A year ago (November 2) you brought out a beautiful book about what medicinal plants know. A year you have a second edition in your hands, the Sendabelar orchard. What are its characteristics?

What medicinal plants know was subtitled “knowing, collecting, using” and we realized that a fourth verb could be added: “planting”. Many of these 45 plants that appear in the book What medicinal plants know are self-cultivable, either in a pot or on a plot. The new publication is based on the idea of the vegetable garden, that is, as a producer of what one can eat, why not plant the medicine chest that one needs? This brochure promotes this purpose.

I think in recent years we have lost a lot of quality, we do not know where the medicinal plant comes from, what process it has received, how it has dried.. many medicinal plants are losing therapeutic value. For this reason, the first option should be the personal elaboration of the medicinal plant and purchase if not.

Extending the look, this brochure shows, in addition to the therapeutic values of medicinal plants, its gastronomic uses (to enrich our food and cooking) and cosmetics. The approach is to know these values of the plants and situate them in a field of management that deepens the path of autonomy.

Throughout history, beautiful gardens of medicinal plants have been built. Instead of being “aromatic” or “aromatic” placed on the edge of the garden, this booklet claims the existence of a space for medicinal plants and their centrality.

The book is also round in shape. It strikes me...

Carl von Linneo worked a lot in botany on the idea of solar clocks in gardens. I had a deep understanding of the plants and complemented the garden clockwise with plants that flourished according to the hours, or according to the seasons...

Working on borobil is one more option, it is not necessary to plant it like this, even if they are planted anarchically, the plants come very well. In the leaflet we imagined planting in a circle to see that this vegetable garden can be a whole year in flower, with periods, that nature also has different times throughout the year and that medicinal herb is seasonal as food. Some will always be available, others in summer... It allows us to visualize the cycle of nature through the clock form. Of course, we have to bear in mind that in Euskal Herria we have different climates, climate change is also there... therefore, you cannot ask the orchard clockwise for perfection in flowering.

In this leaflet it is proposed to plant twelve medicinal plants. Why those twelve?

I have searched for polyvalent and not for punctual use and for a single specific disease. I have tried to strike a balance between the multiple needs of the body (respiratory, digestive...) to respond to a wide need.

When it comes to choosing, I have had in mind a therapeutic, gastronomic and cosmetic use, and I have joined well: I have chosen those who will “hold” each other well, that one does not protrude next to the other...

I have chosen plants suitable for beginners, well adapted to Euskal Herria, not especially delicate or difficult to care for. These are hard plants, especially those that do not hit diseases and are easily maintained.

This vegetable garden, which is made in this leaflet with twelve medicinal plants, is a proposal, but you can create wild plants, I hope that the verbena and the grass of the pasm will be born, and that people approaching to oppose the number twelve are welcome.

The medicinal garden that will be cultivated also depends on land, needs and taste.

There is also a wild plant among the plants it proposes: the weed.

In the election, I was clear that I wanted to include something wild. Why not bring a wild medicinal herb to your land, to your pot, to your land? I have voluntarily brought in that plant to say that you don't have to buy everything. In nurseries you can buy many leaflet plants, but there is a plant that cannot be bought voluntarily. With that I claim that everyone has to go and look for the malva and bring it. The malva sticks very well and adapts very well to others. And I've introduced some less commercial plant, the weed of urine.

LAST SENTENCE: "The aesthetic value of medicinal plants is not negligible"

"Why is the ornamental plant only used for its aesthetic value and the medicinal plant has no aesthetic value? It seems that we really like to classify them and assign a function to each one, but the medicinal orchard breaks that classification because it has an aesthetic value, even if it is to cure".