Alice’s top Christmas Gift Ideas

🌱 Sacred Seeds Seasonal Faves

My personal festive survival kit includes:

Check out my website for online shop, workshops, and gift vouchers for next year.

🎁 Educational & Experiential Gifts

  • For the most beautiful foraging baskets or sussex based basket making courses, check out Lisa Dear’s basketry

  • Gift an educational and highly enjoyable experience of a wild basketry course or accompanying book by Ruby of Native hands

🌿 Skincare & Wellness

  • I have fallen in-love with the nutrient rich face cream and the black cumin and honey cleanser from Planted skincare. I met the owner once at a workshop where she talked us through a gorgeous facial workshop. Her recipes are top notch and decadent and very well priced for what they are. 

  • Medical Herbalist made, top notch ingredients - check out the face oils and herbal tonics from Miss Bee Balms

  • Earth’s farm skincare grow their own herbs and make gorgeous products in Wales

  • Sussex grown, triple extracted - Medicinal mushroom tinctures - Golden Horn farm

📚 Herbal & Foraging Inspiration

  • Hedgerow medicine - The first book that got me inspired in foraging  - like my bible!

  • Wayside medicine - The follow up which is just as good

  • The most gorgeous book, card deck or prints -  Weeds in the heart. See for yourself!

  • Children’s Forest: Perfect for families, forest school leaders, and herbalists. Includes books, t-shirts, and nature packs. The follow up and just as good! Children’s forest is a seasonal celebration and a total goldmine. Check out their shop for the book alongside gorgeous T-Shirts and nature packs.

✨ Handmade & Artisan Gifts

  • Tiny fairy crafter - actually made by one of my 12yr old herbal students, these are the cutest little festive decorations you’ve ever seen! Treat yourself for winter solstice! 

    I’ve got the oak, holly and the star myself.

    Check out @tinyfairycrafter on insta

  • Support an amazing cause, Herbalists without boarders Bristol and check out their beautiful 2026 calendar and their book. I love how the book is laid out into months, it’s very user friendly for beginner herbalists and foragers alike

  • Check out herbalist and friend Lucinda Warner’s gorgeous art work. I especially love her book on hawthorn and the mugwort and the moon print. So many beautiful cards and nature inspired illustrations to choose from.

  • My herbal pal Jessie makes a wonderful herbal winter tonic tincture with Elderberry, echinacea, rosehip and ginger. Seeing as you can’t buy mine atm, then this is one without sugar that i can suggest.

  • My friend Natasha has the most gorgeous pop art prints and her plant inspired designs on blankets, hair scrunchies and scarfs. Totally lush. Check out Studio Coverdale

  • Lilly used to be my apothecary assistant and now she has a tea biz with her sister, check out the tasty teas from Whimsy Brews

🌻 Seeds & Gardening Gifts