Kitchen Medicine – Garden Farmacy

Throughout history, mothers and grandmothers of every culture and tradition have been the source of healing in the family. In the kitchen – the heart of the home – remedies for everyday ailments were made from locally grown and easily accessible herbs. These days it isn’t necessarily the mother, or even a women, but the foundations of kitchen medicine remain the same – it’s the art of making medicine for everyday ailments out of common ingredients sourced from your garden and pantry.

During this hands-on workshop, trainer Naabi Methe will introduce you to herbal medicine making. You will also:

• Take a walk through the CERES garden beds
• Bring the wisdom of traditional herbal medicine into a modern context
• Explore traditional and modern uses of plants
• Learn how to introduce these plants into the kitchen as medicine

Meet your trainer

 

 

Naabi Methe is a degree qualified naturopath and a registered member of the Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA). She has been a committee member of Vic Herbs since 2016 and has volunteered with Hands on Health and the Fitzroy All Stars.

As well as being a clinician, Naabi manufactures small batch vegan botanical skin care, medicinal teas and first aid products under the name of Common Garden Health; runs fermenting and home remedy workshops and blogs about herbal remedies and food as medicine. Her passion is the use of herbal medicine and food as medicine to achieve affordable and sustainably-optimal health outcomes.

Naabi believes that knowledge is power, and knowledge about sustainable health practices should be common knowledge and should be shared. It’s also really fun.