Corporate and Groups

Corporate Offerings

The Herb School offers immersive, nature-based corporate experiences designed to inspire connection, creativity and wellbeing. Rooted in Irish plant wisdom, our walks and workshops provide meaningful opportunities for teams to step away from screens and into natural, engaging learning environments.

Programmes can be delivered as lunchtime learning events, half-day workshops or full-day experiences, with the option to include a seasonal wild food lunch. We offer in-person events across rural and coastal locations in the greater Dublin area, in-house workshops or presentations at your premises, or live online wellness sessions for remote teams.

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Team Building experiences

The Herb School’s immersive foraging walks and seasonal workshops offer a unique, nature-based team building experience that strengthens communication, collaboration and creativity. Exploring seasonal landscapes together, whether countryside or coastline, encourages shared problem-solving, curiosity and connection.

Create a memorable shared experience for your team that blends learning, laughter and practical skills. Through guided foraging walks and practical herbal workshops, participants work together to identify and learn about seasonal wild plants, while strengthening bonds in a relaxed, natural setting.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The Herb School offers immersive, experience-based learning that reconnects students with the landscapes, traditions and biodiversity of Ireland. Through guided foraging walks, practical workshops and engaging talks, students gain hands-on knowledge of native wild plants, sustainable harvesting, herbal traditions and seasonal food.

These sessions encourage critical thinking about food systems, ecology, health and heritage, while fostering wellbeing, creativity and a sense of curiosity. Whether enhancing culinary skills, horticultural knowledge, cultural studies or sustainability initiatives, The Herb School provides memorable learning experiences rooted in Irish plant wisdom.

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

The Herb School offers a diverse range of talks and presentations that bring the world of herbs and wild plants to life in an engaging, accessible, and practical way. Led by Denise, these sessions are carefully tailored to suit different audiences and settings, from small community groups to large-scale events and festivals.

Each talk blends hands-on knowledge with storytelling, offering both inspiration and clear, actionable insights that participants can apply in their own lives. Whether the focus is on gardening, food, wellness or sustainability, audiences come away with a deeper understanding of the value of plants and a renewed connection to the natural world.

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Denise offers a range of consultancy services rooted in decades of experience across food and organic horticulture. Her food consultancy work is shaped by her long-standing involvement in Ireland’s food community and collaborations with chefs and brands, focusing on creative, modern uses of herbs and wild plants.

She has designed many herb gardens for the private and corporate sector, with an emphasis on culinary, medicinal, and sensory planting. With over thirty years professional experience running a certified organic specialist herb nursery, she offers advice on all things ecological, from organic growing to rewilding projects.

PRIVATE EXPERIENCES

The Herb School offers a range of bespoke private experiences, tours, and foraging workshops that can be fully tailored to suit individual clients or private groups. Whether booking a half-day, full-day, or multi-day experience, guests can choose from a selection of immersive options, personally hosted by Denise.

Each experience is thoughtfully designed around the client’s interests, whether culinary, medicinal, or rooted in Irish myth and lore, creating a deeply personal, enriching and memorable experience that blends learning, exploration, and enjoyment in a relaxed and engaging way.

Testimonials

What our participants say about their learning experience at The Herb School

Thank you again for the tailored team experience day. Sure, the weather conditions were not ideal, but the team actually had a blast, and we created some fond memories!

Han Lee, Program Manager, Google

Denise is a natural teacher, wears her knowledge lightly but engages her audience with her vast knowledge of the natural world and its medicinal bounty.

Máírtín Mac Con Iomaire, Chair, MA Gastronomy and Food Studies, TU Dublin

Our seashore foraging expedition with third level students from DCU was a special and most enjoyable afternoon. The level of knowledge, expertise and professionalism shown by Denise was simply awe-inspiring. She was so interactive and inclusive of all attendees and the whole event was most enjoyable, with so much to take away from the experience.

Vincent Hooper, School of Chemical Science, DCU

The feedback from the students has been extremely positive and we all learnt so much about the natural secrets around us. Denise’s breadth of knowledge and interest in nature shone through and has inspired students and staff to look at the organisms around us in a very different light.

Brian Kelleher, School of Chemical Science, DCU

Denise hosted a workshop on our campus as part of DCU SU Green Week. The workshop completely sold out, and we even had some students tag along once they overheard Denise speaking. It was engaging and incredibly informative without being an information overload, with loads of practical tips from Denise’s wealth of experience. We had overwhelmingly positive feedback from students.

Emily Cathcart, DCU Students’ Union

Everyone really enjoyed the walk – they were buzzing afterwards! They were also really impressed by the depth of your knowledge. It was lovely to get outside the classroom and still be learning. The information you gave us crossed over our academic modules, for example, your reference to the Fat Hen plant and Tollund Man, so this is really relevant for the students.

Elizabeth McCullagh, National Print Museum, Cultural and Heritage Studies

Thank you for the fantastic food day out in Fingal. The people on the trip were all international speakers at the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, who were very curious and invested in everything they saw and heard. Newbridge House was amazing as ever, as was the foraging walk with Denise. We had to pry people away from her to keep them on track!

Elaine O’Sullivan, Fingal Tourism Development Office

Contact Us

Get in touch for any questions, queries or to check availability!

Email denise@theherbschool.ie or fill out the form below.