After breaking my wrist in the summer of 2012 which impacted on allotment life through to the Autumn, and after the wettest Summer and Autumn that I can remember, followed by an extremely busy Christmas with a house full of lovely people, it is about time I got back to the allotment. I visited today, […]
Sometimes, when a rash of itchy spots springs up your first concern is not to get a correct diagnosis but to STOP THE ITCHING. You can find out what the cause is later, but if you just want to stop being driven crazy by constant itching, and if you have a patch of chickweed […]
If you compare this photo with one of the early ones on my blog, you can see I have come a long way… The white greenhouse in the centre background is mine, and marks the bottom limits of my allotment. The photo was taken from the shed where I store my tools, seeds, dry herbs, […]
This is Jacqui Apostolides after a very successful Open Day at Broad Oak Farm in Essex. As they say from their website: Broad Oak Herbs is a totally unique company. We currently farm just over an acre that forms part of a 6 acre organic smallholding in the beautiful Essex countryside, our herb farm […]
The whole point of choosing the name Growing Medicine for my clinic and business was to illustrate both the fact that the medicine I use comes from things that are growing in contrast to things that are synthetically made in bulk in a factory, and that I am actually growing some of my own stuff. Since I […]
Colds and Flu Season… The common cold is a virus droplet infection of the air passages of the upper respiratory tract. There are many hundreds of different viruses that cause a cold to develop, which is why there is no specific ‘vaccine’. You can catch it by breathing in the virus in droplets coughed or […]
Introducing Herbworks! One day courses to get people introduced to making things with herbs. Salves, teas, tinctures, powders and more. Learn how to make your own first aid kit. Construct your arsenal against the common cold, while learning the best way to approach fevers, diarrhoea, constipation, rashes and other minor health niggles you wouldn’t go […]
So, this is what I call bulk tincture making. Those of you who work in professional herbal product warehouses may snigger at me but I am just a one-man-band here, beginning to make as many of my own medicines as I can. Making three separate tinctures in one day to me is bulk tincture making… […]