Grass Roots Remedies Co-op

06/04/2026

Thinking of volunteering with us or Edinburgh Agroecology Coop or coming along to events with us and Rhyze Mushrooms or Granton Garden Bakery ?

A wee photo guide of how to find us from the Toby Carvery car park, right down to the bottom of the farm where you'll find us & Rhyze next to the market garden.

Volunteer sign up link https://volunteersignup.org/H987R?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcARAbIZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAaciZMRRRP6alMBrm05_vy801aB5MT4v3loG6YjDADcSTzNX-UTvMlKXuwCbKA_aem_wMQ1Ofwt5xuBZGC340gxwg 🌱💚🌱

03/04/2026

Late Spring / Early Summer lunar plant connection 🌙 ✨️

Join us for each moon to delve deeply into one plant ally - 🌱Plantain 🌳Hawthorn 🍵Lemonbalm

Plant Allies is £15 per cycle - giving you access to all previous plant allies. Bookings close 16th April

Near Edinburgh? Connect with us & our plant ally in person on the farm 1st May, 5th June & 3rd July for an additional £30 per cycle

Booking Link https://grassrootsremedies.podia.com/770ba94c-22ec-415d-a3e6-b4948a84f9e7 note the course website shows the cost for 5 years of Plant Allies - you can choose to stay for the whole time or leave at a point that suits you

Next signs ups are in late June / early July

02/04/2026

Join Jillian and the rest of the The Health Agency team for some tasty Spring treats this afternoon 🌱💚🌱

🌸 Community Meal – Celebrate Spring 🌿

The Tasting Change team and Grass Roots Remedies are joining forces to celebrate the arrival of spring, new beginnings, and the birth of a brand new herbalist, Jillian! 🪻

Join us for a nourishing community meal made with amazing local produce, lovingly foraged and crafted into:

🌿 Fresh pesto
💧 Herbal infused water
🍯 Handmade flapjacks

📍 Health Agency Space
🕧 12:30pm – Tomorrow

Come along to share good food, connect with others, and welcome the new season together 💛

Everyone is welcome – bring a friend or just yourself!

Tasting Change Wester Hailes Wester Hailes Community Trust Prospect Community Housing Wester Hailes Medical Practice Wester Hailes Growing Communities WHALE Arts Communitywellbeingcollective Grass Roots Remedies Co-op SCOREscotland With Kids Edinburgh

31/03/2026

4-6pm tomorrow - next herb farm volunteer session, learn about bountiful medicinal plants which we grow and forage here at Lauriston Farm with Edinburgh Agroecology Coop 🌱💚🌱

Sign up link with more info in bio - ypu can get to the farm on public transport from Central Edinburgh or park at Toby Carvery 🍜🍵🍜

30/03/2026

Earlier this month we held our second 2026 workshop at The Health Agency in Wester Hailes - with funding from the Herbal Medicine Trust 🌱💚🌱

A record turnout of 16 folk created a refreshing coconut citrus body wash. This included infusing lemongrass into coconut oil, blending it with raw honey and Castile soap, and finishing with citrus essential oils🏺💚🏺

Looking forward to seeing folk back in April to make remedies with some nutritious Spring Greens 🌱🧄🌱

25/03/2026

Community Lunch is paused this week - back Thursday 2nd April 🌱💚🌱

Tasting Change Wester Hailes Wester Hailes Community Trust Wester Hailes Medical Practice Wester Hailes Growing Communities Starcatchers Wester Hailes WHALE Arts Wester Hailes Digital Sentinel Grass Roots Remedies Co-op

25/03/2026

🌱🧄🌱 Wild Garlic harvest with one of the youngest Grass Roots Remedies team 🌱🧄🌱

If you can handle ✂️ you can help with the harvest - great to start them young

21/03/2026

🌸🌹 Flowering Currant 🌸 Ribes sanguineum.🌹🌸

Sweet, astringent & beautifully abundant, these flowers make a delicious, muneral-rich infused vinegar, packed with Vitamin C. Later un the season, keep an eye out for the berries 🫐 - though make sure to leave some for the birds

Want to find out more about our abundant wild & cultivated plant allies - come join us on Wednesdays on the farm Edinburgh Agroecology Coop We still have a few herb garden volunteering spots during the rest of March & into April - link https://volunteersignup.org/H987R?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcAQrQx9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAaf6EgOlnup9s4YjDs6_hzz6pvbcDAhAnux-GyAu4I4SkdFoG950f2QPOAx67A_aem_gKrMSdv2AW9SrvZzEXDdUw 👩‍🌾🌱💚

18/03/2026

🌱 Spring Greens 🌱 Gorgeous day for a wee check in on the plants that we'll be looking at next week on our Wild Things walks in Edinburgh & Glasgow

The season feels a bit slow to start this year, a few days of sun and some showers should help things along

Waiting for the Garlic Mustard, Nettle & Cleavers to get big enough to pick and already feasting on Wild Garlic & Few Flowered Leek 🌰 🌱🧄

18/03/2026

Join Jillian this Sunday for herbal chats and much more

This Sunday 22nd March come along to the Greenway Garden for BBQ food, open mic music, chalk art, historical photos, DiscGolf, herbal teas, play and seed sowing 🌱

Bring along your neighbours, and/or any spare seeds you have to swap, and if you have an instrument bring it along to share your music 🪕

10am to 4pm
(BBQ food between 12 and 1pm)

See you there 🌻

WHALE Arts Starcatchers Wester Hailes Grass Roots Remedies Co-op Communitywellbeingcollective Dr Scott Arthur MP Wester Hailes Youth Agency Big Noise Wester Hailes Greenway Garden Calders Green Shoots Community Garden Wester Hailes Growing Communities

17/03/2026

Herbal clinic bookings open 🌱💚🌱

Edinburgh The Health Agency on Wednesdays - low cost clinic for folk living & working in Wester Hailes + a couple of General Rate spaces available each month

Glasgow woodlandherbs on Tuesdays - taking April/May bookings

12/03/2026

👋🏼 Hello from Grass Roots Remedies 👋🏼

We've had a load of new followers this month, so thought we'd introduce ourselves, with a wee bonus of some favourite books and plants of the season – we never have absolute favourite plants, how could we pick?? 🌿🌷🪻🌾

💚 Ally (She/Her) is a founding member of the co-op, medical herbalist and often to be found donning ear-protectors for some serious strimming at Lauriston Farm in Edinburgh Edinburgh Agroecology Coop

📚 British Woodland: How to Explore the Secret World of our Forests by Ray Mears 🌳🌳 Penguin Books
🌿Cleavers (Gallium aparine) & Cacao (Theobroma cacao) 🫘🏺

💚Catriona (She/Her) joined the co-op in 2020, is also a medical herbalist and when she isn't looking surprised in front of a tree, is often found looking for plants in Queens Park in Glasgow

📚 Rats: A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan🐀 Bloomsbury Publishing UK
🌷Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)🌷

💚Rhona (She/Her) joined the co-op after being a student on our Wild Things course, she's a community herbalist and when she isn't wandering the meadows of the farm, you can find her in her polytunnel growing herbs and veg

📚Community: People and Wildlife on the West Coast of Scotland by Jane Smith 🪽 Birlinn Books
🪻Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris)🪻

💚 Soraya (She/Her) is a founding member of the co-op and a community herbalist, when she isn't messing about with mushrooms, you'll find her lacto-fermenting anything and everything

📚 Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper 🦉 Penguin Random House
🌾Few Flowered Leek (Allium paradoxum)🌾

And finally, we are all forever and constantly reading, referring to and sharing with our students the amazing book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya & Raj Patel