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Includes sections on farm farms, crop selection, crop yields, and a sample seven year plan that projects production, revenue and profits. America's leading expert on herb farming gives clear guidelines on what to think about before beginning a starting...

This is a hands-on guide to growing hops by two experienced growers. 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.

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. Throughout are inspiring profiles of many of America´s best known herbalists including Michael Tierra, Michael...

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...

Colour photos throughout. 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...

This book will soon become your easy-to-use "go-to" book for healing. 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,...

Every herb mentioned is pictured in colour. Here are 80 herbs that add aesthetic interest to the garden. Beauty and function -- strange bedfellows oftentimes, but in the flowering herb garden they are natural companions.

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. But it is more than just something to stick in a vase; the scented flowers can be used in jams,...

There are many fun, fast and low cost recipes from a stress releasing holy basil tea to an aromatic men's love liqueur! The colour coded sections help you easily navigate through the world of herbs and treat more than 125 conditions from pulled muscles...

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 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 is a super-sweet powder or liquid extracted from the leaves of a Paraguayan plant known as . 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...

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? 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...

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 Try one of Jim Long's 112 party dip recipes featuring fresh or dried herbs...

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

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.

Ancient beers from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago were quite different from what we know as beer today. 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.

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

In dollar value, ginseng is still North America's biggest medicinal herb crop -- worth over $100 million dollars annually. It covers everything from propagation, growing under artificial shade, woods-simulated cultivation, disease control, harvesting,...

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...

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.

Winner of the 2000 International Cookbook Award. 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.

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

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