The Hedgerow Apothecary Signature Class

The English countryside has been a working pharmacy for a thousand years. The elderflower growing along the Cotswolds lanes, the rosehips covering the Jurassic Coast cliffs in autumn, the meadowsweet in the summer meadows that gave chemists the molecular blueprint for aspirin. English cottage herbalism is one of the oldest evidence-based traditions in the Western world.

Spend four hours with Dr. Cavanaugh learning the history, the chemistry, and the clinical evidence behind five hedgerow botanicals sourced directly from her Cotswolds and Weymouth trip. Then make three products that put that tradition in your hands:

A classic elderflower cordial: the quintessential English hedge-to-glass preparation, fragrant and versatile.

A rosehip oxymel: honey and vinegar as a delivery vehicle for one of the most vitamin C-dense botanicals in the hedgerow. During WWII, the British government organized a nationwide rosehip harvest when citrus was blockaded. The science behind that decision holds up.

A meadowsweet salve: the plant that gave nineteenth-century chemists the compound they turned into aspirin. Salicylate-rich, anti-inflammatory, and deeply embedded in English herbal tradition. Applied topically, it's the oldest headache remedy in the hedgerow.

Three products. Four hours. One of the most historic botanical stories on our calendar.