Diary

Stonewall with Anita Faherty​
Saturday 15 March, 12-4, Nelson
Please wrap up warm and join us for an afternoon in the garden, starting at the beginning as part of: A Case For Land  - gatherings, chapters, perspectives and arguments - access to our rightful place...

Poetry Workshops with Rafia Mohammed
Saturdays, monthly April - Sept, 10-2, Accrington
Meeting monthly at the studio for creative writing sessions, artful activities, encouragement and friendship.
For details and to register

TESTA with Jazmin Morris
Dates in May and June to follow
Please join artist Jazmin Morris for an afternoon of medicinal plant introductions for the low tech future…Further info

Open Garden and Curatorial Collective
Download the 2025 Open garden timetable

Physic Garden - Curatorial Collective plant studies
We said that it would take seven years to build the garden and that it would last for a hundred years. How can this promise be sustained and who will become her caretakers? Explore these questions and your own through a programme of monthly plant studies. For details and to register 

For spontaneity find us on instagram idle_women or join community announcements via WhatsApp

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Physic Garden Network
A website rooted in a garden

Medicinal Plant Studies 
A collection of short videos to introduce some of the medicinal plants that grow around us and their uses.
Growing Knowledge 
Insights gathered through the process of growing medicinal plants and relationships on windowsills, in yards and on WhatsApp.
Full Moon Reflections 
A growing collection of digital arts residencies.

Power Tools

Fifteen building tutorials for every woman.
How to remove a wall plug, fix a dripping tap, change a light bulb, wire a plug, paint a unicorn mural, use a drill, put up a shelf, smash a window, paint an interior wall, reseal a sink, brick lay, drill into a brick wall, make a toolbox with a tenner...

Dazzle Audio Companions

A walk, an observation, a project, a meditation, a revelation, a moment of fear, a moment of freedom. 

Waterside audio companions - works made by and for women during the confinement of lockdown in early 2021 using pocket technology.
A moment of belonging to download or stream.

Not for Profit Shop

Visit our not-for-profit shop to pick up observation posters, love and solidarity pickle recipe cards illustrated by Nadia Rice,  Herb cards and  Idle Women on the Water: A brick throwin', hijab-wearin', hairy-legged, space-takin' odyssey graphic novel by Candice Purwin