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Medical herbalist, Christina Stapley has been growing, studying
and using herbs for over 35 years. In 2011 she will be tutoring
a series of workshops on herb cultivation, modern and historical
uses of herbs at the locations below.
● Wiltshire
● Dorset
● Hampshire and Isle of Wight
● West Sussex
● Pilmoth Plantation, Massachusetts, USA
WORKSHOPS AT CALNE,
WILTSHIRE
For further details or to book a place on the Calne workshops, telephone 01249 821087 or
Email
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Sowing
the Seeds of Good Health |
Tuesday 15th
March
Time: 10 am - 4 pm
Cost: £30 (Lunch
not included) |
Telephone 01249 821087
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This day will be about planning
a source of fresh herbs for your harvest to suit your lifestyle.
Discover herbs for salads and teas, from growing in windowsill
pots to sowing and planting a small herb garden to delight
you all year round. We will be looking at tasty seeds to
eat and trying new recipes. There will be a special emphasis
on herbs offering useful herb seeds; this includes how to
gain the most from them in food and home medicine. Fennel,
sunflower, pumpkin, aniseed, milk thistle and more plus
a planting plan for the 12 most helpful herbs for your garden
and information on their uses. |
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Aging successfully |
A series of workshops intended to inform in a fun way
with a mix of facts, recipes and activities - both
gently physical and mental. The workshops are suitable
for anyone over 30 years of age. The sooner you begin
understanding and looking after your body the better;
however, there are always helpful changes you can make .
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The workshops all take place in Calne, and can be booked
singly or as a block. Each session is complete in itself
yet forms part of the whole understanding. For further
details, click on the "more" button for individual
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1. Brain & Nerves |
Saturday 19th
March |
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2. Heart & Circulation |
Saturday
16th April |
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3. Breathing |
Saturday
14th May |
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4. Digestion |
Saturday
11th June |
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5. Kidneys, Skin & Hair |
Saturday
10th September |
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6. Immune System |
Saturday
15th October |
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7. Muscles and Joints |
Saturday
19th November |
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A Medicine Chest from
Garden and Hedgerow |
Saturday 20th August
10 am - 4 pm
Cost: £30 (Lunch not included) |
Telephone 01249 821087
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Beginning by thinking about looking after your herbs as
autumn approaches, we then explore the most useful
first-aid herbs to grow or be aware of when on country
walks. These include treatments for bites and stings,
sunburn, sprains, stomach upsets, stress etc. There will
be experience in making herbal oils, teas, herbal syrup,
poultices and compresses.
You will learn about commonly grown herbs and their uses
for everyday problems, their preparation, dosage and
contraindications. Rules for safe home medicine will be
given alongside some hands on experience. Fruits and
berries feature, contrasting with soothing leaves such
as houseleek and ribwort plantain. From peppermint to
Calendula there will be plenty of interest.
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WORKSHOP AT NETHER CERNE MANOR, NR
DORCHESTER, DORSET |
Stillroom Skills 1600-1750
Saturday 30th July
10 am - 4.15 pm
Cost: £40
(Lunch not included) |
Telephone 01249 821087
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In this perfect setting, hosted by herbalist Eleanor Gallia, and led by Christina Stapley, we will dip into the stillroom books of the ladies of the manor of the past. Using original recipes we will make salves, poultices, herbal vinegars and honeys, medicinal sweetmeats and powders.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Lady of the manor would have not only the responsibility for the health of all within her household, but also the expectation of Christian charity to the neighbourhood. She needed to be skilled in preparing herbal remedies and many stillroom books survive. Eleanor’s abundant herb garden at the manor today will supply fresh herbs for the course and the opportunity to enjoy identifying them as they grow in a tranquil area at the waterside |
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WORKSHOPS IN HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Enter a Celtic Home
Saturday May 29th
10 am - 4 pm
Cost: £50 |
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Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire
www.butserancientfarm.co.uk
(e-mail contact on the website)
Tel 023 9259 8838
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This is a day to look at the world through different eyes, as we find both fascinating possibilities and certainties for the Celtic way. Their mastery of natural materials is evident from archaeology. With no written record we look at what we know of their lives and daily needs
that can be met using herbs. Then follow the trail of early gatherers through tastes, fragrances, textures, colours and forms to uses. Practical experiment involves native herbs in simple cookery, dyeing wool, fragrances and safe home medicines. |
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Woad, burdock, sweet gale, mullein, goosegrass, elder, vervain, meadowsweet, bramble, betony, sanicle, marshmallow and nettle – these herbs and more will take us from sources for string to soup, dyes to burning torches, cosmetics to cures and insect repellents to aphrodisiacs. Finding the clues in where it grows, how it grows and what your senses tell you about a plant, will open the way to a deeper relationship with your environment. Hints on when and how to gather for the most intense flavours and fragrances and to obtain the highest therapeutic values are given for you to test. A full understanding of the plants takes a life-time. This day will offer the opportunity of a flying start. |
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Herbs in Home Healthcare
Saturday June 4th
Time
10 am - 5 pm |
Aldermoor Earthworks, Isle of Wight
www.aldermoor-farm.co.uk
(e-mail contact on website)
Tel: 01983 566009. |
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Guided by medical herbalist Christina Stapley, this is a day to learn about practical and safe home use of herbs. We will look
at both hedgerow and garden herbs. Learn about gathering, drying and storing herbs for use in teas, foot or handbaths and soothing pillows. Practical experience will include preserving fresh herbs in honey or honey syrups, oils or vinegars. We will look at herbs in diet, teas and fragrant preparations to treat stress and talk about treatments for everything from insect bites to sore throats or heartburn in a session on a simple home first aid kit. Effective traditional herbs featured will include marshmallow elder, fennel, meadowsweet, agrimony, lavender, oregano, Calendula, houseleek and ribwort plantain. |
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Life in a Roman Villa
Saturday June 25th
10 am - 4 pm
Cost: £50 |
Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire
www.butserancientfarm.co.uk
(e-mail contact on the website)
Tel. 023 9259 8838 |
The best known herbs today, including sage, parsley and bay, are part of the legacy of the Roman occupation of Britain. We look at features of Italian gardens and Mediterranean herbs and how these were introduced into Britain and still influence our lives and tastes today. The role of herbs in daily life is the theme, leading us from practical experience in making some delicious and easy recipes, still suitable for the modern kitchen, into making fragrant beads and wreaths for decoration, cosmetics and more. The use of the resinous herbs such as frankincense and myrrh illustrate the stark contrast with use of native British herbs. Yet both were, and still are, combined in herbal medicine. Family health and medicines as a responsibility of the head of the household opens the way to making more recipes and insight on their attitudes to disease and therapy.
Bright pot marigolds, beloved roses, bitter wormwood and horehound, fragrant rosemary, mints and pennyroyal, and the valued seasonings, savory, thyme, lovage, cumin and caraway all find their places in our exploration of Roman herbs. Our written evidence and recipes come from the cookery of Apicius
(more than one author), encyclopaedic writings of folklore and much else in Pliny and medicine of Celsus. Records from Hadrian’s
Wall add British information while archaeology both in Britain and such sites as Pompeii and Herculaneum, provide a rich background to hands-on experience with herbs. |
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Hedgerow Basketry
Saturday September 24th
10 am - 4 pm
Cost: £50 |
Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire
www.butserancientfarm.co.uk
(e-mail contact on the website)
Tel. 023 9259 8838
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One of the joys of autumn is to gather materials and sit weaving a basket “in the green” from the materials around you, as you enjoy the last warm sunshine. A celebration of harvest which may provide you with a container for yet more harvests. No previous experience is necessary and most participants finish a basket in the day. It may be a round or oval basket in shape, with or without a handle. Occasionally there has also been time to make a lid. |
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Hedgerow Basketry
Saturday October 8th
Time
10 am - 4.30 pm |
Aldermoor Earthworks, Isle of Wight
www.aldermoor-farm.co.uk
(e-mail contact on website)
Tel: 01983 566009 |
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Instruction will be given in choosing the right stems, harvesting times and methods, storage and preparation of weavers and stakes. Practical experience in the ancient craft of basket weaving and design will lead to a working knowledge of the textures, appearance and flexibility of various natural materials. Whether you wish to make a strictly functional basket or play with the craft as an art form it is a fun day. |
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WORKSHOPS AT WEALD & DOWNLAND OPEN AIR MUSEUM, SINGLETON, CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX |
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Herbs for a Cottage Garden |
Friday May 20th
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £50 |
See
www.wealddown.co.uk for further details |
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Make a Herbarium – A Personal Plant Record |
Saturday May 28th
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £55 |
www.wealddown.co.uk
E-mail contact on the website)
Tel: 01243 811464 |
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The oldest surviving
herbarium in this country is from 1606. It contains
whole pressed plants that are still recognizable today,
with added notes on identification and use. This remains
an exciting connection with the past. |
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The Herbarium workshop
provides the chance for you to make a collection of
beautifully preserved inspiration for sketching or
painting, use in embroidery design, or help you at a
future date to identify plants. A must for anyone who
has an interest in botany or makes pressed flower cards
and wishes to improve on their techniques. As a bonus it
enables you to leave an invaluable gift to coming
generations. Learn how to press plants effectively and
mount them for their best survival. Learn also how to
identify herbs accurately and record important details.
In a modern herbarium photography can add an extra
dimension to the record in revealing the habitat of the
plant in question. |
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15th Century Herbs in the Medieval Manor |
Friday June 17th
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £50 |
See
www.wealddown.co.uk for further details |
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Secrets of the Tudor stillroom |
Saturday June 18th
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £50 |
See
www.wealddown.co.uk for further details |
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Herbs for Health |
Friday July 1st
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £50 |
www.wealddown.co.uk
E-mail contact on the website)
Tel: 01243 811464 |
From the cottage herbaceous border of the past we identify suitable herbs to supply home remedies for a small medicinal garden today. Guided by medical herbalist Christina Stapley, this is a day to learn about practical and safe home use of herbs.
Follow the stages of gathering to drying and storing for use in herb teas, foot or handbaths and soothing pillows. Learn how to preserve fresh herbs in honey or honey syrups, oils or vinegars. Historical and modern recipes provide applications in treating everything from insect bites to sore throats or diarrhoea. Effective traditional herbs featured include marshmallow, elder, fennel, chamomile, lemon balm, houseleek, sage, thyme, lavender and more.
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Herbs for Health |
Saturday July
2nd
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £50 |
www.wealddown.co.uk
E-mail contact on the website)
Tel: 01243 811464 |
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As above, a repeat of a popular workshop.
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Herb walk around the Museum |
Saturday July 9th
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £50 |
See
www.wealddown.co.uk for further details |
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'Rewriting
History': Making Historical Links |
Saturday August 27th
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £50 |
See
www.wealddown.co.uk for further details |
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An A-Z of medicinal trees |
Friday September 16th
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: £50 |
www.wealddown.co.uk
E-mail contact on the website)
Tel: 01243 811464 |
Come and explore the woods, folklore and historical herbal recipes containing products from trees. A walk in the Museum grounds offers us familiarity with identifying native and introduced trees. The scope of the day widens this list to include North American and exotic additions to our historical Pharmacopoeia. Through pictures, products and making recipes we will look at the use of fruits, blossoms, leaves, barks, roots, wood, sap and resin to make medicines, splints for broken limbs and even provide fuel for heating the recipe.
Over millennia trees have also given foods, wines, spices, incense, dyes, inks and basketry materials. Adding a rich folklore enhances the day. Find out about the uses of ash, hawthorn, birch, elder, lime, horse chestnut, oak and willow. From America, sassafras, prickly ash and slippery elm. Not forgetting spice trees producing cloves and cinnamon and gum resin sources, Boswellia, Commiphora and Guaiacum.
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Christmas herbal gifts and decorations |
Sunday
December 11th
9.30 am - 4 pm
Cost: £55 |
See
www.wealddown.co.uk for further details |
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Christmas herbal gifts and decorations |
Thursday
December 15th
9.30 am - 4 pm
Cost: £50 |
See
www.wealddown.co.uk for further details |
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WORKSHOPS AT At PLIMOTH PLANTATION, MASSACHUSETTS, USA |
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Draft programme: for more
information please check
on www.plimoth.org
for latest information |
Elizabethan Herbs and Herb Gardens
Thursday July 14th
1 - 5 pm |
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Kitchen Gardens
and Herbs of the Pilgrims
Friday July 15th
9 am - 5 pm |
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Secrets of the
Tudor Stillroom
Saturday July 16th
9 am - 5 pm |
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Herbs in a
Daily Life 1750-1750
Sunday July 17th
2 - 5.30 pm |
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Herbal Dyes and
Inks
Monday July 18th
9 am - 5 pm |
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Fragrances and
Luxuries from the Herb Garden
Tuesday July 19th
9 am - 3 pm |
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For a full list of Christina Stapley’s lectures and herb workshops
taking place at various museums and other centres, go to
www.heartsease-herb-books.com
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A
Medicine Chest from Garden and Hedgerow
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Saturday
28th August |
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