News and views of life in the Healing Garden and its many species of inhabitants. Annual, biennial, and perennial. Some migratory, others here to stay, for centuries in some cases.
How to find us - The Finche Field car park is at Church Hill, West Hoathly, Sharpthorne, East Grinstead RH19 4PN
Students on the nature cure course making their first remedies
Rocio Alarcon in the Garden. Rocio is part of our faculty of guest lecturers on the nature cure course where she teaches "spiritual taxonomy" and "the spiritual aspects of disease". She also gives day courses and private one-to-one consultations when she visits the Healing Garden.
Kirsten, Rocio, Terri, and Pixie
Apothecary roses - Rosa gallica
The path from the car park to Arc Hall passes through the herb garden and the sculpture studio.
Talking about medicinal roots - how many can you identify?
The herb garden in early autumn.
This year's apple harvest was absolutely amazing. And there has been such an abundant fruit, berry, nut and seed harvest this year. According to old folklore, that means a cold winter coming. We'll see...
First token harvest of dried flowers.
Making garlic-parsley plant-butter is very easy: Take some plant-butter, add some chopped or crushed garlic and some chopped parsley. Crush and mix with a mortar and pestle. Eat with fresh bread.
The bee's arriving...
Studying in nature
Hard at work...
Echinacea angustifolia
Papaver somniferum
Our garden fairy
Arnica montana in bloom - the first time it flowered was last summer, on the day 3 people from the Goetheanum in Switzerland visited. I kid you not!
The patio and workspace...
Sam's yellow sand path through the big herb bed.
The Szechuan Pepper tree survived the move!
Planting the trees we brought with us when we moved from the Rachel Carson Centre.
Up to the clinic
The start of spring... pasqueflowers (Anemone pulsatilla) in bloom.
Soup on Volunteer Wednesdays
Nick and Sam making a door in the polytunnel.
Students studying herbs in the garden.
