Past Events
Here’s a handful of pics from our first 5 years of loving, laughing, learning and hanging together.
Past speakers
HerbFest is blessed to have hosted some AMAZING speakers over the years. Each shares their own knowledge, experience and passion for herbs and health with their own flair, coloured by their personsal experience and walk with the plants.
Our topics are broad and far ranging, including Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine, gardening talks, kitchen medicine and recipe demonstrations, wildcrafting and so. much. more. Some specifics below so you can get a feel for it:
Gardening & Wildcrafting
Indigenous Plants as medicine with Pat Collins, cooking from your medicinal garden with Caroline Parker, growing native Australian herbs with Witchjuti Grub Nursery, Plantain medicine with Tatiana Lustre Dawn, how to grow herbs with Leonie Shanahan and how to use herbs in a food forest with Jim and Julia from Lighthouse Regenerative Farm and more!
Health and wellbeing
Herbs and food to improve your mood with Hannah Moore, choosing the perfect adaptogen with Claire Murray, Ayurvedic medicine with Wayne from Yukti Botanicals, 5 Element Food as medicine with Kimberly Ashton and 5 Elements with Dr Sally Taylor, psilocybin mushrooms with Tim Nixon, kitchen cupboard medicine with Connie Page, herbs for Gut health with Lissa Gavins, herbal medicine for women’s health with Karen McElroy, herbs for the nervous system with Deanne Apostolou and more!
Demonstrations including:
Wild Weed Insect Spray. cough syrup , oxymels and calendula ointment with Heidi Merika, herbal chocolate truffles with Caroline Parker, Jess Holdsworth from the Greensmith Grocer showed us how to make delicious dahl, earth healing traditions with Alyson Maier and many more!
