by Anne Stobart | Sep 4, 2018 | education, forest garden, harvest, herbal medicine, history, management, medicinal, permaculture, products, trees
Holt Wood Courses 2019 We are delighted with our new leaflet about medicinal forest garden courses at Holt Wood in 2019, giving dates and brief outlines, available at Holt Wood Courses 2019. Further details are available on all three courses below, and dates are also...
by Anne Stobart | Apr 21, 2017 | art, events, history, Medicinal Forest Garden Trust, products
Making body care products There is a bit of heaven in making body care products for Holt Wood Herbs. Lots are needed for our table at the forthcoming Toby Buckland Garden Festival at Powderham Castle in Devon on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 April 2017. Our house smells...
by Anne Stobart | Apr 29, 2016 | education, history
New book! One of the reasons that our medical herbalist, Anne, has been so short of time to spend at Holt Wood is her involvement in recent years in preparing a historical book on household medicine for publication. The book is based on Anne’s research into...
by Anne Stobart | Feb 28, 2014 | education, herbal medicine, history
Lady Boscawen’s seventeenth-century plant notebook: Some issues in herbal and garden history To what extent did housewives grow and collect herbs for medicinal use in early modern times? Contemporary printed sources suggest that women took much responsibility...
by Anne Stobart | Feb 22, 2014 | education, herbal medicine, history
Hooray! As co-editor of this book on herbal history research I am so pleased it has finally been published. It is not specifically to do with Holt Wood but this is one reason why I have had so little time in the last year! This book is an academic text aimed at...
by Anne Stobart | Jul 19, 2012 | education, history, Medicinal Forest Garden Trust
The Medicinal Forest Garden Trust, was launched on 11th July 2012. This new voluntary organisation has charitable aims of promoting and supporting education and research relating to the sustainable cultivation and harvesting of medicinal trees and shrubs. The...