Herb Resources: Seeds/Plants/Books

I found almost every seed (and several available as plants) from the list below at www.horizonherbs.com

Horizon Herbs is the medicinal herb garden and herbalist resource developed by Richo Cech who has also written several respected herbalist books:

The Medicinal Herb Grower
Making Plant Medicine
Growing At-Risk Medicinal Herbs: Cultivation,
Conservation and Ecology.

The following herbal references are also available from Horizon Herbs' catalog (hard copy catalog can be requested online or by telephone at (541) 846-6704). The catalog and a wide variety of helpful materials can also be found on the www.horizonherbs.com website.

A Modern Herbal by Maude Grieve is a frequently recommended (2 volume) work characterized as "an anchor reference".

Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West by Michael Moore will lead to indigenous plants in west Texas, "many as yet unknown and largely unused."

Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine by David Hoffman "is an advanced textbook for herbal practitioners, giving an understandable and in-depth teaching on the chemistry of plants, a balanced look at safety issues, specific formulas according to body systems and a 150 herb strong materia medica."

Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal by Rosemary Gladstar is "chock full of herbal recipes to help [us] practice the art of food as medicine, medicine as food."

Medicinal Herb Garden Collection: provides 18 seed packets in a low cost selection for beginning herbal practitioners.

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