Picking courses and workshops in Limousin

In her wild garden in Rochechouart, Marie-Isabelle cultivates biodynamically, picking and processing her harvests of aromatic and medicinal plants. She offers dried plants, infusions, scented salts… 🏵️

🌿 She invites you to visit her wild garden and discover all the treasures nature has to offer, and the traditional uses of these plants, whether culinary, medicinal, dyeing, utilitarian, playful or sacred. 🔎 She also shares her knowledge and experience at outdoor events and walks, and will come to you if you want to organise a walk near your home.

Since 2016, Chantal Ballot/Callune has been producing aromatic and medicinal plants in wild, unspoilt countryside on the Millevaches plateau. The plants are grown organically and in accordance with the Simples specifications. 🪻

Also a nature guide by profession, she offers outings and workshops including nature walks: flora and uses of yesterday and today, botanical initiation, edible and toxic plants, flora and insects, special trees, etc. throughout the year, in the Vienne gorges, at Mont Gargan and around Lac de Vassivière.

🗓️ To find out more, visit her website or contact her at

Founded by Christelle and Guillaume, the“Courgette et Poulette” agro-ecological farm is where nature-friendly farming comes to life! Here, we grow vegetables 🫛, offer cut flowers 💐 and harvest tasty eggs 🐔, but that’s not all…

It’s also a place to connect with nature and others. Throughout the year, Christelle and Guillaume invite you to discover their sustainable farming practices and take part in the activities on offer during the season: parent-child workshops are particularly on offer during the school holidays. A great opportunity to reconnect with the land and gain a better understanding of how an organic farm works!

🔔 Follow them on social networks so you don’t miss a thing!

Mathilde and Mathieu have recently set up their flower farm in Aixe-sur-Vienne, where they are cultivating the “slow flower” movement, a sustainable approach to flower growing that aims to promote a more respectful relationship with flowers, from their cultivation to their use. 👒

As well as selling flowers to professionals and private individuals (to order, at sales points or by subscription), they offer unique workshops where groups can share a moment of creativity and delve into the world of flowers: dried flower workshops, Christmas wreath workshops, centrepiece workshops, “bouquet à la ferme” workshops, etc. On the programme for everyone: a visit to the farm, picking and a creative workshop, all accompanied by Mathilde’s loving care. Lasting two to three hours, they’re already a huge success and are quickly fully booked, so don’t waste any time booking yours! 💐

🌾 At Le Petit Chavanat, in her Forêt-Jardin, Estelle produces herbal teas for medicinal purposes using mixtures of plants grown on her own land or gathered in the wild, which she sells in local produce shops in the surrounding area.

Keen to share her knowledge and know-how, she organises introductory courses in permaculture, discovering edible and medicinal wild plants and creating bespoke infusions. 🍃

🗓️ To find out the dates of her next workshops, don’t hesitate to contact her!

At La ferme de Fardissou, Patricia and Gérard produce birch sap, birch sap-based cosmetics, natural and flavoured sunflower oil and camelina oil, as well as raspberries and bilberries! You can pick your own raspberries from June to October (depending on the season) and blueberries generally in August. 🫐

But if you really want to get to grips with medicinal plants, Patricia offers a series of guided tours and workshops. During a tour of her garden, you can smell, touch and taste the plants and learn about their main popular uses; then create a balm to take home with you.

🚨 To find out the dates of forthcoming courses and workshops offered by La ferme de Fardissou, be sure to follow them on their social networks.

In the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional Périgord-Limousin, 🌿 la Ferme des Simples offers a range of workshops and courses looking at as many different aspects of the plant world, combining scientific knowledge and family practices: recognition, botany, food and medicinal uses, ecology… all fields are explored.

Our favourite workshops 💘 :

• Salad walk with an introduction to the world of plants 🥬
• Women’s and witches’ plants 🧙🏼
• The garden pharmacy: everyday ailments 🤕

Discover all the original themes that Mathilde and Jean have devised to share their knowledge and techniques on their website.