Herbcrafting
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Have you ever wandered through the countryside and longed to know more about the plants around you? Do you wonder how we ever managed to survive before modern medicine was around? Do you long to know how you can help yourself with the local flora and want to reconnect with the world of herbs? The Gower peninsula provides a fantastic habitat for many healing plants and you can now learn about them in a friendly informal way with a trained herbalist. Discover how to make teas from plants you have gathered and identified. Take home tinctures and ointments made out in the field from your own fair hands. Learn what you can eat – and what you can’t! 
It’s amazing what properties and powers ‘weeds’ have. Get to know which plants can help prevent mineral deficiencies, lift depression, soothe the digestion and give pain relief. All of these and more can be found all around you on a guided herbal walk with a brew made from your harvest to revive you. Alexandra Martin is a trained herbalist and aromatherapist who will lead the workshops and help you to get that little bit closer to nature and learn the beauty and wisdom of the healing plants all around you.
NOTE : SOME PLANTS ARE POISONOUS AND THERE ARE ALSO ADDERS ON GOWER. PLEASE TAKE CARE AND IF YOU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT IDENTIFICATION DO NOT INGEST. PARTICIPANTS DO SO AT THEIR OWN RISK. HOWEVER EVERY CARE WILL BE TAKEN TO ENSURE YOUR SAFETY AT ALL TIMES.
The hawthorn tree is a gift from Nature that protects the heart. The flowers, leaves and beautiful red berries all oxygenate heart muscle and enable the heart to pump more effectively and efficiently with less effort. |
