HerbFest 2025 is only 2 weeks away!
Sunny Coast HerbFest Sunday 15th June
June 15, 2025 | 9:30am – 2pm at Coolum Primary School oval.
Join us for the Sunshine Coast’s biggest herbal event of the year!
We’ll celebrate, be inspired by great speakers, see practical demonstrations and stock up on artisan, handcrafted/ grown herbal products.
Just $20 for a day of learning and connection; under 14s free.
HerbFest is our biggest herbal event of the year! Join us to celebrate our local herbal community, learn and stock up on artisanally made herbal products.
Full of practical herbal education – this year you’ll learn about:
🌿Shamanic Herbalist Heidi Wedd talking “Rewilding from the Inside Out: Herbs as Spiritual Teachers.”
🌿Acupuncturist Dr Sally Taylor will teach us the secret language of plants and the five elements
🌿Pat Collins will show you some Indigenous Plants and how to use them
🌿Deanne Apostolou will give you the low down on nervine herbs for stressful times
🌿Heidi Merika will demonstrate a wild and weedy insect repellent
🌿Karen McElroy is going cosmic looking at Herbal Medicine and Anthroposophy: Tapping into the Wisdom of Nature and Human Intuition
🌿Jim and Juila from Lighthouse Regenerative Farm will look at the role of herbs in backyard food forests
And more — with interactive workshops still to be announced.
Plus herbal artisan market stalls and food and drinks
Books available at HerbFest
Copies of Wildcraft and From the Wild will be available for purchase and signing on the day
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I would like to acknowledge the Kabbi Kabbi/Gubbi Gubbi peoples on who’s lands I live and work. I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and pray this truth be acknowledged and respected by all who live, work and govern these lands.