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Growing Knowledge




The Physic Garden Network is a group of over 100 women who support each other to grow medicinal plants. They came together online during a time when they were unable to be together physically.

thank you 🌿 for all the knowledge. so excited for what we'll all grow together

What started out as a remote growing network has become so much more. The women have taught each other the fundamentals of germinating and caring for herbs but they've also exchanged recipes, seeds, balms, experiences, and memories and have supported each other during the darkest days of lockdown.

I love the description of seeds being “brilliant, tiny packages of hope”. So true, they are amazing! 

The women in the network grew plants together, but they also grew knowledge. The conversations in this section of the website represent just a selection of the communal learning that took place.

This means a lot to me, it’s my first time ever sowing seeds. I’m so excited about the next chapter with my baby seedlings 🌱

Each guide is a direct excerpt from the Physic Garden Network's online conversations that took place every Monday in 2021. They might not resemble the “how to” guides you are used to following but they hold so much of their context: the care, love and patience with which these women shared their learning. They represent an exchange and a nurturing rather than a top-down centralised form of education. We hope you find them useful and inspiring.

We have given me back a sense of myself



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Germination
Spring
Autumn
Uses
Summer
Foraging
Propagation
Using food packaging to germinate seeds in 52 messages
Germination
Spring
Preparing soil for seeds 11 messages
Germination
Spring
How much soil to cover a seed? 9 messages
Germination
Spring
Sowing seeds in autumn 94 messages
Autumn
Creative computing 0 messages
Uses for bay leaves 19 messages
Uses
Making herbal bath salts 124 messages
Uses
Making herbal balms 98 messages
Uses
Drinking yarrow tea 61 messages
Uses
Cramps and asbos 9 messages
Uses
Toothache 0 messages
Summer
Uses
Dandelions 36 messages
Foraging
Uses
Spring
Nettle Pesto Power! 9 messages
Foraging
Uses
Spring
Naomi Campbell's nettle appreciation society 41 messages
Foraging
Uses
Spring
Tough love for seedlings 17 messages
Propagation
Yarrow - Chinese worried juices 18 messages
Foraging
Uses
Spring
It's not just prominent leaders that hide in fridges 6 messages
Germination
Propagation
Spring
Seed coats and hope 19 messages
Germination
Dropping the leggy ones 30 messages
Propagation
Waterbutt water and seedlings 6 messages
Propagation
Slug be gone 33 messages
Propagation