Herbal Adventures: Backyard Excursions and Kitchen Creations for Kids and Their Families

by Rachel Jepson Wolf, Amanda Blake Soule (Foreword by)

Overview

Discover the flavors and uses of common wild plants with this herbalist guide featuring recipes and tips on foraging right outside your door.

When we think of wild plants with medicinal or culinary benefits, we typically think of something exotic and obscure. But many of the plants growing in our own neighborhoods can be just as useful and tasty as anything sold in a health food store. In Herbal Adventures, herbalist Rachel Wolf reveals the properties and uses of ten common plants—including chickweeds, dandelions, catnip and others.

With the tips and recipes in this book, you can enjoy delicious homemade soda, flower petal pancakes, chickweed pesto, or your own herbal tea. Plus you'll be able to make a soothing balm for cuts and scrapes, syrup to quiet your cough, a rejuvenating herbal hair rinse, and much more!

"A real gem . . . a perfect beginners' book no matter your age." —Rosemary Gladstar

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760360521
Publisher:	Quarto Publishing Group USA
Publication date:	06/03/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	604,814
File size:	14 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Rachel Jepson Wolf loves nothing more than bringing people and plants together. With a degree in environmental education and biology, Rachel spent years helping kids and adults fall in love with the natural world. In 2002 she founded LüSa Organics, a botanical body care company, and more recently began leading in-person herbal retreats for adults and children. She is also the author of Herbal Adventures, a family-friendly exploration of herbs and the wonderful things you can make with them. Today Rachel lives with her husband, Pete, and their two children, Lupine and Sage, on a wonderfully weedy homestead in rural Wisconsin. Her days are spent writing, foraging, playing with plants, and homeschooling her kids. Find Rachel online at rachelwolfclean.com, where she blogs about herbs, farm, and family; or explore her herbal body care line at lusaorganics.com.

Editorial Reviews

10/29/2018
Wolf, founder of botanical skin care company LüSa Organics, offers an enriching collection of plant-based recipes, skin treatments, and craft projects. The featured plants and herbs are chickweed, nettle, elderberry, dandelion, catnip, yarrow, bee balm, plantain, mullein, and white pine. The subjects welcome readers: “Hello! I’m delighted to meet you, new friend. My name is Monarda—or wild bee balm.” Among the food recipes are dandelion fritters and chickweed pesto; treatments include yarrow leaf oil for skin abrasions and a “woodland Soak and Steam” for decongestion; project ideas range from apothecary jars to a wood plant press. Wolf advocates for personal reflection and healthy living. Ages 8–12. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

The beauty on each page of Herbal Adventures makes me desperate to create! Rachel keeps the projects accessible and the photographs are stunning. This book is sure to be well-used and well-loved.—Jamie C. Martin, editor of SimpleHomeschool.net and author of Give Your Child the World

Herbal Adventures is the perfect guidebook to plant-based fun for families with children.—Samuel Thayer, author of The Forager's Harvest, Nature's Garden, and Incredible Wild Edibles

If you’ve ever wanted a friendly guide to connecting your family to the plants that sustain and heal us, look no further.—Ben Hewitt, author of Home Grown and The Nourishing Homestead

Like stumbling upon a hidden brook on a bright summer’s day, this book is a refreshing treasure for the earth-curious child and the young-at-heart of every age. Rachel shows us how the natural world is the real fairy tale, and how much closer we are to that magic than we think.—Asia Suler, Creator and Concoctress of One Willow Apothecaries

Herbal Adventures has everything I appreciate in a good herb book: sound practical information and great remedies and recipes, all enhanced by personal stories and insights. This may be my new favorite!—Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author

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