Community-rooted plant-based learning, grounded in nature, craft, and connection.
Multi award winning community group.
Kindness, understanding and empathy.
Solution focused.
A lovely bunch of folk, adventuring Pendle and sharing knowledge and understandings of nature. Everyone is welcome and the only rules are kindness, empathy and understanding (we don’t even need to say that, everyone just is and has been).
Working towards being more symbiotic with our surroundings, nature and each other.
It’s
Foraging Season
Our walks and gatherings are open to everyone, with both free and community-priced events throughout the year. Together we explore how to eat wild, craft from the earth, and care for the places that care for us.
Available for commissioned foraging walks, tailored to you and your budget.
“Pendle Plant Craft has meant to the world to me. Meeting weekly, going on walks, discovering amazing plants right under my nose. I’ve learned to make tea, clothes, lip balm…it’s extraordinary!”
Pat Beetham, Colne, Lancashire. Lot’s more reviews here….. https://www.facebook.com/pendleplantcraft/reviews https://share.google/LPlRAkv7kz46hJfQo
Featured products
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Artist Bracket & Chaga Mushroom Liquid
£15.00
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Nettle Seeds
£15.00 -
Wild Recipes and Remedies
£38.00
How It Started
Pendle Plant Craft began in 2020, in the quiet days during the first lockdown.
When small groups of six were finally allowed to meet outdoors again, founder Pete Compston wrote a simple Facebook post inviting people to join him in learning about wild foods, medicines, and our connection to nature, together, as friends.
The idea was simple: to take responsibility for our own wellbeing, to depend less on systems we can’t control, and to begin freeing ourselves, little by little, from the culture of blame that surrounds us.
Three friends turned up. Curious, cautious, and grateful just to be outside together. They walked slowly, naming wild herbs and edible greens that had been underfoot all along.
By the following week there were twelve. Then twenty. Then sometimes nearly fifty.
What began as a few friends learning in the park soon became a growing community built on curiosity, kindness, empathy and understanding, and the shared joy of reconnecting with nature.
How It’s Going
Today, Pendle Plant Craft runs foraging walks, creative workshops, and seasonal gatherings across Lancashire, centred around a cabin at Lomeshaye Marsh Nature Reserve. A place where learning, cooking, and crafting meet.
Pete now writes for regional magazines including Northern Life MAgazine and Garden Folk Magazine, sharing stories of plants, trees, and mushrooms, while others bring their own gifts: herbal medicine, tea-making, textile crafts, music, art, and conversation.
Pendle Plant Craft remains what it’s always been. Not a company, but a community of friends learning together. Every walk, every workshop, every cup of wild tea is part of that same story that began with one small question and a walk through the wild.
