
10am - 4pm
The Pavilion, Penn Street
£165, all materials included

You can book here:

https://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/product-page/the-four-seasons-of-herbal-living-summer



27/05/2026

It’s everywhere right now.

Every podcast, every magazine, every conversation between women in their forties and fifties.

HRT, HRT, HRT.

For many women it has brought real relief, and I’m not here to argue against that.

But I keep meeting women - both in my friendship circles and my herbal practice - who don’t quite fit the current conversation.

The woman who came off HRT after several years and was told there was simply nothing else.

The woman with a breast cancer history who has been advised not to take it.

The woman whose HRT keeps being adjusted - the dose, the patch, the progesterone - and still she has the aches, the foggy mornings, the sense that something is not quite right.

The woman who tried it, didn’t feel right, stopped - and was made to feel difficult for stopping.

These women are not anti-medicine.
They are not anti-HRT.

They are simply women who, for one reason or another, need another way through. And that other way does exist 💕

It involves the nervous system, the liver, the constitution of the woman in front of you, her sleep, her stress, her digestion, her heat, her dryness, her mood, her history - and a proper working knowledge of the herbs that can support this transition.

Not as a neat list of “natural alternatives to HRT”.That’s not how good herbal medicine works😉

But as a clinical, whole-woman approach to hormonal health - whether a woman is taking HRT, can’t take it, or has chosen not to.

I am thinking of teaching this properly - for my Academy students first.

A live class with the evidence, the herbs, the energetics, and the case thinking laid out clearly, so herbalists can feel more confident supporting the women who need more than the current conversation is offering.

Before I write it, I’d love to know:

Is this something you have been waiting for?

What are you seeing in your own life, or in your work?

Kristine x
Medical Herbalist & founder of the Crafty Herbalist Academy



Doesn’t it feel like it’s everywhere right now… Every podcast, every magazine, every conversation between women in their...
27/05/2026

Doesn’t it feel like it’s everywhere right now… Every podcast, every magazine, every conversation between women in their forties and fifties.

I’m talking about HRT. For many women it has brought real relief, and I’m not here to argue against that. But I keep meeting women, in my friendship circles and in my herbal clinic, who don’t quite fit the current conversation.

The woman who came off HRT after several years and was told there was simply nothing else.

The woman with a breast cancer history who has been advised not to take it.

The woman whose HRT keeps being adjusted - the dose, the patch, the progesterone - and still she has the aches, the foggy mornings, the sense that something is not quite right.

The woman who tried it, didn’t feel right, stopped - and was made to feel difficult for stopping.

These women are not anti-medicine. They are not anti-HRT.

They are simply women who, for one reason or another, need another way through. And that other way does exist 💕

It involves the nervous system, the liver, the constitution of the woman in front of you, her sleep, her stress, her digestion, her heat, her dryness, her mood, her history - and a proper working knowledge of the herbs that can support this transition.

Not as a neat list of “natural alternatives to HRT”. That’s not how good herbal medicine works😉

But as a clinical, whole-woman approach to hormonal health - whether a woman is taking HRT, can’t take it, or has chosen not to.

I am thinking of teaching this properly - for my Academy students first. A live class with the evidence, the herbs, the energetics, and the case thinking laid out clearly, so herbalists can feel more confident supporting the women who need more than the current conversation is offering.

Before I start writing up my notes for this class, I’d love to know:
Is this something you have been waiting for?
What are you seeing in your own life, or in your work?

Kristine x

Medical herbalist & founder of the Crafty Herbalist Academy



23/05/2026

The academy will open to new students at Midsummer, and my in-person herbal medicine day is also available for booking - half the tickets have gone already so don’t leave it too long if you’re keen to join me for a day of foraging and herbal remedy making ☺️🌸🍃

All info can be found in my bio x

23/05/2026

The first dog roses are opening in the hedge by the lane of my daughter’s school 🌸

Pale pink, almost transparent in the early light, with a scent so light you can walk past one without catching it.

By the time I come back from half term break there will be roses I have missed entirely - opening, fading, and gone again before I walk back down the lane 💕

This is the most generous week of the year. Cow parsley coming up higher than my shoulders. Elderflower just lifting its first creamy plates. The garden in that particular green that only holds for two weeks before the heat dulls it - the green of new oak leaves, of grass before the seed heads come, of nettle before it tires.

I stood out there at dawn this morning with a cup of tea in my hand and could not quite take it all in… Every year I forget how quickly it happens, and every year I am caught out by it. It kinda takes my breath away.

If you are paying attention to one thing this week, let it be the hedge. Walk slowly. Look up. Notice how many flowers are appearing at once - so many you cannot keep track of them all.
There is so much going on you will only catch some of it. And I guess that is fine - but it also breaks my heart a little bit 💕

13/05/2026

Pink hawthorn always makes me stop for a moment 💕 I adore all hawthorn - the creamy white May blossom, the tender spring leaves, the red haws later in the year - and yes, you will often find me nibbling the young leaves and flowers when I’m out walking at this time of year.

But pink hawthorn has a particular pull. It looks soft and romantic, but hawthorn has never been just pretty. In folklore, it is known as the May tree, the fairy tree, the hedge tree - deeply loved, but also treated with caution. People admired the blossom outside, yet often thought twice before bringing it indoors.

Medicinally, hawthorn is one of our great heart herbs. The flowers, leaves and berries have long been used to support the heart and circulation, and modern research has looked at compounds such as flavonoids and procyanidins.

But hawthorn is not a quick-fix herb. It is slow, steady medicine. And pink hawthorn is traditionally said to reach a little deeper into the emotional heart - where grief, love, tenderness and protection often sit close together. Which makes sense to me. Because hawthorn has thorns… make sure to do your own research if you’re not a student of mine and speak to your local medical herbalist if you have a heart condition or are on medication.

This is the kind of plant I love teaching inside The Crafty Herbalist Academy - folklore, science, energetics, medicine, taste, season, and the old stories tangled in the hedgerow.

Doors open again soon. Join the waiting list if you’d like to learn herbal medicine in a grounded, seasonal and practical way 🍀 oh and do reach out with any questions! Kristine x

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