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Bright and beautiful Agrimony is a common sight in our summer meadows and hedgerows, standing tall and bright with yello...
11/06/2026

Bright and beautiful Agrimony is a common sight in our summer meadows and hedgerows, standing tall and bright with yellow flowers along her strong upright stem. She is a potent medicinal and magical herb with a rich history and folklore:

Call on agrimony to reveal what is hidden - placing agrimony under a pillow was thought to induce deep, dreamless sleep, and some tales suggest it could reveal the identity of a thief if placed beneath a person’s head.

Use agrimony to release - agrimony is associated with purification and protection rituals. It is commonly used in spells to break hexes and reverse harmful intentions.

Ask agrimony to cleanse - when burned as an incense or scattered around a home, agrimony is said to cleanse the space of negativity and foster a peaceful environment.

Call on agrimony for help - Agrimony has a reputation for revealing hidden truths and promoting a sense of calm and safety. The herb was said to be useful for healing elf shot (some say this is akin to chronic fatigue).

Ask agrimony for emotional support - the flower essence is indicated for those suffering from fear and anxiety, and to dispel hidden emotions.

Use agrimony for protection- agrimony was often used in sachets or amulets for protection for its power to dispel negative energies or influences.

Remember that all herbs are multidimensional and work on all layers of being. If a herb is said to protect then it will protect on all levels.

Much of what wild plants reveal to us as their medicine will not be found in books but by direct communication and learning.

The plants are far more magical than we can explain in words.

09/06/2026

Foraging for our food and medicine from a place of heart-centred reverence, open-eyed wonder, knowing reciprocity, and deep respect has the power to reconnect us with our ancestors and the wisdom they held so lightly but so sacred, living as they did so close to their hearts and the land as a living, communicating entity.

There is a big gaping hole in our history, a missing space in which a knife was driven between us and our roots, where we were brutally severed from our traditions, where we were taught to fear and reject not just our own nature, but the larger nature of which we are a part.

And flashes still remain, in maypoles and holy wells, in cider making and ancient hedgerows, in green men, and village traditions we no longer understand. We must not reject these small, slight flashes of our history for they are holding the threads of remembrance and connection back to our older ways. Flashes which in turn hold their own threads back, back, back to the earth, back to ourselves, and back to resonance.

To love the land on which we stand is to love it as it is, while holding the vision for better times for all beings. If we can hold this paradox then we can grow forwards, backwards, up, out, and down at the same time. If we can hold this paradox we can heal, remember, and rebuild our connections to the living land beneath our feet.

🌿Come and join me in Lavenham for foraging, wild medicine & folklore walks. June and July walks open for booking. Check out links for details.

08/06/2026

As this herb of thresholds and consciousness expansion begins to fully embrace the energies of summer and fill the hedgerows and wild edges, I am drawn again to sharing my deep love for her.

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)

A herb of protection, she was hung over doorways as a guardian to prevent unwanted energies or beings from entering the home.

A herb of rejuvenation, leaves of mugwort were placed into shoes to ward off fatigue during long journeys.

In herbal medicine, mugwort is used for digestive issues, menstrual problems, and to stimulate lucid dreaming.

Placing a sprig of mugwort under one’s pillow can enhance dreams and offer prophetic visions, a practice stemming from its association with the moon and feminine energy.

In magical practices, mugwort is often used in rituals of divination, protection, and healing. She is dried and burned as incense, used in saining, or infused into aromatic oils.

Her strong connection to the moon makes her a staple in lunar magic, aiding in the enhancement of psychic abilities and intuition.

Mugwort can also be used to cleanse and prepare for spiritual work, honouring her as a herb of introduction and communication bridge between the physical and spiritual realms.

🪶If mugwort calls you, I have many offerings in my apothecary .folk.apothecary made with her, in honour of expanding consciousness, and even an immersive course to drop you deep into resonance with her. The links are exactly where you’d expect them to be for all of these offerings, but I don’t need to tell you where they are, you’re not an idiot.

Brightest Blessings to you all,

Bernadette x

Comfrey and Elderflower Fritters.I like eating comfrey. I don’t care if it pi**es people off. My bones like it, my lungs...
05/06/2026

Comfrey and Elderflower Fritters.

I like eating comfrey. I don’t care if it pi**es people off. My bones like it, my lungs like it, my roots like it, and the community it raises in me likes it too.

Why do we fear plants because someone put them in a false box once and demonised them? Comfrey is such a wonderful medicine, such a delicious and nourishing food, but the super-limiting boundaries of a flawed animal study (the ethics of that are a discussion for another day) have caused a worrying level of outrage and fear in relation to one of our most precious ancestral herbs.

The question we should all reflect on is, why is it so easy to dismiss thousands of years of use, to deny the wisdom and responsibility of our ancestors, to disconnect ourselves from a world of healing, and to choose reduction over deep-bone knowing?

What was severed in us by that made us so easy to confuse and bewilder?

I will continue to eat comfrey.

To make this, just make a simple batter of flour, fizzy water, and baking powder. Mix in some elderflowers sprung from their stalks by running a fork downwards along the stem (this is very satisfying). You can add a little sugar if you like. It should be the consistency of thick paint. Dip the comfrey leaves in the batter then fry them in an oil or fat of your choosing. I serve them with the hedgerow jelly I make every autumn, but you can use whatever you fancy.

Every time I eat comfrey I can feel the magic of this ancient medicine filling my bones with connection. I am not telling you to eat comfrey, make up your own mind.

Energetic protection is about right relationship. With space.With energy.And with self.Visit 🔗 for .folk.apothecary walk...
02/06/2026

Energetic protection is about right relationship.

With space.
With energy.
And with self.

Visit 🔗 for .folk.apothecary walks, wild medicines, and offerings to support your return to your natural, wild self.

01/06/2026

What would it be like to know, deep in your bones, that you are made of the Earth, the sky, the stars, and the magic of a responsive and relational cosmology?

We can reclaim the wisdom held within the natural world if we can only reconnect, reclaim, and remember who we are: natu...
31/05/2026

We can reclaim the wisdom held within the natural world if we can only reconnect, reclaim, and remember who we are: natural beings who have been forcibly separated and disconnected from our natural ways of being.

I have a beautiful online course all about reconnecting and remembering through the elements. Find it at the link in my bio, it’s called Elemental Thresholds

I have come to realise that much of what is considered healthy is in fact control masquerading as making “healthy choice...
29/05/2026

I have come to realise that much of what is considered healthy is in fact control masquerading as making “healthy choices”. So much of what is elevated and admired in this world is addiction hidden in a cloak of positivity. Some of the most vibrant and beautiful (and truly healthy, happy) people I’ve ever met have been drinkers, smokers, the real lovers of life, and earth, and wildness, and when I think of them they sparkle in my memory, filled with life force energy. Some of the most hollow and broken the raw food obsessives, the yoga addicts, the militant vegetarians. So many have backed themselves into a corner of control in which they can only function within the strict boundaries of “health “ that they have constructed for themselves to be stuck within, imprisoned by their own need to control through their perceptions and creations of a “virtuous” life. The need to be good, to behave, to slip away into the background by being and consuming nothing of real value is endemic. The measure of true health is found in the level to which we can flow, let go, allow, surrender. We’re living in the quantum world even if we’re still unpacking the conditioning which has kept us trapped in the linear. The mind and the mindset is all.

*I don’t expect or require anyone to agree with me, but I will not sanitise my words or my experience to satisfy the lowest common denominator or to prevent everyone from being offended because they don’t understand that perspective is subjective. Our personal voices are vital to unpacking the conditioning that holds us all*

I originally wrote this some years ago. It enraged a few people.

You get a rare picture of me with this one 😎

Summer fullness.There’s really nothing quite like a meadow (or a garden) in the fullness of the greening. This land call...
28/05/2026

Summer fullness.

There’s really nothing quite like a meadow (or a garden) in the fullness of the greening. This land calls to me, knows my name, beckons me home to the support of being rooted in place. This land is the land my ancestors walked, their feet and hands touching the same earth as mine. This land, this place, called me home to remember.

My work here is to introduce people to that place within them, to wipe away the dust and to polish the mirror, to find a...
27/05/2026

My work here is to introduce people to that place within them, to wipe away the dust and to polish the mirror, to find and cultivate the sacred space within which will hold you always on the path of resonance.

There are many offerings at .folk.apothecary which can help you find and tend that place within.

Walks, courses, and handmade offerings from the hedgerows await you. Comment Apothecary or send me a DM and I will personally send you a link. Or you can visit the link in my bio.

Much love,

Bernadette

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