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| - | //**Updated December 2021**// | + | |
| - | //<color #4AA5C7 | + | //**<color #009bc1>Updated December 2022</ |
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| + | We often receive similar questions from students, especially at the start of a new course. This page features some of the common questions and answers. | ||
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| ===== Webinars ===== | ===== Webinars ===== | ||
| Heartwood webinars are live events, but they are always recorded and archived so that they are available for all learners to view at any time. When you view a recorded webinar, the fact that you have watched it is ‘logged’ on the LMS, and counts as attendance for assessment purposes. | Heartwood webinars are live events, but they are always recorded and archived so that they are available for all learners to view at any time. When you view a recorded webinar, the fact that you have watched it is ‘logged’ on the LMS, and counts as attendance for assessment purposes. | ||
| Moreover, you are still able to post questions to the webinar leader after you have viewed a recording, so missing a live webinar session (because of family, work or other prior commitments) will neither detract from your learning nor adversely affect your fulfilment of assessment criteria. | Moreover, you are still able to post questions to the webinar leader after you have viewed a recording, so missing a live webinar session (because of family, work or other prior commitments) will neither detract from your learning nor adversely affect your fulfilment of assessment criteria. | ||
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| - | ===== Shopping List ===== | ||
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| - | * A small hand lens (to look more closely at plants in your vicinity) | ||
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| - | * Tea making equipment (so that you can try some of the herbs we discuss) | ||
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| - | ===== Reading List ===== | ||
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| - | * //**Book - Anita Ralph and Mary Tassell (2020). Native Healers: Foundations in Western Herbal Medicine. 1st edition. Aeon Books.**// | ||
| - | This book is a companion textbook for the Foundation Course. There is no requirement to buy this book to be able to do the Foundation Course, as all materials are provided online, but you may wish to have this to hand during and after completing the course. A percentage of the sales of this book go to Heartwood Education, a non-profit charitable trust, and will therefore go toward helping other educational projects to help more people access herbal medicine information. | ||
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| - | * //**Book - Elpel, J.T. (2013). Botany in a day: the patterns method of plant identification. 6th ed. Hops Press.**// | ||
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| - | Other interesting books are listed in our [[fc: | ||
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| - | You may enjoy sourcing a plant identification guide or flora - suggestions include: | ||
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| - | * **//Collins Wild Flower Guide, David Streeter, C. Hart-Davies, | ||
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| - | **NOTE:** If you do not live in Europe, you may prefer to buy a plant identification guide more fitting to your location on our beautiful planet. We would love to hear from you, if you can recommend a Plant Flora/Plant Identification Guide for plants in other plants of the world – please let us know about your favourites! | ||
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| - | ===== Herb List ===== | ||
| - | Each month we start a new unit of information. In Units 4, 6 and 8 of the Foundation Course you will need a small sample of the following herbs to follow our //**plant tasting method**//. We introduce the plant tasting method in month 2 (Unit 2), and suggest you taste nettle, but we return to nettle in month 6 (Unit 6) as well. You may therefore like to get hold of some nettle herb (fresh or dried) in readiness for month 2, and the rest of the herbs in readiness for month 4, 6 and 8. These are the herbs we will taste in months 4, 6, and 8: | ||
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| - | **Unit 2** | ||
| - | * Nettle (herb) | ||
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| - | **Unit 4** | ||
| - | * Chamomile (flowers) | ||
| - | * Lemon balm (leaves) | ||
| - | * Meadowsweet (leaves) | ||
| - | * Elder (flowers) | ||
| - | * Fennel (seed) | ||
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| - | **Unit 6** | ||
| - | * Hawthorn (flowering tops) | ||
| - | * Marigold (flowers/ | ||
| - | * Lime (blossoms) | ||
| - | * Lavender (flowering tops) | ||
| - | * Nettle (young leaves) | ||
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| - | **Unit 8** | ||
| - | * Thyme (flowering tops/ | ||
| - | * Marshmallow (leaves) | ||
| - | * Marshmallow (root) | ||
| - | * Yarrow (flowering tops) Cleavers (herb) | ||
| - | * Dandelion (leaf) | ||
| - | * Dandelion (root) | ||
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| - | You may like to grow and harvest these herbs yourself, you could also contact a local herbalist or supplier for a sample or 5-10g of each herb. Or, if you cannot access the herbs yourself, Anita and Mary have arranged for [[http:// | ||
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| - | Each sample pack contains approximately 5g of each herb, and the total charge is **£28**, including postage and packaging to the UK mainland. (Postage rates for other countries are available on request). Please contact the dispensary on 01732 871818 or by [[mailto: | ||
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| - | Having a sample of each herb listed above will help you participate fully in this course. Heartwood does not receive any money from the scheme. If you have other sources of herbs you would prefer to use, or would like suggestions and contact details for suppliers that you could contact directly (particularly if you live outside of the UK), please don’t hesitate to let [[mailto: | ||
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| ===== Computer equipment ===== | ===== Computer equipment ===== | ||