The Healing Garden

This post is dedicated to my friend David at Well Sweep Herb Farm, who first introduced me to the great botanical gardens of Europe more than 20 years ago. He taught me a lot about herbs and their medicinal uses, as well as the importance of just stopping to smell the lavender each day!




The priests at Geras Abbey in Austria have an extensive herb and flower garden, as well as a shop where they sell various herbal teas and elixirs. They also have a stork nesting on one of their chimneys. We all found that rather ironic!