Anne Stobart

What can I grow in a medicinal forest garden? Part 4: Plants for combatting respiratory infections Being out and about in a forest or garden should make you a healthy person - blowing away all those nasty pathogens, whether bacteria or viruses.

Medicinal forest gardening for respiratory ailments! In my Medicinal Tree Woman newsletter post, 'What Can I Grow In A Medicinal Forest Garden? Part 4' you can find remedies for a range of colds and coughs, many from the daisy, mint and rose families.
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Medicinal Forest Garden Trust Update January 2026 A quarterly update on medicinal forest gardening including books, online guides and podcasts, plant resources, courses, foraging and tree products and other news.

Here is an update on medicinal forest gardening from the UK. I post every three months and include stuff related to trees that heal, herbal medicine, growing for health, permaculture.

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Circular herb beds and paths dotted with primroses.

Memo to self, I must better my video recording skills in 2026! Looking back on 2025 clips of the Herb and Forest Garden at Sandford in Devon there is room for improvement. Thanks to our helpers this past year and looking forward to even more volunteers to help with planting in the coming year!

What can I grow in a medicinal forest garden? Part 3: You might think that having a forest garden should make you a healthy person - all that good food, lots of exercise, communing with nature and helping the environment.

Medicinal forest gardening is good for you! In my Medicinal Tree Woman newsletter post, 'What Can I Grow In A Medicinal Forest Garden? Part 3: Plants For Maintaining Health', you can find remedies for common problems, from digestive problems to heavy periods, poor sleep and liver congestion.

Mullein seed close up shows amazing brown barrel shapes with many indentations

Some seeds like mullein (Verbascum thapsus) can be gathered straight from the plant. Many other medicinal herb plants and seeds can be hard to find but you see a list of plant and seed suppliers in the latest Medicinal Forest Garden Trust update
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A bowl of red hawthorn berries harvested in autumn

In my series on What To Grow In A Medicinal Forest Garden I list plants that help combat complaints of getting older. Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) berries can be used to make a delicious liqueur. See my recipe at What can I grow in a medicinal forest garden? Part 2 at annestobart.substack.com

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Loads of orange-red berries and leaves of rowan tree

Medicinal Forest Garden Trust update just published. In this July issue there are loads of items including info on sustainable herbs and agroforestry, guides on threats to forests, a new tree ID book for Britain and Ireland, plus a look at some courses in herbal medicine.
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Strips of yellow stem bark of oregon grape

Over on SubStack I write as 'Medicinal Tree Woman' and I have just started a series of posts about the plants we grew in our medicinal tree project in Devon UK. Part 1 is a starter list of remedies for skin care. Subscription is free (there is a paid subscription for supporters).

Congratulations to Anne Stobart, author of Household Medicine in Seventeenth Century England, for being awarded the Leslie Matthews Medal by the British Society for the History of Pharmacy.

Congratulations to Anne Stobart, author of Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England, for being awarded the Leslie Matthews Medal by the British Society for the History of Pharmacy.

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Looking back on 2024 I am reminded to be more careful about which buttons I press when I put my mobile phone down on the ground! Here I am inadvertently filmed harvesting some medicinal shrub 🌱 branches on a sunny day in Devon. Festive greetings to all!