Planting the Future: Saving Our Medicinal Herbs

by Pamela Hirsch and Rosemary Gladstar

Voted one of the Top 10 books in 2000 by the Vermont Book Publishers Association. A collective endeavor by United Plant Savers, featuring America's most respected and well-known herbalists. Contributors include Don Babineau, Tim Blakley, Mark Blumenthal, Jane Bothwell, Stephen Harrod Buhner, David Bunting, Richo Cech, Tane Datta, Shatoiya and Rick de la Tour, Ryan Drum, Doug Elliott, Steven Foster, Cascade Anderson Geller, Kate Gilday, Rosemary Gladstar,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892818948
• ISBN13: 9780892818945
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book

This is a fantastic book - such a treasured resource. It will be one of my planting bibles.

Save the plants, save ourselves

Planting the Future provides both motivation and instruction for saving medicinal plants. The public's growing realization of the healing potential of plants is positive, but over-harvesting has led to a decline in native stands of many plants. Rosemary Gladstar has gathered a stellar team of writers to address the issue. The index reads like a who's-who of the herbal world. More than 30 plants are addressed in individual articles written by herbalists who know and love them. A grower of any size can use the information, the backyard up to a large sanctuary. A gardener can find the plants best suited their area, as well as how to propagate and care for them. Once grown, there is information about the preparation and use of the plants. My own tiny urban medicinal garden is part of the effort to save valuable plants thanks to guidance from these leaders. Herbalists, native plant enthusiasts and conservationists will all find value in this book.

Provides a different focus on the botanical market

Planting The Future provides a different focus on the botanical market, featuring works by the herbalists of United plant Savers and discussing strategies to save and preserve medicinal herbs. Chapters provide an A-Z listing of herbs and their history, uses and propagation.

Saving Mother Earth's Plants

This is a MUST HAVE book not only for Herbalists but for all People of this Turtle Isand. As ypou read this book it will not oly scare you but it will also wake you up. It is not up to a few people to save the plants, IT IS UP TO ALL OF US!