In The Healing Garden, Deb Soule, longtime herbalist and founder of Avena Botanicals, offers an inspiring guide to herb gardening and crafting herbal remedies that promote wellness of spirit and body. Deb 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; and 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.
Details: Paperback
Size: 7.5 X 9 IN
Pages: 244
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Date: 04/27/2021
Rights: World
ISBN: 9781616899264
The organic farming revolution that has swept the country over the past decades can trace much of its origins to the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, which is celebrating fifty years in 2021. Reviewing the journey in organic farming of the past half-century and looking forward to new challenges and opportunities, The Organic Farming Revolution presents a collection of essays by prominent individuals involved in MOFGA’s evolution as a leader in the organic movement as well as important voices in national discussions about sustainability, food resources, soil preservation, young farmers, and the intersection of organic farming and human health.
Featuring essays by: Sarah Alexander, Eli Berry, Wendell Berry, John Bunker, Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, Barry Dana, Niaz Dorry, Jean English, Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Jean-Martin Fortier, Rowen Gorman, Sam Hayward, Elizabeth Henderson, Amber Lambke, Muhidin Libah, Russell Libby, Karyn Lie-Nielsen, Kirsten Lie-Nielsen, Mort Mather, Daniel Mays, Kathleen Merrigan, Nicolette Hahn Niman, Leah Penniman, Chellie Pingree, John Piotti, Abby Rockefeller, Bonnie Rukin, Beth Schiller, Barton Seaver, Eric Sideman, Deb Soule, Rowen White and Ian Yaffe.
Featuring photography by: Molly Haley, Kelsey Kobik, and Greta Rybus.
Details: Paperback
Size: 7.5 X 9 IN
Pages: 272
Publisher: Down East Books
Publication Date: 11/01/2021
Rights: World
ISBN: 1684750148
What is it like to be a refugee? Thirty teenagers show you in a book of riveting poetry and prose, prefaced by poet Richard Blanco. These young immigrants to the United States have written beautiful and haunting stories that teach us what it is to belong and to lose, to experience danger and safety, to remember and forget, and to build home after home. A Season for Building Houses is adaptable for general readers or for teachers as a core or supplemental classroom text.
This book celebrates authors from The Telling Room’s Young Writers & Leaders program, which won the 2015 National Arts and Humanities Youth Programs Award, presented by First Lady Michelle Obama, the highest honor given to afterschool arts programs in the United States.
Details: Paperback
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN: 978-0-9966465-2-9