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by Adele Nozedar (Author)
The bestselling author of Foraging With Kids shows us how to gather and use traditional herbs to boost wellbeing and scatter a little magic over our lives. Discover the ancient Nine Herbs Spell and learn to create your own!
Forage in the footsteps of the witches who gathered plants for the medieval Nine Herbs Spell, and explore the traditional healing powers of the herbs all around you. Bestselling author Adele Nozedar introduces us to the wonder of the Nine Herbs Spell - the herbs that were most useful for medicine, food and magic in the early medieval period - before showing us how we can create our own healing charms today, whatever our local environment. Divided into nine habitats, the book shares nine foragable plants from each environment, complete with their uses, photographs for ID, history and folk tales, each herb's healing properties, and thirty recipes for edibles and remedies throughout.- CHAPTER 1: The Nine Plants Spell
- CHAPTER 2: Nine Fragrant Plants of a Garden
- CHAPTER 3: Nine Shady Plants of the Woodlands
- CHAPTER 4: Nine Bygone Plants of the Meadows
- CHAPTER 5: Nine Secret Plants of the Town
- CHAPTER 6: Nine Plashy Plants of the Wetlands and Riverbanks
- CHAPTER 7: Nine Bracing Plants of the Sea
- CHAPTER 8: Nine Shy Weeds of the Wastelands
- CHAPTER 9: Nine Cunning Herbs That Are Free
This book offers a fun new way to explore foraging and the use of herbs, discovering little-known treasures along the way.
Author Biography
Adele Nozedar is the author of books including The Hedgerow Handbook, Foraging with Kids and The Tree Forager. She runs her own foraging school in the Brecon Beacons and is the only forager from Wales to be in the Lonely Planet! She is an ambassador for both The Herb Society and The Slow Food Movement; she has worked with Chatsworth gardeners to future-proof their grounds in view of global warming; she has worked with the Garden Museum for seven years as a forager and she is a regular at Hay Festival and Green Man Festival.
For more information, visit: breconbeaconsforaging.com
