Re-wilding – The Nature of a Garden

Re-wilding – The Nature of a Garden

Oct 5, 2018 | Hedgerow Medicine

My main aim as a herbalist is to promote and share knowledge about herbs and wellbeing, and to show how to integrate this into people’s own lives in practical ways. By teaching in a domestic environment, using my garden, I hope to inspire people to grow their own...
Notes from a Hedge Witch

Notes from a Hedge Witch

Oct 5, 2018 | Hedgerow Medicine

Common sage (Salvia officinalis) is a familiar kitchen garden plant, though its native habitat is the northern shores of the Mediterranean. Like Rosemary, it is a valuable evergreen herb: plants with volatile oils are especially potent when used fresh. Sage is a very...
Elfwort and Queen of the Meadow

Elfwort and Queen of the Meadow

Oct 5, 2018 | Hedgerow Medicine

Many of you will have noticed the ditches full of Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) that are so much a feature of Herefordshire lanes. I associate this plant with Lammas so it feels early, in the first week of July, to be seeing so much of it this year. A member of...
Who Controls Healing?

Who Controls Healing?

Oct 5, 2018 | Hedgerow Medicine

Working with the plants that grow around us teaches us to value them, and is an integral part of living sustainably within our environment. We can use plant medicine to strengthen and rebuild our vitality, as tonics, or for acute and chronic problems. The ‘gut...