Illustrated Talks
Caroline gives informative and entertaining illustrated talks to groups such as gardening clubs, WIs and Townswomen’s Guilds, Probus and U3A groups. Please contact her for more information or to book a talk. The current cost is £80 plus travel expenses.
Email or phone for more information about illustrated talks:
cjsheldrick@gmail.com
01453 884 092
Medicinal Herbs in Your Garden
Which common garden plants are used in herbal medicine: how to grow and use them - and which ones to avoid. Some of the traditional uses of favourite garden flowers may surprise you.
Flowers in Healing
The use of flowers, past and present, in healing body and mind. Why do we take flowers to funerals? What is it about flowers that makes every culture picture them in paradise?
From Cadfael to Caroline: herbal medicine, past and present
Cadfael the medieval monk had many herbs in his dispensary. How much has changed in a thousand years? Are medical herbalists still using the same herbs? Some history, some botany, and a lot of groans as we think about the practice of medicine in the eleventh century.
Hedgerow Pharmacy
How to identify, gather and preserve common wild plants, and use them safely in herbal remedies at home. This talk comes with the option of hands-on workshops where we make remedies together.
A Year in the Cutting Garden
How to grow a steady supply of flowers for cutting. Jobs for each season to get the most out of your cutting patch to provide buckets of cut flowers for the house or for sale. Caroline has grown cut flowers for local markets for many years and has lots of practical advice.