Medicinal Perennials to Know and Grow - by Dan Jason & Rupert Adams (Paperback)

About the Book

"Growing your own medicine is empowering--learn how with plant activists Dan Jason and Rupert Adams. Many common, easy-to-grow plants can energize or soothe, stimulate the immune system, aide in sleep or digestion, help to heal injuries, change blood pressure, reverse inflammation, soothe a sore throat--and more. But how do you find or grow them, and how do you use them? This compact book describes some of the best-known medicinal plants and provides expert information on their care and use. Accompanied by the beautiful watercolour illustrations of Lyn Alice, Dan Jason and Rupert Adams explain the nature of each plant, how to grow them, their medicinal properties and other potential perks, such as their ability to produce dyes or attract pollinators. Jason and Adams focus on plants that will thrive in the West Coast, and their local knowledge is tried and tested in their own gardens. The medicinal perennials in this book will make beautiful, useful and environmentally positive additions to any local garden."--

Book Synopsis

Growing your own medicine is empowering--learn how with plant activists Dan Jason and Rupert Adams.

Many common, easy-to-grow plants can energize or soothe, stimulate the immune system, aid in sleep or digestion, help to heal injuries, change blood pressure, reverse inflammation, soothe a sore throat--and more. But how do you find or grow them, and how do you use them?

This compact book describes nearly fifty of the best-known medicinal plants and provides expert information on their care and use. Accompanied by the beautiful watercolor illustrations of Lyn Alice, Dan Jason and Rupert Adams explain the nature of each plant, how to grow them, their medicinal properties and other potential perks, such as their ability to produce dyes or attract pollinators.

Dan Jason has owned and operated the mail-order seed company Salt Spring Seeds since 1986 and Rupert Adams has worked for over two decades with Dan Jason, currently growing a wide variety of vegetable, grain and herb seeds for Salt Spring Seeds and the BC Eco Seed Co-op. The medicinal perennials in this book will be beautiful, useful and environmentally positive additions to any local garden.

Review Quotes

"Medicinal Perennials to Know and Growis a wonderful book that inspires and provides knowledge on how to grow your own medicinal plants. This valuable information will help you to create an earth-loving garden that is biologically diverse and will provide you with beneficial and sustainable medicine for years to come. With every passing season perennial medicine plants get stronger, bigger and expand their root systems and once they are established are easy to care for. Harvesting and making medicines with plants that you have grown is a wonderful feeling, as you are in touch with every aspect from the seed to the harvest to the medicine! If you are looking for information on how to do this or expand your already growing garden, I would recommend this beautifully illustrated book that is packed full of wisdom and practical knowledge." --Beverley Gray, Herbalist and author of The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North and Medicinal Wild Plants of Canada and owner Aroma Borealis Herb Shop in Whitehorse, Yukon.

"Anyone interested in herbs will enjoy this beautifully illustrated little guide from two people who know these plants well. Even gardeners already familiar with some of the plants profiled may be surprised to learn that they have medicinal qualities or how valuable many are to pollinators. The information on growing and using each plant is clear, practical and provides all you need to know to have a thriving garden of interesting herbs." --Linda Gilkeson, author of Backyard Bounty: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Organic Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

Praise for Saving Seeds by Dan Jason

"This compact but well-stocked guide by Jason (Awesome Ancient Grains and Seeds) addresses both the how-to and why of saving seeds, promoting an ethos of self-sufficiency and stewardship. Jason's wise guide should resonate with gardeners at all levels." --Publishers Weekly

"Useful for the beginning seed saver." --Library Journal

"Expertly written, impressively informative, thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener's Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity should be considered a 'must read' instructional guide by dedicated family gardeners." --Midwest Book Review