9781604696554

Identify, Harvest, and Use 109 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness

Contributors

By Lisa M. Rose

On Sale
Jun 28, 2017
Page Count
312 pages
Publisher
Timber Press
ISBN-13
9781604696554

“This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies and seasonal foraging tips.” —Natural Awakenings Chicago 

In 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. You’ll 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 uses and herbal preparations
*Harvesting suggestions

Lists of what to forage for each season makes 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.

  • “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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$27.99

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$35.99 CAD

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  1. Trade Paperback $27.99 $35.99 CAD
  2. ebook $13.99 $17.99 CAD

Lisa M. Rose

Lisa M. Rose

About the Author

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.

Miriam Doan is a visual storyteller and creative producer who hails from the Great Lakes region. Throughout her career as a photographer and producer, she has documented global healthcare initiatives to capture impact and inspire action. To begin work in her own community, she began an urban flower farm in Chicago, offering a one-mile bouquet to seasonal subscribers during the summer. Here, she discovered a love for capturing movement, connection, design, and color in the natural world. She continues her work in health care, while deepening her discovery of nature and our continual desire to rearrange it. Recent work featured in: The Guardian, Now This, National Geographic, BBC World News, ABC News, New City, Chicago Reader, Chicago Social, NPR, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Online Journal, Rotary.org, The Rotarian Magazine and Rotary International World Polio Day (2018 Shorty Award), Global One: Women on the Frontlines Photography Exhibit & Artist Panel, Asia House – London, Seattle K5, Atlanta Journal., CNET, ONE LAST PUSH campaign.

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