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Jacket Description/Back:
With its wealth of botanical diversity, the Midwest provides an abundance of healing herbs accessible to all. Whether you are just starting out or are looking to deepen your herbal knowledge, this book is your essential companion for finding, identifying, harvesting, and safely using the most important wild medicinal plants.
Review Quotes:
"This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies and seasonal foraging tips." --
Natural Awakenings Chicago
Brief Description:
Plants of the Midwest provide an wealth of botanical diversity. Whether you are already adept at finding, identifying, harvesting and safely using wild medicinal plants, or are just starting out, this guide will help you wildcraft your way to wellness.
Publisher Marketing:
With the expansive wisdom of this trusted guide, learn how to safely and ethically forage--and how to use wild Midwestern plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves.
"This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies and seasonal foraging tips." --Natural Awakenings Chicago
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Midwest Medicinal Plants, Lisa Rose is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using over one hundred of the region's most powerful wild plants. Plant profiles include:
- Clear, color photographs
- Identification tips
- Medicinal uses and herbal preparations
- Harvesting suggestions
- Lists of what to forage for each season, making the guide useful year-round!
Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Contributor Bio:Rose, Lisa M
Lisa M. Rose is an herbalist and forager with a background in anthropology and a professional focus on community health. Her interest in ethnobotany and herbal medicine has taken her to study plants, people, health, and their connection to place internationally. Rose leads foraging plant walks and teaches classes on edible and medicinal wild plants. She forages for her own family, herbal apothecary, and community herbalism practice.
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