Wild Remedy was founded by Miriam Boyles, PhD, and is the blossoming of her desire to help people grow medicinal gardens, build their plant knowledge, and rediscover a healing connection to nature.

She explains “My earliest memory is of standing outside my neighbour’s garden, watching wasps buzz around a flowering shrub that smelled of oranges. I was captivated by that tiny world and my own sensory experience of it. That sense of wonder has never left me. I’ve spent much of my life outdoors — and when I was indoors, I wanted to be outside.”

Education first drew her into more institutional spaces, but it eventually brought her back to medicine in an unexpected way: through a PhD in medical anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She explored how humans describe and practise healing, and how in some societies those practices keep people more closely connected to the natural world.

As an adult — first in the northeast, now in her home county of Devon — Miriam discovered that a deeper, world-connected way of engaging with health was possible in the UK, too. In her first garden, she began to grow medicinal and edible plants almost intuitively: one to ease sleep, another to support digestion, another to help regulate the menstrual cycle. This instinctive practice led her to study for a Diploma in Herbology (earned with distinction) from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Alongside her studies, the greatest learning has come from working directly with plants and people: tending her own medicine garden, making remedies, and helping others connect with plants that support them.

Wild Remedy combines these skills and passions into a unique offering: a consultancy that helps to give people a more empowered, and hands-on relationships to health and nature.