2025
April
Sunday, 6th - 1 day course on planning your own herb garden, at the Woodland Skills Centre, BodfariSeptember
Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th - 2 day course on growing and using medicinal plants, at the Woodland Skills Centre, BodfariCourses at the Woodland Skills Centre, Bodfari
In April 2017, during the first course at the Woodland Skills Centre, we established a herb garden from scratch. Returning for the September course that year, it was amazing to see how quickly bare, unimproved earth with a few young plants had become a flourishing garden.
This garden, with over 50 herbs, is designed as a teaching garden. It helps people learn to recognise the plants and think about how they might develop their own herb gardens during the Spring course, and offers fresh herb material for us during the Autumn course, when we look at the basics of making traditional herbal remedies for use at home.
Medieval Re-enactment
Cassie has been a medieval re-enactor and living history demonstrator for over 10 years. At these events, she displays fresh and dried herbs, introducing people to the plants used as medicine in the past, and many still used today. |
| Bolsover Castle, 2017 |
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| Chirk Castle, 2017 |
Cassie is a part of the Marcher Freemen, a re-enactment group based in the Welsh Marches that mainly focuses on the 15th century and earlier. She plays medieval music, mainly on the Plucked Psaltery, practices finger-loop braiding, the quarterstaff, and archery and helps people learn through Have-a-go Archery, and displays of arrows, armour and weapons.
Past Talks
2022 - Hardy Plant Society - Holywell
2023 - U3A - Mold -
20__ - WI - Llandyrnog -
2024 - The Herb Society - Online - Herbs in the Middle Ages
2024 - The Herb Society - Online - Herbs in the Middle Ages
2024 - URHP Conference - Conwy - Medieval Herbalism, & the Plucked Psaltery
