Some people, however, don’t like digging in the dirt, and there have always been people who made their living doing it for them. Poor rural folk have always had to have multiple streams of income to sustain themselves, one of which was harvesting herbs in in the countryside and filling their “cole baskets” with herbs to sell at faires and on market days.
So in this post, we will talk about the gardens and the merchants who supplied Western Europeans with their fresh plants…
Domestic Medicine 