Frances Burton Medical Herbalist

27/06/2026

Delighted to be at Chatsworth Wellness Festival today and tomorrow doing a talk on Herbal Medicine plus meeting some lovely visitors through doing some free mini consultations.

20/02/2026

Natural Choice Health in Ashbourne, the lovely independent health food shop that everyone knows and has been there for over 40 years, currently has my display in their shop front. A big thankyou to Steve at Natural Choice in Ashbourne- it look g reat! Always welcoming to my patients upstairs and always ⁵helpfu to me, they understand supporting both health and small businesses....

18/08/2025

If anyone would like to come to our free herbal tea tasting session tomorrow afternoon at the lovely LEVEL Centre in Rowsley we'd love to see you. Just a few places left (pls se Eventbrite link), 2pm til 3.30 - looking at some of the herbs in the LEVEL's new beautiful sensory garden and trying out their medicinal properties for ourselves x

There are only a few places left on our free Herb Power workshop next week - book your spot now!

Join medical herbalist Frances Burton on Tuesday 19 August from 2 - 3:30pm. Learn how to make your own herbal tea blends, and the benefits that each can bring.

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13/06/2025

This time last weekend I was one day in to Chatsworth Plant Fair- a huge event and obviously lots of plants! And lots of interest in medicinal uses of plants and making herb teas blends.

10/06/2025

LOVE the look of these roses- I'm definitely going to think of a way of incorporating them in to the workshop, they're smelling so beautiful at the moment 💐

30/05/2025

And here was how to make your garden weeds feel really special! A big thank you to Yoga with Debbie Neath for hosting the workshop Spring Tonics and starting us off with a gentle mindfulness session in the bell tent. We all took home a spring tonic, sampled some herbal snacks plus discussed lots of ideas about how to use our springtime weeds healthily and safely at home. Next workshop is on Sunday 29th June, 2-5pm, Matlock. It's £30 plus a little extra for materials. Do get in touch if you'd like to book🥰

29/04/2025

It was lovely to go over to Belper last night and meet Belper Gardening Club who gave me a warm welcome for my talk on Medicinal Plants in Your Garden. What an active and friendly group - and I was delighted that so many members were keen to try some herbal teas. These are some pictures of the lovely well known herbs that we talked about last night, and I'm sure the group will now be embracing having them in their gardens and not turfing them out as weeds!!🤣😀🤞

19/04/2025

I'm delighted to be running this workshop in Matlock in May - a big thanks to Debbie Neath Yoga with Debbie Neath who is kindly hosting it at her peaceful bell tent. We'll be looking at Spring Tonics - identifying and discussing how to use some common spring time plants. This will be the first of 3 different themes we are running over the year - it'd be lovely to see you at any of them. Do get in touch with me to book your place Fx

04/04/2025

I'd be the first to admit this doesn't look a glamorous plant, and many people will be digging them out of their gardens this weekend, but did you know that dandelion leaves are packed full of vitamins A C, D and E and are a bitter so help with encouraging our digestive juices to get going. Plus they are a diuretic but you'd have to have quite a lot! I like to pick them at this time of year and mix them into salads or cook them with spinach as a great way of adding goodness for free! We talked about dandelions and other garden plants at Ashford in the Water WI group last night - what a super group. I really enjoyed meeting you all and of course, talking herbs 🌿 😀

01/04/2025

Something for now it's springtime!