Camelot Herbal Enterprises.

Camelot Herbal Enterprises and Camelot Pressed Flora is a site dedicated to the the wonderful world of Herbs, other healing plants, flowers and the products, arts and crafts created from them.

The Super Foods, Whole Foods, Nutrition page is a great place to learn how to give yourself and loved ones the best foundation for health and wholeness.

The Still Room & The Flower Press pages represents and combines two of the most important passions in my life - growing and using Herbs and Flowers and the making of Herbal and Floral products, crafts and art.

Way back in history every 'fine house' had a 'Still Room' and a 'Still Room Maid'.

Her job was to create Flower and Toilet waters, soaps, potpourri's, sweet pillows, herbal satchets, perfumes, medicines, bug repellents, cleaning fluids etc.   for the Ladies, Gentlemen and family of the house - and no doubt for all the other maids, waiters, butlers, gardeners etc. - after all, I do not think that the Ladies, Gentlemen and families of the house would enjoy seeing, communicating with, having their food served by and house cleaned by any person lacking in personal hygiene.

The old Castle's of times gone by and their King and Queens (such as Camelot) - also had their own 'Still Rooms' and those people dedicated to the learning of herbs, flowers and plants for medicinal and personal cleanliness purposes,  who were often referred to  'witches', (by the ignorant and fearful) or  'healer's and 'wise women' (by those who were not so ignorant).

The 'learning' of these ways were often taught one on one, by example and word of mouth and a 'passing on' of information by those that had gone before them.  No doubt records were kept - as the 'household bible' - for all things related to the health, safety and wellbeing of the said family.  This too, would have been a great 'learning' tool for the young and un-initiated, the apprentice or newcomer, to the task at hand...

When you consider that many of our modern day medicines orginated from Herbs, Flowers and Plants and that in the so called 'progression of mankind', synthetic and chemical medicines, personal care products and foods replaced our 'natural beginnings' and that along with this 'progression' came a rapid increase of new skin problems, dietary problems and sicknesses through continual exposure, application and digestion of these new 'progressive, new chemical and synthetic ingredients' in our food and personal care products - and add to this the environmental damage caused by these products leaching into our soil, waterways and air - is it any wonder that many of us are now turning back to the 'old ways', insisting upon more 'natural' type products and a less chemical, synthetic, pollutive way of living?

I have grown and used herbs for as long as I can remember.