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Rowan McOnegal Kitchen Pharmacy, Herefordshire
🌿 Hedgerow Medicine
🌾 Herbal Courses

Come and learn how to make your own top quality additive free cosmetics and herbal preparations, explore and harvest herbs from Rowan's own organic garden. This practical weekend course will enable you to make herbal remedies from fresh and dried herbs.

02/03/2026

I really love seen g these little coltsfoot flowers appearing - they pop up as soon as the soil warms up a bit in spring, usually by roadsides , disturbed soil, tracks … rich in zinc, great for coughs and immune protection. The leaves come later ( shaped like a hoof print ) and have a felty , downy cobweb like skin on them. You can make tea from the leaves too.

26/02/2026

A kind friend gave me a large box of fresh rosemary from her much loved garden. I’m drinking the tea, drying some, making rosemary infused apple cider vinegar and will also plant some cuttings. I love this herb and I feel I need its solar energy at the moment too. Juliette de Baïracli Levy, a famous herbalist, said it was her favorite herb and planted it wherever she went. She describes making a tea for colds with rosemary, cayenne and ginger in hot cider ( alternating with sage and borage & honey). In the garden rosemary protects other plants from insect pests. It’s one of the most important aromatics, with many medicinal uses, including a ‘supreme heart tonic’. It in in ‘The Queen of Hungary’s Water’ ( valued as a cure-all & beautifier), is antiseptic and astringent, used for wounds and nervous ailments. It’s also good as a hair tonic, for bites & stings, as an incense & perfume and in cooking (eg a raw sprig eaten every day) . I love its aromatic, uplifting balsamic top notes & bitter scent & taste. And it’s evergreen 💚 and can root in the tiniest amount of soil - I’ve seen it growing out of rocks

25/02/2026

I was very pleased to welcome Siân Lester, natural dyer extraordinaire, to run an exciting madder workshop here last week. Siân is a wonderful textile designer & artist and has been working with natural dye plants for many years. She’ll be coming back to do more here and we are planning a joint offering which will involve exploring the many dimensions of working with plants with ceremony and sensitivity 🙏🏽💚 more info soon! The final pic is of the lake pigment I made from the remains of the dye bath pigments

07/02/2026

Very pleased to be an Ambassador for the herb society . see their website https://herbsociety.org.uk/ for more info 💚🪴

29/01/2026

Spring is coming! I love the vanilla benzoin like fragrance of winter heliotrope (great ground cover for verges and rough dry shady ground) , witchazel, winter hellebore, snowdrops, winter aconite, viburnum bodnantense, winter sweet and honeysuckle continue to flower. Rosemary and bay are also likely to flower soon .

25/01/2026

Imbolc approaches. The world keeps turning, especially tangible at Avebury. I used to travel past this special place regularly, and it was grounding to visit again and make contact with the energies here, a portal and connection to a stream of ancient power. It felt very grounding to call in after a long gap. I needed it, after a major transition for my dear mum 🙏🏽❤️ and for our family.

12/01/2026

Enjoying the wassailing at the Big Apple celebration in Putley - seasonal blessing of the orchards 🙏🏽💚 so good to see this ancient tradition being revitalised in many villages in Herefordshire ( thanks to Glenn for his beautiful pic of the 13 fires )

09/01/2026

Looking forward to the spring Seed Swap on February 7th. I have my sweet peas growing happily and eagerly anticipating the next growing season, while of course just trying to maintain wintering mode …. Keep walking... steady and calm, present with what is …. Still drawn to hibernate

21/12/2025

Fire, earth , air and water. Sending winter solstice blessings out to you all. We are of nature, part of the whole 🙏🏽💚🔥 connect and respect all

11/12/2025

I’ll be at Hellens on Sunday with herbal teas ( plenty of the famous ‘tea of happiness’, much needed atm!), beeswax, fragrant herbal creams, ‘the year in herbs’ calendars, a wide range of handprinted cards, a few delightful dark oxalis plants and some framed woodblock prints - together with lots of other wonderful makers in a beautiful venue - the mistletoe is up & the fairy lights are up! (Bring cash if you can ) it promises to be another unique Christmas fair

27/11/2025

Time to rest 💚🙏🏽 it’s always helpful to observe nature and go with the flow. There are still seeds to be gathered, and roots to harvest, and there are shoots just waiting under the ground …. But on the surface everything is relaxed. Not dead but hibernating ….

10/11/2025

Some moments in autumn. The fire is in the beech leaves, serpents in the branches of the ancient mossy oak pollards at Croft Ambrey, one of my favourite places. It’s an Iron Age hill fort with a Romano-Celtic temple and a medieval warren of up to five pillow mounds ( used for rabbit farming) on the summit of a prominent steeply sloping spur overlooking Yatton Marsh and the valley of a tributary to Allcock’s Brook. Below the hill fort is the beautiful Fishpool Valley, landscaped during the late 18th century in the naturalistic ‘Picturesque’ style. There’s a chain of dams and pools, carefully planted trees and architecture such as the icehouse, grotto, pumphouse and limekiln. The ponds are so beautiful in the autumn. There are also some stunning g hornbeams at the gateways as you walk up, like sentinels, and majestic sweet chestnuts that are sadly dying but still standing in an avenue .

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I offer a range of one and two day courses for those who want to find out more about the healing powers of plants, and how we can benefit from a closer relationship with nature.

I have always been passionate about plants.

I advocate the living tradition of herbal medicine through teaching practical courses, writing and lecturing. I aim to raise awareness of environmental issues, to teach people about the qualities of common, easily found plants to make simple remedies, thus empowering people to look after themselves and to nurture and value their environment – to care for the soil.

Having studied herbal medicine at the School of Herbal Medicine (Phytotherapy), and botany at the University of Birmingham, I qualified as a Medical herbalist in 1990. Privileged to have learnt from Christopher Hedley (my first teacher), Carol and Stephen Church, Carole Guyett and many others, I was a consultant Medical Herbalist for many years, growing and making my most of my own medicines, whilst teaching others to do likewise.