Blue Book Alberta

This report is a must for the beginning herb farmer. Includes a photo gallery that shows every step of production from seedlings to harvesting and drying, including the equipment needed.

Everything from planning and planting to harvesting and processing is in this book, with excellent photos that show how it is done every step of the way. If you buy one hops book, this is the one to get.

The authors, owners of a successful American herb farm, show the way toward becoming a healer and a medicine maker in a farm setting. They cover everything from training to growing and harvesting herbs, making medicines, and selling them.

Topics include medicinal herb product development, value-added food & bodycare products, shiitake and medicinal mushrooms, Chinese medicinal herbs, potted herb production, what the buyer wants, organic field production.

Colour photos throughout. Despite its misleading title (the subtitle would be a better title) this fascinating book covers 81 plants mentioned in the Bible and Koran. You'll be surprised to learn that Eve did not give Adam an apple in the Garden of Eden...

Using common but scientifically proven medicinal herbs, spices, fruits and barks this book offers effective tea formulas to overcome illness and promote good health. This book will soon become your easy-to-use "go-to" book for healing.

Nothing is more beautiful than the purple coned flowers of echinacea, or the bright red Raggedy-Ann flowers of bergamot, or the majestic spires of brightly mottled foxglove. Every herb mentioned is pictured in colour.

The author, who has been eating roses since he was a teenager, gives 44 creative fun recipes, plus advice on which rose varieties are edible and which are not. The rose is the most recognized flower in the world.

There are many fun, fast and low cost recipes from a stress releasing holy basil tea to an aromatic men's love liqueur! A great guide that helps the herbal novice understand and use 56 important medicinal herbs.

Coriander is the spicy seed used whole or ground for baking, pickling, sausages and in Indian curries. Ever wonder why some people just can not stand cilantro while others die for it?

There are chapters on marketing mushrooms, on setting up a laboratory to start cultures and producing spawn, and on the exciting new emerging business of mycoremediation -- using fungi to rehabilitate contaminated land by breaking down environmental and...

It is a sugar substitute that dieters love because it is natural and has no calories. This book includes the plant's history, botany, pharmacology, usage and safety -- with over twenty stevia recipes and extensive home-growing information.

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

Step-by-step instructions are illustrated with photographs to make each project simple and fun. Now how about zucchini, potatoes, or grapes! This new book to allows gardeners to expand their horizons even where space is at a premium.

Try Butter Bean Dip (England), Manga Peanut Dip (India), Persian Cucumber Dip (Iran), or Jim's Green Goddess Dip made with mayonaisse, sour cream, tarragon, chives and anchovies Need a new dip for your next party?

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

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.

Increasingly consumers and professionals are demanding top quality and are going direct to growers who have established a reputation for quality. From field preparation and seeding to weed control, harvesting and processing there is no other book as comprehensive...

Interspersed throughout are recipes, crafts, songs, and stories in an alphabetical journey through 16 common medicinal and culinary herbs. Kids learn to make marshmallows, create an ant barrier with cinnamon, or keep their feet warm with cayenne.

Includes 120 recipes for ancient and indigenous beers and meads from 31 countries and six continents -- and the most complete evaluation of honey ever published. Ancient beers from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago were quite different from what we know as beer...

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

Other woodland herb crops such as goldenseal, bloodroot, and black cohosh are in the millions too. An essential read for anyone growing woodland herbs commercially. This book by two well-known experts, is the best book yet on growing and marketing North...

If you want to develop a sound understanding of the principles and practice of modern herbalism this is an excellent guide. Has a nice section on the ailments that can be treated with herbs, organized by the major systems of the body.

She describes the organic fertilizers, mulches, natural pest controls, and age-old gardening strategies that tip the balance of nature in favour of what she calls the "ecological garden." This is the updated and revised version.

Here is the scoop on methods and machines, what herbs, vegetables and fruits to use and their healing properties. Winner of the 2000 International Cookbook Award. Easy-to-use, healthful and delicious.

It is one of the top ten selling medicinal herbs today for use as an immune-system stimulant and cold and flu preventative. There is much valuable information here that is unavailable in other sources, such as up-to-date price and market facts, latest...

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