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Contributors include Mark Blumenthal, Richo Cech, Ryan Drum, Stephen Foster, Cascade Anderson Geller, James Green, Christopher Hobbs, David Hoffmann, Kathie Keville, Brigitte Mars, Susun Weed, David Winston, and many others.
Addressing one of the most urgent issues for environmentalists, America’s most respected and well-known herbalists share in-depth information on saving 30 popular at-risk herbs.
* Includes color photos of 30 medicinal plants and explains how to use and grow them.
* Provides mail order resources for hard-to-find seeds.
* Offers consumers suggestions for making eco-friendly purchases and using other herbs with similar actions as alternatives.
* Edited by Rosemary Gladstar, author of the bestselling Herbal Healing for Women
While the renaissance in the U.S. botanical market is positive in many respects, medicinal plant populations are suffering from loss of habitat and overharvesting, and many popular medicinal herbs are now at risk, including echinacea, American ginseng, goldenseal, Hawaiian wild kava, peyote, and wild yam. Planting the Future shows us how land stewardship, habitat protection, and sustainable cultivation are of critical importance to ensure an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for future generations. The authors share their extensive experience with using and growing these popular herbs and include suggestions for creating your own private herbal sanctuary, using herbal analogues–other medicinal herbs that provide the same benefits and exist in plentiful amounts–for at-risk plants, and making your herbal purchases a vote for sustainability.
All author royalties will be used for replanting native medicinal herbs on a 380-acre botanical sanctuary in Ohio.
Planting the Future: Saving Our Medicinal Herbs
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This is a MUST HAVE book not only for Herbalists but for all People of this Turtle Isand. As ypou read this book it will not oly scare you but it will also wake you up. It is not up to a few people to save the plants, IT IS UP TO ALL OF US!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fantastic book – such a treasured resource. It will be one of my planting bibles.
Rating: 5 / 5
Planting the Future provides both motivation and instruction for saving medicinal plants. The public’s growing realization of the healing potential of plants is positive, but over-harvesting has led to a decline in native stands of many plants. Rosemary Gladstar has gathered a stellar team of writers to address the issue. The index reads like a who’s-who of the herbal world. More than 30 plants are addressed in individual articles written by herbalists who know and love them. A grower of any size can use the information, the backyard up to a large sanctuary. A gardener can find the plants best suited their area, as well as how to propagate and care for them. Once grown, there is information about the preparation and use of the plants. My own tiny urban medicinal garden is part of the effort to save valuable plants thanks to guidance from these leaders. Herbalists, native plant enthusiasts and conservationists will all find value in this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Planting The Future provides a different focus on the botanical market, featuring works by the herbalists of United plant Savers and discussing strategies to save and preserve medicinal herbs. Chapters provide an A-Z listing of herbs and their history, uses and propagation.
Rating: 5 / 5