Mapping the roots
With Amanda Edmiston
Sunday 11 October
1-4pm, CAMPLE LINE
Booking required – tickets available on a sliding scale
£8 | £6 | £3
What wisdom, stories and memories do trees hold? Growing in community, communicating through complex root systems interwoven with mycelia, they are sentient beings that have lived so much longer than the people who walk amongst them.
Join herbal storyteller Amanda Edmiston for a workshop focused on trees and the materials they offer. Using stories and folklore, Amanda will trace the legends and remedies shared with us by the trees around us.
You will also have the chance to make simple fungi spore prints on bark-based paper and connect them up with your own ‘word roots’, creating a map to guide you into autumn and winter.
What to expect: The session will last for 3 hours and will include a short break. There will also be a short walk outside in our greenspace. Please bring weather-appropriate foot/outdoor wear.
Refreshments
Tea, coffee and cold drinks will be available. Please feel free to bring a packed lunch.
Recommended for ages 16+
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult
Access
If you have any access requirements or questions, please be in touch with our colleague Emma: emma@campleline.org.uk or 01848 331 000
Any questions?
Email us: info@campleline.org.uk
Call us: 01848 331 000
About Amanda Edmiston
Amanda Edmiston is a writer and profession herbal storyteller with a background in herbal medicine. She is based in Northumberland, and comes from a long line of story tellers and plant people.
Over the past twelve years, her storytelling has taken her to Chelsea Physic Garden in London, the National Museum of Rural Life, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, The Crichton Trust, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, among other collections. She has also collected stories and memories of plant use from across rural Scotland through her Kist in Thyme projects.
Amanda is the author of two books: The Time Traveller’s Herbal: Stories and Recipes from the Historical Apothecary Cabinet(2023, David & Charles), which includes instructions for over 25 recipes and makes, using commonly found, foraged or easily acquired ingredients; and the forthcoming Collected Curiosities: More Stories and recipes from the Herbal Apothecary (2026, Verbena).
She has established the Botanica Fabula School of Herbal Storytelling, and is an associate member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and a member of the Herb Society.