GEORGE NEWS - Passionate about indigenous medicinal plants?
Then come get your hands dirty in the Garden Route Botanical Garden (GRBG) medicinal spiral every second Wednesday of the month, starting 13 July.
The spiral currently has a collection of about 70 medicinal plants that are endemic to the Southern Cape.
The goal is to expand this collection to 100 species or more, which is only possible with help from the community.
Each month will be different, but the day may include creating new beds, planting new species (depending on availability), moving plants that are not thriving, weeding, pruning, mulching the beds, propagating and seed harvesting.
Volunteers will get to know the plants, how to recognise them in the field, how to grow them, how to harvest them, how to use them, and so on.
Herbalist Roxanne Joubert of Lady of the Herbs will bring her medicinal plant books and knowledge and talk about the medicinal properties and uses of the plants that are being worked on the day.
The GRBG is an NPO and relies on the community to keep it alive. Therefore, the garden asks that you still pay the R20 entrance fee or get an annual access card for only R200 which gives you unlimited access for a year.
Donations to the organisers and the GRBG are also very welcome.
The medicinal plant days will take place at the medicinal spiral in the Garden Route Botanical Garden from 14:00 to 16:30 every second Wednesday of the month.
Contact Roxanne on 081 361 6762 if you need more information.
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