TALKS


Each of these talks can be booked for live performances or as zoom talks.

EVERYDAY MEDICINAL PLANTS

Get aquainted with our most common wild medicinal plants and learn how to find, recognize and use them.
In this talk, you will get many tips for simple household remedies which can be used to to treat anything from wounds and belly ache to common colds and hair loss.

GARDEN MEDICINES

Ever since the Middle Ages we have grown medicinal plants in our gardens. Join an exciting journey into the flower beds and see what's hiding among perennials, herbs and weeds. Here we will find plants for skin care and beauty, stimulating and calming herbs, refreshing infusions and tasty edible weeds.

HEALTH FROM THE HIVE

Honey, beeswax, propolis, pollen and royal jelly are wonderful healing products – straight from the beehive. In this talk you will be introduced to the intriguing world of the beehive and learn about all the amazing things bees produce and how to use them for health and skin care.

SECRETS OF THE SPICE RACK

Did you know that all the spices we use for our daily cooking have a medicinal origin? Basil stimulates the appetite, rosemary makes you warm, chilli is good for inflammation and caraway seeds counteract flatulence. Learn from old and nearly forgotten knowledge in this colourful and fragrant talk!

HEALING AND EDIBLE WEEDS

A weed is really just a plant that has ended up in the wrong place. Among the worst of weeds we can find some of the very best healing plants. In this talk you'll learn how to use wild plants for skin care, remedies, food and drink. Nettles are good for considerably more than soup and chickweed is actually the best lettuce. Dandelion can cure indigestion and plantain leaves are the world's best plaster.

PLANTS IN HISTORY, MYTH & MAGIC

An enchanting talk about the history and folklore of healing herbs. There are numerous interesting, frightening, funny and mystical tales about plants. Meet the amorous man of the woods, the maiden who regained her lost maidenhood and learn how to dig up a mandrake root without dying from horror...

HEALING VEGETABLES

What do our most common veggies, fruits and berries actually contain? How can we prepare them to achieve the highest possible nutrition level? In this talk you will learn how to best cook vegetables and how your green food can be used to treat various ailments.

SPECIAL THEMES

I am happy to compose a talk exclusively for your group or organisation, with a theme that is of special interest to you. For example 'Herbs for women's issues', 'Herbs for natural skincare' or 'Herbs for athletes'. Email me to find out more!