By Herbalist, Beverley Gray

The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North

The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North is an indispensable guide to identifying and using northern plants for food and medicine.

 Whether you're hiking in remote areas or gardening in your backyard, this easy-to-use handbook will help you recognize and use fifty-five common wild plants that have extraordinary healing properties.

 With The Boreal Herbal you will learn how to soothe pain with willow, staunch bleeding with yarrow, treat a urinary-tract infection with bearberry, and create a delicate and uplifting skin cream from sweetgrass.

 Author Beverley Gray has also included dozens of healthy and delicious recipes, including Wild-Weed Spanakopita, Dandelion Wine, and Cranberry-Mint Muffins.

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The Boreal Herbal

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

  • Next Generation Indie Book Awards

    GOLD GRAND PRIZE, Best Design
    GOLD, Overall Design
    Finalist in Science, Nature, Environment

  • GOLD Nautilus Award

    Health & Healing, Wellness, Prevention, Vitality

  • SILVER Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)

    Health, Medicine and Nutrition

  • SILVER Benjamin Franklin Award

    Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)
    Nature & Environment

  • Living Now Book Award

    GOLD Book of the Year, Earth

The Boreal Herbal features

  • Profiles of dozens of herbs, berries, and trees found in the northern boreal forest: including information on their habitat, harvest times, medicinal applications, as well as food uses, cosmetic uses, and spiritual uses.
    Full-colour photographs and botanical illustrations of each plant profiled in the book for easy identification Instruction on how to gather and preserve wild plants.  

    More than 200 recipes: teas, tinctures, powders, flower essences, topical treatments, beverages, jams and jellies, baked goods, soups, entres, and much more. 

  • Safety tips for harvesting and using edible and medicinal wild plants, including information on calculating dosage and plant-specific cautions.
    A resource section for people interested in starting up a non-timber forest-products business.


    Botanical and medicinal glossaries, an index, and handy reference charts.

By Herbalist, Beverley Gray

Field guide to Medicinal Wild Plants of Canada

Nature heals! This compact field guide introduces readers to 26 common Canadian wild plants with extraordinary healing properties. Use arnica blossoms to heal muscle inflammation, improve digestion with chickweed and soothe a toothache with yarrow leaf - learning to identify and use wild medicinal plants is both fascinating and useful. Each plant profile includes a colour photograph, identification and habitat information, as well as medicinal and culinary uses. Skilled herbalist Beverley Gray also includes tips on how to sustainably gather and safely use beneficial wild plants.

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