By (author) Fiona Taylor
An accessible guide to a healthy life, with an emphasis on homegrown and foraged food and centuries-old homemade herbal remedies
From the pen of a fourth-generation plant woman and herbalist, this book is an easy-to-follow guide to achieving good health from simple, readily available sources. Within these pages, readers will find tips on growing, harvesting, and preserving both garden vegetables and wild plants for food and medicine. From knowing the right time to sow, to advice on soil and seeds, The Farmhouse Herbalist is a carefully curated guide to the land and to our bodies, written by an author who has dedicated her life to working with plants and helping others.
Structured for ease of reference, the book is categorized into distinct parts. The first explores the foundations of health, outlining the essentials upon which good health is built: nutrition, movement, and sleep. The second section looks at the importance of food as medicine, while the third explores the art and science of gardening. This part includes a handy A–Z of vegetables that anyone can grow, with each entry providing basic botany, growing advice, nutritional value, and medicinal uses. There is also vital information on how to start a 'kitchen pharmacy', with recipes for butters, pestos, cordials, and more to support your health. Also included is information on preserving the harvest, through techniques such as freezing, bottling, femernation, and making jams.
The book then explores an A-Z medicinal herbs in both the garden and countryside, offering monographs on their use and preparation. Later sections look at herbal remedies for specific bodily needs and the preparation and preservation of different herbs, from drying to making oxymels, infused wines, and more.
The Farmhouse Herbalist brings ancestral knowledge back to the forefront of healthy living. It will appeal to holistic practitioners, gardeners, and laypeople alike — to anyone looking to reconnect with the land or to help themselves and their families with naturally grown food and remedies.
By (author) Fiona Taylor
Fiona Taylor is a plant woman, herbalist, gardener, and forager with a lifetime of experience supporting people's health. She began training as a medical herbalist in 1995 after marrying and raising a family in her early twenties. Upon qualifying, she became a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and established her practice within a multidisciplinary GP setting. She went on to complete an MSc in 2006. Now retired from clinical practice, Fiona is dedicated to passing on her knowledge of the healing power of plants to future generations. Her expertise has been shaped by more than half a century of gardening, foraging, herbal medicine making, and working with plants to support health and wellbeing.
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