The Homesteader's Herbal Companion
The Ultimate Guide to Growing, Preserving, and Using Herbs
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Publisher Description
The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion is a beautiful guide for the modern day homesteader. From learning how to incorporate herbs and essential oils around your home, to learning how to enhance your family’s health and well-being, this book is the go-to guide for those wishing to live a more natural homesteading lifestyle. This book takes readers through the basics of herbalism, including the different types of herbs and the uses for them around the homestead. It also breaks down how herbs are used in tinctures, salves, essential oils, and infused oils. With an array of beautiful photos and easy to read terminology, just about any homesteader, new or seasoned, can learn from The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion, and finally feel comfortable incorporating the many wonderful qualities of herbs around their homes.
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In her useful debut guide, herbalist and homesteader Fewell resoundingly affirms that herbs are the unsung heroes of gardens and of life. For too long, she asserts, these horticultural workhorses have been consigned disparagingly to the realm of an unproven "alternative" to pharmaceutical medicine, and her thorough guide to growing and using herbs is a helpful remedy to that misconception. Lending standard horticultural guidance in the form of an herb list and how to grow them she further distinguishes which herbs are best for culinary or medicinal use, aromatic mixes, and essential oils. With each category, she includes specific steps for how to best harvest, preserve, and transform each herb according to its specific use. For example, the standard dandelion is used for teas, tinctures, and in salads to cleanse the lymphatic system, regulate intestinal flora, and support liver function. Basil, in addition to topping off a cheese pizza, can be used in tinctures for digestive trouble, aching joints, headaches, and even depression. This thorough and accessible book offers great guidance for incorporating herbs into culinary treats, soaps, salves, oils, and tinctures.
