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foraging
foraging cookbook
forthcoming
growing herbs
healing herbs
herb book
herb garden
herb gardening
herbal antibiotics
herbal medicines
herbal remedies
herbalism
herbalist
holistic nutrition
home remedies
medicinal herbs
medicinal spices
natural food remedies
natural health
preventative herbs
traditional herbs
wildcrafting
Product details
- ISBN 9781510784550
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Grow an Abundance of Food and Medicine—Naturally and Sustainably
The Forager’s Garden is your guide to transforming ordinary lawns and meadows into thriving ecosystems that nourish both body and soul. With minimal maintenance, you’ll learn to cultivate a landscape rich in edible and medicinal plants—designed to work in harmony with nature.
This book goes beyond traditional foraging. It’s about creating a living, breathing garden where wild and cultivated plants coexist, supporting a community of humans, animals, and beneficial insects. As food prices rise and conventional gardening becomes more labor-intensive, The Forager’s Garden offers a refreshing alternative. Instead of battling weeds and pests, you’ll embrace nature’s rhythms. Where traditional gardens struggle by midsummer, the wild garden flourishes—requiring little upkeep and offering increasing yields year after year.
Inside you’ll find chapters on:
The Forager’s Garden teaches you to mimic nature’s design—growing in patches, not rows. This polyculture approach fosters resilience, biodiversity, and abundance. Over time, your garden becomes a self-sustaining ecosystem, providing food, medicine, and habitat for all.
The Forager’s Garden is your guide to transforming ordinary lawns and meadows into thriving ecosystems that nourish both body and soul. With minimal maintenance, you’ll learn to cultivate a landscape rich in edible and medicinal plants—designed to work in harmony with nature.
This book goes beyond traditional foraging. It’s about creating a living, breathing garden where wild and cultivated plants coexist, supporting a community of humans, animals, and beneficial insects. As food prices rise and conventional gardening becomes more labor-intensive, The Forager’s Garden offers a refreshing alternative. Instead of battling weeds and pests, you’ll embrace nature’s rhythms. Where traditional gardens struggle by midsummer, the wild garden flourishes—requiring little upkeep and offering increasing yields year after year.
Inside you’ll find chapters on:
- Planning
- Earth Time
- Creating Habitat
- Natives in the Landscape
- The Forest Landscape
- Naturalized Aliens
- The Harvest
- The Wild Apothecary
The Forager’s Garden teaches you to mimic nature’s design—growing in patches, not rows. This polyculture approach fosters resilience, biodiversity, and abundance. Over time, your garden becomes a self-sustaining ecosystem, providing food, medicine, and habitat for all.
Vickie Shufer is a forager and herbalist and author of The Forager’s Handbook and The Everything Guide to Foraging. Vickie is the owner of Wild Woods Farm, an 11-acre certified native nursery where she grows and sells native and medicinal plants. She also teaches classes on identifying, harvesting, and preparing wild plants for food and medicine.
