Heavy Equipment Books

Also has a primer on herb crop contracts: what to watch for when entering into a contract to grow herbs for a buyer. This report is a must for the beginning herb farmer. Includes sections on farm farms, crop selection, crop yields, and a sample seven...

This is a hands-on guide to growing hops by two experienced growers. 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 are thinking of starting your own business growing and making herbal medicines, and using them to heal people, this book is for you. The authors, owners of a successful American herb farm, show the way toward becoming a healer and a medicine maker...

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.

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 - it was another fruit,...

If you yearn for a book with simple, easy-to-make medicinal teas that you and your family can take for common ailments, this is your book. This book will soon become your easy-to-use "go-to" book for healing.

Beauty and function -- strange bedfellows oftentimes, but in the flowering herb garden they are natural companions. Every herb mentioned is pictured in colour. Includes plant heights, flower colours and flowering times, hardiness zones, and landscape...

The rose is the most recognized flower in the world. But it is more than just something to stick in a vase; the scented flowers can be used in jams, jellies, wine, ice cream, salad dressings, lotion, rinses and body products.

A great guide that helps the herbal novice understand and use 56 important medicinal herbs. The colour coded sections help you easily navigate through the world of herbs and treat more than 125 conditions from pulled muscles and bruises to hangovers and...

Softcover 286 pp. Ever wonder why some people just can not stand cilantro while others die for it? 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 Indian curries.

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...

Stevia is a super-sweet powder or liquid extracted from the leaves of a Paraguayan plant known as . It is a sugar substitute that dieters love because it is natural and has no calories.

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...

Container-grown tomatoes or lettuces? Step-by-step instructions are illustrated with photographs to make each project simple and fun. Beginning with herbs like basil and chervil, Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell takes the reader beyond traditional idea of container...

Need a new dip for your next party? Try one of Jim Long's 112 party dip recipes featuring fresh or dried herbs and spices, or one of 43 ethnic recipes from around the world. Try Butter Bean Dip (England), Manga Peanut Dip (India), Persian Cucumber Dip...

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 children.

For doctors, the gold standard of proof is a well designed clinical trial. Includes history, regulation, standardization, efficiency, and product safety. Intended for health practitioners but manufacturers of herbal products, commercial herb growers,...

Increasingly consumers and professionals are demanding top quality and are going direct to growers who have established a reputation for quality. This book is the best guide we have seen on all aspects of growing and marketing quality herbs on a commercial...

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.

This is a beautiful and provocative exploration of the sacredness and folklore of ancient fermentation is revealed through 200 plants and hive products. Ancient beers from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago were quite different from what we know as beer today.

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 . Very easy-to-use reference organized by drug, combinations, and herbs, with details on adverse...

In dollar value, ginseng is still North America's biggest medicinal herb crop -- worth over $100 million dollars annually. Other woodland herb crops such as goldenseal, bloodroot, and black cohosh are in the millions too.

If you want to develop a sound understanding of the principles and practice of modern herbalism this is an excellent guide. Written by a practising herbalist with over 25 years of experience, the book features a reliable materia medica on 150 herbs commonly...

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. Being that the garden is meant to be lived in, she is a strong believer in gardening safely without...

Juicing vegetables, fruits and herbs is one of the best ways of fighting cancer and other degenerative diseases. Winner of the 2000 International Cookbook Award. Easy-to-use, healthful and delicious.

Echinacea is a major medicinal herb crop. 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.

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