Herbal Medicine from the Garden

Bioagriturismo Cestaio · Gaiole in Chianti, Italy

Grow, harvest, and prepare your own remedies across a Tuscan estate's medicinal and culinary herb gardens.

Identify and harvest medicinal plantsMake tinctures, salves, and herbal oilsCook and eat from the herb gardens

What you'll learn

Confidently identify common medicinal herbs
Prepare tinctures, infusions, and salves
Build a simple home apothecary

What the land gains

The estate's medicinal herb gardens expanded and tended
A seed and cutting library started for the farm

The host site

Bioagriturismo Cestaio

126 hectares of Tuscan eco-activism and farm-to-table

An 18th-century stone farmhouse anchors 126 hectares of organic vineyards, olive groves, woodland, and herb gardens in the heart of Chianti. Farm-to-table is a daily practice, and the estate runs as a long-term act of ecological care.

Your teacher

Amara Okafor

Clinical herbalist & wild-food forager

4.9 · 87 reviews · 12 yrs teaching