Herbal Preparations and Natural Therapies: Creating and Using a Home Herbal Medicine Chest2 reviews
Debra N. St Claire

Morningstar Publications (CO), 1989

Highly Recommend

+ A must have for the beginning herbalist

This is a great course with easy to follow directions and video demonstrations. Great for homeschooling or anyone wanting to start taking care of their medicinal needs with herbs.
  
  











  



  
A Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers: Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent areas (Peterson ...4 reviews
Theodore F. Niehaus

Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Excellent Field Guide to help identify Wildflowers

+ A Field Guide to Western Wildflowers
+ Pacific States Wildflowers.
+ A Useful Tool
  
  











  



  
A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants: North America North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides ...7 reviews
Roger Caras, Steven Foster

Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Essential to Everyone Outdoors

+ Handy
+ Quickly Received in Great Condition
+ Don't harm snake on cover !!
+ Great field guide
  
  











  



  
The Complete Medicinal Herbal: A Practical Guide to the Healing Properties of Herbs, with More Than 250 ...20 reviews
Penelope Ody

DK ADULT, 1993

Beautiful Reference and CoffeeTable Book

+ Indispensable for the armchair herbalist
+ Complete Medicinal Herbal a complete guide to the healing properties of herbs
+ WOW a must have...
+ A little frustrating
  
  











  



  
A Field Guide to Wildflowers : Northeastern and North-Central North America (Peterson Field Guides)11 reviews
Margaret McKenny

Houghton Mifflin, 1998

indispensable!

+ great for quick identification
+ Great help for class wildflower project
+ A great help to flower identification
  
  











  



  
Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families, 4th Ed.9 reviews
Thomas J. Elpel

HOPS Press, 2000

Tremendous help to this novice

+ Covers over 100 plant families and over 700 genera
+ Let the cover be your judge!

When I started a new hobby of photographing wildflowers, I had no clue on the importance of learning plant families in order to identify them. If I couldn't tell from the picture in a field guide, I was up a creek. "Botany in a Day" was the first book I found that organized the families in a ...
  
  











  



  
Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Field Guide)17 reviews
Tom Brown

Berkley Trade, 1986

Great for the info it has, but not an identification and classification book

+ youll never starve in the woods after reading this book
+ Not a field guide but a personality guide
+ Not a field guide but great stories
  
  











  



  
A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides (R))18 reviews
James A. Duke, Steven Foster

Houghton Mifflin, 1999

MUST HAVE in yoru library

+ It's a great book
+ Awesome book
+ A must have for any aspiring or seasoned herbalist!
+ A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides (R))
  
  











  



  
Stalking The Healthful Herbs5 reviews
Euell Gibbons

"Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.", 1966

One of Euell Gibbons best, back in print

+ Excellent book
+ Best of the best...
+ Review By Texas Gulf coast Herbalist, (hobby)
  
  











  



  
Stalking The Wild Asparagus12 reviews
Euell Gibbons

"Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.", 1962

The Forager at Work

+ Euell Gibbons is da man!
+ Not a field guide
+ Stalking the Wild Asparagus
+ A Classic- Like a Thoreau, Will Rogers & Mark Twain Blend
  
  











  



  
Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi48 reviews
David Arora

Ten Speed Press, 1986

Excellent book with loads of good info

+ Great Book!
+ This is an advanced text
+ good condition, good shipping time
+ Mushrooms Demystified
  
  











  



  
The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual28 reviews
James Green

Crossing Press, 2000

Medicine-making made simple........

+ The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook
+ A must for any serious herbalist!
+ Very informative
+ Far more in-depth than your usual herbal recipe book
  
  











  



  
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants11 reviews
Bradford Angier

Stackpole Books, 1974

Good, Not Great

+ Good book
+ A good book

Other reviewers caution that this text "should not be your only source"... I agree, but I'd guess that's true of any such reference.
  
  











  



  
A Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs4 reviews
Steven Foster, Christopher Hobbs

Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Best of Field

+ Botany contribution.

Peterson Field Guides has produced another winner. Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs by Steven Foster and Christopher Hobbs is a gorgeous guide book by, pardon the pun, the leaders in the field. This particular field guides sets the standard by which all medicinal plant guides should follow. ...
  
  











  



  
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and central North America (Peterson Field Guides (R))23 reviews

Houghton Mifflin, 1999

excellent seller and product

+ field guide
+ Awesome book
+ Up to the usual Peterson Field Guides standards
  
  











  



  
A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America (Peterson Field Guides (R))5 reviews
Kent H. McKnight

Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Still a standard field guide to fungi

+ If you are beginning, start with this one.
+ A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America
+ 2nd best mushroom book
+ mushroom field guide
  
  











  



  
Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home22 reviews
Paul Stamets, J. S. Chilton

Agarikon Press, 1983

Just What I Was Looking For !

+ A Beginners Bible to the Mushroom Cultivation
+ good starter book
+ "The Bible"
+ Mushroom Cultivator
  
  











  



  
Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi48 reviews
David Arora

Ten Speed Press, 1986

Excellent book with loads of good info

+ Great Book!
+ This is an advanced text
+ good condition, good shipping time
+ Mushrooms Demystified
  
  











  



  
Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Field Guide)17 reviews
Tom Brown

Berkley Trade, 1986

Great for the info it has, but not an identification and classification book

+ youll never starve in the woods after reading this book
+ Not a field guide but a personality guide
+ Not a field guide but great stories
  
  











  



  
Stalking The Healthful Herbs5 reviews
Euell Gibbons

"Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.", 1966

One of Euell Gibbons best, back in print

+ Excellent book
+ Best of the best...
+ Review By Texas Gulf coast Herbalist, (hobby)