Becs Griffiths

General information

We are group of herbalists and growers, inspired by our love of herbs, who have combined our skills to set up this community medicine garden on an allotment in St Werburghs. The plants in the garden consist of both common and rarer native herbs alongside useful herbs from other countries.

The garden is an educational resource for the whole community. We are gradually planting more and more wonderful medicinal herbs to teach people how to identify the plants and how to harvest them to make medicines. It is important to us that this knowledge is kept alive. We want people to have an opportunity to learn about medicinal plants whilst growing them.

We are still developing the site and creating a new bed system to a permaculture design which will include beds full of herbs specific to body systems, a bed of endangered herbs and a bed for useful forgotten native herbs. At the moment we borrow tools so we would be like to able to have our own resources, a shed to store them and in the future our dream is to have an covered teaching area. We have a few herbs that we have grown from seed, propagated or have been given but we still need more.

For most of the year we have open days on the first and third sunday of the month where we work on the garden as well as skill-share. In 2014 so far we have shared information about: the different propagating methods; the medicinal uses of plants for the nervous system and digestive system; harvesting and making infused oils; and how to make medicinal teas and decoctions.

How to find us: We are on the plot of allotments that are reached by going past the Farm pub and along the cycle path. we are the second plot on the right after the path that leads down to the self-builds.