Backyard Pharmacy: Plants as Medicine - Plant, Grow, Harvest, and Heal

Backyard Pharmacy: Plants as Medicine - Plant, Grow, Harvest, and Heal

by Elizabeth Millard
Backyard Pharmacy: Plants as Medicine - Plant, Grow, Harvest, and Heal

Backyard Pharmacy: Plants as Medicine - Plant, Grow, Harvest, and Heal

by Elizabeth Millard

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Overview

This handy edition of Backyard Pharmacy helps you choose and cultivate the most useful and common medicinal plants that you can grow yourself either indoors or outside. Author Elizabeth Millard shares her deep knowledge of what to add to your garden to grow your own medicine cabinet and enhance your health.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780760369012
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Publication date: 09/08/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 27 MB
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About the Author

Elizabeth Millard is the author of Indoor Kitchen Gardening and Backyard Pharmacy. She and her partner, Karla Pankow, also own Bossy Acres, a 100-member community-supported agriculture farm in Minnesota that provides seasonal produce to members and area restaurants in an effort to build a strong and sustainable local food system. Millard often leads workshops on vegetable and herb gardening as well as herb preparation, fermentation, and cooking with seasonal ingredients. As editor of local sustainable food site Simple Good and Tasty, she encourages readers to connect with the state’s abundance of organic growers, ranchers, food artisans, nonprofit agencies, and each other, forging a stronger food landscape. In addition to farming, teaching, and editing, she has contributed articles to Hobby Farm Home, Experience Life, and Urban Farm magazines, along with many other publications. She and Karla live in south Minneapolis.


Elizabeth Millard is the author of Indoor Kitchen Gardening and Backyard Pharmacy. She and her partner, Karla Pankow, also own Bossy Acres, a 100-member community-supported agriculture farm in Minnesota that provides seasonal produce to members and area restaurants in an effort to build a strong and sustainable local food system. Millard often leads workshops on vegetable and herb gardening as well as herb preparation, fermentation, and cooking with seasonal ingredients. As editor of local sustainable food site Simple Good and Tasty, she encourages readers to connect with the state's abundance of organic growers, ranchers, food artisans, nonprofit agencies, and each other, forging a stronger food landscape. In addition to farming, teaching, and editing, she has contributed articles to Hobby Farm Home, Experience Life, and Urban Farm magazines, along with many other publications. She and Karla live in south Minneapolis.

Table of Contents

Introduction
 
1 | THE BASICS OF GARDENING
Perennial vs. Annual
Planning
Growing Conditions
Seed Sourcing
Transplants
Maintaining Growth
 
2 | USING YOUR HARVEST
Harvesting Basics
Preparing Remedies
Culinary and Internal Uses
Topical Preparations
Research, Research, Research
Enjoy the Adventure
 
3 | KITCHEN GARDEN HERBS
Basil
Bay leaf/Bay laurel
Cayenne
Cilantro/Coriander
Fennel
Mints
Oregano
Rosemary
Sage
Thyme
 
4 | HERBAL GARDEN REMEDIES
Arnica
Calendula
Catnip
Chamomile
Comfrey
Echinacea
Garlic
Lemon balm
Mullein
Valerian
Yarrow
 
5 | FRUITS AND SHRUBS
Blueberry
Blackberry
Elderberry
Evening Primrose
Raspberry

6 | WILD FRIENDS
Burdock
Chickweed
Dandelion
Lambs quarters
Nettles
Plantain
Red clover
Yellow dock
 
Index
Meet Elizabeth Millard
 
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