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Books > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Herbs
Michael Moore, renowned herbalist, teacher, and author of several
medicinal plant books, presents a one-of-a-kind guide to over 300
species of plants geographically ranging from Baja California to
Alaska. This uniquely attractive book educates the reader to both
native and introduced species within this region. With over eighty
line drawings, forty-four colour photographs, maps, and a glossary,
this book contains clear and reliable information on:
Identification and safe use of the plants; Appearance, habitats,
collecting methods, and storage; Therapeutic uses, constituents,
and preparations; Potential toxicities and medical
contraindications; Tea-making, tincturing, and salve making.'
This full color book includes: *herb garden design and basic
planting info *detailed section on what to do with the herbs,
including storing *some basic recipes recommended species,
cultivars and varities that work in your region * help in plant
selection plus photos showing specific uses
From one of America's most sensitive and fervent nature writers
comes this classic of herbal lore and legend, now in paperback.
This is not strictly a gardening book (although there is plenty for
the gardener to learn in it) but a singular example of a man
thinking about what he grows-not onlyhowit grows, but its roots in
religion, Bible, history and medicine. The book was written at
Beston's home, Chimney Farm, the Maine home- stead immortalized
inNorthern Farm' where he repaired in 1931 with his wife, Elizabeth
Coatsworth, and where he died in 1968. Beston described his efforts
as part garden book, part musing study of our relation to nature
through the oldest group of plants knowntogardeners.But,
asRogerSwainobservesinhismoving introduction, Herbs and the
Earthhas an intensity that evokes the herbs themselves, as if,
pressed between the pages, their aroma has seeped into the pages.
The book is lovingly illustrated with the strong and simple
woodcuts of the great stone-cutter/ letter-designer/craftsman John
Howard Benson
Wild American Ginseng, America's most famous medicinal plant, is in
trouble. In plain prose, James McGraw explains why as he translates
the latest in ecological and conservation science findings on this
unassuming understory herb. As the world's foremost authority on
wild ginseng, McGraw is uniquely poised to present this story based
on over twenty years of uninterrupted field research. McGraw traces
the dramatic ecological history of ginseng in North America,
documenting the ginseng-centric view of a world increasingly
dominated by both direct and indirect actions of humans. Far more
than a story of a single plant species, ginseng becomes a parable,
a canary in a coal mine, for what is happening to our dwindling
wild species across the globe. Documenting lingchi (death by a
thousand cuts) in human interactions with wild species, McGraw
shows us the evidence of our slowly eroding biodiversity and our
diminishing global biotreasury. Beyond merely documenting our
destruction of nature, McGraw also offers a pathway to an
optimistic future for ginseng and the wild species with whom we
share the planet. He illuminates how a dramatic expansion of our
commitment to sharing the planet with our fellow planetary
companions is the key to preservation; and now is the time to do
so.
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