Everyday plants for everyday ills - Display
Sunday, 4th May – 1st June 2008
This display takes a closer look at common plants and the common conditions they can treat. It provides a more in depth look at a medicinal herb from which a well known pharmaceutical drug has been produced. The display also highlights how a plant has its own “personality”, similar to that of a persons and how this can be used to treat different conditions. It aims at providing a deeper understanding of how a medical herbalist practices and how they are trained and may answer some everyday questions you had about everyday herbs.
Directions: If you enter Crane Park at the junction of Sheringham Avenue and Ellerman Avenue, follow the path down into the park and do a right at the T-junction. The Shot Tower lies a few hundred yards further along.
Herb Walks
Sunday, 11th May 2008 at 11am
Herb walk around Crane Park Island Nature Reserve
Directions: Meet outside the Shot Tower in Crane Park. The walk is scheduled to take place around Crane Park Island Nature Reserve, the path is uneven in places and can be muddy. Directions: If you enter Crane Park at the junction of Sheringham Avenue and Ellerman Avenue, follow the path down into the park and do a right at the T-junction. The Shot Tower lies a few hundred yards further along. For directions to Crane Park click here.
Herb Walk along Twickenham Riverside
as part of Western Herbal Medicine Awareness Week
Directions:The walk will start outside the White Swan Pub. Meet by the slipway, opposite the White Swan pub, Riverside, Twickenham (TW1 3DN). The walk is scheduled to take place along the tow path, which is tarmaced and suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs.
Sunday, 25th May 2008 at 11am
Herb Walk in Crane Park
as part of Western Herbal Medicine Awareness Week
Meet outside the Shot Tower in Crane Park. The walk is scheduled to take place along the river side path, which can be uneven and muddy and along the upper tarmaced path.
Directions: If you enter Crane Park at the junction of Sheringham Avenue and Ellerman Avenue, follow the path down into the park and do a right at the T-junction. The Shot Tower lies a few hundred yards further along. .
Friday, 30th May 2008
Basic Herbal Aid for the Home
Time: 10.00am to 12.30pm
Cost: £5 per adult and £3 per child. This fee includes the cost of materials provided.
Ever wondered what traditional remedies you have in your kitchen that could be used to help treat a variety of everyday ills? Come along to Crane Park Shot Tower with your child to this interactive and informal workshop to find out!
Parents/guardians and children between the ages of 6 and 11 may attend. Parents/guardians will be expected to work together with their children during this workshop and will be responsible for them throughout. The workshop will involve making some basic herbal preparations and discussing simple home remedies for every day ‘ills’.