The Medicinal Garden: Treat, Feed and Soothe Straight From Your Garden

Medicinal herbs aren’t just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Medicinal Garden is the perfect guide to revitalising your health with ingredients you can grow and forage yourself.  From edible treats to therapeutic remedies, unearth the healing potential of plants both wild and cultivated. This stylishly illustrated book features forty herb profiles and seven medicinal weeds ideal for foraging, plus instructions on how to set up and maintain a planted or container garden.

You’ll learn to discover the healing power of your very own medicinal garden with edible recipes for cakes, biscuits, salads, soups, teas and many more. The practical guide also features easy, natural remedies for your skin, gut, muscles, heart and mind with recipes for oils, tinctures, compresses, steams and washes for health and healing.

About the Author: Caroline Parker (BHSc Western Herbal Medicine) is an herbalist, farmer, forager, and facilitator. She grows herbs and flowers for her business, the Cottage Herbalist, where she sells her award- winning, certified organic and wildcrafted tea blends. When she isn’t in her studio hand- blending and packing orders, she is sowing seeds, picking flowers, prepping garden beds, shoveling compost, and tearing around on the ride-on mower.