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Removing elderberries from the stem.

Medicinal Plants: Growing Healing Herbs for the Home Garden

…be gathered fresh from the garden. You can find the recipe in Dina’s exquisite book, Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook. – Dew-laden sparkling lemon balm (Melissa officinalis). How to Grow + Gather Lemon Balm Lemon balm has been cultivated in medicinal gardens for over 2,000 years. Native to the Mediterranean regions of south-central Europe and…

An aromatherapy book sits next to a jar of dried flowers.

Kathi Keville’s Favorite Herbal & Aromatherapy Books

…invaluable resources.   Herbal Medicine Books for Beginners –   The Wild Medicine Solution: Healing with Aromatic, Bitter, and Tonic Plants by Guido Masé This may sound like a foraging book, but it takes readers more into the lab than the wild. It brings together a worldwide selection of popular herbs to create teas, spirits, tinctures, and healing foods. Through…

Juliet Blankespoor's library is full of home herbal apothecary books.

The Best Herbal Medicine Books for Herbalists

…books on the brain, check out our articles on The Best Books on Foraging Wild Foods & Herbs and The Best Herb Gardening, Farming, & Permaculture Books for Herbalists. P.S. This list of The Best Herbal Medicine Books for Herbalists is an excerpt from our 1,000-hour Online Herbal Immersion—THE most comprehensive online program in sustainable, bioregional herbalism on the planet….

Juliet Blankespoor teaching medicinal herb gardening at her farm in NC. Photograph by Emily Nichols.

Becoming An Herbalist: Juliet Blankespoor’s Dance With The Plants

…and nurses who incorporate botanical medicine into their areas of expertise. One of the most common careers our students pursue involves making and selling herbal products in their bioregional apothecaries. If you’re interested in studying with me and an array of gifted instructors, we offer numerous exciting online opportunities to learn herbalism, including the Herbal Medicine Making Course, the Foraging

Little Sweet Betsy Toadshade 

Cultivating Woodland Herbs: Planning a Medicinal Forest Garden

…of herb gardening and seed starting resources on the blog. Come on over to browse, pick up our personal gardening tips, and learn about our can’t-live-without garden medicinals. Want to take a deeper dive into medicinal herb cultivation? Our 1,000-hour Online Herbal Immersion Program is THE most comprehensive handcrafted online herbal course available, covering botany, foraging, herb cultivation, medicine making,…

Fresh picked greens.

Cold Season Wild Greens and Pecan Feta Wild Greens Pesto

…sprayed recently, unbeknownst to you, and you could be picking seemingly healthy looking greens. Another common sense caveat: be absolutely positive of your plant identification and know what you are harvesting and eating! Happy Foraging! May all beings be fed!   Wild greens pesto Pecan Feta Wild Greens Pesto This pesto has a pungent flavor reminiscent of arugula or wild…

Close-up of a calendula flower.

How to Grow Calendula & Use Its Medicine

…given to Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and chestnutherbs.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Want to take a deeper dive into medicinal herb cultivation? Our 1,000-hour Herbal Immersion Program is the most comprehensive handcrafted online herbal course available, covering botany, foraging, herb cultivation, medicine making, and therapeutics. – Looking for more blog articles about calendula? We’ve…

Purple Johnny jump ups growing in a container.

Growing Medicinal Herbs in Containers

…used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and chestnutherbs.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Want to take a deeper dive into medicinal herb cultivation? Our 1,000-hour Herbal Immersion Program is the most comprehensive handcrafted online herbal course available, covering botany, foraging, herb cultivation, medicine making, and therapeutics. –…

Juliet Blankespoor in her garden.

9 Tips for Planning the Herb Garden of Your Dreams

…most extensive DIY online herbal course out there, which includes foraging, botany, cultivation, medicine making and therapeutics— our Online Herbal Immersion Program.   May your gardens flourish, and provide abundance, beauty and healing in your lives! ~ Juliet Blankespoor   Herbal Index (Includes common name, scientific name, and plant family) Alder, Alnus spp., Betulaceae Alfalfa, Medicago sativa, Fabaceae Angelica, Angelica…

Calendula harvest.

7 Medicinal Herbs for Urban Gardens

…used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and chestnutherbs.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Want to take a deeper dive into medicinal herb cultivation? Our 1,000-hour Herbal Immersion Program is the most comprehensive handcrafted online herbal course available, covering botany, foraging, herb cultivation, medicine making, and therapeutics. –…