Herb Lore & Health Care - Repeated due to interest from previous workshop!

Day Workshop: Saturday 4th June 2011, 10 to 5pm, tickets £68, includes organic lunch.

Christina Stapley, medical herbalist and author

This workshop celebrates the popular herbs grown for use in the Roman home.

We owe some of our most valued herbs, thyme, sage, bay, white horehound, lovage, garlic and more to the coming of the Romans. Through the works of Pliny, Celsus, and other Roman writers, we can understand why they felt it so essential to bring these Mediterranean herbs to Britain.

We will look at herbs in diet, teas and fragrant preparations to treat stress and talk about treatments for everything from insect bites to sore throats or heartburn in a session on a simple home first aid kit.

Christina has been growing, studying and using herbs for over 30 years. She has written several books on herbs and their uses. Her own herb garden, where she has grown over 300 herbs, has been featured on TV and is often open to the public.

In making authentic medicinal recipes, we also explore growing these herbs for safe home use today. Practical experience will include preserving fresh herbs in honey or honey syrups, oils or vinegars.

• Breathe in the uplifting perfumes as you mould rose petals with exotic ingredients to make the ‘rhodides’.
   
• Weave herbs in wreaths to cure headaches.
   
• Learn to blend herbs to make pills, drinks and salves.

Join us for an inspiring self-help day which includes a fresh organic lunch.

  Comments from previous course:
          "comfortable, friendly atmosphere"
          "the practical demonstrations are clearly defined and interesting to watch"
          "inspiring - reinforced my connection to herbs and nature's medicine chest"

Please phone 01983 566009 or email