Offers advice on growing the ingredients for making beer, describes the most popular varieties of hops, and offers advice on soil preparation, insect pests, and harvesting.
Grow Your Own ... Brew Your Own! If you have a backyard, or even a sun-facing porch, you can greatly enhance the flavor, aroma, and uniqueness of your homebrew by growing your own hops, brewing herbs, and malt grains. Easy instructions will help you put the home into your homebr…
In addition to an alphabetically arranged description of each herb, this lavishly illustrated volume contains background historical material, plus coverage of such subjects as medicinal uses, cooking, & gardening. A popular treatment of the history, uses and cultivation of herbs…
Provides information on the history, uses, range, and characteristics of more than one hundred herbs, and offers tips on growing them.
In addition to an alphabetically arranged description of each herb, this lavishly illustrated volume contains background historical material, plus coverage of such subjects as medicinal uses, cooking, & gardening. A popular treatment of the history, uses and cultivation of herbs…
For whatever reasons gardeners plant herbs, they will find in this book the answers to all their questions, plus an encyclopedia of 400 herbs and a gallery of 260 color photos and 60 black-and-white drawings.
"Created as the ideal reference for anyone with a serious interest in cooking with herbs, spices, or related plant materials, The Herbalist in the Kitchen is truly encyclopedic in scope. It provides detailed information about the uses, botany, toxicity and flavor chemistry of he…
Contains the folklore and magical propertities of over 400 herbs, most of them common and easily acquired. Includes extensive tables, a cross-reference of folk names, glossary, and an annotated bibliography.
"In days gone by our ancestors lived in harmony with the earth. They knew which plants could heal and which ones could kill. They also knew that plants harbored magical powers, forces that could be harnessed and directed to fulfill a need--anything from protecting a house to fin…
"Do you work magic with herbs? Do you use them in spells, for talismans or simply use their innate powers? If you don't have Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, you need to get it right away. This book has become a classic in its field. Paul Beyerl, a respected author on…
