Your Indoor Herb Garden
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-86571-933-0 (ISBN)
The complete how-to guide for growing herbs indoors for health, vitality, and culinary zest.
Learn how to grow herbs for health, for taste, and for life with Your Indoor Herb Garden, a comprehensive guide to growing herbs indoors. Featuring all the tips and guidance you’ll need to grow and harvest organic culinary and medicinal herbs right in your own home. Coverage includes:
Techniques for successfully growing herbs indoors
Equipment, soil types, and feeding
Why indoor herb gardens are an important part of life, from cooking to healing ·Herbal medicine
Herbal history and lore
An annotated glossary of herbs, including their common uses, growing requirements, cautions, and more.
Growing herbs indoors leads the list of the healthiest and most useful indoor activities we can do. Herbs can clean the air of toxins, provide oxygen and humidity, and help vanquish our psychoses. And they’re tasty!
This is the ideal practical guide for gardeners and cooks with an interest in healthy living and fresh flavors looking to create their own indoor herb garden anywhere.
Praise for Your Indoor Herb Garden
“As a behavioral science expert, I've spent 30 years advising and altering people's behavior. Helping big brands make their brands all that more appealing by tapping into the psychology of consumers. Your Indoor Herb Garden has given me a complete new set of tools with which to alter the moods of consumers, and myself. Anyone interested in human health and wellbeing should get hold of this book immediately. It's frankly brilliant. And there was me thinking herbs were just . . . herbs.” —Phillip Adcock commercial psychologist, author, Master Your Brain
“A fascinating, beautifully-illustrated guide to growing and using herbs to enhance your life, from ancient supernatural rituals to present-day cooking and medicinal purposes.” —Janet Kay author, The Sisters
“[A] beautiful and easy-to-understand book. From the history of herbs to their medicinal value and the “ins and outs” of using them. Great stuff. Dig in!” —Dr. Al Danenberg periodontist, certified functional medicine practitioner, certified primal health coach
D.J. Herda is a professional author, gourmet chef, and master indoor/outdoor gardener. He is a former Challenger Space Center project creator/coordinator, syndicated newspaper and magazine garden writer and columnist, and test grower for Jackson & Perkins and the Rodale Institute, along with other recognized innovators in gardening plants and practices. He has written and published more than 80 books and thousands of short pieces. As an avid chef, D.J. has been cooking with dried and fresh herbs for more than 50 years and has been growing herbs indoors in pots for nearly as long. He lives and works in the Rocky Mountains of the southwestern United States. www.djherda.org
1. Welcome to My World
An introduction explaining why herbs are an essential part of my life—and why they should be in yours, as well.
2 Herbal Life and Lore
From 5000 BC to the present— a fascinating historical look into the background of herbs.
3 From Magic to Medicine
Herbal medicine, how it began, and where it is in modern society.
4 Growing and Harvesting Herbs Indoors
A general introduction into how-to do it, equipment required, best soil types, feeding, etc.
5 Using Herbs at Home
Employing the use of herbs in cooking, bouquet garni, fines herbes, herb vinegar, drying, health foods, etc.
6 An Annotated Glossary of Herbs
Most important herbs, historical references, most common uses, growing tips, cautions, and other useful information.
Endnotes
About the Author
About the Publisher
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Homegrown City Life |
| Zusatzinfo | 60 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Gabriola Island |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 354 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-86571-933-0 / 0865719330 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-86571-933-0 / 9780865719330 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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