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Your complete how-to guide for growing herbs indoors for health, vitality, and culinary zest
A fantastic read! Anyone interested in human health and well-being should get hold of this book immediately. It's frankly brilliant.
- Phillip Adcock, commercial psychologist, author, Master Your Brain
GROWING HERBS INDOORS leads the list of the healthiest and most useful indoor activities we can do. Herbs can clean the air of toxins, provide oxygen and humidity, and help vanquish our psychoses. And they're tasty!
Learn how to grow herbs for health, for taste, and for life with
Your Indoor Herb Garden, a comprehensive guide to growing herbs indoors. Featuring all the tips and guidance you'll need to grow and harvest organic culinary and medicinal herbs right in your own home, coverage includes:
- Techniques for successfully growing herbs indoors
- Equipment, soil types, and feeding
- Why indoor herb gardens are an important part of life, from cooking to healing
- Herbal medicine, herbal history and lore
- An annotated glossary of herbs, including their common uses, growing requirements, cautions, and more.
This is the ideal practical guide for gardeners and cooks with an interest in healthy living and fresh flavors looking to create their own indoor herb garden anywhere.
DJ HERDA is a professional author, gourmet chef, and master indoor/outdoor gardener. He is a syndicated newspaper and magazine garden writer, columnist, and former test grower for Jackson & Perkins and the Rodale Institute. He lives and works in the Rocky Mountains of the southwestern United States. www.djherda.org
List of contents
1. Welcome to My World An introduction explaining why herbs are an essential part of my life-and why they should be in yours, as well.
2 Herbal Life and Lore From 5000 BC to the present- a fascinating historical look into the background of herbs.
3 From Magic to Medicine Herbal medicine, how it began, and where it is in modern society.
4 Growing and Harvesting Herbs Indoors A general introduction into how-to do it, equipment required, best soil types, feeding, etc.
5 Using Herbs at Home Employing the use of herbs in cooking, bouquet garni, fines herbes, herb vinegar, drying, health foods, etc.
6 An Annotated Glossary of Herbs Most important herbs, historical references, most common uses, growing tips, cautions, and other useful information.
Endnotes
About the Author
About the Publisher
About the author
D.J. Herda is a professional author, gourmet chef, and master indoor/outdoor gardener. He is a former Challenger Space Center project creator/coordinator, syndicated newspaper and magazine garden writer and columnist, and test grower for Jackson & Perkins and the Rodale Institute, along with other recognized innovators in gardening plants and practices. He has written and published more than 80 books and thousands of short pieces. As an avid chef, D.J. has been cooking with dried and fresh herbs for more than 50 years and has been growing herbs indoors in pots for nearly as long. He lives and works in the Rocky Mountains of the southwestern United States. www.djherda.org
Summary
Your Indoor Herb Garden is a comprehensive guide to the techniques and equipment for successfully growing culinary and medicinal herbs indoors. Written by a Master Gardener with five decades of experience in herb growing, it also includes coverage of herb harvesting, use, and lore and history.
Foreword
- Co-op available
- Galleys available to sales reps, Digital galleys on Edelweiss
- National advertising: Aromaculture, HerbalGram, Mother Earth Living, Harrowsmith, Herb Quarterly
- National print campaign: Aromaculture, HerbalGram, Mother Earth Living, Mother Earth News, Hobby Farms, Better Homes & Gardens, garden columnists at daily newspapers, Herb Quarterly
- Online/social media campaign
- Eblast to garden writers through Gardencomm network, and to the Herb Society of America
- Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube
- General eBook marketing plans
- eBook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales
- eBook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media
- Excerpts target for first serial rights: Aromaculture, HerbalGram, Mother Earth Living, Herb Quarterly
- Promotion through the author's website: www.djherda.org
