Biodiversity
Week in Galway city opened with a fully booked-out guided tour of
Terryland Forest Park by medical herbalist and master tea-blender Jorg Muller.
This
man is an unbelievable fount of knowledge on the food and medicinal
value of plantlife. With each step he took along the guided walk through
the forest, Jorg showed participants the value of so many common Irish
plants that we see everyday during the summer months. All of us were
amazed and delighted at the enormous benefits revealed to us of ribwort plantain, herb
robert, hawthorn, cleavers, horsetail and so much more.
The walk was an eyeopener, truly a wonderful voyage of discovery.
But we recognised too that nature's food larder is not just for humankind, but also to be shared with the rest of Nature.
Finally thanks to Paula Kearney, the brilliant hardworking Biodiversity Officer of Galway City Council, who organised the visit of Jorg Muller to Terryland Forest Park.
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