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Hackney Herbal is a social enterprise promoting health and wellbeing through herbs. We help people discover the creative and beneficial uses of herbs.

We are a social enterprise specialising in creative events which explore the beneficial uses of herbs. We grow and sell herbal tea and run a variety of herb-related activities in Hackney promoting mental health and wellbeing within the local community.

20/05/2026

🪴P L A N T S A L E 🪴
Our next open afternoon at the garden will be our annual May Plant Sale on Saturday 30th May. Come and see the garden in its late spring glory and pick up some plants for your own garden. We’ll have a range of herbs, flowers and edible plants.

All plants are grown from seeds or cuttings from our existing plants and potted in peat-free compost in either plastic-free or reused pots. We’ll also have some plastic-free pots available to purchase too.

We will share a full list next week on the event page but here is some of what we will have:

🌿 lemon balm, mints, valerian, marshmallow, blackcurrant sage, scented geraniums, sweet woodruff, mugwort, motherwort, ivy, calendula, aloe vera 🌼

🫖 We will have a selection of lovely herbal teas and cake for sale.
☕️ Please bring a cup or mug to help us avoid disposable cups.
🛍️ If you are intending to buy plants please bring bags to take them home in.
🪴If you’ve got small plastic plant pots you don’t need you can bring them to us and we can re-use them

See you there! 🌞

📆 Saturday 30th May, 2:30 - 5:00pm
📍 Trowbridge Gardens, Trowbridge Road, E9 5LD

🎨 Illustrations by

06/05/2026

Upcoming Workshops + Walks🍃
May is an exciting time in the plant world. Gardens and green spaces are quickly becoming filled with new growth as we head towards summer abundance. It’s a lovely time to learn about the wonders of herbs, get growing and generally spend time getting up close and personal with our plant friends.

Here is what we have coming up over the coming weeks:

🫖 Herbal Wellbeing Masterclass
📅 Saturday 9th May, 2-5pm
📍 Hackney Herbal Studio, E9 7PX

🌸 Herb Walk at Hackney Marshes
📅 Saturday 16th May, 3-5.30pm
📍 Hackney Marshes (Pavilion)

🪴 Grow Your Own Herbs Masterclass
📅 Sunday 31st May 2 - 5pm
📍 Hackney Herbal Garden, E9 5LD

These all happen in different locations so check the address when you are booking!

🎟 Book your tickets via the link in our bio. See you soon ✨

01/05/2026

Making Herbal Vinegars 🌿 Last week we had a lovely time in the garden celebrating and making spring tonics with our Nature Club. Infusing fresh herbs is a lovely way to preserve them at their seasonal best. We used a mixture of different herbs including cleavers, nettle, calendula, mint, rosemary, 3-cornered leek and bay.
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To make an infused vinegar all you need to do is fill a clean glass jar roughly half full with any mix of fresh edible herbs and then cover with vinegar. We like apple cider vinegar for all the added health benefits. Leave your herbs to infuse for about 2-3 weeks shaking every few days and then strain out the herbs. You can use the vinegar in cooking or dilute a few spoonfuls in hot water with lemon and honey.
Can’t west to strain out these ones in a few weeks!
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27/03/2026

Herb Walks are back! 👟🌳
Wilder green spaces are abundant with springtime weeds at this time of year and most of these are both edible and medicinal! Spring is such an exciting time as we welcome back some of our favourite herbs who have distinct points in the season when they can be seen. To learn more about wild plants we would love you to join us on our April Herb Walk 🌿

🌞Spring Herb Walk🌞
📍 Hackney Marshes
📅 Saturday 11th April
⏰ 3:00-5:30pm

These walks are designed to introduce you to the abundance of edible and medicinal plants living within our urban ecosystems. It’s an opportunity to discover and connect to the plants growing around us, learn how to identify them and find out more about their uses and history. If you would like to build your confidence in identifying wild plants and meet others who share a love for herbs this is the walk for you!
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Full details and booking link in bio. We look forward to herb walking with you!💛

10/03/2026

Late winter moments 🌨️🌞
A look at what we’ve been up to in recent times and where our herbals have taken us. It’s been lovely to collaborate with a mix of old and new partners and share our love of everything herbal with so many of you 🌿

✨Herbs for stress and sleep with
🌳Moments to reset and be still around the canal
🌼Making OG lip balms with the Garden Club group
🌸Variety of aromatherapy and self-care workshops with and
🌅Hackney skies
🔮February simmer pot ingredients
🌿9-week Cleavers challenge iykyk
🧪Aromatherapy workshop for IWD as part of Winter Warmers
🪱🌝 Worm moon
🧴Herbs for the skin with Dragon Cafe
🌞Calendula sunshine oil
🐦‍⬛Forever stalking birds
🫖 Tea Blending for IWD with
🪴The Herb Garden shining in the nearly-spring sunshine

11/02/2026

Nature is a twig and some other thoughts on winter. Re-hashed from a post a few years back!

A gentle reminder that right now nature isn’t trying to do its best, it’s not trying to set big plans for the year ahead or even thinking about how and when it’s going to bloom this year. It isn’t thinking much about the future, it isn’t setting intentions, it’s resting, saving it’s energy and definitely not trying to do all the things.

Trees are brown, twiggy, skeletal, still beautiful of course but not making any effort to put on a show. Much or our natural world is literally hanging out, dormant, seemingly lifeless.

Don’t get me wrong, the signs of early spring are upon us and some of us might be feeling the call for an early spring clean, making way for fresh ideas. But it’s equally fine if you are feeling called to lean into rest and do the bare minimum required (highly recommended if possible).

Despite capitalism’s best attempts to make us think otherwise, working endlessly, being fully productive day after day, all year round is not something that we can sustain. We are also living through times when our nervous systems are most overwhelmed and burnt out. Our energies wax and wane in relation to the seasons and each of us as individuals have ‘our time’ when we find it easier to be present and engaged.

So if your season isn’t wet and soggy winter just remember those brown, twiggy, ‘dead like’ plants and that it’s ok to hang out, rest, say no until you feel ready for your own next season.

sending love 🤎

31/01/2026

Join us tomorrow for our first garden get together of the season❤️‍🔥We will be celebrating Imbolc - the Gaelic festival marking the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. It’s an exciting time when we begin to see the first stirrings of a new season as the garden starts to gently waken from its winter slumber.

The Herb Garden will be open to explore and we will have warm drinks, hot soup and a fire to keep us cosy!The event is free to attend and open to all ❤️‍🔥

✨Please remember to bring✨

🧣Warm clothes
☕️ A mug for tea
🥣 A bowl and spoon for soup

📅 Sunday 1st February
⏰12.00 - 3.00pm
🌳Hackney Herbal Garden
📍1 Trowbridge Road Hackney Wick E9 5LD

18/12/2025

Wow, what a year! Our hearts are full as we reflect on another packed year at Hackney Herbal. This one was extra special as we celebrated our 10th Birthday. As we approach the incoming solstice and the end of the year we are once again so grateful for all of you who are part of our community. You make Hackney Herbal what it is and without you and we are so thankful for this.

Hackney Herbal was established with the core aim of making nature-based activities accessible and freely available to people in our local community. Here is a snapshot of our social impact in numbers and some photo highlights from 2025.

Thank you to all of you who support and enrich our work by coming to workshops and events, buying our tea, volunteering in the garden and everyone here for simply following along. It’s been a pleasure to work with so many people who share our passions for the natural world and all the incredible creatures it sustains.

Thank you also to all our collaborators, clients, stockists, funders and partners without which we would not be able to deliver this valuable work. Sending love to you all! 💚

17/12/2025

Sharing these beautiful images by from our 10th Birthday Communitea Party at our garden in Hackney Wick.

Thank you to everyone who joined us on this very special day to celebrate and connect with us 🧡

We had an incredible performance by , delicious cakes by and raffle prizes from our friends and neighbours.

We look forward to seeing you in the garden at our events in the new year.

Funded by 💚

14/12/2025

This has been such a great year in the garden, and we want to say a huge thank you to all the amazing volunteers who made it so!

To the crew who took part in our Garden Placement, all the other amazing garden and events volunteers - Thank you for joining and helping us make the garden a space where life can thrive and connections can develop, amongst all sorts of living beings. This can only happen because you are a part of it! 💚💚

We had our last garden volunteer session this weekend, but will be back in January, in the garden every Saturday and with news on ways to get involved in 2026. 🌿

Address

Studio 16, 8-20 Well Street
London
E97PX

Telephone

+442086160698

Website

http://www.hackneyherbal.com/

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