IN THIS LESSON YOU WILL LEARN: Just what we will cover in this course and a look at the equipment you will need to start making your own valuable herbal preparations.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Watch the video and make a list of equipment you have and what you need to acquire for the preparations you want to make.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: How to navigate the book as a PDF, an Ebook epub, or how to search this page for the information you want to find.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Watch the video and get the software you need. A PDF reader or an Ebook reader. Download the books and try out the different ways to read this book.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: In this lesson you will learn how to make teas and the different ways of using them to drink, to bathe, for compresses and so on.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Watch the video and read the notes below. Experiment with making teas from fresh and dried herbs using hot and cold methods.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: How to make decoctions and how to use them. They are used to prepare harder plant parts such as roots, barks, twigs, berries, and seeds that need a stronger extraction method.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Experiment with making decoctions from fresh and dried roots, barks, seeds and berries. When you make a decoction for drinking, before tasting it, look at the colour, inhale the aroma and note any impressions you get.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: How to make macerated oils for use in food, skin care and as ingredients for ointments and creams by the hot and cold methods from dried and fresh herbs.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Choose at least one dried herb to make a cold-infused oil. You will need a clean jar, your chosen vegetable oil and enough herb. Choose at least one fresh herb to make a warm method infused oil.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: How to make infused vinegars from fresh and dried herbs for use in skin and hair care, as an ingredient in your cooking and to make oxymels. They can also be used as an alcohol free alternative to tinctures

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Experiment with making some infused vinegar using both fresh and dried herbs. You will need some live vinegar, your herbs, and jars to infuse them in.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: In this lesson you will learn how to make your own tinctures from fresh and dried herbs to use as medicines and also as food ingredients.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Choose some fresh and dried herbs to set up some tinctures.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: You will learn how to press off your macerations and remove all of the herb material and store your extractions appropriately.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Use the methods in the video to press off your oils, vinegars, and tinctures.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: You will learn how to make syrups and about the ways to use them as medicines and in food.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Make some syrups and experiment with using them in your food, as cordials or as a medicine.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: How to make infused honeys and use them to make oxymels.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Set up some infused honeys. Use the infused honeys and some of your infused vinegars to make oxymels.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: About using powder herbs and how to make herbal pills, electuaries and powder blends to use in food and for medicine.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Have ago at making some of the herb pills and at making some powder blends to use in your cooking.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: To make herbal salts with dried herbs for cooking and with essential oils for bathing and skin scrubs

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Experiment with making a few different herbal salts for cooking. Make an aromatic herb salt with essential oils for using in your bath or a foot bath.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: What salves, balms or ointments are, how to make them and what to use them for.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Make a salve for your home herbal dispensary, such as the comfrey salve or a daisy and plantain one. You may prefer to make a calendula one to use as a lip balm.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: In this lesson you will learn how to make your own body butters.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Decide what kind of body butter you want and watch the video, choose your ingredients, and list your equipment and go ahead and make it.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: How to you will learn how to successfully make smooth cream.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Watch the video and decide what kind of cream you want. Have a go at making some creams

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: You will learn what compresses and poultices are, how to make them and what to use them for.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Make a compress from your chosen herbal tea to use as a refreshing face treatment.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: how to successfully sow seeds and pot on your herb babies.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Chooose a range of herb seeds to sow and grow. If you produce more than you need you can share them with your friends and family and with community projects.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: How to propogate herbs by division and taking cuttings.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Try taking some cuttings from suitable herbs such as rosemary, lavender, curry plant or others you wish to multiply.

If you have a mint, melissa, meadowsweet or other plant which has grown large enough to divide have a go at dividing it to share the offspring with your friends and family.

IN THIS LESSON, YOU WILL LEARN: How to look at plants, start to learn about their particular leaf shape, their colours and flowers.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON: Go out and be with the plants in your locality, take pictures, sketch, look at them. Learn to recognise them by their characteristics, then put names to them with a good guide.