Exciting news!

Junior Herbalist Club is coming to Hull and East Yorkshire.

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Do you want your children to learn about the healing properties of plants? ​

Register your interest now:

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Junior Herbalist Club aims to let children explore and learn about the essential healing and medicinal plants around them in a safe and supervised environment. 

Children’s learning includes

• Identification of common heritage medicinal plants growing all around them

• Safety – which herbs are safe to use and which are poisonous

• Folklore, heritage & history – taught through stories and songs

• How to grow and harvest herbs

• Medicinal uses of common herbs

• How to use a variety of common herbs for first aid

• How to make a variety of herbal preparations to keep and take home

• Respect for all plants and their environment

By the end of the year, the children will be able to

• Correctly identify many common medicinal plants growing in their gardens, parks, hedgerows and streets and distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous plants

• Know the medicinal properties of many common plants

• Understand how to use some of these plants in first aid and how to use some plants for making medicines

• Enjoy listening to the stories and tales of folklore and history surrounding the plants and plant medicine

• Know how to cultivate and harvest plants whilst respecting their environment and all of nature

Each month focuses on one particular healing plant. Children are taught how to correctly identify the plant, about the origins of the plant name (both common and botanical names) and about the plant’s habitat and life cycle. Next, we look at the history and folklore surrounding the plant. This may include storytelling, songs and humorous anecdotes! We then discuss the medicinal qualities of the plant, the primary constituents responsible for the healing activity, and the uses for the plant, both internally and externally. Children are encouraged to participate in the discussion, adding their own ideas and thoughts. Children are given a worksheet after each session to be completed before the next meeting. This helps them to remember what we have learnt and acts as their very own portfolio of medicinal plant learning.