This handy edition of Backyard Pharmacy helps you choose and cultivate the most useful and common medicinal plants that you can grow yourself either indoors or outside. Author Elizabeth Millard shares her deep knowledge of what to add to your garden to grow your own medicine cabinet and enhance your health.
This handy edition of Backyard Pharmacy helps you choose and cultivate the most useful and common medicinal plants that you can grow yourself either indoors or outside. Author Elizabeth Millard shares her deep knowledge of what to add to your garden to grow your own medicine cabinet and enhance your health.
Elizabeth Millard is the author of Indoor Kitchen Gardening and Backyard Pharmacy. She and her partner, Karla Pankow, also own Bossy Acres, a 100-member community-supported agriculture farm in Minnesota that provides seasonal produce to members and area restaurants in an effort to build a strong and sustainable local food system. Millard often leads workshops on vegetable and herb gardening as well as herb preparation, fermentation, and cooking with seasonal ingredients. As editor of local sustainable food site Simple Good and Tasty, she encourages readers to connect with the state’s abundance of organic growers, ranchers, food artisans, nonprofit agencies, and each other, forging a stronger food landscape. In addition to farming, teaching, and editing, she has contributed articles to Hobby Farm Home, Experience Life, and Urban Farm magazines, along with many other publications. She and Karla live in south Minneapolis.
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Introduction
1 THE BASICS OF GARDENING Perennial vs. Annual Planning Growing Conditions Seed Sourcing Transplants Maintaining Growth
2 USING YOUR HARVEST Harvesting Basics Preparing Remedies Culinary and Internal Uses Topical Preparations Research, Research, Research Enjoy the Adventure
1 THE BASICS OF GARDENING Perennial vs. Annual Planning Growing Conditions Seed Sourcing Transplants Maintaining Growth
2 USING YOUR HARVEST Harvesting Basics Preparing Remedies Culinary and Internal Uses Topical Preparations Research, Research, Research Enjoy the Adventure
