Medieval Gardening

Tansy - Hang in your doorway to discourage flies.
Wormwood - To dispel parasites, repel moths, and brew absinthe.
Salad Burnet - cucumber flavored salad green.
Comfrey - setting of bones and healing of wounds.




Plantain - poultices and infusion for coughs.
Melissa - (Lemon Balm)  strewing herb and
                  lemon scented flavoring.
Pulses - beans and peas.
Fat Hen - pot herb similar to spinach.
Teasle - thorny seed heads used to card and full
             wool.

These and many other plants were grown in medieval gardens.  Anyone interested in participating in a Shire medieval garden project contact Anna Schuster at. anna5schuster@yahoo.com

Post Mortem

Lupercalia is successfully put behind us! It was indeed a success and enjoyed by all!  The games were popular as was the auction. Thank you to all those who donated the most excellent items!  The visiting Royalty, His Highness, Prince Tom, enjoyed the fighting and Bushkazi - thank you Mike Prahl!  The feast was wonderful, thank you Jacob Weiss and Linda Prahl.  Linda Prahl recieved a Balefire during court for her efforts in medieval cookery. Thank you to Dave Smith, Herald from Oubliette, who heralded court for the very first time! Our own herald, Melanie Wing, appointed herself child warden and policed very effectively juvenile mayhem. Thank you to Teresa Herbert for her work making site tokens and overseeing games. Thank you to Bart Saxton for donating his time and materials for the feast tokens, pewter belt buckles. They were very popular. Thank you to Gary Jensen and the Schuster peasant rabble for their hard work in the scullery and to the Prahl, Smith and Wing youth for their long hard work to make Lupercalia a happy day for our guests!

There is a lost and found. If you lost an item at Lupercalia please contact the seneschal at mailto:seneschal@rivenwoodtower.org