Welcome to the Adopt a Herb Website

The adopted herbs are gathered in 'The Herb Collection' see the green banner above. Clicking on underlined words take you to new pages too. Please explore and think about joining in yourself.



Here are some of more recently adopted herbs:

Valerian

Sage

Tobacco

Scroll down to hear Calypso Caspar

Adopt a Herb is all about your exploration of a plant. Guided by Medical Herbalist Dan Wheals you will be encouraged to research (adopt) a single plant, it's uses medicinally or otherwise, it's history, it's botany and to get creative with an image to go with your words. Just get in touch if you fancy joining in.

Choose a plant, weed or herb and say why you chose it. You'll have a webpage to add your research and as more and more people share their stories and learning, the herb collection will become a fascinating resource. I hope you’ll add some digital images too; a photo, a picture of your drawings or a video would be great to liven the up collection. You’re free to express yourself and there will be workshops where you can create artwork based on your herb. See my example about an herb called Pellitory of the Wall or just explore the herb collection yourself.

Do contact Dan Wheals the medical herbalist to get started. You can help publicize this project by telling others about it to. There is a poster you can download and there are facebook and twitter icons scattered about the site. 

 ‘Adopt a Herb’ is part of ‘Spontaneous Communities' and this is part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival’s Participation and Engagement programme. It is an ambitious project through which five Norfolk community groups work with professional artists to research and produce creative responses to Spontaneous City, the Norwich-based sculpture commissions that formed part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival in 2011. Each of the five groups will exhibit their new work during Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2012. Check out the blog on the left of this page. 

Norfolk & Norwich Festival is the international arts festival for the East of England, collaborating throughout the year with local, national and international partners to produce work for a huge and diverse range of audiences, participants and communities. www.nnfestival.org.uk 

Calypso Caspar sings Chapelfield Herb Woman after drinking Sage

Dano with Greater Celendine