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The healing garden : cultivating & handcrafting herbal remedies / Juliet Blankespoor, founder of the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-425) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	part 1. Cultivating medicine: Planning your dream herbal landscape ; The nitty-gritty on soil ; Holistic solutions for plant diseases & problematic insects ; Growing medicinal herbs in containers ; Plant propagation -- part 2. Making medicine: Harvesting and drying herbs ; Preparing botanical medicine & healing food -- part 3. Botanical medicine: Foundations in herbalism : herbal action teams, energetics & safety ; Herbal profiles & recipes.
Summary, etc.:	A comprehensive and photographed guide to growing and using healing plants, including recipes. Herb gardens bring us deep into the heart of our medicine: when we step inside, their beauty and healing literally surround us. Blankespoor shows how to design a herb garden, and organically grow some of the most healing plants on the planet. Detailed herbal profiles, and clear instructions on transforming your garden harvests into botanical medicine and health-giving foods are also covered. -- adapted from back cover