Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine
Millions of people are interested in natural and holistic health, yet many are missing out on the key ingredient: Nature itself!
Rekindle your connection with the earth as you craft your own herbal medicine with 75 delicious recipes and powerful healing remedies. Herbalists Rosalee de la Forêt and Emily Han expertly guide you through the benefits of two dozen of the most important and commonly found wild plants-many of which you can easily grow in your own garden, if foraging isn't right for you. Detailed illustrations and beautiful photography ensure that you won't make a plant-identification misstep as you learn how to tend and properly harvest the plant medicine growing right in your own neighborhood.
After reading Wild Remedies, you'll never look at your backyard, a public park, or any green space in the same way again. Instead of "weeds," you'll see delicious foods like Dandelion Maple Syrup Cake, Nettle Frittata, and Chickweed Pesto. You will revel in nature's pharmacy as you make herbal oils, salves, teas, and many more powerful remedies in your own kitchen.
Reviews (194)
It's not just a book, it's a journey.
I LOVE this book. Wild Remedies arrived this week. Our family has been hit with the Coronavirus & we have been quarantined for several weeks already. I pre-ordered this book back in February. The community on Facebook that comes with this book is awesome. There are several docuseries that should not be missed. This book encourages you to participate in a wonderful journey, not just read the words. Now that I have my book in hand, I'm a very happy woman. I would recommend this book to everyone who is interested in herbs and getting back to a natural way of living with this wonderful world God has made.
Nourish Ourselves and Heal the Earth
I was in love by the first section. This book really has it all, and it very unique too! I enjoyed the multitude of journal prompts, and the foundational topics in Part 1 like wildcrafting principles and botany basics. I appreciate that the underlying premise for this book is to give back to the plants, to practice gratitude, and to establish a relationship with them, not just about harvesting them.( I will also say that you can grow many of these plants in your garden as well if wildcrafting isn't your thing.) This is as much a book on developing a connection to the plants and local ecosystems as it is in identifying and using plants for medicine and food. The book is organized by season, with botanical information, medicinal properties, identification and harvesting guidelines, ecological connections, recipes, and gorgeous botanical illustrations. I can't forget to mention the stunning photographs! This is truly such a treasure of an herbal book, and I have many! This will be one of my very favorites for sure. This is such an important time to reconnect with our suffering planet, as we are seeing so many issues from believing we can take from it in any way we want. Habitats and the creatures that inhabit them are crying out for our help. If we could each read this cover to cover, take to heart its principles, we could begin to heal our beautiful planet and our bodies.
Absolutely stunning book!
This is a beautiful book - visually I can't get enough of it. But the content is amazing too. They have included loads of recipes that inspire and delight. You will want to try them all! The plant information is so well done. Each section is a informational masterpiece. The plant descriptions are quite comprehensive which include the identification (in beautiful color), how and when to harvest as well as special consideration for each plant. These 2 authors have put together a stunning, informational resource for generations.
I've learned so much from Rosalee
I love Rosalee's first book The Alchemy of Herbs; it's the most dog-eared and stained book in my kitchen! I've taken her online classes as well. Her ability to organize and present information in a non overwhelming format really appeals to me. I received Rosalee and Emily's new book Wild Remedies in the mail yesterday, so I haven't had time to go beyond initial perusing, but what I've already glanced at, I love. The book feels amazing in my hands - it lays open easily and the paper quality is excellent. I love the journaling aspect present throughout the book. The journaling exercises are so important for people like me who might read about something and then put the book back on its shelf. Journaling gets me out of my head and into a much deeper connection with the subject at hand. I love the herbs the authors have chosen. I'm giddy that Wild Remedies has been released in Spring, though any season is the perfect season to study herbs, because I'm ready to get outdoors with this book and my journal and get to know these little herbal miracles!
Love this book
Beautifully illustrated and easy to read. I received my copy today and already started collecting a few local herbs to help my daughter in law with her allergies
Beautiful book beautiful visuals
I'm so impressed with how thorough Rosalee and Emily have been with this book. They start with the basics- philosophy of plant harvesting, safety and respect and move into very useful information. Throughout the book there are lots and lots of pictures and drawings to help with plant identification and plant part knowledge. They highlight many of the more common plants and dedicate individual chapters to each, complete with recipes using easy ingredients-- one of my favorites which I'm excited to try is Chickweed Pesto. Looks easy and yummy! I'm personally new to harvesting and unfortunately I get bored of books very easily--- this book, however has been very useful and has kept my attention. My family and I had lots of fun gathering wild violets from our yard to make the vinager recipe. It looks beautiful and is almost ready to use. This is easily one of my best reference books. I highly encourage you to add this to your plant library. Thank you ladies for this wonderful user-friendly book! -Pati
More for recipes then remedies
More to dislike than like for me personally. 1st reason being they wasted 20 pages on apples and raspberry which are simple fruits to identify. This book leans towards recipe book more at times. I didnt buy it for recipes. 2and reason is most of these herbs are the very basic. The dandelion plant has 2 separate parts in the book. It is split between leaf, flower and root in total other section. I got the feeling the writer was trying fill in pages. I'm not returning it because I do love the illustrations and pictures to identify plants. Most books dont show full plants. However I would have definitely preferred there be more plants in the book as a whole. It was not worth the $50 but I'm going to keep it because as an herbalist you can't get one book with everything you want.
This Is Going To Be One Of My Favorite Herb Books Ever!
First, I'll say that I've been studying herbs for food and medicine since 2006, and I have purchased a lot of herbal books. Some have not been useful, and some have contained sketchy information. I've come to trust Rosalee de la Forêt for her common sense approach to using herbs for health. Teaming up with Emily Han has been a brilliant move! They complement each other as herbalists, teachers, and writers. The book is beautiful, and has solid information. They give good advice about what, where, and when to harvest plants, including ecological details and how to harvest wild plants responsibly. The recipes are just wonderful, and are things that I will actually make and use. I'm going out to harvest some violets in my yard today, and will make the violet vinegar on page 145. This one will likely go in the kitchen with the cookbooks instead of on the shelf with my herb and garden books.
This is a recipe book not a herbal profile book.
Torn about this book. Haven’t decided whether I’m keeping it or no. Love the herbal descriptions, drawings, and pictures. However not a fan of the many many (75) recipes in this book. What percentage of herbalists would actually make a nettle frittata, nettle asparagus soup, or dandelion root stir fry? It’s just extra pages and the OCD person in me is bothered by the pages I will never use. Also the recipes are strewn throughout the book and not relegated to a section in the back. Again I have the utmost respect for the knowledge of these ladies but really wish this book was just strictly herbal profiles and more of the herbal profiles. I wish they would make separate book with just herbal profiles and with more than just 25 profiles. Also it’s not their fault cause had I read the description I would have seen that this is predominantly a recipe book.
Well thought out and put together, an all 'round excellent book and here's why...
I originally purchased this book as a gift for someone. As an herbalist of 40 years, I knew I didn't need another herb book for myself. It came. It's mine. Sorry Candice! It is a LOVELY book in so many ways and it doesn't matter how long you've been a herbalist, there is always something new you can learn or be refreshed about. First, the quality of the book. The spine, the paper cover and the pages are of excellent quality. None of that flimsy stuff! This is a book meant to keep for a lifetime or at least until you outgrow it and pass it on to another . The sections/chapters are broken down into a very consciously thought out format. 1. Creating Your Foundation 2. Spring 3. Early Summer, and so on with great chapters in each category on a nice array of herbals great for the beginner or intermediate herbalist. Particular plant info is broken down staring with amazing drawings and photographs to help you identify plants, then on to things like "How to Identify", "Ecological Connections", "Medicinal Properties and Energetics" and so on. Detail to proper use of grammar and language (English) are apparent, then ending each herbal profile with a couple of herbal recipes as medicine or food. This is just a taste of what is to come your way. BUY THIS BOOK. It will become a cherished addition to any herbal library. Rosalee and Emily, BRAVO and thank you!
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