Welcome to Holt Wood Herbs

Natural ingredients for living well from our medicinal forest garden

Medicinal Forest Garden Trust

The Medicinal Forest Garden Trust aims to promote sustainable harvesting of medicinal trees and shrubs.

Witch Hazel Distilled Water

Herbal cosmetics and body care products from Holt Wood. Virginian Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) grown at Holt Wood in Devon is available now as a distilled water.

Permaculture at Holt Wood

Holt Wood is part of the permaculture LAND network. Find out more about forest gardening and designing for sustainabiliry.

Medicinal Forest Garden Courses

Find out more about our medicinal forest garden, and learn how to make herbal cosmetics and other preparations for health. For an overview, download our course leaflet Holt Wood Courses 2019 and you can book online here.

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About Our Products

Every purchase from Holt Wood Herbs helps to fund the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust. We make a range of herbal bodycare preparations, click here for a list of products from Holt Wood Herbs.

Recent Blog Posts

Making herbal poultices and compresses

by Anne Stobart | 22/04/2019 | forest garden, harvest, herbal medicine, medicinal, skincare, wilderness | 0 Comments

Making a soothing poultice from yarrow for bruises, cuts, stings or rashes

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Discovering herb seeds

by Anne Stobart | 01/03/2019 | cultivation, forest garden, herbal medicine, permaculture, plants | 0 Comments

We have been sorting out seeds, many of them bundled into paper bags in the autumn and stuffed in the shed, lost and forgotten... almost. Since they were allowed to ripen on the plants, the neglect has not been too damaging, and it has been a matter of sifting and...

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