Sowing the Seeds of Good Health		Saturday 29th March
Tutor Christina Stapley BSc Phyt MCPP		10 am - 4 pm
The 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 and how you can 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 This is the first of a series of workshops at Marden House: contact the number right for later dates		Marden House, Calne, Wilts Further information from www.heartsease-herb-books.com bookings email: or call 01249 821087
Georgian Herbs in Peace and War		Wednesday April 23rd
Co-tutors Christina Stapley BSc Phyt MCPP    and Ruth Mannion-Daniels BSc Hons Biol, BSc Phyt MNIMH		10.30 am - 4 pm
Within the Georgian period 1714-1830 great changes took place, yet herbs were used to save lives throughout that time in very different circumstances. The herbal secrets of the ladies’ stillroom medicines, cosmetics and preserves in the early years will be opened in the perfect setting. Ruth, a specialist in the work of naval surgeons at the end of the period, will reveal which herbs were essential to the work of naval surgeons at the Battle of Trafalgar as they worked to try to save limbs and lives. An understanding of the treatments will be given alongside practical experience making authentic recipes from household books and herbals. A fragrant day is promised with distilled aromatic waters, herb sugars, dried herbs and gum resins amongst the ingredients of recipes for everyday problems and serious illnesses alike. This is one in a series of workshops - further information right		Bennett Street, Bath, Somerset bookings email: or call 01249 821087
Herbals Opened for the Family		Wednesday June 25th
Co-tutors Christina Stapley BSc Phyt MCPP    and Ruth Mannion-Daniels BSc Hons Biol, BSc Phyt MNIMH		10.30 am - 4 pm
A day spent getting to know one family of herbs – the Compositae. You will learn how to identify which herbs are members of this family and what they have to offer in health support and treatments, both chronic and acute, for your own family. Herbal medicine for the very young to the very old will be covered. Enjoy practical experience of making recipes such as teas, syrups, handbaths, ointments etc. The family of Compositae includes some of the most useful herbs such as the Calendula {pot marigold}, Echinacea, Carduus marianus (milk thistle), Inula helenium (elecampane) and many more		Bennett Street, Bath, Somerset bookings email: or call 01249 821087

Vouchers are available for these courses and make welcome special occasion gifts.

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