Florabunda Book

This report is a must for the beginning herb farmer. Includes sections on farm farms, crop selection, crop yields, and a sample seven year plan that projects production, revenue and profits.

It covers the equipment and techniques needed, the diseases, pests and weeds you may encounter and how to control them, and the many options for using and marketing your crop. This is a hands-on guide to growing hops by two experienced growers.

Throughout are inspiring profiles of many of America´s best known herbalists including Michael Tierra, Michael Moore, Matthew Wood, David Winston and Aviva Romm. If you are thinking of starting your own business growing and making herbal medicines, and...

Individual herbs covered: stevia, caraway, evening primrose, gotu kola, echinacea, St. Johnswort, goldenseal. Topics include medicinal herb product development, value-added food & bodycare products, shiitake and medicinal mushrooms, Chinese medicinal...

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

A family herbal for the modern family! 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.

Includes a handy check list of plants organized by flowering time to help create a colourful display all season long. Here are 80 herbs that add aesthetic interest to the garden. Beauty and function -- strange bedfellows oftentimes, but in the flowering...

The rose is the most recognized flower in the world. 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.

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

Softcover 286 pp. Over 40 contributors cover the history, botany, lore, and science, as well cultivation and uses. Well this book has the answer, and so much more. Coriander is the spicy seed used whole or ground for baking, pickling, sausages and in...

There is also a chapter on how to make unique products such as mushroom-infused beer, wine and spirits. There are chapters on marketing mushrooms, on setting up a laboratory to start cultures and producing spawn, and on the exciting new emerging business...

Stevia's importance in a world of growing problems of too much sugar in our diets is underscored by the fact that stevia is fast becoming one of the world's hottest commercial herb crops.

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...

Beginning with herbs like basil and chervil, Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell takes the reader beyond traditional idea of container gardening in 30 projects that include advice on plant selection, fertilizer, watering and pest control, all with a focus on organics.

Need a new dip for your next party? 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

Easy-to-use recipes for baking, main dishes, drinks, and super background facts. We are excited to find a cookbook for stevia, the no-calorie sweeter-than-sugar plant from Paraguay.

How do we know which herbs work and which ones don't? 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. Increasingly consumers and professionals are demanding top quality and are going direct to growers who have established a reputation...

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

Many were sacred beers, and hundreds contained medicinal her 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.

Very easy-to-use reference organized by drug, combinations, and herbs, with details on adverse interactions, side effects, supportive interactions, and reduced drug absorption. Is it safe to take American ginseng and ginkgo with the blood-thinning drug...

It covers everything from propagation, growing under artificial shade, woods-simulated cultivation, disease control, harvesting, marketing, profitability and future crop outlook. In dollar value, ginseng is still North America's biggest medicinal herb...

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. If you want to develop a sound understanding of the principles and practice of modern...

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 a work of living art. She describes the organic fertilizers, mulches, natural pest controls, and age-old gardening strategies...

Has juicing recipes for herpes simplex, heartburn, gout, varicose veins, and much more. Juicing vegetables, fruits and herbs is one of the best ways of fighting cancer and other degenerative diseases.

As the world's population increases and ages, the prospects for this crop will remain steady for many years to come. Echinacea is a major medicinal herb crop. It is one of the top ten selling medicinal herbs today for use as an immune-system stimulant...

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