Julie Edwards

Julie is a girl from the north "a towny come good in the countryside".

After an early career working in business offices, Julie moved into computer sales support and training. She then made a brave move to change direction, she retrained, and started her own business as a professional beauty therapist, successfully looking after the ladies of the rich in Cheshire.

Whilst this was going on Julie was also raising a family. Due to work commitments the family moved south into the countryside in the Stroud area, and then back up to the Malverns, where the family has been settled for the past 14'ish years.

After a number of years keeping ducks and chickens as pets, Julie's menagerie started to grow with Goats, Pigs and many more varieties of poultry.

Julie now has a wealth of experience of "starting things from scratch", having to research and then putting learning in to practice for all she needs for the daily life "Down of the farm" with the animals. These skills along with her background in training means that Julie is very well placed to offer practical learning courses to those wanting to start out on the same journey that Julie and her family have been through.


Ben Fairlight Edwards
MNIMH, Dip Phyt, MBAS, Dip AP, ITEC, IFR, FDZ

Educated as a musician in his youth, and following a successful career in the piano industry, Ben trained as a Healer and Reflexologist in Denmark, before returning to the UK in 1988, to complete the 4 year full-time training as a Medical Herbalist at the School of Herbal Medicine, Sussex. He began teaching his own courses The Barefoot Herbalist in 1992, whilst training in Adult Education, at Hastings College.

He has since led a variety of courses in England, France, Greece & Thailand.
He is a visiting lecturer on BSc courses at the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine and supervisor and former tutor for the British Autogenic Society, based at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital.
He is a member of Equity and speaks fluent German and Danish, passable French, and dabbles in Spanish, Greek and Japanese.