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Lavender - Lavandula Officinalis

Elecampane - Inula Helenium

St. John's Wort - Hypericum Perforatum

Yarrow - Achillea Millefolium

Feverfew - Chrysanthemum Parthenium

Courses and Events in 2009

All courses are full days (10am to 4pm) unless otherwise indicated.
  
Saturday 18 April Planning your herb garden (half day)
Thursday 21 May Grandmother’s Secrets – rediscovering old herbal traditions
Friday 22 May Make your own herbal home remedies kit
Wednesday 10 June Herbal healing traditions and simple remedies
Thursday 11 June Making herbal creams and ointments
Friday 12 June Herbs for women (half day)
Tuesday 14 July Herbs in healthy eating and cooking
Wednesday 15 July Make your own herbal home remedies kit
Friday 4 September Herbal healing traditions and simple remedies
Saturday 5 September Combating stress: herbs for relaxation and tension

Courses may be repeated on additional dates if there is sufficient demand

Course Content:

Combating stress: herbs for relaxation and tension
A relaxed day aimed at understanding how our inability to cope with stress can cause of many emotional and physical ills. This day focuses on identifying and reducing stress, relaxation techniques, and both tonic and relaxing herbs. It covers many of the topics included in the book “Making Time for Me” by Penelope Ody.
5 September

Grandmother’s Secrets: rediscovering old herbal traditions
This day looks at some of the traditions and folklore associated with herbs going back to Saxon times and includes workshop sessions making pot pourri, herbal teas, and other seasonal herbal products. Weather permitting, there will also be time to look at both garden and hedgerow herbs.
21 May

Herbs for Women (half day)
A short course looking at various approaches to using herbs for treating women’s ailments drawn from both Eastern and Western healing traditions. The course includes a review of the properties of the more popular herbal remedies for gynaecological problems including black cohosh, sage, agnus-castus and Dang Gui.
12 June

Herbal healing traditions and simple remedies
This day course looks at the traditional use of herbs in both East and West and how these approaches can be applied to family healthcare. We shall make and tasting simple remedies for home use, such as teas and syrups and the course also covers suggestions for treating everyday ailments including common colds, coughs, and digestive upsets.
10 June, 4 September

Herbs in healthy eating and cookery
A healthy digestion is key to well-being. This day starts by look at herbal approaches to healthy eating including both Western and Chinese systems of food balancing. There will be practical sessions on using herbs in cooking and making simple herbal oils and mustards. There will also be an opportunity to discuss simple remedies for everyday digestive problems.
14 July

Make your own herbal home remedies kit
An opportunity to make your own herbal home remedies kit with a mixture of creams, oils, tinctures and syrups to combat everyday household ills. A busy practical day which will give you at least four herbal products to take home as a basic herbal remedies kit
22 May, 15 July

Making herbal creams and ointments
This is a practical workshop day making focusing on herbal remedies for external use including various creams, infused oils and ointments as well as production of simple cosmetic products such as face creams, moisturisers shampoos and balms. At the end of the day everyone will have a collection of at least four herbal products that they have made to take away.
11 June

Planning your herb garden (half day)
This short course, early in the season, is designed as a general introduction to choosing, growing and harvesting herbs at home. It will cover the types of herbs to grow, which ones to gather from the wild, identification, drying and storage as well as basic herb garden design and propagation with opportunities to gather and pot-up your own choice of cuttings.
18 April, (to be repeated on Wednesday 6 May if there is sufficient demand)

Timetable
Full day courses run from 10.00am to about 4.00pm and include lunch. Half-day courses run from 10.00am to about 12.30-1.00pm.

Additional course dates and topics can be arranged for special interest groups (minimum four delegates) – please contact penny@herbcourses.co.uk for more information.

Course Fees:
  • Combating stress: herbs for relaxation and tension – £60
  • Grandmother’s Secrets – rediscovering old herbal traditions – £60
  • Herbs for women – £30
  • Herbal healing traditions and simple remedies – £60
  • Herbs in healthy eating and cookery – £60
  • Make your own herbal home remedies kit (includes at least four remedies to take home) – £70
  • Making herbal creams and ointments (includes at least four products to take home) – £70
  • Planning your herb garden (half day) – £30
Course fees include: course folder, printed notes, teas, coffees, cold drinks, and lunch during full-day courses. Lunch includes a choice of salads, quiches, vegetarian options, cheese and fruit.
 
 

Herbs at Walnut

Walnut Cottage , Hampton Hill , Swanmore , Hampshire, S032 2QN, UK
Tel: 01489 891055   Email: penny@herbcourses.co.uk
 
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