Books

Louisiana Healing Garden: medicinal plants for a sustainable future

A healing garden can be a lively intersection between the web of wild lives all around us and our own home ground. Some of those plants may be native, some introduced, and others invasives. But regardless of their status, they are packed with nutrients and natural healing compounds. Discover the gentle medicinal properties of crape myrtle or bottlebrush or mimosa trees. Or learn how wild petunia or gardenia or blue mist flower or sweet olive trees can boost your health and help to maintain a healthy ecological balance in the areas where you live.

Featuring 50 medicinal plants that grow throughout the state, Louisiana Healing Garden suggests that a garden isn’t just something we create, it can also be something we discover. Learn the uses of favorite landscaping trees or the pesky weeds that keep taking over the garden, and change the way you see your world

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Louisiana Herb Journal: healing on home ground

In a world of constant change and crisis, the relationship between humans and their environment has never been more vital. A celebration of the state and the cultures of those who live there, Louisiana Herb Journal reflects on the value of medicinal herbs in promoting personal healing and addressing current challenges to the state’s environmental and economic stability. Focusing on herbs found in Louisiana, the book includes details on identification, habitat, distribution, healing properties, traditional uses and popular preparation methods. Readers will gain a deeper recognition of the natural wealth Louisiana enjoys and the ways that our stewardship of wild plants can impact personal health as well as the state’s ecological future. (Louisiana University Press April 2022.)

Available through LSU Press, local bookstores, and numerous online sources.

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Letters From the Love Room: mapping the landscape of loss

After the death of a beloved 102 year old aunt, Corinne Martin found that “the love room” – the unique connection made up of the joys and struggles of two people over time – didn’t disappear. Keeping watch at the love room door, Martin learned more about her aunt, rediscovered their intriguing family, fell in love with the South again, and began to heal. She learned that all love rooms intersect in the heart, and that our beloveds are never torn away. (Made for Wonder Press November 2017)

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Herbal Remedies from the Wild: finding and using medicinal herbs

A handbook for the home herbalist, the book details how to identify, gather, and prepare more than fifty different wild plants for medicinal use. (WW Norton, November 2000, a revision of Earthmagic: finding and using medicinal herbs, published by Countryman Press March 1991)