Online
20/10/2025
7PM - 8PM
Samantha Almond is a self-taught herbalist and nature enthusiast. Her debut book, Old Remedies for Modern Living, is the culmination of years of dedicated research into the wildflowers of the Forest of Dean, a project she began in 2019.
Join Samantha with the Association of Master Herbalists, as she discusses her comprehensive and full colour materia medica of western herbs focusing on using traditional and forgotten remedies.
Old Remedies for Modern Living is an essential text for all practitioners and students of herbal medicine, encouraging readers to treat and innovate with herbal traditions of the past in their everyday practice.
Chapters include recipes such as tisanes, cold infusions, poultices, decoctions, bath oils, infused extracts, syrups, compresses and more.
From Agrimony to Yellow Dock, the entry for each herb provides an easily accessible introduction – allowing for quick referencing – which lists the etymology, plant lore, edibility, seasonality, medicinal properties and active constituents. Historical usage of each plant alongside modern research, as well as dosages, topical uses and precautions, concluding with a number of forgotten remedies for which each plant can be used.
The Association of Master Herbalists
