The Flower Colouring Book

Known as “the beer herb,” hops quenches thirst and encourages merriment, yet it calms and encourages sleep too. The craft beer craze is revitalizing hops as a viable farm crop, and Anheiser-Busch descendent Louis Busch Hager describes the resurgent...

The kitchen recipes and ideas for herbal crafts are alone worth the price of the book. Completing the circle is the section on using herbs from the garden. This book shows how to create these vibrant living gardens, from large outdoor designs to miniature...

The 21 easy recipes are worth the price of the book, such as Candied Mint Leaves, Lavender Whipped Cream, and Cilantro Dip. For each of these 10 herbs Long describes his favourites among the varieties that are available, such as Genovese basil, Spicy...

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

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...

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! 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...

Includes a handy check list of plants organized by flowering time to help create a colourful display all season long. 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. 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!

Coriander is the spicy seed used whole or ground for baking, pickling, sausages and in Indian curries. Like a two-for-one deal, you get two useful but very different herbs from a single plant, the plant known to botanists as .

Some 24 commercially important mushroom genera are covered in detail. 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...

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...

Carota seeds in bulk quantities. I require the mature, viable seed of Daucus Carota subspecies carota. I do not need domestic carrot seeds or any other vegetable or any other seeds so do not email me unless you can provide Daucus carota ssp.

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...

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

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.

From field preparation and seeding to weed control, harvesting and processing there is no other book as comprehensive as this. This book is the best guide we have seen on all aspects of growing and marketing quality herbs on a commercial scale.

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 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...

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,...

Has a nice section on the ailments that can be treated with herbs, organized by the major systems of the body. Written by a practising herbalist with over 25 years of experience, the book features a reliable materia medica on 150 herbs commonly used in...