Herbalism holidays and courses directory

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Agriturismo Villa La Rogaia
based: Umbria, Italy
website: www.rogaia.com
Offering a wide range of creative classes including cookery, wine tasting, dancing, painting, sculpting, writing, guided walking, herbal tours and olive picking. Classes take place at Villa La Rogaia, an outstanding wheelchair friendly country house in Umbria with pool. They serve delicious food with products from their organic farm.
| dancing (mixed styles) | salsa | cookery | painting / drawing | sculpture / carving | wine appreciation / tasting | Italian language | writing | herbalism | for people with a disability | Italy |

Beech Farm Country Courses
based: Hampshire, UK
website: www.beechfarmcountrycourses.co.uk
Beech Farm Country Courses, on the edge of the New Forest, Hampshire, UK, provide a variety of fascinating and educational workshops including an introduction to garden design, organic gardening, the world of plants, English wine, floral design, Australian Bush Flower Essences, herbal medicine, aromatherapy, homeopathy, textiles and many more.
| wine tours | gardening | aromatherapy | herbalism | embroidery | fashion | soft furnishing | flower arranging and floral design | UK |

Bootlace Walking Holidays
based: Granada, Spain
website: www.bootlace.com
Explore the Alpujarra, Sierra Nevada; spectacular mountain walks following ancient trade routes of the Moors. Great company, great vegetarian food, and the great outdoors! Also special activity groups – herbalism, yoga and walking, summer detox retreat in the High Sierras. A refreshing and renewing experience, walking into the heart of nature!
| walking / trekking / hiking | vegetarian | luggage transported | yoga | detoxification | herbalism | Spain |

Healthy Option Holidays
based: Hertfordshire, UK
website: www.healthy-option.co.uk
Relaxing Greek island holidays with a healthy difference – innovative healthy option programmes offer you alternative activities including yoga, nutrition, herbal walks, aqua-safaris, cycling, reiki, massage and more. Based in Vassiliki on the island of Lefkas, a well known spot for windsurfing and sailing.
| yoga | massage | weight loss | herbalism | reiki | keep-fit / gym / fitness breaks | Greece |

John Muir Trust
based: Hampshire, UK
website: www.jmt.org
The 'Activities Programme' offers adventurous activities and exploration in beautiful wild areas, canoeing and sea kayaking trips, conservation work, story telling, music, wilderness skills, medicinal plants. Also see their 'Conservation Work Parties' where you can volunteer to help carry out conservation work. The John Muir Trust is a registered Scottish charity with the aim of protecting and conserving wild places and increasing awareness and understanding of such places.
| charity expeditions / holidays | working /volunteer holidays | gap year | ethical / eco tourism | survival courses | canoeing / kayaking | sea canoeing / sea kayaking | herbalism | storytelling | UK |

Kalikalos Holidays
based: Magnesia, Greece
website: www.kalikalos.com
Kalikalos Summer School offers a full summer programme of holistic community-based workshops, retreats and workcamps. Offerings include tai chi, yoga, monviolent communication, meditation, advaita, mediation and eco-village trainings. The centre is unique in that it is run as a community.
| holistic holidays | tai chi | yoga | self development | meditation | herbalism | painting/drawing | ethical/ecotourism | writing | Greece |

Cedar Mountain Herb School
based: Washington, USA
website: www.goodnaturedearthling.com
Short courses learning about herbs and wild plants, also cheese and soapmaking.
| herbalism | soap making | USA |

Dilston Physic Garden
based: Northumberland, UK
website: dilstonphysicgarden.com
A variety of herbalism and herb related courses for all levels.
| herbalism | UK |

Earthwalk Northwest
based: Washington, USA
website: www.earthwalknorthwest.com
Programs focusing on primitive living and earth awareness including such skills as bow, and arrow making, cheese making, wine making, fire by friction, herbal soap making, animal tracking, traditional tanning and wilderness survival techniques.
| country crafts | wine making | herbalism | survival courses | soap making | USA |

Spanish Reflections
based: Cazorla, Spain
website: www.homeopathicholidays.co.uk
Herbs for Health week: making and using herbal remedies to heal and enhance well-being.
| herbalism | Spain |

Wild Food School
based: Cornwall, UK
website: www.countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj/rwfgwfs.htm
Weekend and day courses offering hands-on experience in identifying and cooking with many of Britain's edible wild plants.
| botanical | herbalism | cookery | England |

Yarner Trust (The)
based: Devon, UK
website: www.yarnertrust.co.uk
Offering a host of weekend courses in traditional country crafts, such as rush furniture, basketwork, willow structures, dry stone walling, garden mosaics, wattle & daub, straw bale building, lime rendering and herbal remedies.
| country crafts | mosaic | herbalism | UK |

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The travel-quest herbalism section is intended for listing holidays, courses and vacations where the study of medicinal and culinary herbs is a significant part of the activity. This might be herbs growing in the wild or cultivated herbs in gardens. Or it might be herbology using picked or dried herbs in a classroom/workshop situation. These courses and holidays will often be conducted and lead by trained herbalists.