Sr. Francisca Kaesa is a member of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters.
She was a missionary in Tanzania and while there developed an interest in Natural Medicines. She was sponsored to attend one of the REAP/anamed Natural Medicines seminars in November 2016. She was an extremely active participant during that seminar, and a very keen learner.
Having completed the seminar she was very keen to put what she had learnt into practice on returning to her community. Upon her request the Priory House set aside a half acre plot specifically for developing a medicinal garden known as the St Hildegard Herbal Garden.
Immediately she started work and laid out the garden and started planting a range of herbal plants amongst the fruit trees already planted there.
She visited the REAP garden in Kajulu, near Kisumu, and came back with many plants which she added to her garden. It has been an inspiration to see the way that she has developed that garden in just over two years.