I once talked to an elderly woman who grew up in the country who spoke of older relatives who had passed away long ago.
She said they knew all about the herbs in the forest and the many remedies they were for and that this knowledge used to be handed down from generation to generation. But she said today that knowledge is forgotten.
I was impressed with her story and amazed that people in her family once had that kind of knowledge about the natural world.
I wondered how extensive that knowledge was and how far back in her family it has been known and how effective it was.
Her story reminded me of the cunning folk of the Middle Ages, and I would have liked to have learned that kind of knowledge or had lived at a time when I could have seen it in practice.
Bob Boyd