Back A Yardd, June Forage & Cordial Making

Join us on Sunday 1st June for a gorgeous day around South London's Burgess Park. We’ll forage for herbs, learn about their healing properties, and craft seasonal remedies with the plants we’ve gathered which participants will be able take home.

In this session at Shai, we'll be making elderflower (flower-permitting) and Lime (Tilia cordata) cordial.

The walk will be facilitated and led by Frankie from the Back A Yardd Collective, with a focus on creating a relaxed, fun, and educational atmosphere.

Location: Shai Space and Burgess Park

Meeting Spot: Will be sent via email

Time: 11:00am - 2:30pm

What To Bring:
Comfortable shoes and seasonally appropriate clothing
A bottle of water
A sketchbook or paper and something to draw with
An open heart ready to connect with the natural world!

NOTE: GLASS BOTTLES FOR CORDIAL WILL BE PROVIDED BY BACK A YARDD & INCLUDED IN THE TICKET PRICE.

This is a family-friendly event, so bring your loved ones to share in the joy of our local plant magic! We look forward to seeing you there!

Ticket Price
Kids go free / 1 free space available for someone unemployed
Ruby (Low Income) £12
Sapphire (Low - Middle income) £16
Amber (Middle Income) £22
Emerald (Able) £28

Please message us if you are struggling financially but would like to attend. We will ensure that there is an accessible way for you to join us.

Who we are:

Back a Yardd is a South-London based community-focused collective which aims to reconnect people of the Global Majority back to the land.
We believe that our communities deserve to have more knowledge and autonomy over our health and wellbeing.
Through making foraging, herbal medicine making, and meditative practices more accessible, we encourage and help our local London community to re-adopt ancestral knowledge and re-learn indigenous practices. We introduce individuals to the plant foods and medicines that grow readily available and abundantly all around us in the city.
The phrase ‘back a yard’ is a Caribbean term that literally translates to mean “the way things are done back home.”
We want to help our local community to feel companionship with the natural world and more connected to our surroundings.
Back a yardd are anti racist, decolonial, trans-inclusive, queer friendly, inter-faith, culturally appreciative and age inclusive. Whilst we will centre the experiences of people of the Global Majority, it is open to everyone.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send us an email at backayardd@gmail.com

We hope to see you on a walk with us soon x