Simon Mills has been herbal practitioner in Exeter for almost 50 years, and an author and teacher for most of that time. In 1987 he co-founded the first University Complementary Health centre at Exeter, in the 1990’s led a major international EU project on herbal medicine, was Special Adviser to the House of Lords, and from 2008-11 coordinated a Department of Health project which pioneered many of the elements of ‘social prescription’. He is Self Care Lead at the College of Medicine and has a ‘plant power' resource and newsletter at plantguides.net