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Synopsis
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The Healing Garden, Deb Soule, founder of Avena Botanicals, offers an inspiring guide to herb gardening and crafting herbal remedies that promote wellness of spirit and body. Soule combines her passion for plants, gardens, and healing with her extensive experience working with medicinal herbs, flowers, roots, and berries.
Her practical advice addresses each aspect of fostering a garden filled with helpful, healing plants: biodynamic gardening practices; gathering plants and setting up a drying room; creating herbal teas, decoctions, tinctures, syrups, tonics, vinegars, essences, and more. A chapter outlining eighteen medicinal herbs provides detailed information on their cultivation and healing properties. Molly Haley's colorful photography showcases Avena Botanicals' lush herb gardens in all seasons.
The Healing Garden is grounded in respect for the interconnectedness of all living beings and is an eloquent plea for spiritual awareness and the wholeness of individuals, communities, and our planet.
Synopsis
An informative and instructional illustrated guide to herb gardening and crafting herbal remedies that promote wellness of spirit and body, from Avena Botanicals founder Deb Soule.
In The Healing Garden, Avena Botanicals founder Deb Soul combines her passion for plants, gardens, and healing with her extensive experience working with medicinal herbs, flowers, roots, and berries for Avena Botanicals to offer practical and spirit-nourishing advice on:
- Growing a biodynamic garden filled with beneficial plans and herbs
- Gathering herbs
- Setting up a drying room
- Creating healing herbal teas, decoctions, tinctures, syrups, vinegars, salves, flower essences, and more
- Detailed descriptions of eighteen healing herbs, including their cultivation and healing properties
Photographer Molly Haley's color photographs throughout showcase Avena Botanicals' lush herb gardens in every season. The Healing Garden is grounded in respect for the interconnectedness of all living beings, is an eloquent plea for spiritual awareness and the wholeness of individuals, communities, and our planet, and will appeal to anyone interested in holistic wellness, herbal healing, and naturopathic remedies and alternative medicines for common ailments, aches, and pains.