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Growing At-Risk Medicinal Herbs by Richo Cech
Growing At-Risk Medicinal Herbs by Richo Cech
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Growing At-Risk Medicinal Herbs by Richo Cech, Michael Moore (Foreword), Sena Cech Olivier(Illustrator)
Each chapter covers:
- overview description
- native range
- range map(s)
- Hardiness and adaptability
- Ecology
- Community
- Life Cycle
- Cultivation from Seed
- Cultivation from Cuttings
- General Care
- Medicine
- Yield
- Harvest, Processing and Storage
- Seed
- Seed collecting, cleaning, storage and longevity
- Adulteration and nomenclature
- Conservation through cultivation
- References
And also... inspiration. Inspiration to grow your own medicinal herbs, information about how to grow herbs that are generally considered ungrowable or difficult to grow. With personal stories from the author that bring the subject matter right down home.
Richo Cech started his professional work as an archaeologist and ethnobotanist in East Africa. Upon his return to the United States in 1978, he began cultivating and saving the seed of medicinal plants. Over the years, his gardens have become the basis for Strictly Medicinal Seeds, growers of organic, open pollinated and GMO-free seed and plants of medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, succulents, trees and garden vegetables. Richo and his family produce a popular, bi-yearly, hand-illustrated seed catalog that provides access to this collection of common, quirky, eclectic, and bizarre seeds and plants. Richo is author of Making Plant Medicine (2000), Growing At-Risk Medicinal Herbs (2002), and The Medicinal Herb Grower (2009).
Richo has botanized in China and Africa, resulting in the introduction of many new and exciting medicinal herb species to gardeners throughout the world.
The botanical Drawings that grace this book flowed from the steady pen of Sena Cech Olivier. She has enjoyed a lifelong love for spirituality, herbal healing and the art of botany. She lives on her permaculture farm in Williams, OR.
Michael Moore wrote numerous classic works on the herbal plants of the West and Southwest, including Los Remedios: Traditional Herbal Remedies of the Southwest, Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West, and Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West, as well as a host of clinical herb manuals. He was the founder and director of Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, in Bisbee, Arizona, where he worked as a writer, researcher, therapist, and teacher for professional herbalists.
