Growing 101 Herbs That Heal: Gardening Techniques, Recipes, and Remedies [Paperback]

An excellent guide for novices and experts alike, Growing 101 Herbs That Heal combines gardening, cooking, crafts, and natural healthcare into one sturdy manual. The author's care and concern for healthy plants and people are evident on every page, and there's an astonishing amount of detail in every section. Simple plant listings cover multiple pages, outlining everything from drainage preferences to the size and color of blooms. The different garden styles presented range from formal knot gardens to carefree wild gardens, with lots of choices for raised beds and containers. Organic methods for fertilizing and pest control are emphasized--time to get familiar with beneficial nematodes!

If you've already got an herbal garden in place and are now wondering what to do with your harvest, look no further. Delicious recipes for breads, soups, and salads are here, along with medicinal tinctures, creams, and bath soaks, which are great for gifts or home use. There are also straightforward tips for starting an herb-based home business from your own creations. The last section is a fascinating materia medica that devotes a separate page to each herb, going into beneficial companion plants, harvesting time, market value, and home pharmacy uses. From common peppermint to the unusual yerba de la negrita, you'll enjoy the lovely pictures at least as much as the helpful information. --Jill Lightner

Gardening with medicinal plants is growing in popularity, and the market for botanical medicines continues to increase. Hartung offers instructions on planning and designing a garden, and she includes a chart giving basic information on 101 herbs: height, spacing, color, water requirements, and soil preferences. A chart listing plant habitat preferences accompanies a chart to help readers plan a theme garden. The author gives instructions on how to maintain healthy soil and propagate a variety of herbs. There is a chapter on garden maintenance, one on pest and disease control, and one on harvesting and drying roots, rhizomes, bulbs, flowers, buds, seeds, and fruit. Hartung explains the art of making such herbal preparations as salves, tinctures, oils, and creams. A chapter on cooking with medicinal herbs contains 16 recipes. There also is a 66-page list of herbs, giving their personality and blooming traits, heights, and sun and soil requirements, along with care, propagation, and harvesting instructions, and their medicinal benefits and home pharmacy uses also are included. George Cohen

" Modern society is learning anew how to grow, harvest and use this bounty from nature." - Rocky Mountain News "This very attractivly illustrated gardening guide offers planting tips, garden design ideas, harvesting and market information, recipes and more- " - Tampa Tribune Times "Herbalist Hartung draws on personal experience of running an organically- certified medicinal herb farm in Colorado "- Garden Sages " She [Hartung] covers all aspects of cultivation and harvesting including organic methods for pest and disease control " - Garden Sages " This is pretty serious stuff without being preachy." - The Herb Society of America " If you know a landscape gardener who explores alternative medicines, this is the gift." - Washington Post " It melds the two disciplines, landscape and medicinal gardening." - Washington Post " For the herb lover who knows the difference between fennel and mugwort " - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Complete instructions for successfully growing 101 medicinal plants using totally organic techniques. Hartung, a certified organic grower and board member of United Plant Savers, shares all the secrets of propagation, soil preparation, natural pest management, harvesting techniques, and even garden design for both beauty and highest yield. Also includes herb-by-herb profiles and a guide to making medicines and delicious healing foods.

Grow Your Own Medicine! What better way to take your medicine than straight from the garden? From St.-John's-wort to fennel, chicory to skullcap, herbalist and gardener Tammi Harung introduces you to the special cultivating and care techniques required for growing 101 versatile and useful herbs. Add diversity and healing power to your garden with medicinal plants. Learn to grow, harvest, and make inexpensive, potent home remedies for your whole family. Discover how easy and economical it is to create your own teas, tinctures, compresses, and more. -A totally organic approach to healthy soil and pest control -Easy garden designs for any location and environment -Comprehensive herb-by-herb profiles with color photos of every plant -Delicious recipes for incorporating healing herbs into your daily meals -Step-by-step instructions for making common herbal preparations -Easy-reference charts for propagating, harvesting, and using each herb

Tammi Hartung, M.H., is a medical herbalist, certified organic grower, and consultant to the Natural Products Industry. She lectures internationally on growing and using medicinal herbs and teaches at the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies, and the School of Natural Medicine. Hartung and her husband, Chris, own and operate Desert Canyon Farm & Learning Center in Colorado, where they grow more than 175 medicinal, rare, and native plants.