Enjoy a thriving, fragrant herb garden and use your harvest to bring beauty, flavor, and health to your everyday life. Tammi Hartung provides in-depth profiles of 101 popular herbs, including information on seed selection, planting, maintenance, harvesting, and drying. Hartung also shows you how to use your herbs in a variety of foods, home remedies, body care products, and crafts. Whether you’re a seasoned herbalist or planting your first garden, Homegrown Herbs will inspire you to get the most out of your herbs. 

This handy little guide is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to keep their home sparklingly clean without resorting to chemical products. The Art of Natural Cleaning draws on traditional techniques, bringing them up to date to suit the modern home. Taking the time to create your own cleaning products, from floor polish to washing up liquid, creates a more mindful approach to the home, and encourages greater respect and care for our surroundings.

With just a few simple ingredients, such as salt, bicarb, lemons, and essential oils, your home can be clean, fresh and fragrant, as well as environmentally friendly.

Featuring over 40 DIY projects that illustrate how to transform one of the world’s most natural ingredients into tangible creations, Beeswax Alchemy is the perfect amalgamation of recipe craft book and beekeepers’ guide.

Considered the miracle of the beehive and used by humans for 8,000 years, beeswax remains a vital ingredient to society and is still used as the foundation for many household products in the twenty-first century. You’ll find an explanation of the different types of beeswax, as well as insider tips on working with beeswax, followed by step-by-step instructions for making candles, balms, salves, creams, scrubs, soaps, ornaments, art, and more out of beeswax.

Devon gives thoughtful guidance on how to grow medicinal herbs and introduces us to herbs that may be growing right in our own backyards or in our neighborhoods, and yes, we are taught how to harvest wild herbs ethically and safely.

The Backyard Herbal Apothecary is cleverly divided into landscapes illustrated with monographs of the plants that grow in each: the forest, grasslands, and marsh. There are also easy herbal recipes that follow each thorough plant monograph. And you can learn about all the different types of herbal preparations, from teas to lotions, and how to make them.