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Sunday, 10 January 2016

If you can't find a particular herb at Mirosław Angielczyk's farm, you can't find it in Poland. The herbalist and owner of "Dary Natury" produces teas and medicinal compositions following ancient recipes from the Bug river valley.

Echinacea growing on both sides of the road bends under the weight of bumblebees, and brown bee abdomens peek out from the inside of foxgloves. "In Polish they're called yezhuvki, but on TV it sounds better to say the Latin 'echinacea'," laughs Mirosław Angielczyk, founder, head and leading light of the Herbal Nook Farm in Koryciny, in the south of Podlasie, one of Poland's cleanest regions. With a face weathered from repeated trips between the drying-shed, purchase point, office and botanical garden, he personally welcomes guests to the pastoral headquarters and talks about every flower and every blade of grass. He shows the bison grass added to the popular Polish vodka of the same name, which he is the only farming on an industrial scale.

 

http://www.polska.pl/en/tourism/nature/herbal-enclave-podlasie/