Places are limited on the Attendance Course and, when you enrol, you are making a commitment to pay the annual fees in full. We offer a variety of hands-on herbal and foraging days, ranging from two-hour walks and week-long courses to bespoke commissions. If all the above criteria have been met and we agree that you have good reason to withdraw, then a partial refund for the tutor marking element of the course may be granted.

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. Beyond the 14-day period, if you wish to withdraw from your course for good reason, a partial refund may be granted if you purchased the course with tutor marking, are still inside the three-month period and have not submitted work to your tutor for marking. The art of natural perfumery (a weekend course introducing the less well known essential oil used in perfumery, how to blend and make perfumes).The natural health chest for the home (one day, how to assemble a range of herbal remedies for you and your family). We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. He ran over a hundred marathons and ultra-marathons while living in South Africa and is author of Survive and Thrive in the New South Africa (How To Books, 2000).

The first was a vegetarian cookbook, Vegetarian Masterpieces, written with Carol Tracy and published in 1989. Come and learn how to make your own top quality additive free cosmetics and medicinal preparations, explore and harvest herbs from Rowan's organic garden in the heart of Herefordshire.All materials are included in the cost of the course, which will be taught outside as much as possible. Beautiful photos and drawings abound, and I can see this is going to be a well loved book, thank you, I'm very happy and will recommend it to friends and family alike. I've got tons of miscellaneous herbals with lists of plants and their properties; this one is special because the information is deep and rich and dense with both the fascinating lore and history of plants and the instructions for practical use in treating ailments.

The hands-on approach aims to increase your confidence in and knowledge of the uses of herbs for healing, well-being and pleasure. You have a pharmacy at your fingertips, and the book shows you how to use herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, oils, vinegars and other familiar kitchen items to treat common ailments. 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. Informal, practical courses which will enable you to make herbal remedies and personalised scents from fresh and dried herbs and oils. 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.This is a well-illustrated and informative book for those interested in foraging and gathering wild hedgerow plants and putting them to use. The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults.