The Healing Garden: Herbal Plants for Health and Wellness

by Deb Soule, Molly Haley (Photographer)

Overview

An informative and instructional illustrated guide to herb gardening and crafting herbal remedies that promote wellness of spirit and body, from Avena Botanicals founder Deb Soule.

In The Healing Garden, Avena Botanicals founder Deb Soul combines her passion for plants, gardens, and healing with her extensive experience working with medicinal herbs, flowers, roots, and berries for Avena Botanicals to offer practical and spirit-nourishing advice on:

• Growing a biodynamic garden filled with beneficial plans and herbs
• Gathering herbs
• Setting up a drying room
• Creating healing herbal teas, decoctions, tinctures, syrups, vinegars, salves, flower essences, and more
• Detailed descriptions of eighteen healing herbs, including their cultivation and healing properties

 

Photographer Molly Haley’s color photographs throughout showcase Avena Botanicals’ lush herb gardens in every season. The Healing Garden is grounded in respect for the interconnectedness of all living beings, is an eloquent plea for spiritual awareness and the wholeness of individuals, communities, and our planet, and will appeal to anyone interested in holistic wellness, herbal healing, and naturopathic remedies and alternative medicines for common ailments, aches, and pains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616899264
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	04/27/2021
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Deb Soule is an herbalist, biodynamic gardener, teacher, and writer living in rural Maine. She founded Avena Botanicals Herbal Apothecary in 1985.

Molly Haley is a Maine-based freelance photographer, specializing in portraiture and documentary photography.

Editorial Reviews

"Every summer you hang stalks of lavender you've harvested and snip calendula and echinacea blooms, some of which make it into a garnish for a post-gardening cocktail. But otherwise, you're really not sure what else to do with the herbs you've grown. Herbalist and Avena Botanicals founder Deb Soule has written a book just for you: The Healing Garden: Herbs for Health and Wellness."
– The Ellsworth (Maine) American

"A fascinating instructional guide to understanding herbal medicines, gardening, harvesting, drying, preserving and preparing a wide variety of herbal teas, tinctures, tonics and infusions."
– Kennebec Journal Morning Sentinel

"More than just a practical guide, the book is a plethora of information to promote wellness and connection of mind, body and spirit. ...This will be a great resource for those looking to gain more knowledge about how nature can heal."
– Cincinnati Enquirer

From the Publisher

02/05/2021

Soule's (How To Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines) guide to herb gardening and herbal remedies is presented in a personal context. Colorful photos reveal the beauty of the plants and gardens throughout the seasons and how they are nurtured and maintained. Section one covers establishing and maintaining medicinal herbs, flowers, roots, and berries all within the context of biodynamic gardening. These practices respect the environment, tap into planetary energy, and integrate both grower and garden with all life forms to create balance and well-being. Part two demonstrates clearly how to dry and store the gathered plant materials. Preparation of herbal remedies follow, outlining techniques to make an array of teas, tinctures, balms, tonics, and more. The last section describes 18 medicinal herbs as well as their cultivation and beneficial properties. VERDICT Soule's enjoyable and reflective book will appeal to gardeners and botanists of all varieties. This is a good resource for those who wish to explore the realm of healing herbs and all the growing, gathering, storing, and making formulations that that entails.—Deborah A. Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Dunwoody

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