Somerset Summer Workshops: Healing Herbs

A day exploring the energetic, emotional and physical healing properties of plants. During this one-day workshop led by herbalist Saskia Marjoram, you will learn about the properties of the plants and trees in the woods above Durslade Farm where Hauser & Wirth Somerset is located. You will learn to dowse using a pendulum, select your own personal flower essence and help in the distillation (using a copper column still) of a plant collected from the woods for medicinal use. You will need to bring wellington boots and a coat as some of the day will be spent outdoors, a pen and paper/drawing materials if you wish and an open mind. You will leave with a personal flower essence combination, a bottle of the hydrosol we have distilled and a feeling of having connected with nature. No previous knowledge is necessary. Saskia Marjoram has been working with plants for her whole life, firstly as a professional gardener and then florist to HRH Prince of Wales and for the last 10 years as Director of Saskia’s Flower Essences. She has lived and worked for several years at a medicinal herb nursery and now works in the private garden of Iwan & Manuela Wirth. Tickets: £70 to include refreshments and lunch from the Bar & Grill