Learn Healing Gardening

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Dr Danica-Lea Larcombe has a background in environmental health and has completed a PhD on biodiversity and human health through the Centre for Ecosystem Management at Edith Cowan University.  She is also a member of InVivo Planetary Health.  The skin microbiota and nature-relatedness (or human disconnect from nature) are the focus areas of her work, and she is also a certified natural perfumer and member of the International Perfume Foundation.  Her passion is reconnecting people to nature with a current focus on creating healing gardens to decrease stress, inflammation and chronic diseases, and work toward a world of healthier and happier people! 

Introduction and Over-view of Course: 
Developing your own special organic healing garden is one of the most rewarding experiences, including watching your ecosystem grow (spotting a small butterfly or ladybug for example), watching your plants grow and bloom, then devouring their fragrances and finally harvesting.  It is a combination of sensory experiences that bring wonderful health benefits.  This course will explain the history of healing gardens and their health benefits and also show you how to design, develop, and maintain your healing garden (size does not matter).  For your final plan you will select fragrant plants from a wide range of plant families that best suit your climate. ​

Module 1 – HISTORY OF HEALING GARDENS

• Abbeys and monasteries
• Early perfumer gardens
• Inspirational healing gardens

 
Module 2 – HEALTH BENEFITS OF HEALING GARDENS

• Stress Relief
• Microbiota transfer
• Ecosystem benefits
• Sensorial Experience

                 
Module 3 – THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTHY ORGANIC SOIL

• Microbes
• Minerals
• Nitrogen and Carbon
• Planting a new garden bed
• Invigorating an old garden bed

 
Module 4 – THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANTS FOR A PERFUME GARDEN

• Fragrant flowers
• Fragrant herbs
• Roses
• Native plants

 
Module 5 – LANDSCAPING YOUR PERFUMER GARDEN

• Measuring up your area
• Design styles
• Fundamentals of design
• Examples of Healing Garden designs
• Making your sketch and final plan

                 
Module 6 – PUTTING EVERYTHING TOGETHER

• Plant selection
• Harvesting for therapeutic use
• Maintenance of your healing garden

This course is an intensive program into Natural Perfumery certification program. This course is part of the International Perfume Foundation Curriculum.
Length of the course: 6 weeks ( 1 module / week )
Price of the course: 895€  (including 200 euro certification)

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