The Story of Wild Folk Apothecary

Wild Folk Apothecary was born of my lifelong relationship with the living world; with plants as teachers, land as kin, and the unseen as a place of guidance and belonging. My work is devoted to helping people remember their connection to nature and to their own wild, natural selves.

The Apothecary first came to me during an otherworld journey within my Way of Life apprenticeship and arose as a weaving together of my years of foraging, plant study, song, ceremony, and listening to the consciousness of the land. I walk the path of the Bean Feasa — the woman of knowledge — and completed a traditional apprenticeship with Alex Duffy and Nikki Darrell from The Plant Medicine School. My work is rooted in folk herbalism, plant spirit connection, and the remembering of our place within the animate Earth.

Alongside this, I hold an MA in Human–Nature Connection from University College Cork and have trained in herbalism, holistic massage, yoga, nutrition, and nature-based healing practices. These threads support the work, but it is the land and the plants themselves who remain my primary teachers. I spent over fifteen years living, learning, and working in Ireland before returning to my ancestral homelands of rural Suffolk, where I now live and create in close relationship with the wild edges of this place.

My writing is another strand of this path; a place where I explore the thresholds between worlds, the wisdom of the body, and the ways plants can guide us through grief, change, and becoming. My first book, The Wild Becoming, is due to be published in the next year. More of my writing, wild food recipes, and reflections can be found on my Substack, Hedge & Hearth.

Everything at Wild Folk Apothecary carries this intention: to help bring the wild back into the heart, and to remind us that we belong to a living, dreaming world.

Blessings from the hedgerows,

Bernadette x