Kim Walker

*Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Book Awards 2020, Best Debut Drink Book: Just the Tonic (Kew, 2019).*

Kim Walker specialises in researching the history of plants as medicines. She is currently working on a PhD on cinchona and quinine at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London. She is on the committee of the Herbal History Research Network, the British Society for the History of Pharmacy, the Society of Economic Botany and is a member of the Association of Foragers. For research and consultancy, her website is www.kimwalkerresearch.co.uk

Kim is also the co-author of modern herbals: The Handmade Apothecary (Kyle Books, 2017) and The Herbal Remedy Handbook (Kyle Books, 2019). Her educational herbal and foraging walks, talks and workshops can be found at www.handmadeapothecary.co.uk