Agriculture Books

This report is a must for the beginning herb farmer. America's leading expert on herb farming gives clear guidelines on what to think about before beginning a starting a herb farming business.

This is a hands-on guide to growing hops by two experienced growers. Whether you are a home hops aficionado growing for personal use or you want to get into the business, this book will get your project up and running.

If you are thinking of starting your own business growing and making herbal medicines, and using them to heal people, this book is for you. They cover everything from training to growing and harvesting herbs, making medicines, and selling them.

Individual herbs covered: stevia, caraway, evening primrose, gotu kola, echinacea, St. Johnswort, goldenseal. Transcripts from the second annual Richters commercial herb growing conference held in October, 1997.

You'll be surprised to learn that Eve did not give Adam an apple in the Garden of Eden - it was another fruit, and you'll have to read the book to find out which! Each plant is discussed in separate chapters, starting with the original scriptural references...

Here are 50 teas to alleviate cold and flu, constipation, arthritis, anxiety, and high cholesterol, to boost the immune system and memory, to improve skin, kidney, liver, heart health, and more.

Here are 80 herbs that add aesthetic interest to the garden. Every herb mentioned is pictured in colour. Includes a handy check list of plants organized by flowering time to help create a colourful display all season long.

But it is more than just something to stick in a vase; the scented flowers can be used in jams, jellies, wine, ice cream, salad dressings, lotion, rinses and body products. The rose is the most recognized flower in the world.

The colour coded sections help you easily navigate through the world of herbs and treat more than 125 conditions from pulled muscles and bruises to hangovers and motion sickness! Melanie includes photographs and simple explanations of how and why to use...

Ever wonder why some people just can not stand cilantro while others die for it? Cilantro is the fresh leaf chopped and added to salsas, guacamole, Asian soups and salads. Over 40 contributors cover the history, botany, lore, and science, as well cultivation...

There is also a chapter on how to make unique products such as mushroom-infused beer, wine and spirits. A superb guide to setting up and operating a successful organic mushroom business, whether it is a small urban farm, an off-the-grid farm, or a more...

Stevia is a super-sweet powder or liquid extracted from the leaves of a Paraguayan plant known as . Diabetics love it too because it has no impact on blood sugar. It is a sugar substitute that dieters love because it is natural and has no calories.

Beauty starts with the skin and this book shows you how homemade all-natural aromatherapy creams and lotions can help bring back your youthful radiant self. In simple steps you can create personalized body creams, moisturizers, lip balms and more that...

Container-grown tomatoes or lettuces? Now how about zucchini, potatoes, or grapes! This new book to allows gardeners to expand their horizons even where space is at a premium. Beginning with herbs like basil and chervil, Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell takes...

Try one of Jim Long's 112 party dip recipes featuring fresh or dried herbs and spices, or one of 43 ethnic recipes from around the world. Need a new dip for your next party? Try Butter Bean Dip (England), Manga Peanut Dip (India), Persian Cucumber Dip...

We are excited to find a cookbook for stevia, the no-calorie sweeter-than-sugar plant from Paraguay. Stevia does not raise the blood sugar levels. Hard to find, tested recipes are a boon to diabetics, those looking to weight loss, and mothers of hyperactive...

Intended for health practitioners but manufacturers of herbal products, commercial herb growers, and consumers intent on being well informed will find this handbook a valuable resource.

This book is the best guide we have seen on all aspects of growing and marketing quality herbs on a commercial scale. High quality organic herbs are very much in demand in a North American market that has become crowded with inferior imported product.

Kids learn to make marshmallows, create an ant barrier with cinnamon, or keep their feet warm with cayenne. Lesley Tierra brings herbs to life through history, uses, taxonomy, and folklore.

Fermentation and plant use as medicine, as psychotropics, as teachers, as companions on life´s path are an inescapable part of what it means to be human. Ancient beers from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago were quite different from what we know as beer today.

Is it safe to take American ginseng and ginkgo with the blood-thinning drug Coumadin? More than 18,000 drug-herb-vitamin interactions are covered. This and other questions are answered by researchers and doctors from .

In dollar value, ginseng is still North America's biggest medicinal herb crop -- worth over $100 million dollars annually. This book by two well-known experts, is the best book yet on growing and marketing North America's valuable woodland herbs.

Written by a practising herbalist with over 25 years of experience, the book features a reliable materia medica on 150 herbs commonly used in modern herbal practice. A definitive guide to the practice of herbal medicine that is aimed at students, professionals...

Being that the garden is meant to be lived in, she is a strong believer in gardening safely without the use of chemicals. Marjorie Harris is a well-known Toronto champion of the urban garden, a space she sees as an extension of the living room and as...

Has juicing recipes for herpes simplex, heartburn, gout, varicose veins, and much more. Winner of the 2000 International Cookbook Award. Here is the scoop on methods and machines, what herbs, vegetables and fruits to use and their healing properties.

As the world's population increases and ages, the prospects for this crop will remain steady for many years to come. There is much valuable information here that is unavailable in other sources, such as up-to-date price and market facts, latest cropping...

Forty-five easy-to-follow recipes, illustrated with vintage pictures and illuminated by the author's years of experience making and selling herbal products.