Plant medicine, chronic illness and getting to know the land with The Dartmoor Herbalist

Thanks for joining me, Jenny.

No problem.

And how do I pronounce that, by the way? Archibotany.

And actually,

it's only recently been termed that because so few people have been studying in that area.

It's been called all sorts of things.

So some people will still call it ethnobotanical research.

Yeah, all sorts of things.

But archibotany for me describes it.

We'll come back to that

in a little bit.

I'll start.

I'll go back and start properly at the beginning, because obviously that's the best place to start.

So can you tell us a bit about your journey in life that's brought us to where you are today?

Yeah.

And

also, you go in front, because in case there's a turning, we're walking through the woods just outside Lustley, and Jenny's taking me on a new route.

We're about to climb over a big rock.

Excellent.

Yeah, so I suppose what brought me to Dartmoor was I've always wanted to move kind of back to the South West, so I had a little family.

Where were you living before? So I was in Chichester, I couldn't get more kind of south, you know.

Oh actually, let's go that way.

Ah yes, and that's your little bridge.

Well this is beautiful.

It's lovely, isn't it? It's one of those places you just want to sit in and have a little picnic or something.