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1) Grow your own herbs: the 40 best culinary varieties for home gardens

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"Nothing tastes better than herbs harvested fresh from the garden! Grow Your Own Herbs shares everything you need to know to grow the forty most important culinary herbs. You'll learn basic gardening information, including details on soil, watering, and potting. Profiles of 40 herbs including popular varieties like basil, bay laurel, lemon verbena, tarragon, savory, thyme, and more feature tasting notes, cultivation information, and harvesting tips....

2) Grow your own herbs: the 40 best culinary varieties for home gardens

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Belsinger, Susan

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"Nothing tastes better than herbs harvested fresh from the garden! Grow Your Own Herbs shares everything you need to know to grow the forty most important culinary herbs. You'll learn basic gardening information, including details on soil, watering, and potting. Profiles of 40 herbs including popular varieties like basil, bay laurel, lemon verbena, tarragon, savory, thyme, and more feature tasting notes, cultivation information, and harvesting tips....

3) Midwest medicinal plants: identify, harvest, and use 109 wild herbs for health and wellness

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Rose, Lisa M

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Plants of the Midwest provide an wealth of botanical diversity. Whether you are already adept at finding, identifying, harvesting and safely using wild medicinal plants, or are just starting out, this guide will help you wildcraft your way to wellness.

4) Alchemy of herbs: transform everyday ingredients into foods & remedies that heal

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Forêt, Rosalee De La

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"Just as alchemists transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, with this book you can transform everyday herbs and spices into effective healing herbal remedies. Rosalee de la Foret, a clinical herbalist and education director at LearningHerbs.com, examines the history and modern-day use of 29 herbs, offering clinical studies to support their healing properties. She also dives into the energetics of herbalism, teaching readers how to match the...

5) Backyard medicine: harvest and make your own herbal remedies

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Bruton-Seal, Julie

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Modern medicine is truly a blessing. Advances are made with astonishing speed every day, using both science and technology to make our lives longer and healthier. But if the era of modern medicine began less than two hundred years ago, how did people treat sickness and poor health before then? This book holds the answer. Researched and written by a practicing medical herbalist and natural healer, and now with even more herbs and medicinal plants,...

6) The kitchen herb garden: growing and preparing essential herbs

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Creasy,Rosalind

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"From seeds to stove top, from preparing the soil to elegant dining suggestions, this book has easy-to-follow instructions and inspirational ideas every step of the way. Each section presents vivid photos and practical information, including:How to design and grow an herb garden in just about any space - from a spacious plot to a tiny balcony - and in just about any climate ; A tour through many beautiful private herb gardens, including some of Creasy's...

7) The backyard herbal apothecary: effective-medicinal remedies using commonly found herbs & plants

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Young, Devon

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Treat Ailments the Natural Way with Plants and Herbs from Your Yard. Your garden or neighborhood could hold all the plants and herbs you need to treat everything from respiratory issues to nerve pain to colic using natural remedies that are just as good for your body as they are for the environment. The Backyard Herbal Apothecary is packed to the brim with information on 50 different plants, recipes for 56 remedies and beautiful photography on every...