Tongue wellbeing group launches medicinal plant project
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North Coast Connection, which runs community wellbeing hub the Kyle Centre at Tongue, has embarked on a new project.
The group has launched an initiative to highlight the medicinal uses of plants growing in its local area.
Funding has been received towards the project from the Caithness and North Sutherland Fund.
Herbalist Anna Canning, an ethnobotanical researcher, who gives talks and workshops on how it is possible to include simple herbal measures in daily life to help health, is supporting the new project.
Ms Canning has been greatly influenced by the late Mary Beith, who lived in north Sutherland and was a recognised authority on traditional Celtic medicines and the concept of healing.
Ms Canning held a workshop at the Kyle Centre last month during which she demonstrated how to make beeswax balm.
The event took place following a walk round the village to explore the environment and the flowers to be found.
