Forage the herbs. Formulate what you take home.
The Apothecary
Upcoming dates
Choose your date.
The programme changes with the season — pick a date below and it carries straight into your booking. New dates added every month.
Make what you take home
A hands-on botanical workshop, run with Amani Verde, where you make your own natural skincare from herbs, tea and botanicals grown and foraged on the estate. Over a session you’ll make a body butter (choose a lightweight, medium or rich base), a body scrub, and a fragrance mist or shower gel — customising scent and active herbs to your own skin.
As you work, you learn what each herb does — its active compounds, its benefits, and the cultural and colonial history behind ingredients like shea. Products rotate with the seasons. You leave with everything you made, and the knowledge to use it.
Whip your body butter while you sip Kenyan tea. Tea and conversation is the Kenyan way of doing anything.
You make three things
A body butter, a scrub, and a mist or shower gel — all yours to keep.
Whip & Sip
Whip your butter while you sip Kenyan tea. The signature ritual.
Forage-led & seasonal
Herbs and botanicals from the estate; the line rotates with the seasons.
Learn as you make
The active compounds, the benefits, the history behind each ingredient.
What’s included
- +All materials and take-home containers
- +The herb and benefits lecture
- +Kenyan tea throughout
- +Everything you make
Not included
- –Lunch — add a café table or picnic when you book
Good to know
- Starts
- Weekends (Sat & Sun; Fri when busy). Sessions at 12:00.
- Duration
- ~2 hrs.
- Formats
- Open sessions, or private/custom for bridals, corporate and birthdays.
- Best paired
- Pairs beautifully with the Foraging Walk beforehand — ask about the bundle.
- Access
- The garden room is step-free; tell us of any sensitivities to scents or ingredients.
Who this is not for
- People looking to passively watch — this is hands-on.
- Anyone wanting a full retail-size haul; you make sample sizes to learn, not to stockpile.
None. Everything is guided, from foraging to formulating.
Everything you make — a body butter, a scrub, and a mist or shower gel, in take-home containers.
Yes — for bridals, corporate days and birthdays. Propose a time in your request and we’ll build it around you.
Pair it with the Foraging Walk beforehand and add a café table. Ask about the bundle.