Newsletters

The Herb and Garden Guild has produced several Lochac Herbal and Garden newsletters often originally being published together with Cockatrice, a Lochac Arts & Sciences Magazine. To contact the current chronicler (for submissions of articles) please refer to Contacts Page.

Newsletter articles (text only) online:

Volume 1, Issue 1:

  • Clove pinks – Sigurd Trygvasson
  • Lettuce – Sigurd Trygvasson
  • This Season (December to February) – Sigurd Trygvasson
  • Strawberry – Sigurd Trygvasson
  • Glossary (of medical terms) – Caristiona nic Beathain

Volume 1, Issue 2:

  • Around the Garden (March to May) – Sigurd Trygvason
  • Mandrake – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • 9th Century Gardens, Plants of, Gardens, Design Principals – Sigurd Trygvason
  • 9th Century Gardens – Sigurd Trygvason
  • A Recipe and Practical Application for Pome Ambre – Viscountess Bliss of Teine
  • Growing Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables in Australia (book review) – Sigurd Trygvason
  • Laurels, True, Bay, Sweet – Sigurd Trygvason

Volume 1, Issue 3:

  • Around the Garden (June to September) – Sigurd Tryggvason
  • Fragments of Borage – Lady Greth de Trobrigge
  • Rose Pruning – ? Lady Greth de Trobrigge
  • Comfrey – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • Egyptian Medicine – Viscountess Bliss of Teine
  • The Apuleius Platonicus Herbal – Caristiona nic Beathain

Volume 2, Issue 1:

  • Around the Garden (November to January) – Sigurd Tryggvason
  • Salat – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • Fragments of Hyssop – Greth de Trobrigge
  • Dandelion – Sigurd Tryggvason
  • Safety and Herbs – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • The Festival Garden – Sigurd Tryggvason

Volume 2, Issue 2:

  • Around the Garden (February, March, April) – Sigurd Tryggvason
  • Festival Preparation – Bruise Cream – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • Festival Preparation – Hayfever and Asthma Syrup
  • Le Menagier de Paris, List of plants – Sigurd Tryggvason
  • Savory – Greth de Trobrigge

Volume 2, Issue 3:

  • Around the Garden (May, June, July) – Sigurd Tryvagson
  • To make a Rose Ointment (May, June, July) – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • A Brief Look at Garlic – Sigurd Tryvagson
  • The Green Witch – A Modern Women’s Herbal (Book Review) – Finnabhair ni Binnech
  • Hippocras – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • A source List for Period Gardening – Sigurd Tryvagson

Volume 2, Issue 4:

  • Quince Marmalade – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • Peppermint Troches – Caristiona nic Beathain

Volume 2, Issue 5:

  • The Kitchen Garden – Sigurd Trygvarsson
  • To make a Lip Cream for sore lips – Caristiona nic Beathain

Volume 2, Issue 6:

  • A Brief History of Medicine in the Middle Ages The Hippocratic Oath – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • Making a Gourd Watering Pot – Sigurd Trygvarsson

Volume 3, Issue 1:

  • Barnacle Geese – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • Building a Wattle Fence – Sigurd Trygvarsson

Volume 3, Issue 3:

  • Bestiary – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme – Bea of Ildhafn
  • Herber or A Hortus Conclusus – A permanent medieval garden at CrossRoads – Master Cristoval
  • Humulus Lupulus Hops from The New Herbal of 1543 by Leonhart Fuchs – Sigurd Trygvarsson

Volume 4, Issue 1:

  • Arts and Science Competition for Festival 2007 – Brian le faucheeur
  • The Festival and Crossroads Guild Hall Herb Garden – Brian le faucheeur
  • Festival Garden Detail – Is it really medieval – Brian le faucheeur
  • What to plant at Crossroads – Cristoval
  • Herblore (book review) – Brian le faucheeur
  • Results of Herb & Garden Guild Competition – Festival 2007 – Brian le faucheeur

Volume 4, Issue 2:

  • Lions – Winged, Walking and Rock – Garden Ornaments with Panache – Brian le faucheeur
  • The Cultivation of Aliums (or “How to grow more garlic than you know what to do with”) – Maelmuire ingen Alpin
  • Sourcing Plants: Web and Mail Order – Hana, Brian, Cristoval, Rose, Maelmuire
  • Sourcing Trees: Raiding Streets in Canberra – Cristoval
  • What Sigurd’s been doing – Sigurd Tryggvason
  • Sekanjabin – Alys Dietsch

Volume 4, Issue 3:

  • In My Garden – Belissario
  • Moon Planting – Belissario
  • On Beetroot – Cristoval
  • Ducks in the Orchard – Cristoval

Volume 4, Issue 4:

  • The Medieval Flower Book (book review) – Brian le faucheeur
  • A Quick Look at Land Tenure in England – Cristoval
  • Allium Cepa (Onion) – Caristiona nic Beathain
  • Cabbage and White Butterflies – Ava

Volume 5, Issue 1:

  • Plants in Pompeii – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis
  • From the Kitchen Garden – Frytour of erbes – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis
  • Marian Gardens – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis
  • The Monastery Garden – poem by Tom Stewart
  • From the Apothecary – Brain Boosters – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis
  • Elders: Worthy of Respect – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis
  • Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets by John Evelyn – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis

Volume 5, Issue 2:

  • Woe for Woad in Tarn orthe former Pays de Cocagne – Brian le faucheeur
  • From the Kitchen Garden – Pudding of Carrot – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis
  • Growing Medieval Spices – Saffron – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis
  • From the Apothecary – Melissa (Lemon Balm) – Isabel de Beaumont of Belasis
  • The Use of Dyed yarns in the Early Anglo Saxon period – Caristiona nic Beathain