Hedgerow Medicine: Harvest and Make your own Herbal Remedies

Product Information

Just take a look at the news whenever you’re reading this and you’ll see things aren’t going in a good direction. We will arrive back at the camp area in time for a quick lunch (not provided) and the afternoon will then be spent making a wilderness first aid kit.

Matthew Seal has had a liflelong love of wildflowers, and, like Julie, is a member of the Association of Foragers. Packed with practical information on the use of 50 native plants and gives a fascinating insight into the background of these traditional herbal remedies. Matthew Seal's first recorded proper words (according to his mother, who wouldn't exaggerate on such a matter) were meadowsweet , uttered on a nature walk in the River Trent marshes when he was nearly three. From plants of the hedgerow, wayside, backyard and kitchen, our books and courses cover foraging for food and medicine, and this passion continues into Julie’s unique silver botanical jewellery. So we have fully integrated text and Julie’s photographs, with emphasis on correct plant identification.

The 'hands-on' approach aims to increase your confidence in and knowledge of the use of herbs for healing. This is a well-illustrated and informative book for those interested in foraging and gathering wild hedgerow plants and putting them to use. Places are limited on the Attendance Course and, when you enrol, you are making a commitment to pay the annual fees in full. This is our flagship book, with over 160,000 sales so far (combining UK and North American markets) and no signs of slowing down. Julie and Matthew move indoors to describe the wealth of healing and emergency remedies that sit unused in our kitchens.

Each title is beautifully illustrated, informative and easily accessible, with recipes and itemised uses.We confirm that our organisation complies with The Governance Code for the Community, Voluntary and Charitable Sector in Ireland. An exploration of the uses of herbs and learn to make your own top quality cosmetics and herbal preparations. This wonderful countryside companion gives abundant information on the variety of ways to preserve hedgerow herbs such as essences, syrups, gels, tinctures or ointments and is full of fascinating folklore. The first was a vegetarian cookbook, Vegetarian Masterpieces, written with Carol Tracy and published in 1989. With the help of this book, I will walk around the woodlands and fields come spring to pick and select my own medicine.

And while the effect lasts just a couple of hours, I feel none of the drowsiness of my usual antihistamine. It's a UK based book, but as someone living at a similar latitude in the US, it is perfectly applicable to my climate. We like this as it reflects our earlier working title of ‘The Love Herbal’ – this is a book about aphrodisiacs with love at its heart.Before you know it you ll be strolling book in hand along autumn hedgerows picking remedies that will see you through what the winter has to throw at you. She offers one and two day courses in: An introduction to herbal medicine (weekend course covering the basic principles of western herbal medicine, how to make syrups, infuse oils, ointments and creams). A WALK DOWN a leafy lane in high summer may offer far more than the olfactory delight of honeysuckle humming with bees, or the delicate scent of wild roses. I was suitably alarmed and now have been able to amaze my specialist with rapid recovery and have changed my meds to a much safer and smaller type and dose due to my change in diet and herbal supplements. With each plant we will describe how to identify it, its medicinal uses and how to prepare it, making sure you're equipped with the knowledge that the world around us offers us some amazing remedies to common ailments.