Physic Garden
Physic Gardens are medieval medicine gardens.
Our Physic Garden is created by and for women and has a collection of over one hundred and thirty medicinal plants. It is sited at the end of a residential street in Nelson, Lancashire, alongside the Leeds to Liverpool canal.
The land was purchased with community support through a crowd funding campaign in 2018 and the garden is owned by Idle Women and Humraaz. Built into its foundations are collaborations with many skilled practitioners. These ongoing relationships are part of its structure.
The garden stretches backwards and forwards in time. It sits contextually in the shadow of Pendle Hill, the post Industrial North, mills, mines, and Empire. It's materiality references the Enclosure Acts: the restructuring of a society. Since we began to create it, the climate has noticeably changed.
The local landscape has equally so. In a time of precarity the Physic Garden is hopeful. We said that it would take seven years to build and that it would last for a hundred years. We have worked intimately for six, we know every stone and every grain of soil and changing leaf and we are looking forward to welcoming you to the garden.
Our Physic Garden is created by and for women and has a collection of over one hundred and thirty medicinal plants. It is sited at the end of a residential street in Nelson, Lancashire, alongside the Leeds to Liverpool canal.
The land was purchased with community support through a crowd funding campaign in 2018 and the garden is owned by Idle Women and Humraaz. Built into its foundations are collaborations with many skilled practitioners. These ongoing relationships are part of its structure.
The garden stretches backwards and forwards in time. It sits contextually in the shadow of Pendle Hill, the post Industrial North, mills, mines, and Empire. It's materiality references the Enclosure Acts: the restructuring of a society. Since we began to create it, the climate has noticeably changed.
The local landscape has equally so. In a time of precarity the Physic Garden is hopeful. We said that it would take seven years to build and that it would last for a hundred years. We have worked intimately for six, we know every stone and every grain of soil and changing leaf and we are looking forward to welcoming you to the garden.
Constructing the Physic Garden
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Our team
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Where are we now - November 2021
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