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Kirsty Brooks - January 26, 2024

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Healing With Spring Herbs

Learn to make medicine from the spring's wild plants with Salena Walker. We will be working with plants that are abundant at this time of year so even if you don’t have a garden these plants are easy to find when you are out for a walk. You’ll learn: • How to make herbal infusions and decoctions • Why making your own teas ...

Kirsty Brooks - January 22, 2023

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Vale of Lanherne Wild Medicine Walk

A wild medicine plant walk around the picturesque village of St. Mawgan and the Vale of Lanherne. Learn about the folklore, history and traditional uses of the plants, trees and weeds of the beautiful Cornish countryside. Immerse yourself in a nature sound meditation! Price includes downloadable resources with photographs and a take home goodie bag. Contact the ...

Ghislaine Howard - February 20, 2021

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Herb Histories: Daisies – The Day’s Eye in Love and War

The humble daisy is rarely paid much attention until the late spring and summer, when the white and yellow blooms accent our lawns, roadsides and fields en masse. However, the common daisy is a hardy evergreen able to flower all year, belongs to a large family which includes the medicinal echinacea, and is suitable ...

Ghislaine Howard - January 16, 2021

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Hildegard of Bingen: To Be Lost and Found

Gardening and all it entails can be understood as a physical connection to the past as so much of the activity has remained unchanged. The simple act of placing a seed in soil, giving it a sprinkling of water and excitedly waiting for nature, is wonderfully the same; we echo today actions made hundreds ...

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Ghislaine Howard - December 19, 2020

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Herb Histories: Chillies – A World of Words

We hurriedly rush in from the cold, slamming the front door shut, sighing in relief as the feeling returns to our fingers and to our toes; if you've been feeling the winter chill, then get ready to escape to a world of warmth and spice with a Herb History with Helen, all about Chillies. Written ...

Ghislaine Howard - November 15, 2020

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Herb Histories: Ginger – The Mystery of A Universal Medicine

Ginger is a herb so characteristic of this time of year. Bringing warmth, fieriness and good health to our homes, it inspires within us what the autumnal colours in the leaves and the annual light installations do outside: that warm and cosy feeling. Helen brings us its story, one of mystery, and so for ...

Ghislaine Howard - October 17, 2020

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Herb Histories: Rosemary – Who rules the roost?

Cutting through the bitter winds and drenching rain the last few days, have been the wonderful autumn colours and aromas. Rosemary, is one of those herbs I associate with autumn, in part due to its prickly appearance, mostly though, it's due to cooking. This time of year calls for more pies and more roast ...

Ghislaine Howard - August 15, 2020

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Herb Histories: Elderberries – Magic, Music and Medicine

For this weekend-read we're siting down and fastening our seat belts as Helen takes us on a fast paced tour of the history of the Elder tree, its uses, names and origins. You're likely familiar with the tree as it's a staple of the British landscape (as well as many others worldwide) and if ...

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Healing With Spring Herbs

Vale of Lanherne Wild Medicine Walk

Herb Histories: Daisies – The Day’s Eye in Love and War

Hildegard of Bingen: To Be Lost and Found

Herb Histories: Chillies – A World of Words

Herb Histories: Ginger – The Mystery of A Universal Medicine

Herb Histories: Rosemary – Who rules the roost?

Herb Histories: Elderberries – Magic, Music and Medicine

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