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For thousands of years, people who had no access to clinical medicine knew how to boost their well-being by using the ingredients they found in plants. Herbs are the people's medicine; often freely available and abundant, they are ready and waiting to be plucked from around you to soothe and heal your body and mind.
Over tea and cake during Heckfield's Equinox weekend, join gardener, writer and presenter Alys Fowler in conversation about her new book, A Modern Herbal (a copy is included in the ticket price). It includes guides for how to use and grow more than 100 herbs - for example, how to use fennel for indigestion, camomile for anxiety and nettle for hay fever.
Offering a fusion of botanical, practical, cultural and historical information, A Modern Herbal reveals how common herbs are the simple, cleansing way to better health and happiness.
Alys writes a weekly column on gardening for The Guardian Weekend Magazine. She has contributed to Gardens Illustrated, The Observer Food Monthly, The National Geographic and Country Living. Alys trained at Royal Horticultural Society Wisley, The New York Botanical Gardens, and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. She has written six books including The Thrifty Gardener, The Edible Garden, Abundance and Hidden Nature. She has presented on BBC's Gardeners' World, The Great British Garden Revival, Our Food, and her own six-part series The Edible Garden. She regularly contributes to radio. She has keen interest in agriculture and food politics and is setting up an urban farm in Birmingham. She also teaches garden history, specialising in Italian gardens of the Renaissance era.
Please note: Due to high demand for the restaurants, lunch before and dinner afterwards usually needs to be reserved in advance. If you would like to book a table, please email restaurants.reservations@heckfieldplace.com.
Guests are most welcome to stay for a drink in the hotel's Trestle Room Bar or Sitting Room after the event.
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