Medicinal herbs aren’t just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Healing Garden is the perfect guide to revitalizing your health with ingredients you can grow and forage yourself.
From edible treats to therapeutic remedies, unearth the healing potential of plants both wild and cultivated. This stylishly illustrated book features forty herb profiles and seven medicinal weeds ideal for foraging, plus instructions on how to set up and maintain a planted or container garden.
You’ll learn to develop the healing power of your very own medicinal garden, with edible recipes for cakes, cookies, salads, soups, teas, and many more. This practical guide also features easy, natural remedies for your skin, gut, muscles, heart, and mind with recipes for oils, tinctures, compresses, steams, and washes for health and healing.
Reviews
An engaging, beautiful compendium of medicinal and culinary herbs … Written with passion and grace, the book evokes memories of the scent of sun-warmed earth and dreams of bountiful harvests. Lucy Mora's eye-catching illustrations enhance the text with bright splashes of color, aid in plant recognition, and inspire the use of medicinal and culinary herbs to bring beauty and diversity to any garden … Practical and inspiring.
— ForeWord Reviews
Contributors
Caroline Parker
Author
Caroline Parker (BHSc Western Herbal Medicine) is an herbalist, farmer, forager, and facilitator. She grows herbs and flowers for her business, The Cottage Herbalist, where she sells her award- winning, certified organic, and wild-crafted tea blends. When she isn’t in her studio hand- blending and packing orders, she is sowing seeds, picking flowers, prepping garden beds, shoveling compost, and tearing around on the ride-on mower.
Lucy Mora
Illustrated By
Lucy Mora, a Melbourne illustrator, came across a charming 1870s cottage in Newstead, Central Victoria, and decided to move there with her husband and dog. It was there that she discovered her love for growing produce and preserving. Her kitchen is lined with jars of preserved fruits and vegetables reminiscent of her childhood. Lucy has transformed the “mow and blow” garden she inherited into a garden full of vegetables, perennials, and cornucopian charm.