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Publisher: Skyhorse (May 2, 2017)Dig into the world of herbal medicine with this complete guide to cultivating and harvesting plants with healing properties. For thousands of years, people have been utilizing herbs and cultivating weeds found to speed the healing of wounds, soothe skin irritations, calm uneasy stomachs, and ward off illnesses. In these pages, you’ll learn the basics of gardening in your backyard—or on your windowsill or porch—including instructions for:Garden designCompostingGarden maintenanceHarvestingRecipes for salves, lotions, and poulticesAnd more!You’ll also find profiles of useful herbs that are easy to grow or wildcraft, along with inspiring stories, medicine-making instructions, and recipes for your home medicine chest. Known to boost immunity, reduce blood pressure, aid digestion, and relieve arthritis among other medicinal properties, powerful plants such as garlic, Echinacea, yarrow, elderflower, mint, elecampane, and many more are included in this illustrated guide.BiographyDede Cummings, author, publisher, poet and advocate for people with Crohn’s disease, has also been a book designer for the past 30 years. She holds a BA from Middlebury College in English and attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and received a partial fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Her hobbies include hiking, yoga, running, reading, gardening, traveling, and backcountry skiing. Dede is a public radio commentator for Vermont Public Radio. She was a Discovery/The Nation poetry semi-finalist and is currently at work on a second poetry collection, “The Meeting Place” (Salmon Poetry, due out 2019) and a memoir called “Spin Cycle.” Her first poetry collection, the winner of the 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize, entitled “To Look Out From,” came out in April 2017. Dede is the founder and director of Green Writers Press (publisher of The Hopper Literary Magazine as well as novels and fiction for children and adult readers), an indie press based in southern Vermont.