I am a herbal grower, clinical practitioner and academic researcher based in Devon, UK. Until retirement in 2010 I led professional training in complementary health sciences at Middlesex University in London. I have written about the history of domestic medicine and co-edited a text on the history of herbal medicine, Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine (2013). My research into historical mediicnal recipes was published as Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (Bloomsbury, 2016). More recent publications have been about growing herbs and permaculture, including the establishment of a sustainable medicinal woodland in North Devon. This project led to publication of two books with Permanent Publications, an award-winning publisher of books on solutions for climate change and sustainable living: The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook (2020) and Trees and Shrubs That Heal (2023). I maintain a website for the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust and offer online courses and talks. In 2024 I was awarded the Lesley Matthews Medal by the British Society for the History of Pharmacy, the top award for original and scholarly work related to pharmacy history in the UK.