Arlene Burnett Medical Herbalist

25/11/2025

Gearing up for December and the end of market season for 2025, and I’m pretty excited about the whole thing 🥳🎄

I will be out with the stall on the run up to Christmas before I take a break from markets until at least March next year. l have had fun creating some new seasonal blends which will be out on the stall along with the regular herbals and teas.

Sooooo if you’re after a stock up of your teas and herbals to keep you going or you are looking for an ethical present for someone that won’t end in landfill, I will be out at my regular markets and happy to say I’ll be back at the Stirchley Community Market Christmas 🎄 🔔 🎄 🔔 🎄

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 🌱

11/10/2025

Plants will never cease to amaze me. ‘Horse tail’ equisetum arvense, an ancient primitive plant.
When lifting a plastic membrane that had previously been laid at the community allotment today, we uncovered the rhizomes of a plant not ready to give up. Horse tail is notoriously difficult to manage, due to its deep roots and spreading rhizomes. As we found today - years after being ‘smothered’ it had found a way to survive the blanket of plastic.
So whilst putting the world to rights we made horsetail wreaths and discussed the medicinal uses from tissue healing to prostatitis.

09/10/2025

Progress today on the community allotment 🌱
After years of neglect it’s great to uncover evidence of previous planting at the site
Today - the pear tree and horsetail
Anyone who wants to come down on Saturday we will be looking at horsetail and it’s medicinal properties, and eating apples

06/10/2025

You may have heard me mention - quite a few times - that myself and fellow medical herbalist are working on a community herbal medicine garden in Birmingham. We are looking to promote herbal medicine, create opportunities for medical herbalists and herbal students and for those with an interest in herbal medicine or community gardening. We are hoping to create a welcoming place for the local community and those who may not be local who wish to get involved in some shape or form.
Soooo if any of that sounds interesting to you, or you are just looking for something to do one day here are the dates for October 🍂 🍁

Feel free to pass on to anyone who may be interested.

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