Clare is a herbalist, forager, and author living on the Morvern peninsula. Her work arises from a lifelong devotion to plants, nourishment, and the healing intelligence of the natural world. With training in herbal medicine, aromatherapy, and holistic massage, she blends practical knowledge with sensory, embodied learning. She qualified in herbal medicine in 2011 and has been in clinical practice ever since. She is the co-author of Scotland’s Wild Medicine. 

 

She grows and gathers medicinal herbs, raises animals naturally, and teaches from a place of lived ecology - inviting participants to meet the land through taste, scent, touch, and deep presence. Her approach weaves herbal knowledge with nourishment, community, and the quiet, steady medicine of place.

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Clare's first love was food and, following a short career in catering and hospitality, where Clare deepened her practical food preparation skills, she decided to pursue a more fulfilling path combining her interest in nutrition with working with plant medicine. She began her degree in Herbal Medicine at the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine in Glasgow in 2007. During this time she qualified with a diploma in Holistic Massage and a Diploma in Clinical Aromatherapy.

 

Clare also studied nutrition, organic growing, practical pharmacy and plant identification. Following the School's closure in 2010, she transferred to the University of East London where she graduated in 2011 with a BSc (Hons) in Herbal Medicine.