Grow Your Own Botanicals

Author : Cinead McTernan
Publisher : Kyle Books
ISBN 13 : 0857837672
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grow Your Own Botanicals written by Cinead McTernan and published by Kyle Books. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow Your Own Botanicals brings together an inspiration collection of plants that add beauty, structure and interest to a garden as well as providing an exciting harvest that can be used in innovative ways in the kitchen and home. If you're buying seed kits and botanical plant gifts or like to experiment with making your own drinks, remedies or skin care, this handbook is the must-have companion gardening guide. Now you can make your hibiscus cordial for cocktails, herb and spice mix for your roasts or calendula face cream with your own garden produce. Cinead offers general advice on getting started - soil, composting, borders, containers, seed saving, cuttings, intercropping, wildlife and biodiversity -before moving on to the botanical garden. From plants that might traditionally be recognised as a botanical, to more unusual exotic varieties, this collection of 80 botanicals don't need huge space to grow, but must harvest meaningful amounts to use to flavour food, drinks and oils. Experiment with herbs like juniper, lemon balm or nigella, grow evening primrose or liquorice with their pretty flowers, and try out fruits like Chillean guava or yuzu. This is gardenening at its most fun and fanciful!

Author : Maria Noel Groves
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163586013X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies written by Maria Noel Groves and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert herbalist Maria Noël Groves has advice for budding herb gardeners: grow just what your body needs! In Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies, Groves provides 23 specially tailored garden plans for addressing the most common health needs, along with simple recipes for using each group of herbs. For chronic stomach problems, marshmallow, plantain, rose, fennel, and calendula make the perfect medicine, with recipes for tummy tea and gut-healing broth. Whether the need is for headache relief, immune support, stress relief, or a daily tonic, readers will learn the three to six herbs that are most effective and how to plant, harvest, and care for each one. In all of Groves’s plant suggestions, the emphasis is on safe, effective, easy-to-grow herbs that provide abundant harvests and can be planted in containers or garden beds.

Author : Paula Gross
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604690763
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bizarre Botanicals written by Paula Gross and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardeners love tulips, lilies, and pansies—the common, but beautiful, plants found in the average garden. But there are realms in the plant world far beyond these familiar favorites. In Bizarre Botanicals, plant experts Larry Mellichamp and Paula Gross take readers on a curious botanical journey of weirdly wonderful plants that can be grown at home. Bizarre Botanicals features over 75 astonishing plants that have extraordinary abilities—from pyrotechnic spores that can burst into flame when ignited to flowers that lure insects to their deaths. Each plant profile includes essential care and cultivation information. A difficulty scale alerts gardeners to how easy (or difficult) it is to grow the plant at home. There’s no reason to forsake lilies and petunias. But after reading Bizarre Botanicals, gardeners will want to take a walk on the weird side and try a few of these peculiar plants for themselves.

Author : Maria Noel Groves
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1612125360
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body into Balance written by Maria Noel Groves and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner for Health & Healing An antacid or an aspirin may soothe your pain, but it doesn’t cure the cause of your symptoms. Headaches, indigestion, fatigue, allergies, anxiety, eczema, high blood pressure, and other conditions are clues to a deeper imbalance in your body, and learning to read those clues is a key step in maintaining optimal health. Herbalist Maria Noël Groves shows you how to read your body’s signals and support your own wellness with herbal remedies and other natural treatments. You’ll learn how each of your major body systems — respiratory, digestive, immune, nervous, memory, reproductive, circulatory, and more — optimally functions, and you’ll discover how to use natural remedies to nourish and repair problem areas, restore lost vitality, support your body as a whole, and prevent future problems. Groves includes in-depth instructions, with step-by-step photographs, for making your own herbal remedies, as well as expert guidance on buying and effectively using commercial preparations.

Author : Mike Wolf
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1684422108
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden to Glass written by Mike Wolf and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve heard of farm to table; now learn how to grow your drinking game from the ground up inGarden to Glass! Garden to Glass: Grow Your Drinks From the Ground Up, written by expert mixologist, Mike Wolf focuses on the movement and philosophy illustrating how to incorporate the natural world into the drinks we love to make, drink, and share with friends. This book offers readers simple gardening tips and instructions on how to use those plants to make dynamic cocktails and delicious cordials and elixirs. Complete with recipes, striking photography, and detailed illustrations, Garden to Glass is as valuable a resource to bartenders and bar owners as it is to home bar enthusiasts. In Garden to Glass you will find tips and insights on: Preserving ingredients for winter Cocktail presentation Methods for making syrups, cordials, bitters, and more Foraging for ingredients Utilizing vegetables to make exciting cocktails Resourcing ingredients locally How to use smoke and flame to create flavors How to make the most of your terroir Drink styles from around the world And much more! We are in the heart of the second golden age of the cocktail in America. Now imbibers of all stripes can take the reins themselves and learn how to grow their own herbs and vegetables, harvest herbs to make their own teas and tinctures, and make cordials, bitters, and elixirs of all kinds, all while learning the basics of making drinks at home. There are cocktail programs in restaurants and bars all over the world that are adapting this local yet worldly approach to cocktails simply by paying more attention to the world around them. Bartenders can now study the micro-climates where their favorite spirits are made, and make use of the botanicals that grow all around them. From the mint in mojitos to the wild botanicals in regional styles of gin, this book will explore the way bartenders, growers and distillers alike are re-shaping the way cocktails are being made, presented and consumed.

Author : Randy Kidd
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580171893
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Kidd's Guide to Herbal Dog Care written by Randy Kidd and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holistic veterinarian Dr. Randy Kidd explains how herbs can be used in the care of dogs. Includes chapters on common dog ailments and how to address them. Illustrations.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950671021
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Botanical Skin Care Recipe Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created as a companion to the Herbal Academy's Botanical Skin Care Course, we've captured many of our favorite tried-and-tested skincare recipes into one delicious herbal book. Whether you're looking for a rich cream to pamper your face, a soothing salve for minor first aid, or topical support for a chronic skin condition, we've got something for you here. By the time you work your way through this recipe collection, you'll have a full cupboard of incredible botanical skincare products to share with your friends and family--and maybe even your pets and neighbors, too.

Author : Peg Schafer
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603583300
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm written by Peg Schafer and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese herb garden.

Author : Emily Han
Publisher : Fair Winds Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 1592337074
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Drinks & Cocktails written by Emily Han and published by Fair Winds Press (MA). This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create your own handcrafted drinks and cocktails using local, fresh, or foraged ingredients.

Author : Jeff Carpenter
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603585737
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer written by Jeff Carpenter and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan Both a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal Western herbs. Whether you're trying to farm medicinal plants, culinary herbs, or at-risk native herbs exclusively or simply add herbal crops to what you're already growing, successful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpenter will guide you through the entire process—from cultivation to creating value-added products. Using their Zack Woods Herb Farm in Vermont as a backdrop, the Carpenters cover all the basic practical information farmers need to know to get an organic herb farm up and running, including: • Size and scale considerations; • Layout and design of the farm and facilities; • Growing and cultivation information, including types of tools; • Field and bed prep; • Plant propagation; • Weed control, and pests and diseases; • Harvesting, as well as wild harvesting and the concept of geo-authentic botanicals; • Postharvest processing; and, • Value-added products and marketing. The authors also provide fifty detailed plant profiles, going deeper into the herbs every farmer should consider growing. In an easy-to-understand, practical, and comprehensive manner, readers will learn how to focus on quality over quantity, and keep costs down by innovating with existing equipment, rather than expensive technology.Market farmers who have never before considered growing medicinal herbs will learn why it's more important to produce these herbs domestically. The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer makes a convincing case that producing organic medicinal herbs can be a viable, profitable, farming enterprise. The Carpenters also make the case for incorporating medicinal herbs into existing operations, as it can help increase revenue in the form of value-added products, not to mention improve the ecological health of farmland by encouraging biodiversity as a path toward greater soil health.