Petals + Ink        

Build your own Herbarium 

A workshop of Pressed Plants & Paper Magic

Bind your own book & record nature’s wonders

Binding the Wild

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Press, Paint, and Pen
the Language of Herbs.

A weekend in the foothills of the Macedon Ranges
December 12th & 13th 2025.

Learning Longstitch bookbinding to create your own Herbarium - a tome dedicated to plants.

Wander through the Apothecary Garden, collecting plant specimens to press and annotate.

Learn basic Botany and identification, annotation skills, medicinal properties

and Botanical Illustration.

Gather nature’s quiet wonders and weave them into a book of living memory.

Take time to observe Nature

Capture the enchantment herbs have to offer,

Learn simple book-binding techniques, and take home your own interpretation of the natural world, your own book of botanical keepsakes.

Bring your inner botanist to life —

With ink-stained fingers, mossy margins, and pages of pressed enchantment.

Learn to make leather-bound long-stitch journals, skills you can take with you, that will last.

Build your own Herbarium

What Will I learn?

  • Learn to hand bind your very own leatherbound long-stitch book

  • Explore the Apothecary garden for botanical specimens for your new tome

  • Create hand-written notes & annotations

  • Gain knowledge of basic botany and identification, learning what to observe and how to make field notes

  • Practice Botanical illustration and Herbal medicine note-taking

Is this course right for me?

​Designed for Herbalists that want to reclaim the enchantment of plant magic, in the field:

  • Wishing your studies had more of the rustic and whimsical appeal

  • Wanting to develop more of a relationship hands-on with the herbs

  • Craving to know herbs in the garden and not just in a bottle

  • Interested in Book-binding, and Lost Crafts

  • Desire a more Earthy approach to Herbal Practice

  • Where Science & Whimsy meet!

What will I receive?

  • All materials for your own Long-stich hand-bound leather journal, for you to take home

  • Book-binding Instructions booklet

  • Guided time in the Apothecary garden, learning about Botany, with the ability to pick medicinal species for your new Herbarium

  • Tuition for 2 days, from an experienced, qualified and bioregional Herbalist

  • Catered Lunches (2 days)

    - Petals + Ink -    

2 Days of Bookbinding, Botany & Herbcraft near the Macedon Ranges

Preview Course Curriculum

  • Arrive 9:45am
    10:00am start

    Introductions
    Herbal History
    The Lost Art of Bookbinding

  • Start Longstitch Bookbinding

    Leather cover and preparation for Sewing

    Prepare the Book Block

  • After Lunch

    Apothecary Garden

    Basic Botany

    Pressing Herbs

  • Start sewing leatherbound journal

    Finish 4pm

  • Intro to Botanical Annotations & Illustrations

  • Finish Sewing Longstitch book

  • Time to play!
    Annotations, pressed herbs, drawing, botanical info & properties

  • Time in the garden to gather more specimens to take home for your Herbarium!

    Discussion of Resources

    Finish 4pm

A herbarium for the wild-hearted — part science, part spellcraft, all wonder.

If you are craving an experience that does justice to the wonders of the natural world -

spending time on a working farm, with a cute herb-garden, natural light, and time outdoors to frolic, as well as interesting and engaging lectures and hands-on learning, this is for you.