Jepson Wolf, Rachel
Summary: "In Herbal Adventures, you'll pull on your boots and discover the magical plants that are growing just beyond your door. Explore nearby parks, fields, and forests, then make all sorts of tasty and useful things for your family and friends! Start with a delicious homemade soda, flower petal pancakes, or a soothing balm for cuts and scrapes. Sip herbal tea that's fit for the fairies, craft syrup...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Young Voyageur Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Neves, Liz
Summary: In Northeast Medicinal Plants, herbalist Liz Neves is the reader's trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 111 of the region’s most powerful wild plants. Readers will learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.634 NEVDairman, Tara
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAIFoster, Steven
Summary: A reference to the medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America includes specific remedies for asthma, headaches, colds, stomachaches, depression, and many other common ailments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.634 FOSGeniusz, Mary Siisip
Summary: This book is filled with stories, teachings, culinary and medicinal recipes from Anishinaabe traditions, handed down from past generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.6 GENRose, Lisa M.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press, Inc. 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRACohen, Deatra
Summary: "A rediscovery of the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement, from the Middle Ages through the modern era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.6 COHAlfs, Matthew
Summary: "Collected here are insightful tips and detailed descriptions relating to the edibility and healing potential of more than one hundred wild plants. Drawing on expansive personal experience as well as more than a thousand scientific and ethnobotanical studies, author Matthew Alfs offers tips on foraging for and identifying the plants growing in the fields, meadows, and woods of the Midwest. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.6 ALFAxe, Josh
Summary: In a world where medicine cabinets are packed full of prescription medications and synthetic drugs--with lists of dangerous side effects longer than benefits--it's time to discover a superior alternative with thousands of years of historical backing and current scientific review. It's time to be educated on what essentials oil are and why they are so powerful, to feel empowered to use essential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Axe Wellness. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 EssCech, Richo
Summary: Making Plant Medicine is about making herbal medicine. This is a modern medicine making book and formulary with its roots in original herbalism designed for every medicinal herb gardener to cultivate the full potential of the plant-human relationship. Richo Cech tells very good stories based on his experience as a global wanderer, gardener, herbalist and medicine maker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Herbal Reads 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 CecWong, James
Summary: With easy recipes using ingredients grown in your window box or the local market, ethnobotanist James Wong shows you how easy--and cheap--it is to make simple creams, salves, teas, lozenges, and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Dairman, Tara
Summary: Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End, until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DAISoule, Deb
Summary: "A guide to growing and harvesting healing plants, with advice on how to create herbal preparations and in-depth discussions of the properties and uses of various plants"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Yardley, Katolen
Summary: This back-to-nature reference guide details effective herbal medicines and natural remedies for digestive complaints, sore muscles, wound healing, teenage acne, allergic reactions, and much more. This book is packed with herbal wisdom, traditional use, and just the right amount of science. Gain confidence and understand how to use plant medicine in your home. Dive into the alchemy and art of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Provides information on scientific and common names, characteristics, active compounds, clinical effects, indications, usage, clinical research, precautions, interactions, and dosage for over seven hundred herbs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 615.321 PDRBlankespoor, Juliet
Summary: A comprehensive and photographed guide to growing and using healing plants, including recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 BLABittner, Stefani
Summary: A beautifully photographed, gift-worthy guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47 unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, bridal gifts, and more. Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce a bountiful harvest! This practical, inspirational, and seasonal guide will help make any garden more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.65 BITCulpeper, Nicholas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 CULQuave, Cassandra Leah
Summary: "A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array of lifesaving and health-improving medicines we all now take for granted. Ever taken an aspirin? Thank a willow tree for that. What about life-saving medicines for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Use this directory of 100 key medicinal herbs to discover what each herb can treat, how to harvest and grow it, how to use it to make a remedy, and how to apply it-- with detailed dosage advice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Hutchens, Alma R.
Summary: An illustrated encyclopedic guide to more than 200 medicinal plants found in North America, with descriptions of each plant's appearance and uses, and directions for methods of use and dosage. Native American traditions are compared with traditional uses of the same plants among other cultures where the science of herbs has flourished. It includes an annotated bibliography of pertinent books...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Adventure Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.63 NAECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 581.63 NAECastleman, Michael
Summary: Based on more than 3,000 research studies, The New Healing Herbs summarizes the folklore about America's most popular herbs and then presents authoritative scientific analyses of the latest research worldwide to show you how to get the most from nature's oldest remedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017