The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies

This book is full of information. It is a well constructed hardback. I highly recommend it for those that are finding alternatives to pharmaceuticals and trying to build a healthier life. I completed her online herbal immersion course. I also recommend that for anyone, wanting to learn how herbs and plants can improve your life.

Beautiful, informative book packed with informative instructions on how to grow herbs and how to use them. The digital portal access to more information is wonderful. This book is a really good book and a great addition to an herbalist's library.

The amount of information in this book is incredible! It contains where to grow which herbs, how to seed/propagate/harvest herbs, recipes, and so much more. I’m beyond thrilled with this purchase!

I purchased this as one who is interested in growing medicinal herbs and recipes at home; I love to learn and experiment. This product is very informative and if one desires to explore deeper, it comes with a link which offers free videos as well as the ability to sign up to their school to get a degree if one wants to go that far. A friend of mine has a degree with them and said they were fantastic!

This book is beautiful and I really enjoy reading it. One issue I have, that could totally sabotage someone who hasn’t made salves before, is the error in measurement of oil to beeswax in the salve section. It says add 1 to 1 1/2 ounces or 14-21 grams of beeswax per 1/2 cup of oil. But 1 ounce equals 28.34 grams, which is double the grams stated in the book. No one wants salve that is too firm or too runny, and not everyone can to redo or troubleshoot and may just give up instead. It would be great to update this if there is another edition published.

Just what I wanted, thank you kindly. Sincerely Cherry

Thank you so much! Very informative! Quick delivery! Awesome product, awesome transaction! 5*****

Full of vital information! A must have book!

My daughter loves it

A wonderful resource for getting started growing your own herb gardens. Culinary and medicinal uses discussed. Lovely pictures.

I come from 3 generations of farmers, 2 hippie parents, and good old fashioned dirt loving genes. This book is the new holy grail for me in regards to gardening and herbs. I have gotten so many good books on organic and holistic gardening, natural remedies and recipes, and plant identification. I’ve often wondered why no one thought to put all of those topics in one useful book. Well someone finally did. Beautiful pictures, straightforward practical information, and just an all around awesome book. I found this book when I recently stumbled across an article about elderberries from the Chestnut School of Herbs, which is founded by Juliet Blankespoor. I follow her on IG now, subscribe to their email list and will champion her work for the rest of my days most likely lol so happy I found her and her book! Buy it!

If you're anything like me, this book will be just the beginning of a love affair with herbal healing. It's a beautiful book that points to the authors beautiful soul! She is both a natural herbalist and a natural teacher...showing the connection between the calling to healing/growing in the garden and healing/growing of the human person. The book (and the online resources that come with it) have inspired me to enroll in the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine - something I couldn't have seen coming. Can't recommend this enough. Make sure to take full advantage of all the wonderful online resources.

Made the healing oil with calendula for a persistent rash on my husbands legs and arms. He's had the rash for about 4 months. Tried everything, including hydrocortisone cream. One day of this recipe (I also added vetiver root to the oil), and it's 50% better after one day. After 3 days, 90% gone. after a week, completely gone!! Thank you so much. Love the beauty of the book, but the fact that the recipes actually work better than conventional "medicine"... couldn't be happier.

The Healing Garden literally arrived the day I needed it. I have studied herbalism on my own, in my own way for several years, then I got a little distracted with life.This book anchored me back to all I love.1. It's gorgeous. The photographs will keep you reaching for it again and again. They will inspire you to make new recipes and try new plantings in your garden.2. It's a heavy tome, packed with an incredible wealth of knowledge! This is not a flimsy paperback which means it is going to stand up well to lots of use and time. (Mine will be herbal tea stained before long!)3. The organization of the book allows anyone at any stage of their land loving, gardening, and herbalism process to access it and find helpful information.4. It comes with digital access to more information.This book is worth it! It is one of the very best book purchases I have made in years.

I have purchased quite a few books lately on herbalism and medicinal herbs. This one provides a lot of in-depth educational information that was lacking in some of the others. It is enjoyable reading however, not dry or boring.It has great photos so is visually appealing. It's well organized and very thorough with the plants the author chooses to focus on (about 30.) My only disappointment is I wish it had a few more of the more common plants (like rosemary.) Sure, those are covered in most of my other books but this book does it so much better! On the other hand, this book takes a deeper dive on plants we Should learn more about and for which its harder to find good info, such as Calendula and Yarrow. Overall I highly recommend this book and am very glad I bought it.

Do you ever picture the post internet dystopian world where you are in need of all of the herbal remedies because you are a healer, but you don't have access to this knowledge because your phone hasn't worked since the pervious year, before the breakdown of all wireless communications and power company failures? Oh, just me, okay, well, this book is for you too. If you really enjoy gardening knowledge and want a tactile experience reading and implementing your knowledge. Great book, super informative and I know I will reference this for the rest of my days, dystopian or not.

If this book weren't so loaded with a practical depth of easy to read and understand training material, I would refer to it as a stunning beautiful coffee table book. However, it is so much more than that.Do you strive to become a serious student of medicinal herbs? Would you love to dive deep into the topic but feel a little intimidated because you are still such a novice at the craft? This book is for you.Do you want to plan a garden but you need help with what grows best in your area, what plants work with the soil and climate conditions in your region and so much more, this book is for you.Not only is this 431 page book PACKED with beautifully written and easy to follow instructions, details and charts, but it is filled with artistically crafted photographs that are richly colorful and illustrative. Something about this book is as soothing to the spirit as a warm cup of chamomile tea!EVEN BETTER, there is a bonus professionally created mini video course and online resources for you when you purchase the book and provide proof of purchase via your order #. Just go to HealingGardenGateway.com where you will gain lifetime access to the training portal.Incredible value. Food for your soul. Natural healing for your body. I am so grateful that I stumbled upon Juliet Blankespoor's book. BTW, she also has a YouTube channel where you can learn a ton more. YAAH!BTW, I wrote this review in such glowing terms, you might think that I am her best friend. I have never met her and only stumbled across her a few weeks ago. I will admit. I am smitten with the opportunities that this book and its other resources offer. There is so much to be grateful for!

I use herbs for cooking, making beauty products, and medicine, and how I've wished I could learn to grow them myself! (They're expensive to purchase and I also feel the need to develop relationships with the plants I use by seeing them in person, watching how they grow, in order to really understand them.) I've been learning by trial and error, hints from gardening books that focus on growing vegetables, and so on. The slow and frustrating way. This book has been so helpful as I try again this spring to grow some herbs and care for the ones I've managed to grow in past years (not many). For instance, I'm hopeful that I'll be able to grow culinary herbs from seeds (also cheaper) rather than buying plants from the nursery. I find I not only need to know what to do, but why. Without understanding how things work, why they work that way, I haven't been able to easily adapt advice for my specific situation. This book has engaging descriptions of plants and techniques, ideas about which plants grow best in my climate or in what conditions, as well as inspiring photos. Even recipes that seem so enticing. I feel like I might just be able to succeed this year!

I love The Healing Garden -Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies by Juliet Blankespoor on so many levels. Visually it is stunning. It has beautiful pictures and colors and I appreciated seeing a variety of faces and ages throughout the book-- all lovers of plants.The table of contents is easy to navigate starting with the foundations of gardening and moving from there. It's well organized. Some books are jammed with good information but can be so hard to wade through and understand clearly.There are wonderful charts and helpful step by step guides (along with pictures). My other favorite is the herb profile section filled with stunning pictures and information.I love that this book is large enough so you can see everything clearly without small print (that's always an issue for me). So it's a joy to read on many levels.The online bonuses that come with the book are amazing and useful. So good that I pre-ordered the book for my sister to enjoy with me as we both waited for our books to arrive.The icing on the cake was when my 19 year old son came home for a visit from college. When he saw the book on my desk, he grabbed it and eagerly looked through it with a big grin on his face. He said he couldn't wait to come back and try some of the recipes. -- You know that's got to be a special book! ;)I hope you can get this and add it to your collection of favorites. It will make you happy and gently take your hand on your own botanical journey.

Juliet Blankespoor has written a glorious herbal gardening book of such breadth it’s almost unbelievable.Not only are the photographs superb, but her writing is easy to follow, full of knowledge she gained from YEARS worth of hard earned herbal gardening wisdom, and at times charmingly funny !As I turn the pages and read about soil maintenance, designing your herbal medicine garden, herbs and their actions on the body, delicious unique herbal recipes .. and so much more.. I feel as if I’m benefitting from an herbal encyclopedia that I’m just so GRATEFUL to have.This book is an invaluable resource if you want to grow your own herbal medicinal garden - or learn in detail about herbs, or make yummy recipes - and you can be a total beginner OR an expert gardener and still glean so much information here.(Her charts are meticulous and SO helpful. They can only come from someone who truly LOVES to observe plants and who is compassionately willing to share all that she has studied for the reader’s benefit).If there could only be ONE herbal medicine / gardening book I could hold onto, without a doubt it’s THIS ONE. I’ll be referring to it forever.Crack it open, & you’ll be *Amazed*