Join Dr Sarah Edwards for a unique and beautiful perspective on plants and their roles in the lives of peoples from across the planet.
Step into the UK’s oldest botanic garden and embrace the magic of Halloween within its ancient walls. Discover spellbinding stories from herbs that heal (or poison!), and other exotic plants used by people around the world.
There will be an opportunity to purchase a signed copy of Sarah’s book ‘The Ethnobotanical: A world tour of Indigenous plant knowledge’ at the end of the tour.
Dr Sarah Edwards is Plant Records Officer at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, and teaches Ethnobiology and Biological Conservation at the Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL School of Pharmacy and a Board member of the British Herbal Medicine Association.
Her research interests include understanding sociocultural aspects of medicinal plant use within different societies and biocultural diversity conservation in northern Australia. Her latest work collaborating with farmers and artists in S. Wales has focused on using a multispecies ethnographic approach to re-evaluate human-plant interrelationships.
