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Sunny weather in the Elm cafe, Magourney Gardens

Plant Medicine Making

Event

Summer School - Our Two Day Intensive with Nikki Darrell & Majella O’Riordan

Saturday 21st July to Sunday 22nd July - 10:00 - 17:00

Nikki Darrell & Majella O’Riordan of Veritas Hibernica

The humble but mighty nettle is now getting the recognition it deserves and has been shown to contain a plant lectin which prevents the virus replicating so time to make nettle soup and nettle pesto and drink nettle tea or gargle with it.

Nikki Darrell

A wee Wren came to visit us in Grá Nádúr

Returning to our Nature - Gathering '20

Events

Returning to our Nature Gathering '20 - A virtual event on the Sunday 24th January afternoon 14:30 17:30 with breaks.

Sun Jan 24th 2021

Returning to our Nature - Gatherings '21

Events

Returning to our Nature Gatherings '21 - A virtual event on the Sunday 28th March afternoon 16:00- 18:00 with breaks.

Sunday 28th March afternoon 16:00 - 18:00

Experimentation in Fermentation

Article

Kimchi (that’s the Korean version), krauts (including saurkaraut) Kvaas or fermented vegetables are the most miraculous way of preparing a probiotic and prebiotic fermented food that I have come across.

Nikki Darrell of Veriditas Hibernica

Chalk Blue Butterfly on Hollyfort Hill, Wexford

Plants to Encourage Wildlife in the Garden

Article

Wild gardening; planning what variety of plants to include with some thought can make your garden attractive to wildlife and actually increase the biodiversity in your locality.

Nikki Darrell of Veriditas Hibernica

Balancing Vagal Tone

Article

The vagus nerve was for a while thought of as ‘just one of the cranial nerves’. Its very name implies it is a wandering vagabond of a nerve, meandering around the body to nearly everywhere (not the adrenals though) and doing this in a vague manner.

Nikki Darrell of Veriditas Hibernica

Dreaming the Plant Medicine School into Being

Article

Once upon a time ……… about 14 months ago, the bright wizard of the East travelled from Grá Nádúr in Wexford to pay his respects to the warm medicine woman of the South at Veriditas Hibernica.

Nikki Darrell and Alex Duffy

Garden in Magoureny — Garden in Magourney

Plant Medicine Making Workshop

A two day workshop harvesting plants from the garden and making teas, aromatic waters, infused oils, vinegar aceta, syrups, tinctures, salves, creams, flower essences, pestos, wild salads, kimchi, salsa verde and much more.

Sat 15th and Sun 16th July 2017 - 10:00 to 17:00

Nikki Darrell and Majella O'Riordan

St Anne's Physic Garden

Review

Kneeling down to tend to the Lavender borders in the garden, it's hard to believe that it was once just a lawn. It's a summer afternoon and the combination of smells given off from the medicinal herbs planted throughout is both intoxicating and energising as well as soothing.

Eileen Twomey

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Courses ~ Traditional Herbal and Botanical Medicine Apprenticeship, Clinical Herbal Practitioner Training, Aromatherapy and Aromatic Medicine Training, Continuing Herbal Professional Development for Herbalists in Ireland (Ire), in the United Kingdom (UK) and in Europe (EU), Face to Face Learning, Blended Learning, Courses in Herbalism, Herbal Medicine and Herbalist Training, online and face to face located in Grá Nádúr, Hollyfort, Gorey, Co. Wexford, Y25 C6N1. Ireland.