Helpful Herbs

24/10/2025

Looking inside a bee hive
Do you want to see what it looks like in a top bar honey bee hive? Do you want to hear the loud, melodic hum of a busy hive? This is a workshop, you will be provided with a beesuit and gloves so that you can hold the bars with bees on and look right inside the colony. We will go over what to check for like queen cells. If there is extra honey we can gather some. You get to take some honeycomb home. See and taste the pollen and propolis also gathered by the bees. It is on Sunday 2nd november in Roslin. 2 – 3.30pm, weather permitting, £20. 1 place left. It must be 11° or over to open a bee hive. Message to book a place or for more information. Honey comb is for sale. It is individually priced so not currently available on the helpful herbs website. https://www.helpfulherbs.co.uk Message for honeycomb prices available between £4- £15.

20/10/2025

Inside a hive. Bee inspection experience of top bar hives in Roslin. Bee suit provided. This Sunday 26th october. 2 - 3.30pm, weather permitting, £20. 4 places available.

18/10/2025

I've found deliceous Honey fungus (Armillaria mellea) nearby, but not quite near enough to spend £30 a month to establish a healthy Trichoderma fungus colony that feeds on Honey fungus.

17/09/2025

Great weekend at Vogrie. Lots of networking and interesting chat.
Thanks to organisers for the great event. To to people who supported Helpful herbs.
And the apple donation of sweet, fresh, local eating apples.

11/09/2025

I nipped in to Vogrie park today. They are getting ready to host the free family festival Vogrie Pogrie in the gorgeous woodland setting. Helpful Herbs will have herbal teas mostly collected in Mid and Eastlothian. Pure skin salves simply made from herbal infused oils and chemical free beeswax. Local honeycomb honey from Roslin; Lavender essential oil, health tinctures; apples for donations for the freed performing bears and rhubarb jam for the bears. Baby oak trees and lots of other small perennials. Persicaria, Rudbeckia, Alchemilla and Silver lined Alchemilla, Hesperantha(red) Lily, Tansy, Vervain, Motherwort, outside geraniums, and various others.
Come to the woodland wellness area. Bbq3, near the campervan parking area.
Find yoga 11 to 12, biodiversity expert, sound experience, fireside chat and more in a lovely spot with the trees and loads of other great things happening near by.

07/09/2025

Excited to have photographers to share a bee inspection. Autumn bee inspection and close as you like, suited up experience. Date to be announced. Please note an interest

06/09/2025

Great plants and produce

This weekend markets are Edinburgh Farmers' Market on the Saturday, and The Steading, Rosewell on Sunday. All the usual retinue of veg plants good to go in the garden, and with Sunday's market I'll have a nice selection of produce as well.

05/09/2025

Helpful herbs is excited to be going to Vogrie Pogrie, Vogrie park, Midlothian. Helpful herbs products and advise available at Vogrie Pogrie on the weekend days of the family festival in Midlothian by Edinburgh.

Herbal remedies including Midlothian herbal teas; natural, cruelty free skin products; herbal remedies; local, chemical free honeycomb; rhubarb jam for a bear support charity.

Find us in the Woodland Wellbeing hub, Barbacue 3, 11am - 5pm, Saturday 13th, Sunday 14th September 2025, Vogrie Pogrie.

23/08/2025

Amazing honey harvest today with some Honeydew and orange flavoured pollen.
Getting ready for Roslin gala day next saturday.
Helpful herbs will have skin products; hormonal balancer herbs; better sleep herbs; mixes for other common ailments; tasty herb teas; Roslin honeycomb including some Honeydew honeycomb.

16/08/2025

What a great spot on a great sunny day. I remember when all buddleias looked like this in the summer.
Bring on the fruit trees, wild flowers, nettles, brambles, ivy that allow the pollenators and song birds to flourish.
Habitat gardens created in Roslin area.

16/08/2025

A summer day with buddleia reminiscent of childhood butterflies, phew. Nature can make a come back given a chance. Wild flowers round the buddleia must help too. Video to follow.
Wildlife habitat gardens created with wildflowers, herbs and shrubs with berries.