Hedgerow Medicine: Harvest and Make your own Herbal Remedies

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Here are 90 exciting plant-based recipes featuring common weeds, showcasing why they are delicious, nutritious, healthful, too good to waste, and free!

My mother has always been fascinated with 'herbalism' and it kind of rubbed off on me after I watched James Wong's Grow Your Own Drugs a few years ago. From plants of the hedgerow, wayside, backyard and kitchen, our books and courses cover foraging for food and medicine, and this passion continues into Julie’s unique silver botanical jewellery.Julie and Matthew move indoors to describe the wealth of healing and emergency remedies that sit unused in our kitchens. I think it’s clear - now more than ever - that we must take personal responsibility for our health and equip ourselves with the knowledge we need to flourish in this world. It is a richly illustrated guide to the wonderful healing mysteries of the common plants we may overlook when admiring our carefully cultivated garden roses, lilac or rhododendron blooms … Having read this book I find I walk in the countryside with new eyes and a far keener sense of observation, nibbling leaves and gathering seeds as I go. Our world isn’t stable at present and we cannot always guarantee pharmaceutical medicine will be available at our fingertips 24/7. Hedgerow Medicine offers clear instruction on which plants to harvest, and when, and details over 120 recipes, showing how to make them into teas, vinegars, oils, creams, pillows, poultices or tinctures.

We like this as it reflects our earlier working title of ‘The Love Herbal’ – this is a book about aphrodisiacs with love at its heart. We all need the company of plants and wild places in our lives, whether this is in an old wood, a remote moor or seashore, or even in our own garden. Packed with practical information on the use of 50 native plants and gives a fascinating insight into the background of these traditional herbal remedies. She was given her first camera when she was four, and Des would drive right up to rhinos and elephants so that she could could get good photos with her wide angle lens.

Their well-produced range of rural, wildlife, fieldsports and fishing books never fail to inform and entertain.

There are some plants mentioned in this book that only grow in UK and Europe; this is a bit disappointing because I'm in Canada and those plants don't grow here. The nutrients in herbs and many hedgerow plants are readily available to the human digestive: we absorb up to 48% of the vitamins and minerals in herbs and common plants compared to only 18% of fruit and vegetables.STEP 2: The Course Manager will then contact you to discuss the issues you have raised and together you will see if you can find a good way forwards. All materials are included in the cost of the course, which will be taught outside as much as possible. As well as being packed with practical information on using 50 native plants, this tenth-anniversary edition of Hedgerow Medicine also gives a fascinating insight into the literary, historic and worldwide application of these herbal remedies. The maximum amount that can be refunded is 40% of the course fee excluding registration and any digital goods that have been used and the Course Manager will advise about this.