Southwest Medicinal Plants - by John Slattery (Paperback)

About the Book

An indispensable guide to identifying, harvesting, and using medicinal plants in the Southwest.

Book Synopsis

Wildcraft your way to wellness with this expansive guide to ethical and safe foraging, providing detailed information on how to use wild Southwestern plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves!

In Southwest Medicinal Plants, John Slattery is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 112 of the region's most powerful wild plants. You'll learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include

• Clear, color photographs
• Identification tips
• Guidance on how to ethically harvest
• Suggestions for eating and preserving
• Lists of what to forage for each season, making the guide useful year-round!

Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Arizona, southern California, southern Colorado, southern Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, western and central Texas, and southern Utah.

"A wonderful guide that will diversify our diets and lure us into the natural world." --Brad Lancaster, cofounder of DesertHarvesters.org

Review Quotes

"No one has advanced wild foraging in the desert Southwest as much as John Slattery. His plant knowledge, ethics, and practices are becoming more relevant, if not necessary, for our collective survival." --Gary Paul Nabahn, director, Center for Regional Food Studies, University of Arizona

"A wonderful guide that will diversify our diets and lure us into the natural world." --Brad Lancaster, cofounder of DesertHarvesters.org

"A must-have on the subject! Eloquent and replete with scientific acumen and stunning photos, this guide is a treasure." --Carolyn Niethammer, author of Cooking the Wild Southwest

"Impressive." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

John Slattery is a bioregional herbalist, educator, and forager who is passionate about helping people develop deep and meaningful relationships with wild plants. Visit him at johnjslattery.com.