In the midst of writing the modules for our professional diploma, and actually teaching on it, and seeing patients, and making up prescriptions, I do like a spot of trundling around in the countryside picking stuff and seeing what is growing where. Today, roaming along the canal with two little grandsons collecting willow for me […]
It’s June, and that means picking stuff! My allotment has become overgrown because I’ve been away so much [April -Portugal, May-Finland, June-Norway] but that was unusual and it won’t be happening again. Unfortunately. But it just shows how much you have to be on the ball when you grow stuff, and how much you miss […]
The birds have started singing; that means spring is on the way… Although I want to start sowing the seeds of my medicinal herbs asap, when I went to visit my allotment I was surprised how quickly the weeds have encroached on my growing space. I shouldn’t be surprised as it happens every year. […]
Just so you know. I can now take card payments; easier for you and easier for me….
With the winter still dragging on my patients often ask for some cough medicine. I always have some in stock. Except I moved and lost it all. How can that happen? Well, apart from the possibility of having left a box in the back of the removal van, I have looked in all other places […]
The School of Herbal Medicine opened its doors to the first students September 2015. I did my first day’s teaching there October 18th with 7 hours of Herbal Therapeutics; this weekend we focused on the Cardiovascular system and the Respiratory System. Susan Vassar covered the Gastrointestinal system in Anatomy and Physiology om 17th. We had […]
…and they are asking for cakes, biscuits and [today] Dolly Mixtures? I just tried a new thing. I tipped cottage cheese, yoghurt and cream into a dish. Added chopped cherry tomatoes, snipped salad onions, chopped mange tout and french beans. I stirred in some cracked black pepper and a bit of salt, placed it in […]
I visited this organic herb farm about two years ago. The farmer was very laid back and happy to show us around, his soil has been organic for 25 years. There is a centre for local school children to stay in dormitories while they learn about growing food and herbs organically. He grows a […]
A few weeks ago was the end of the blackberry season here in the South West. The common blackberry Rubus fructicosus L is ubiquitous, as Julian Barker says in his book The Medicinal Flora of Britain and Northwestern Europe; ‘Understanding the full variability of the bramble is a specialist obsession, the elucidation of which has […]
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Making Lip Balm is easy, and I’m going to tell you how… A lip balm is basically a salve, which is basically herbal oil with beeswax melted in. With a few drops of essential oil dribbled in. A child could do it, honest. Since there are loads of various infused herbal oils [calendula, St […]