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Highlights
- Uncover the ingredients to healing magic hiding right in your backyard with the help of this guide to powerful plants and the remedies and rituals ready to enhance your life.
- About the Author: Enid Baxter Ryce is a visual artist who has exhibited at museums internationally, including the National Gallery of Art, the Getty, and the Arnolfini.
- 216 Pages
- Body + Mind + Spirit,
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About the Book
"For those who follow the no-waste movement and are also moved by the magic of nature, Plant Magic at Home provides a complete guide to plants and how to best extract their properties to enhance everyday life, whether that's in the form of natural paints for art or to aid in emotional healing"--Book Synopsis
Uncover the ingredients to healing magic hiding right in your backyard with the help of this guide to powerful plants and the remedies and rituals ready to enhance your life. Whether you live in a forested lush area or are in the middle of a bustling urban environment, you can extract the properties and magic of plants. Plants hold the power of emotional and spiritual healing, which you can access through their physical or metaphysical properties. In this comprehensively researched book, split into three parts, (Gather, Harvest, Reap), you will learn how to forage or grow the plant, classify the plant, and then use its color or properties for no-waste sustainable spells or crafts. Specifically, you will come away with:- Advice on practical foraging and gardening techniques
- Profiles of more than 90 plants, including trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, and vegetables complete with information on the origins, practical uses, healing properties, and best techniques for extracting color
- Ancient and sustainable techniques such as Hapa Zome and Color Baths to obtain color from plants for no-waste art and projects
- Over 20 recipes and steps for natural inks, paints, and crafts including well-known inks like Walnut and Pokeberry, as well as kid-friendly projects like Berry-ink
- Spells throughout and a chapter on how to create your own Grimoire, or Spell book, with a collection on sample spells
This book takes you on a full journey from root to ritual. It is full of joyful, easy-to-follow, DIY, no-waste recipes. You'll gain an appreciation for everything one seemingly simple plant can do for you--from its healing properties to its ability to provide for art.
Review Quotes
"What an absolutely enchanting book. Whimsical, delightful, filled with magical incantations and spells, yet also so very wise and practical...I was charmed from the moment I started reading and spellbound throughout."
--Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author, Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author
About the Author
Enid Baxter Ryce is a visual artist who has exhibited at museums internationally, including the National Gallery of Art, the Getty, and the Arnolfini. A descendant of three Salem witches, she has been reading cards since early childhood. Enid is a Professor of Arts and Environmental Studies who co-edited/co-authored a research guide for the Library of Congress about the ecology and history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands entitled "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side): Geographies, Boundaries, and Imaginations of Space. She is also the author and co-illustrator of Running Press' The Borderlands Tarot/El Tarot de Tierras Fronterizas.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 7.1 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 216
Genre: Body + Mind + Spirit
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Format: Hardcover
Author: Enid Baxter Ryce
Language: English
Street Date: July 15, 2025
TCIN: 94303614
UPC: 9780762488896
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-9109
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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