Hackney Herbal, Studio 16, 8-20 Well Street, London (2026)

27/03/2026

Herb Walks are back! 👟🌳
Wilder green spaces are abundant with springtime weeds at this time of year and most of these are both edible and medicinal! Spring is such an exciting time as we welcome back some of our favourite herbs who have distinct points in the season when they can be seen. To learn more about wild plants we would love you to join us on our April Herb Walk 🌿

🌞Spring Herb Walk🌞
📍 Hackney Marshes
📅 Saturday 11th April
⏰ 3:00-5:30pm

These walks are designed to introduce you to the abundance of edible and medicinal plants living within our urban ecosystems. It’s an opportunity to discover and connect to the plants growing around us, learn how to identify them and find out more about their uses and history. If you would like to build your confidence in identifying wild plants and meet others who share a love for herbs this is the walk for you!
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Full details and booking link in bio. We look forward to herb walking with you!💛

10/03/2026

Late winter moments 🌨️🌞
A look at what we’ve been up to in recent times and where our herbals have taken us. It’s been lovely to collaborate with a mix of old and new partners and share our love of everything herbal with so many of you 🌿

✨Herbs for stress and sleep with
🌳Moments to reset and be still around the canal
🌼Making OG lip balms with the Garden Club group
🌸Variety of aromatherapy and self-care workshops with and
🌅Hackney skies
🔮February simmer pot ingredients
🌿9-week Cleavers challenge iykyk
🧪Aromatherapy workshop for IWD as part of Winter Warmers
🪱🌝 Worm moon
🧴Herbs for the skin with Dragon Cafe
🌞Calendula sunshine oil
🐦‍⬛Forever stalking birds
🫖 Tea Blending for IWD with
🪴The Herb Garden shining in the nearly-spring sunshine

11/02/2026

Nature is a twig and some other thoughts on winter. Re-hashed from a post a few years back!

A gentle reminder that right now nature isn’t trying to do its best, it’s not trying to set big plans for the year ahead or even thinking about how and when it’s going to bloom this year. It isn’t thinking much about the future, it isn’t setting intentions, it’s resting, saving it’s energy and definitely not trying to do all the things.

Trees are brown, twiggy, skeletal, still beautiful of course but not making any effort to put on a show. Much or our natural world is literally hanging out, dormant, seemingly lifeless.

Don’t get me wrong, the signs of early spring are upon us and some of us might be feeling the call for an early spring clean, making way for fresh ideas. But it’s equally fine if you are feeling called to lean into rest and do the bare minimum required (highly recommended if possible).

Despite capitalism’s best attempts to make us think otherwise, working endlessly, being fully productive day after day, all year round is not something that we can sustain. We are also living through times when our nervous systems are most overwhelmed and burnt out. Our energies wax and wane in relation to the seasons and each of us as individuals have ‘our time’ when we find it easier to be present and engaged.

So if your season isn’t wet and soggy winter just remember those brown, twiggy, ‘dead like’ plants and that it’s ok to hang out, rest, say no until you feel ready for your own next season.

sending love 🤎

31/01/2026

Join us tomorrow for our first garden get together of the season❤️‍🔥We will be celebrating Imbolc - the Gaelic festival marking the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. It’s an exciting time when we begin to see the first stirrings of a new season as the garden starts to gently waken from its winter slumber.

The Herb Garden will be open to explore and we will have warm drinks, hot soup and a fire to keep us cosy!The event is free to attend and open to all ❤️‍🔥

✨Please remember to bring✨

🧣Warm clothes
☕️ A mug for tea
🥣 A bowl and spoon for soup

📅 Sunday 1st February
⏰12.00 - 3.00pm
🌳Hackney Herbal Garden
📍1 Trowbridge Road Hackney Wick E9 5LD

18/12/2025

Wow, what a year! Our hearts are full as we reflect on another packed year at Hackney Herbal. This one was extra special as we celebrated our 10th Birthday. As we approach the incoming solstice and the end of the year we are once again so grateful for all of you who are part of our community. You make Hackney Herbal what it is and without you and we are so thankful for this.

Hackney Herbal was established with the core aim of making nature-based activities accessible and freely available to people in our local community. Here is a snapshot of our social impact in numbers and some photo highlights from 2025.

Thank you to all of you who support and enrich our work by coming to workshops and events, buying our tea, volunteering in the garden and everyone here for simply following along. It’s been a pleasure to work with so many people who share our passions for the natural world and all the incredible creatures it sustains.

Thank you also to all our collaborators, clients, stockists, funders and partners without which we would not be able to deliver this valuable work. Sending love to you all! 💚

17/12/2025

Sharing these beautiful images by from our 10th Birthday Communitea Party at our garden in Hackney Wick.

Thank you to everyone who joined us on this very special day to celebrate and connect with us 🧡

We had an incredible performance by , delicious cakes by and raffle prizes from our friends and neighbours.

We look forward to seeing you in the garden at our events in the new year.

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14/12/2025

This has been such a great year in the garden, and we want to say a huge thank you to all the amazing volunteers who made it so!

To the crew who took part in our Garden Placement, all the other amazing garden and events volunteers - Thank you for joining and helping us make the garden a space where life can thrive and connections can develop, amongst all sorts of living beings. This can only happen because you are a part of it! 💚💚

We had our last garden volunteer session this weekend, but will be back in January, in the garden every Saturday and with news on ways to get involved in 2026. 🌿

11/12/2025

Give the gift of herbs 🌿

We have a range of beautiful herbal gifts available on our online shop. Our Herbal Tea Pack Bundles, Herbal Journal and Gift Cards all make the perfect gift for a herb lover in your life (and for yourself!).

When you purchase from Hackney Herbal you are supporting a social enterprise and your support helps us run free community nature-based activities, workshops and courses in Hackney.

Our online shop will close at midnight on Sunday 14 December. Gift vouchers will still be available.

02/12/2025

Give the gift of herbs 🌿

We have a range of beautiful herbal gifts available on our online shop. Our Herbal Tea Pack Bundles, Herbal Journal and Gift Cards all make the perfect gift for a herb lover in your life (and for yourself!).

When you purchase from Hackney Herbal you are supporting a social enterprise and your support helps us run free community nature-based activities, workshops and courses in Hackney.

Our online shop will close on midnight Sunday 14 December.

19/11/2025

As the weather starts to get cold we have the perfect line up of workshops to show you how herbs can support you over the winter. In these hands on and informative sessions you will learn about a whole range of medicinal plants and get to make your own remedies to take home. Here is what we have coming up at our cosy studio by London Fields.

🫖 Herbal Wellbeing Masterclass
Saturday 29 November 10am - 1pm

🔥 Winter Remedies: Keeping Warm and Well with Herbs
Sunday 30 November 2 - 5pm

🎁 Make Your Own Herbal Gifts
Saturday 6 December 11am - 1pm

Find the full details for each workshop and ticket links in our bio. We can’t wait to get herbal with you 🌿🤍

31/10/2025

Happy Sahmain!
As we welcome the Gaelic festival of Sahmain we are marking the transition towards the darker phase of the year. All around us trees are dropping their leaves and our natural landscapes are starting to become bare echoing the themes of death and dormancy that this festival carries.

During this time the veil between the living world and the spirit world is very thin, so has typically been a time when we can connect with our ancestors and communicate with the dead. In folklore it’s believed that seeing a Robin is a sign of a deceased loved one coming to visit “When robins appear, loved ones are near”.

At this time we are remembering and giving thanks to all the witches, healers and medicine people who were vilified and violently murdered throughout the 15th to 18th century witch hunts in England. Many modern halloween traditions have framed witches as wicked crones casting evil spells instead of casting a light on those who were persecuting and murdering them. It seems history has a habit of repeating itself, with those who hold too much power being able to cruelly vilify innocent people. Sending strength and love to all those around the world facing unfathomable violence for simple being alive 🧡🧡🍉🍉

21/10/2025

Our community 🧡
You’ve probably noticed we’ve been having a few birthday events to celebrate turning 10 this year. Back in August, we organised a birthday get together for our community members and special friends. It was so special to bring together team members past and present along with community members from across the entire timeline of HH. There was a huge amount of love in the room as some of us shared what Hackney Herbal means to us. We had a delicious Palestinian feast cooked for us by Mayya from and 2 beautiful cakes made by Iva

It’s these moments which really remind us why we do the work that we do even when it’s felt quite hard over the last few years navigating the post brexit, post covid, cost of living crisis landscape. Combined with a state of the world that makes it’s harder and harder to feel inspired, optimistic and motivated. Being together like this reinforces how special and supportive our little community is and is the best medicine for the times we are in. Thank you to everyone who has been involved along the way. Hackney Herbal is what it is because of you. 💚🧡

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