Herbs | Foraging | Nutrition | Plant Based Focused

MY STORY

A Passion For Helping People With plants

Micha passionately believes in the healing power of plants and works with an integrative approach that encompasses the whole person, connecting them back with nature. Her work is about educating and guiding people to connect back with nature and plants and in turn with their body’s own innate recovery and healing ability.

“If you filled your diesel car with petrol it wouldn’t run, the same would be if you tried to drive it with an uncharged battery and that’s essentially what we have normalised with our bodies. We don’t charge them or fuel them correctly and we expect them to run optimally. The sad thing is many would be more upset by ruining a car than they would their own body. “

Her love of nature started at a very young age, she would spend time in the countryside with her grandparents and took a vast interest in learning about the land and plants that frequented it.

Foraging was a past time, her grandfather taught her and opened

her world to using plants outside of the supermarkets.

Incorporating her 10 year career in Cancer holistic health care with her love of nature and food gave birth to her role as a culinary medicine practitioner and herbalist. She understands the importance of using food as medicine – along with whole food supplements and wild-crafted herbs for health and rejuvenation – and how this also benefits the health of our planet. In order to spread the message she offers educational talks, workshops, writes articles and is keen to change food systems and access to health and foods in communities through her garden projects.

In addition to her work as a holistic nutritionist, Micha is a breath work facilitator with 8 years experience supporting lung cancer patients and has the following qualifications:

Culinary Medicine Diploma
Psychology of Cancer Care and End of life care Msc Diploma
Bsc Oncology
MHFA Facilitator
The Christie – Breathwork Facilitator
Mojatu – FGM Ambassador
Food and Hygiene Level 1 and 2
Bsc Clinical Herbalism (Ongoing)
Student Member of The National Institute of Medical Herbalists

THE WITCHES KITCHEN

WITCHES WERE HEALERS OF THEIR COMMUNITIES AND MISUNDERSTOOD BY MANY...

My grandparents and elders taught me how to make remedies, forage and cook from scratch. We would use fruits and vegetables that were incurrent season or that my grandad had grown and create tasty recipes along with home remedies. Id spend hours in my nans she or outside and always found great solace in nature. Years later I studied Oncology at University and went on to have an Extensive career as an allied health professional.

I am passionate about providing Holistic Support to those who were in need. I watched my family and myself not fit into certain dynamics and systems simply because of our social background, just as I did many patients. There's a huge gap in accessibility and true understanding of the body, self and planet but it is all so interconnected. I started supporting my own wellbeing and health naturally and over time shared these skills with others. After leaving my 10 year career in the hospital working holistically I decided to increase my skills with natural medicine, studying herbalism and culinary medicine.

My mission is to spread my knowledge and educate my community to connect with the earth and plants to empower themselves in healing. This has branched off into One To One Holistic Consultancy, Workshops & Retreats, Community Incentives (including food banks, community garden projects and herbal hangouts).

My goal is to support and educate regenerative health and food systems. Systems liberated from restrictions that sustain on local and in-depth levels. We all deserve to understand and connect with nature and plants we have faced too many barriers as a society in accessing healthy, chemical free, green food and spaces.

WHY THE WITCHES KITCHEN?

Many see the words “witch” and “herbalist” as interchangeable. Those who work with plants and offer health advice and medicinal products to aid people’s pain or anxiety can be either if you think about it! Or, perhaps the more pertinent reality is that the witch is, at her core, an herbalist.

A witch understands the garden, she keeps books and notes on different seasons, different seeds and fruits. She points out the poisons of the land and plants various florals and herbs that supposedly bring luck and prosperity. Witchcraft, then, implores a mixture of herbalism with whatever makes one’s craft more personal! In the end, a witch and an herbalist are not separated by their work but, instead, united by it.

The Practices Of The Herbalist Witch

Before there were online herb databases and easy access to any book you may require for your craft, witches often only had their coven and their rare books and notes to go off of. Herbal witches would keep ingredient lists in their Book of Shadows, which was a tome used to keep their spells safe and secret from any who may wish them harm. These books held everything a witch knew about herbs, from their uses to their toxicity to even how to transform them into an herbal remedy.

WORKING WITH NOTTZ COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT

We're proud to work with Notts Community Garden Project, encouraging green spaces and healthy
food access across the city.

"I met Paul and Elliot when I had donated some plants for Gamble street. We have built a real little crew down there full of like minded souls. We all just get stuck in planting, tidying and thinking of new ideas from tiny ones. We offer monthly soup sessions to support discussions and access to sustainable healthy food. The plot feels like such a political statement to me, in collaboration with the incredible Himmah and the best thing is its just the start "

"Our vision for this project is to create a beautiful space where volunteers, locals, food bank users, and friends can come together to grow and harvest fresh produce, learn from one another, and foster a sense of community."

- Paul, Nottz Garden Project-