Llewellyn's 2012 Herbal Almanac
Llewellyn's 2012 Herbal Almanac

Author: JD Hortwort

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2011-09-08

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0738732095

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Inside Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac, you'll find a colorful array of practical ideas on how to benefit from nature's most versatile plants. Spice up your favorite pasta dish with Presto Pesto. Restore health with an aromatic herbal soup. Even learn how to keep bees and make herbal honey. This friendly herbal guide features hands-on projects, fresh ideas, and advice for herb enthusiasts of all skill levels. You'll be inspired by thirty creative articles on herb use in five unique categories-gardening, cooking, crafts, health/beauty, and myth/lore-on everything from quick meals to urban gardening to making herbal crafts. —Discover the culinary and medicinal uses of the carnivorous bog violet —Beautify your home with cheery sunflower crafts —Enhance your good fortune with an autumn luck bag —Make and use herb-based organic fertilizer —Explore the nasturtium's role in myth and literature, then create a hobbit garden Published annually since 2000

Llewellyn's 2018 Herbal Almanac
Llewellyn's 2018 Herbal Almanac

Author: Llewellyn

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2017-07-08

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0738753157

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With recipes, crafts, gardening tips, and herbal lore, Llewellyn’s Herbal Almanac has provided new ideas and perspectives for gardeners and herb lovers for almost twenty years. Enjoy many fun and easy ways to enrich your cooking and crafting, from recipes for bread, jam, and candies to how-to guides on landscaping, creating decorations and holiday ornaments, and much more. This year’s almanac provides dozens of captivating articles, featuring health and beauty methods, the history and modern uses of various herbs, and special tips, facts, and recommended resources. Use hands-on projects and ingredients you can grow yourself to fill your year with herbal delight. Explore xeriscaping and growing succulents Create home decor with things found in nature Discover herb profiles on rosemary, dandelions, and yarrow Cook with plant-based proteins, edible flowers, and early spring greens Build a miniature greenhouse and butterfly boxes Use weeds for first aid Optimize your planting schedule

Llewellyn's 2017 Herbal Almanac
Llewellyn's 2017 Herbal Almanac

Author: Natalie Zaman

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0738751243

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An Herbal Infusion of Inspiration and All-Natural Wellness With recipes, crafts, gardening tips, and herbal lore, Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac is now in its 17th year of providing new ideas and perspectives for gardeners and herb lovers. Including recipes for cordials and infusions, cranberry ketchup, natural dyes, marzipan, salads, and more, this year's almanac will enrich your cooking and crafting with ingredients you've grown yourself. Dozens of articles also include health and beauty tips, natural pest control, and the ancient history of herbs. With hands-on projects and advice, this year's edition features articles on sage, poppies, nightshades, almonds, turmeric and saffron, useful weeds, raffia, and much more. Square-foot gardening for vegetables, herbs, and fruits in a small, low-cost, low-care garden Herb and spice substitutes—easy alternatives to more expensive sources Creating an herbal insectary and working with beneficial insects that act as natural pesticides Plant therapy—low-stress techniques to improve your mental state The history and lore of herb names Herbs for teens to transition smoothly into adulthood Simple recipes for bath and body products

The Old Magic of Christmas
The Old Magic of Christmas

Author: Linda Raedisch

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0738733342

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'Tis the Season for Witches, Elves, and a Legion of Ghosts Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas, you'll rub elbows with veiled spirits, learn the true perils of elves, and discover a bestiary of enchanted creatures. Rife with the more frightful characters from folklore and the season's most petulant ghosts, this book takes you on a spooky sleigh ride from the silvered firs of a winter forest to the mirrored halls of the Snow Queen. Along the way, you'll discover how to bring the festivities into your home with cookie recipes and craft instructions, as well as tips for delving more deeply into your relationship with the unseen. Praise: "Steeped in history and adorned with a bit of enchantment, The Old Magic of Christmas is the perfect book to read by a winter's fire with a mug of mulled cider in hand."--Deborah Blake, author of The Witch's Broom "...[A] fascinating journey into the stories behind the tinsel and bows."--Doreen Shababy, author of The Wild & Weedy Apothecary "...[A]n intriguing little tome that explores the darker side of the Yuletide holiday."--Ellen Dugan, author of The Enchanted Cat

A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year
A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year

Author: Ellen Evert Hopman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1994-11-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1620554380

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For the ancient Druids, the healing and magical properties of herbs were inseparable from the larger cycles of the seasons, the movements of the planets, and the progression of a human life. A Druid’s Herbal shows the reader how to use herbs when creating rituals to celebrate festivals and significant life passages such as births, house blessings, weddings, funerals, and naming ceremonies. Drawing on extensive research and a deep personal experience with Pagan traditions, Ellen Evert Hopman explores the history and folklore surrounding the eight major Celtic festivals: Samhain, Winter Solstice, Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltaine, Summer Solstice, Lugnasad, and Fall Equinox. Included in each discussion are complete instructions on the medicinal and magical uses of the herbs associated with each celebration. Using these Celtic traditions as examples, the author suggests ways to incorporate the symbolic and magical power of herbs into personal rituals that honor all phases of life from childbirth to last rites. Also included are chapters on how to prepare herbal tinctures, salves, and poultices; herbs used by the Druids; herbal alchemy and the planets; and the relationships between herbs and sacred places. Filled with practical information and imaginative suggestions for using herbs for healing, ceremony, and magic, this book is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to age-old herbal practices.

Night of the Witches
Night of the Witches

Author: Linda Raedisch

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2011-01-08

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 0738728160

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"Spring has come to the northern forest. The evening wind blows cold as the breath of the frost giants. Just overhead, there is a sound like the rushing of crows' wings. Can it be a coven of witches has flown over these woods? "On any other night, you would probably swear that there was no such thing as a witch—at least, not the kind that streaks through the sky on a broomstick with guttering taper and billowing cloak. But this is no ordinary night; it is the thirtieth of April, the eve of May. Tonight is Walpurgis Night." The roots of Walpurgis Night reach deep into the Pagan past, and modern Europeans celebrate it with as much abandon as their ancestors. Learn about the sacred rites of spring and the "lost" holiday has changed from a lusty fertility festival to a children's night of fun and treats. Learn about brooms and how to make one, and meet a collection of old-time witches, from Ash Wives to Wolf Crones. This charming, impeccably researched book features a wealth of folklore and herb lore, plus original and traditional recipes, crafts, and activities.

Llewellyn's 2020 Herbal Almanac
Llewellyn's 2020 Herbal Almanac

Author: Llewellyn

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0738761559

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Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac offers a wide variety of practical ideas on how to benefit from nature's most versatile plants. With hands-on projects, fresh ideas, and tips and techniques, this guide is designed for herb enthusiasts of all skill levels. It also features innovative herbal ideas that span gardening, cooking, crafts, health, beauty, history, and lore.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Seed Saving And Starting
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Seed Saving And Starting

Author: Sheri Richerson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1101577169

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Mouthwatering heirlooms, exciting hybrids, sensational herbs, colorful flowers - you dream of a garden overflowing with vibrant, healthy plants. Turn your dream garden into reality with seeds you save and start yourself! With easy ideas on harvesting, storing, sowing and nurturing your seeds into flourishing plants, this helpful guide gives you a sure path from start to success. In it, you get: A look at seed and plant anatomy and how pollination works. Simple suggestions for identifying seeds to save, and for gathering and prepping seeds for next year's garden. Guidance on germinating seeds, indoors or out, using scarification or stratification. Tips for transplanting, thinning, hardening off, and protecting seedlings from weather, pests and disease. Easy ideas for cross-breeding plants and creating hybrids suited to your garden and climate. A comprehensive directory of botanical names and harvesting, germination, and sowing data for hundreds of plants. The Complete Idiot's Guide To Seed Saving And Starting is an essential resource to reap richer results with plants grown from your own seeds!

Llewellyn's 2015 Herbal Almanac
Llewellyn's 2015 Herbal Almanac

Author: Llewellyn

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0738744840

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Discover the Power of Herbs As nature's most versatile and potent plants, herbs can be used in hundreds of ways to add zest and vitality to your life. Inspiring you with a bounty of innovative ideas and recipes, Llewellyn's 2015 Herbal Almanac offers dozens of articles that explore many ways of using herbs, from gardening and cooking, to health and beauty, to herb craft and lore. Cultivate a radiant spirit and a healthy life. Try delicious new recipes. Create healing salves and lotions. This friendly guide features hands-on projects, fresh ideas, and advice for herb enthusiasts of all skill levels. Recipes to heal common ailments Create your own terrariums Tap into the vibrational healing power of herbs Save your seeds and host a plant-share party Make your yard a bee sanctuary Permaculture for herbalists Enhance your culinary creations Published annually since 2000

Llewellyn's 2021 Herbal Almanac
Llewellyn's 2021 Herbal Almanac

Author: Llewellyn

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2020-07-08

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0738763667

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Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac offers a wide variety of practical ideas on how to benefit from nature's most versatile plants. With hands-on projects, fresh ideas, and tips and techniques, this guide is designed for herb enthusiasts of all skill levels. It also features innovative herbal ideas that span gardening, cooking, crafts, health, beauty, history, and lore. This year's edition also includes profiles for ginger, rhubarb, chamomile, sunflower, and comfrey and articles on: Aromatics for Nervous, Respiratory, and Digestive Systems • Edible Wild Herbs and Grasses • Swedish Princess Cake with Matcha • Chewable Herbal Pills • Late-Season Herb Gardening • Italian Citrus Fruits • Soup Garden • Tinctures • Crafting with Recycled Materials • Herbal Bath Recipes • The Gardens of Pompeii • Gourmet Herbal Sandwiches • Conservation Plants • Homemade Herbal Scrubs • And Much More