Anne McIntyre Herbalist and Ayurvedic Practitioner

27/11/2025

Curious about Ayurveda? Begin your journey with the Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation Year and book before 1st December for the Early Bird price of £1,095.

Monthly online text based lessons (Feb - Sept) + four immersive workshops here at Artemis House, all designed to help you understand your unique constitution, deepen your connection with herbs and live a healthier and more vibrant life.

Accessible on all devices, for learning wherever you are. Downloadable lessons for you to keep forever.

You can either buy the course online, or contact us to be sent an invoice for BACS payment.

27/11/2025

26/11/2025

How to be a Home Herbalist - Early Bird Offer Ends Monday 1st December!

🗓 February – September 2026
📍 Artemis House
💻 Blended Online + In-Person
💷 £1,095 Early Bird

If you’ve been thinking about joining How to be a Home Herbalist, now’s the moment to take action.

This is one of our longer courses, which blends eight text-based online modules (released monthly Feb-Sept) with three hands-on practical workshops here in the working herb garden at Artemis House in the Cotswolds - the perfect place to bring your learning to life.

Across the modules we take a look at the information you need to use herbs to support your health:

🌱 How to identify, grow, collect and store herbs to create your own preparations
🌱 How to make your own tinctures, salves, glycerites and more
🌱The systems of the body and herbs that support each system
🌱Common ailments & practical treatments

During the workshops you’ll get to practice making herbal preparations in person, as well as spending time in our beautiful herb garden, an incredible living classroom through all seasons.

To find out more send us a message, or go to the courses and workshops section of the website in the link above. We can’t wait to see you next year!

28/10/2025

Ginkgo biloba is a particularly beautiful tree to have in any garden throughout the year, but it is especially striking in autumn, when its fan-shaped leaves turn a brilliant yellow before falling almost all at once into a golden carpet on the ground below. This tree is essentially a living fossil, the sole surviving member of a lineage that dates back over 200 million years.

In China, ginkgo has long been used in both food and traditional medicine, and it is revered as a symbol of longevity and resilience. Across East Asia - in Shintoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism - the ginkgo tree is considered sacred and is often planted around temples and monasteries.

Remarkably, several ginkgo trees survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, making the species a powerful symbol of peace, hope, and endurance for the Japanese people.

As a herbal medicine, ginkgo has been shown to support circulation and cognitive function, and to help reduce anxiety thanks to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Other potential benefits include promoting eye health and alleviating premenstrual symptoms.

15/10/2025

We have updated the website with dates for our day courses and will add dates for Anne’s garden walks (with homemade herbal teas of course!).

🌷Potions & Petals
🗓 16th June 2025 | ⏰ 10am – 4pm | 📍 Artemis House
Come and join Anne to uncover the untapped healing potential of your own garden. You don’t need to start a medicinal garden from scratch – your garden is already filled with plants and flowers that can be used to support your health.

❄️Sage & Snow
🗓 5th November 2026 | 📍 Artemis House | ⏰ 10am – 4pm
As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, winter invites us to slow down, rest and turn inward. Sage and Snow is a seasonal herbal medicine course designed to help you meet these colder months with resilience, warmth and vitality.

🪴Garden Walks
🗓 TBC | 📍 Artemis House | ⏰ 10am – 12pm
A two-hour guided tour of the Artemis House spiral herb garden accompanied by a handout with information about the herbs and their uses to take home for your own reference. The tour is followed by homemade herbal teas and cake.

Spaces are limited to 15 people.

Book now via the link in bio.

15/10/2025

We also have shorter courses and day workshops - there’s something for everyone!

🌸Herbs for Women’s Health: Seasons and Cycles
🗓 Workshops: 10th & 11th March 2026 |📍 Online and at Artemis House | ⏰ 10am – 4pm
This is a short blended course exploring how herbs, diet and lifestyle choices can help support vitality, clarity and emotional and physical resilience at every stage of a woman’s life.

🫜Herbs to Support Gut Health
🗓 9th April 2026 | 📍 Artemis House | ⏰ 10am – 4pm
This ever popular workshop is a full day dedicated to exploring how herbal medicine, food and lifestyle can work together to support digestive wellbeing.

🧠Herbs for Mental and Emotional Resilience
🗓 14th May 2026 | 📍 Artemis House | ⏰ 10am – 4pm
Drawing from both Western herbal medicine and Ayurvedic wisdom, this course will explore the deep interconnection between mind, body and spirit, offering you practical tools and natural remedies to build resilience and restore balance.

Spaces are limited to 15 people.

Book now via the link in bio.

15/10/2025

We're thrilled to announce that Anne's 2026 courses at Artemis House are now on the website and open for booking.

Our unique blended courses combine online learning with in-person workshops and next year's courses include:

🪷The Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation Year:
This is a unique opportunity for those new to Ayurveda to explore its core principles and discover how they apply to everyday life.

🪷The Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Further Year:
This is your opportunity to deepen your understanding, broaden your practical knowledge and explore how the profound teachings of Ayurveda can continue to support your own healing journey and that of others.

🌿How to be a Home Herbalist:
Whether you are completely new to herbal medicine or looking to deepen your existing knowledge, this course will empower you with the confidence, skills and understanding to use herbs safely and effectively at home.

Spaces are limited to 15 people.

Book now via the link in bio.

08/10/2025

Home grown, home made delicious Artemis House teas. Which one is your favourite?

06/10/2025

A break from herbal medicine for a personal post…

My youngest daughter, Emilia, is Head of Therapeutic Services for Riverside Counselling Service, an affordable counselling service for clients based in Henley and Wallingford.

Her fiancé is running the Henley half marathon to raise money for this very worthy cause on Sunday 19th October. If you feel able to make a donation to help them reach their target over the next couple of weeks, it would be very much appreciated!

23/09/2025

Autumn evenings, just the sound of the wind in the trees and birds calling to each other.

The garden may be winding down for winter but it’s still beautiful look at and full of herbs for us to use in the dispensary.

19/09/2025

Use your senses!

We were in the garden, digging up seedlings from the gravel path to move to their designated bed, and we got on the topic of what senses we use to recognise plants when they are small.

It’s easy to see that these little marshmallow plants have similar shaped leaves to their full grown neighbours.

There’s not much to smell as they don’t have a particularly strong scent.

But my favourite identification ‘tell’ is touch by stroking their velvety soft leaves, which are quite unlike similar looking plants and the final clue to accurately identifying them.

So this post is to say, don’t forget to use all of your senses when you are out foraging and collecting herbs!

15/09/2025

A little while ago I was interviewed by Maya for an article in , you can see the full article via the link in their bio.

I loved our conversation, we know each other very well and it was a wonderful opportunity to chat about my path to becoming the practitioner I am today, as well as how the garden here at Artemis House is designed for both beauty and practicality.

Thank you so much to Maya for choosing to interview me and to Camilla for taking such lovely photos of the garden.