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The
Herbal How To Guide
Teaches You the Fun of Working with Plants.
You've most likely come to the Herbal
How To Guide because you
have some fresh plants (either from your garden, a local
farmer's
market, given by a friend or maybe even collected in the wild) and you
want
to learn how to play with them. Wonderful!
We're going to have a lot of
fun exploring the botanical world together.
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It
is my goal to
share the decades of botanical knowledge that I've been privileged to
receive and
to include YOUR
knowledge (coming
real soon) to make this a truly comprehensive website.
The botanical world has a rich and beautiful history filled with
cooking,
crafts, magic & folklore, personal care and medicine.
For example; I used to think that the old time medicine people cut the
tails off poor little lizards - until I learned there is a flower
called
Lizard's Tail. They were making medicine from plants. |
And then there's the delicate
beauty
only
visible to those that know
when
and where to look.
I fell in love with the botanical world when Mother Nature began
opening
her knowledge to me. I hope you fall in love, as well, as you
learn and share.
Here
are some of the things you'll find on this website:
- How to identify wild plants with a lot of
pictures and information. Most important, DON'T TOUCH IT
until you know what it is.
- Respect
Mother Nature and learn to care for her while you're collecting. Also
learn how to harvest to insure that you'll have more and more each year.
- Yummy recipes to delight your family and
friends.
Use the navigation bar
to the left to find information you're interested in, or scan
the table of contents
below. Most important - spend time and enjoy this website - add your
knowledge to help it grow. The whole
reason it's here is for YOU.
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Herbal Index
This Herbal Index page is an alphabetical listing, by both common and botanical name, of the herbal detail pages on this web site.
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The Herbal Book Shop
The Herbal Book Shop features all things herbal. Keep it growing.
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Drying Herbs
Drying herbs, three different ways, that yield the highest, natural quality and give the longest shelf life possible.
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Storing Herbs
Are you confused about storing herbs? Actually this information is for all food storage.
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Gardening Days
Many calendars feature a little symbol to tell you what kind of Gardening Days it is. This page teaches you to apply this to the rest of your life.
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Herbal Tea
You can make a perfect cup of Herbal Tea - every time! Learn how here.
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Infusion
Learn how to make an Infusion with herbs.
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Decoction
Learn how to make a Decoction with herbs.
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Making Creams and Lotions
There's no mystery to making Herbal Creams and Lotions, learn how here.
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Essential Oils
You can make Essential Oils at home using a process called solvent extraction. This web page explains how to do it.
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Wild Herb Garden a.k.a. Backyard Habitat
Creating a wild herb garden or backyard habitat can be extremely fun and very rewarding. Join me in this adventure.
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Composting Made Easy
Composting seems to be a mystery to many people, this page makes it easy to understand and do.
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Natural Soap - Handmade At Home
Making natural soap at home is actually very easy. This entire section of my web site is dedicated to soap making.
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Fixed Oils
Information on Fixed Oils, Vegetable and Nut Butters, Fats and other ingredients that soap makers use.
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SAP Value Chart
This is a detailed SAP Value Chart listing SAP Values for both NaOH, Sodium Hydroxide (for hard soap), and KOH, Potassium Hydroxide (for liquid soap). I will continue to add more as I find them.
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The Wrap on Plastic
Learn about Safe and Unsafe Plastic.
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Recycle
What does Recycle, Up-cycle and Down-cycle mean?
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The Elf Diet: Eat Less Food
Make the Elf Diet work. Get out of the mode of wanting to lose 20 lbs in a month. Change your life and have a great body forever.
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FaceBook
FaceBook has become the social place I share herbal news and website information with friends. Come join Herbal How To Guide on FaceBook.
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Site News Blog
Stay up to date with the Herbal How To Guide's Site News Blog. You'll find information about new pages added, special offers, products, and much more.
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The Herbal Blog
Instead of an About Me page, I created this blog to share my fun herbal life with you.
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Contact Me
This page will allow you to contact me.
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Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Herbal-HowTo-Guide.com
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Mountain Rose Herbs: My Only Herbal Supplier
Why is Mountain Rose Herbs the only supplier I feature on The Herbal How To Guide? Quality! Learn more about them here.
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All
information, shared on
this web site, is for enjoyment and study only and is NOT meant to
diagnose or treat any medical condition. Only your
health care professional is qualified to diagnose or treat medical
conditions. Do not risk your health! Just because
something is 'natural' does NOT make it safe. Do not, under
any
circumstance, ingest or use herbs in any form
without consulting your Doctor. If you do, you do so
at
your OWN RISK.
Web Site
Content (text, graphics, look and feel) are Copyright Protected © All
Rights Reserved 2009 - 2010, Sandy Marie.
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What I can harvest
and offer is limited by my area and season. The only other supplier I
trust is
Mountain Rose Herbs.
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website is made
possible & successful
because of Site Build
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