Weald and Downland Living Museum Ticket Portal

Favourites from 20 years of herb workshops

Over the past 20 years we have explored the many uses of herbs from the past Millennium using authentic recipes from each period. We have also examined our own native herbs and noted the benefits of plants introduced during the Roman occupation, from Arabic Medicine through the Crusades and those discovered by Settlers in America. Along the way through 48 different workshops we have made cookery, medicinal, cosmetic and craft recipes and projects. Recipes have played their part alongside herb cultivation and plant family recognition which has included trees.

This workshop is a celebration of those herbs which have dominated the scene throughout or remained steadfast in their main use for the past 2,000 years. As we look at why they have been so successful, we will be making a variety of recipes which will also recall workshops from the past. If requests are made before April 2019 christina.stapley@tiscali.co.uk, your favourite may be included. No doubt there will be some from the three most successful which ran for over 10 years. Likely herbs are rose, rosemary, elder, pot marigold, lavender, St John’s wort, marshmallow and mullein.

Ticket options

  • Favourites from 20 years of herb workshops
    Favourites from 20 years of herb workshops
    £65.00
    0 30 max
Favourites from 20 years of herb workshops

Over the past 20 years we have explored the many uses of herbs from the past Millennium using authentic recipes from each period. We have also examined our own native herbs and noted the benefits of plants introduced during the Roman occupation, from Arabic Medicine through the Crusades and those discovered by Settlers in America. Along the way through 48 different workshops we have made cookery, medicinal, cosmetic and craft recipes and projects. Recipes have played their part alongside herb cultivation and plant family recognition which has included trees.

This workshop is a celebration of those herbs which have dominated the scene throughout or remained steadfast in their main use for the past 2,000 years. As we look at why they have been so successful, we will be making a variety of recipes which will also recall workshops from the past. If requests are made before April 2019 christina.stapley@tiscali.co.uk, your favourite may be included. No doubt there will be some from the three most successful which ran for over 10 years. Likely herbs are rose, rosemary, elder, pot marigold, lavender, St John’s wort, marshmallow and mullein.