Arlene Burnett Medical Herbalist

09/11/2025

08/11/2025

Testing the soil today at the community herbal medicine plot. Test results - soil smell - none, worms - 1 , scientific conclusions - much more organic matter needed! 🪱
Pic 5 Rebecca looking super pleased with all the grafting she did today. No pics of us sitting down eating cake .
If hunting for worms, making mud balls, doing experiments with soil in jars, putting the world to rights whilst drinking tea and eating cake sounds like your thing, this community herbal medicine allotment may be your thing! Did I mention medicinal plants? There will be an abundance of medicinal plant growing and medicine making too 🌱

30/10/2025

Fancy coming down to the Community Herbal Medicine Garden this November?
We unearthed from within the brambles a previously created pond, so we’ll be continuing to clear that area and start to redevelop a pond and bog garden area. We will also be making a start plotting out the herbal spiral garden area this month.
If you fancy coming along give me a message or a 👍 on the WhatsApp group

25/10/2025

Chilly chilly on the community plot today, but we made some good progress.
Emma rocking the wheelbarrow look 💪 laying down a layer of compost marking out the area which will be our spiral herbal growing area 🌀🌱

21/10/2025

We’re at the community allotment on Saturday folks if you fancy coming along 🌱

29/09/2025

We had the gorgeous setting of Packwood House, Warwickshire for Saturdays workshop where we celebrated the wonderful hedgerows and woods and their generous Autumn medicine.
The gardens at Packwood are stunning, and we were nestled in beside the Yew Garden in the gorgeous stone ‘summerhouse’. It was a real privilege to have been invited back there with Pyn to deliver our Seasonal Brew workshop, combining folklore herb-lore brew-making and story. 🍂 🍁 🍂

23/09/2025

It’s been a busy but great September back out on the stall. There’s been sun, rain and thunderstorms and some days all 3 😂
it’s been so nice to see all my fellow traders and customers again - and I’ll be doing it all again next month - probably wearing lots of layers as there’s def a chill in the air now 🌞🌧️⚡️❄️🌱

You can find me and the teas each month -
- 1st Sunday
, Kingsheath - 2nd Sunday
- 3rd Saturday
, Bournville -3rd Sunday

15/09/2025

hello, if anyone is interested in the new community medicine garden I am setting up with fellow med herbalist Emma Louise Cowley please follow the new page i have set up - although i am not the best on tech so i cant work out how to add the link 🫣 - anyway the page is Community Medicine Birmingham, and if you know anyone who would like to get involved or know more please feel free to share
many many thanks
Arlene

04/09/2025

Hope everyone had a wonderful summer. 🌞 I had a holiday which didn’t involve working, and went back home to the NE of Scotland which was heaven, I got my fix of wild wind, rain, sea and clear rivers for a while - not to mention the very unhealthy NE Scotland delicacies of rowies, battered white pudding and macaroni pies - even more heaven.

Anyway after a beautiful bit of time out I’m back and raring to go.

First up I’ll be back this Sunday for the monthly market, I can’t wait to be back.

And if anyone wants to get involved in a community herbal medicine garden in Hodge hill Birmingham, myself and will be there this Saturday, plotting out the layout for the garden, starting to clear space for next seasons growing and generally tea drinking and chatting.
If you want to get involved or fancy coming down and see what it’s all about send me a message on here and I’ll give you more details.

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