udith Hann’s herb garden, containing over one hundred and fifty different types of edible herbs, transformed her cooking so dramatically that she decided to start teaching people about culinary herbs at HANN’S HERBS.

Judith made the beautiful walled herb garden from a derelict pig yard on her small farm of 40 acres in the South Cotswolds. The stone walls not only house figs, grapes, Japanese wineberries, Morello cherries and roses, they also trap the sensuous scents of the herbs and protect the plants so that they can thrive throughout the year..

At HANN’S HERBS visitors learn how to grow herbs, how to incorporate them into an existing garden, how to design a separate herb garden, how to harvest leaves and store them over winter and how to use herbs to lift the taste of other ingredients. They find out which species work best with different types of fish, meat, vegetables, fruits and cheese. Visitors taste fresh herbs and learn about favourite recipes Judith has developed over four decades of cooking. Many of these recipes use herbs which are simple to grow but hard to find in shops, like lovage, sorrel, chervil and oregano. The sessions take place in a beautiful, listed Cotswold stone barn and in the herb garden itself.

 Judith regularly writes about herbs for the Daily Telegraph and has published two books about seasonal and healthy food, as well as presenting the 8-part BBC TV series, The Taste of Health. Filming those programmes with Britain’s top chefs like Raymond Blanc and Antonio Carluccio taught her even more about cooking with herbs. She has been President of the Herb Society for two years and has a column on culinary herbs in  the magazine "Herbs". She was one of Rick Stein’s 'Food Heroes' when he filmed in her herb garden and ate food she cooked for him in her kitchen.

  Visitors can round off the day by exploring the magical gardens around the farm, which include six acres of formal areas and wilder woodland and water gardens. There are seeds, fresh herbs, plants and recipes to take home.