A place where gardening meets spirituality, bringing calm to your life.
Our offerings.
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Forest Bathing.
Experiencing immersive Shinrin-Yoku gifts of sensory meditation and mindfulness will ground you and help you find a deeper purpose in this over-whelming world. Forest bathing brings better health and enables us to experience a calmer, brighter world.
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Women's Personal Development.
We hold regular online one-hour sessions or soul-seeking women who are looking for support and creative energy, to lean into ancient healing practices, gardening, and nature for wellbeing. Layered with practical self-development and confidence coaching.
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Plant Connection.
It really is time to lean into your earthly abundant powers of nature connection so you can self-heal and protect your health. Our guest speakers include Charlotte Pulver who has spent 20+ years specialising in women’s healthcare and mental health.
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Soil to Soul.
We focus on two plants a month to inspire confidence and creativity in the garden and the kitchen. You’ll learn how to grow it and learn about it’s phytonutrients and antioxidants - why it’s so important to eat - recipes inc. Feat. on BBC Radio Oxford.
Benefits of gardening and strategies to leverage neurodivergent brains
Join our Zoom and Facebook Live where Lara our ‘Soil to Soul’ BBC Radio Oxford series creator, Gardener and Designer chats to Sara Louise Ackrill, Neurodivergent Entrepreneur, Autistic Therapist & Founder & CEO of Wired Differently. Lara will share stories about her week at work running Botanic Shed; what jobs she and the team have been doing, how she experiences the benefits of being in nature, what’s been good and what’s been hard during the week.
Sara will add her insights as to what type of strategies can be used to manage neurodivergent brain behaviour and all the ups and downs that come with it.
Gardening and nature therapy
The Botanic Shed School of Nature is here to help you self-prescribe yourself time to connect to nature, to look after your general health. Life is challenging and we are here to give you balance & belonging.
This is a regular session for soul-seeking women who are looking for support and creative energy, to lean into ancient healing practices, gardening, and nature for wellbeing.
What to expect during the session:
Guided meditation and breath work
Strategies on how to align with the energy of the moon to empower yourself
Gardening advice this month
Plant connection coaching
A look closely at how to grow and use one seasonal plant
Gardening and nature therapy
The Botanic Shed School of Nature is here to help you self-prescribe yourself time to connect to nature, to look after your general health. Life is challenging and we are here to give you balance & belonging.
This is a regular session for soul-seeking women who are looking for support and creative energy, to lean into ancient healing practices, gardening, and nature for wellbeing.
What to expect during the session:
Guided meditation and breath work
Strategies on how to align with the energy of the moon to empower yourself
Gardening advice this month
Plant connection coaching
A look closely at how to grow and use one seasonal plant
Gardening and nature therapy
The Botanic Shed School of Nature is here to help you self-prescribe yourself time to connect to nature, to look after your general health. Life is challenging and we are here to give u balance & belonging
This is a regular session for soul-seeking women who are looking for support and creative energy, to lean into ancient healing practices, gardening, and nature for wellbeing.
What to expect during the session:
Guided meditation and breath work
Insights into the moon cycle
Strategies on how to align with the energy of the moon to empower yourself
Gardening advice this month
Plant connection coaching
A look closely at how to grow and use one seasonal plant
Gardening and nature therapy
The Botanic Shed School of Nature is here to help you self-prescribe yourself time to connect to nature, to look after your general health. Life is challenging and we are here to give u balance & belonging
This is a regular session for soul-seeking women who are looking for support and creative energy, to lean into ancient healing practices, gardening, and nature for wellbeing.
What to expect during the session:
Guided meditation and breath work
Strategies on how to align with the energy of the moon to empower yourself
Gardening advice this month
Plant connection coaching
A look closely at how to grow and use one seasonal plant
Gardening and nature therapy
The Botanic Shed School of Nature is here to help you self-prescribe yourself time to connect to nature, to look after your general health. Life is challenging and we are here to give you balance & belonging.
This is a regular session for soul-seeking women who are looking for support and creative energy, to lean into ancient healing practices, gardening, and nature for wellbeing.
What to expect during the session:
Guided meditation and breath work
Strategies on how to align with the energy of the moon to empower yourself
Gardening advice this month
Plant connection coaching
A look closely at how to grow and use one seasonal plant
Kitchen Garden Retreat
Meditation, growing plants & cooking simply with Lara Cowan and Louisa Chapman-Andrews of Cook Folk.
Join us for a kitchen garden inspired retreat - part of the Soil To Soul collaboration between Botanic Shed & Cook Folk supported by medical herbalist Alex Laird.
Expect a gong bath, reiki, reflexology, to learn about edible plants, including a mindful gardening lesson, hands on cookery demo and skills to manage trauma and set backs.
Learn Organic Gardening at Ashall Manor, Witney.
Learn how to grow wildlife-friendly food by organic methods with Tim Mitchell at Asthall Crop Share
Join gardeners in a divine sanctuary producing food and flowers by organic methods at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden, Glos.
You will work alongside Tim while he talks about the wildlife-friendly and people-friendly food growing that is bringing greater biodiversity and more resilient soil to the walled garden at Asthall Manor as part of a community crop share.
Tree & Plant Identification Nature Walk
A tree and plant identification walk lead by a local naturalist here in Snellsmore Common near Newbury. Enjoy the health promoting benefits of a woodland walk and learn about some of the specific features of plants and trees, as a means of identifying them. Snellsmore Common contains a range of habitats including heathland, wet mires and woodland making it home to nationally rare bird species including nightjar, woodlark and tree pipit.
Bookings via Instagram / Eventbrite @botanicshed
Kitchen Garden Retreat
Meditation, growing plants & cooking simply with Lara Cowan and Louisa Chapman-Andrews of Cook Folk.
Join us for a kitchen garden inspired retreat - part of the Soil To Soul collaboration between Botanic Shed & Cook Folk supported by medical herbalist Alex Laird.
Expect a gong bath, reiki, reflexology, to learn about edible plants, including a mindful gardening lesson, hands on cookery demo and skills to manage trauma and set backs.
Learn Organic Gardening
Learn how to grow wildlife-friendly food by organic methods with Tim Mitchell at Asthall Crop Share
Join gardeners in a divine sanctuary producing food and flowers by organic methods at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden, Glos.
You will work alongside Tim while he talks about the wildlife-friendly and people-friendly food growing that is bringing greater biodiversity and more resilient soil to the walled garden at Asthall Manor as part of a community crop share.
Learn Organic Gardening
Learn how to grow wildlife-friendly food by organic methods with Tim Mitchell at Asthall Crop Share
Join gardeners in a divine sanctuary producing food and flowers by organic methods at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden, Glos.
You will work alongside Tim while he talks about the wildlife-friendly and people-friendly food growing that is bringing greater biodiversity and more resilient soil to the walled garden at Asthall Manor as part of a community crop share.
Mindfulness & Story Telling
This is a wonderfully relaxing session including a guided mindfulness meditation followed by an inspirational and thought provoking mindset or Dharma story.
It is hosted by Karuna Priya, Buddhist monk of over 15 years, currently teaching mindfulness and meditation at Imperial College London, also Founder of Zen Mind App and Akanista Mindfulness.
Tree Identification Nature Walk
A local tree identification walk lead by a local naturalist here in Hermitage near Newbury. Learn about tree identification, how to tell a oak from a birch in the winter by looking at the shape of its branches and it's buds. Enjoy the health promoting benefits of a woodland walk and learn about some of the specific features of trees in winter, as a means of identifying them. Hermitage woods contain plantations of mixed deciduous and coniferous native and semi-native trees and forestry trees, planted variously in blocks to give us a very wide range of tree species and a wide variety of ground habitats. Walk to the top of the ridge to be inspired by the beech hanger and inspect ancient yews at close quarters. See how to spot the difference between Scots Pines and Bishop Pines from 100 yards away.
Learn Organic Gardening
Learn how to grow wildlife-friendly food by organic methods with Tim Mitchell at Asthall Crop Share
Join gardeners in a divine sanctuary producing food and flowers by organic methods at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden, Glos.
You will work alongside Tim while he talks about the wildlife-friendly and people-friendly food growing that is bringing greater biodiversity and more resilient soil to the walled garden at Asthall Manor as part of a community crop share.
Royal Florist Interview
Our founder, Lara Cowan talks to Simon Lycett, Celebrity florist, Royal florist, TV & Radio presenter, author, host & judge on Full Bloom, Royal Horticultural Society Ambassador, and all round national treasure.
This year Simon created a monument that was displayed at The Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate or late HRH's Platinum Jubilee. It was a flowerpot reconstruction of Her Majesty’s “iconic silhouette” planted with one of her favourite flowers the Lily of the Valley.
Join us to hear about Simon’s journey into floristry, how he got his first big breaks working in tv and films, about his work with the British Royal family, his design process and his thoughts on the power of botanical beauty and what it can do for our general health.
Contact us.
Lara Cowan
hello@botanicshed.com
+ 44 7747 600569
“Back in 2004 when my nervous system was spluttering after a catastrophic event, I found Qi gong and quite frankly doing Qi gong outdoors amongst trees and animals is hands down the closest thing to heaven…”