GEPG - the company
We have created what we ourselves want to use: Physicks that delight the senses and nurture the skin.
We are always be eager to answer your queries about our Physicks and/or our company.
Our pledge on quality
We are committed to working to The Soil Association’s standards for organic produce.
As far as possible we will use organic ingredients, and all our ingredients will be of a quality good enough and safe enough to eat.
We will do our utmost, in our husbandry of our garden, buying ingredients and in the production and delivery of our Physicks, not to do any inadvertent harm to our world - or to you!
We are in the process of applying for Soil Association approval.
Nature's dividends - doubled
Our company aims to make preparations that are good and do good. We think everyone needs a bit of pampering and a lot of nurturing. And we want to put something back into the world just as we repay the earth with compost for what our plants take out of it.
For us, it seems natural to start with helping children. We will donate a proportion of our profits to charities that work with society’s neediest children. The better we do, the more our chosen charities will benefit. Because we’re small, we want to support a small, focused charity.
If you would like to know more or have suggestions please contact us.
Great Elm Physick Garden Ltd - Director
Liv O'Hanlon had a long career in journalism and as a children's rights campaigner. Alongside, she has nurtured enthusiasms for good food, the environment and complementary medicine. After leaving London with her family, she bought a house with a walled herb garden and recognised Fate's intervention. She completed a business course at Bristol Management Centre in 2004 and set up GEPG which started trading in 2005. She wants Great Elm Physick Garden Ltd to be the best of its kind.
Great Elm is built on the strict criterion of a physick having to do good as well as be pleasing to the senses and easy to use, so each and every physick is developed in conjunction with a qualified, registered medical herbalist. This ensures that every physick we make maintains the highest standard possible and has a therapeutic as well as an aesthetic value.
Medical herbalists registered with the UK's premier body, the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, have been trained in anatomy, physiology, pathology, diagnosis, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, botany, materia medica, communication skills, complementary medicine, as well as nutritional and herbal therapeutics. Critical skills and research methodology are also required. Each has to undertake 500 hours supervised clinical experience. For further information go to http://www.nimh.org.uk.