Farming Books

Also has a primer on herb crop contracts: what to watch for when entering into a contract to grow herbs for a buyer. Includes a photo gallery that shows every step of production from seedlings to harvesting and drying, including the equipment needed.

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

They cover everything from training to growing and harvesting herbs, making medicines, and selling them. 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.

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...

This book will soon become your easy-to-use "go-to" book for healing. The layout is deceptively simple: a page is devoted to each tea and its uses, formula and properties, yet every medicinal claim is backed up with footnotes to the medical and scientific...

Every herb mentioned is pictured in colour. Includes plant heights, flower colours and flowering times, hardiness zones, and landscape design tips. Includes a handy check list of plants organized by flowering time to help create a colourful display all...

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. Over 40 contributors cover the history, botany, lore, and science, as well cultivation and uses.

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...

Diabetics love it too because it has no impact on blood sugar. Stevia is a super-sweet powder or liquid extracted from the leaves of a Paraguayan plant known as . This book includes the plant's history, botany, pharmacology, usage and safety -- with over...

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...

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

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?

Stevia does not raise the blood sugar levels. We are excited to find a cookbook for stevia, the no-calorie sweeter-than-sugar plant from Paraguay. 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.

Increasingly consumers and professionals are demanding top quality and are going direct to growers who have established a reputation for quality. High quality organic herbs are very much in demand in a North American market that has become crowded with...

Interspersed throughout are recipes, crafts, songs, and stories in an alphabetical journey through 16 common medicinal and culinary herbs. Lesley Tierra brings herbs to life through history, uses, taxonomy, and folklore.

Ancient beers from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago were quite different from what we know as beer today. Thus this book runs contrary to popular beliefs about alcohol, plants, and the nature of material reality.

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? This and other questions are answered by researchers and doctors from .

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

If you want to develop a sound understanding of the principles and practice of modern herbalism this is an excellent guide. A definitive guide to the practice of herbal medicine that is aimed at students, professionals and home herb users.

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. Easy-to-use, healthful and delicious. Here is the scoop on methods and machines, what herbs, vegetables and fruits to use and their healing properties.

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. Richard Alan Miller, American's leading expert on herb farming, gives a clear and direct...

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