Jesse Wolf Hardin

On the heels of volumes covering practitioner skills and medicinal plant profiles, we bring to you a compilation of writings enlivening the many aspects of Folk Herbalism – from profiling traditional practices around the world, to humble but effective kitchen herbalism, self empowered practice and serving the community, planting your roots and personally blossoming!Humanity across the globe has always made use of botanical medicines. While not a comprehensive representation of every country or culture’s healing traditions, Folk Herbalist chapters shine a light on the great panoply of regional practices and the sensibilities, mythologies and tales that bring their herbs’ uses, spirits and magic to life for us.Each chapter appears as it did in the esteemed periodical Plant Healer Quarterly, lavishly illustrated with instructive photos and inspiring artwork in black and white in the softbound copy, and vibrant color in the Ebook version. Thirty-nine different herbalist authors share here not only their knowledge, experience, and perspectives, but also their excitement and passion for these subjects and the amazing plants themselves. Together they tell the stories of these herbs, from their historic and folkloric roots to the ways in which the continue to connect us and inform and propel our work.

Presenting to you another Plant Healer Quarterly compilation book, consisting of heavily illustrated pages pulled directly from that much loved journal. As usual, the following inspiring chapters are a gift to everyone with an interest in healing and a love for medicinal plants – this time focused on basic as well as advanced information and skills needed for making your own tinctures, oils and salves, hydrosols, oxymels, smoking herbs and more. Included as well are important and compelling discussions about herbal selection criteria, herbal constituents, chromatography, methods for herbal provings, and herbal formulation. You can do it. Whether you are an accomplished herbal practitioner, or a newbie looking for more natural and less harmful ways of caring for the health of yourself and your family, with this book you have the considerations and techniques for making the medicines you desire in your kitchen or shed, right there where you are most at home.As you know, you can buy everything from quality crafted tinctures to questionable herbal capsules even in chain grocery stores, but the most dependably effective medicines will often be those you have made yourself. This way you can be more certain as to where the plants were sourced from and how quality and ethical they are, you can use fresh as well as dried plant matter, you can ensure the processes are done correctly, and you can orchestrate formulations specific to clients and conditions. It increases your capacity to provide care even in times of social or economic distress, and helps deepen understanding of and intimacy with the plants that can heal us.The authors of Home Medicine Making are not only beloved Plant Healer contributors but also some of the most valued of herbalist teachers, including David Hoffman, Christa Sinadinos, Juliette Carr, Lisa Ganora, 7Song, Phyllis Light, Lori Roop, Shana Grover, Dani Otteson, Corinne Boyer, Kat Mackinnon, Catherine Skipper, Kiva Rose Hardin and more!

The Plant Healer’s Path is the first of two volumes by Jesse Wolf Hardin, cofounder of Plant Healer Magazine, with enchanting tales, medicinal plant profiles and favorite herbal recipes by Kiva Rose, as well as contributions by David Hoffman, Phyllis Light, Paul Bergner and more. Hardin tackles topics vital to an effective, empowered herbal practice, including many never addressed before, with suggestions for taking control of and enjoying our lives, and tips that can benefit herbalists and non-herbalists alike. Paul Bergner says“Whether just beginning or already walking the path, The Plant Healer’s Path provides a panoramic road map of the terrain – both internal and external – for any person called to healing with plants... with thought-provoking essays on the issues most important to our work,” and Phyllis Light writes that this book “does more than provide a working model of herbal practice, it also addresses our hopes, our fears and concerns as herbalists, acknowledging the differences, the uniqueness that each brings to their art, craft and science. What more could we ask for?”