Tammi Hartung

Homegrown Herbs (eBook, ePUB)

A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying More than 100 Herbs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Enjoy a thriving, fragrant herb garden and use your harvest to bring beauty, flavor, and health to your everyday life. Tammi Hartung provides in-depth profiles of 101 popular herbs, including information on seed selection, planting, maintenance, harvesting, and drying. Hartung also shows you how to use your herbs in a variety of foods, home remedies, body care products, and crafts. Whether you're a seasoned herbalist or planting your first garden, Homegrown Herbs will inspire you to get the most out of your herbs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612124674
• Artikelnr.: 42719871

Autorenporträt

Tammi Hartung is the author of Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine, Homegrown Herbs, and The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener. She has been growing and working with herbs for more than 40 years and is a frequent teacher and lecturer. She and her husband cultivate more than 1800 varieties of herbs, heirloom food plants, and perennial seed crops on their organic farm in Colorado.

Rosemary Gladstar has been practicing, living, learning, teaching, and writing about herbs for over 50 years. Considered a star figure in the modern herbal movement and often referred to as the "godmother of American herbalism", Rosemary is the author of twelve books including Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginners Guide, Herbs for Children's Health, Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, Herbal Healing for Women, and Herbal Healing for Men. She is the co-founder and former director of both The International Herb Symposium and The New England Women's Herbal Conference, the Founding President of United Plant Savers, and the co-founder and original formulator of Traditional Medicinal Tea Company. She is also the author and teacher of the popular home study course, The Science and Art of Herbalism, which continues to inspire and teach many thousands of students around the world. In 2018 Rosemary was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her life's work from the National University of Naturopathic Medicine. She recently moved from her home at Sage Mountain ~ an herbal retreat center and botanical sanctuary where she lived for 30 years ~ to a smaller haven where she plans to write more, tend to her new gardens, and spend more time with the plants.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar
 
Preface
 
Chapter One
An Introduction to Growing and Using Herbal Plants
 
Chapter Two
Selecting Plants and Designing Your Garden
 
Chapter Three
Secrets to Great Soil
 
Chapter Four
Propagation Methods
 
Chapter Five
Garden Maintenance
 
Chapter Six
Pest and Disease Control
 
Chapter Seven
Harvesting from the Garden
 
Chapter Eight
Making Herbal Preparations for Medicine and Personal Care
 
Chapter Nine
Cooking with Herbs
 
Chapter Ten
Herb Personalities
 
Resources
 
Recommended Reading
 
Index