Helpful Resources
Herb Companies
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Gorgeous bulk herbs, grown in Oregon, or ethically sourced.
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A wee bit more expensive, but thsese folks really know their stuff, sell beautiful herbs, and create well thought out products.
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Beautiful organic herbs from VT.
Sources of Seeds and Plants
Land Stewardship & Conservation
Botany Resources
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Botany in a Day, by Thomas Elpel - excellent book for identifying plant family patterns, with information on their edible, medicinal, and potentially poisonous natures. If you are ever in Montana, Tom is a fabulous teacher.
Plant Identification Terminology, Harris and Harris - and illustrated glossary of botanical terms, super useful if you plan on going deeper into the nerd forest of botanical keying, or plant family patterns.
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Wildflowers, Ferns, and Trees of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, & Utah
Biota of North America
Where you can find the range of the species you think you have
Materia Medica - Herbs
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Northeast School of Botanical Medicine. 7-song’s school and website
Jim McDonald’s Website - jim (lowercase intentional:) is an excellent herbalist and teacher, who has useful write ups on all sorts of topics
North American Institute of Medical Herbalism and Med herb - Paul Bergner’s school and website. One of my primary herbalism mentors - he’s the best.
Bot Med Rocks - Eric Yarnell’s website full of free articles and other resources on herbalism. Eric is an ND I really respect, and who has made this resource accessible and free. Highly recommend any of his works.
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Herbal Vade Mecum, by Gazmund Skenderi - an excellent reference guide for herbal action, cautions, and contraindications.
Herb Manuals by Micheal Moore - available as free downloads from his newly updated website
The Herbal Medic, by Sam Coffman - written by a former Green beret medic, excellent book on herbal first aid, as well as medicine making. His classes are also amazing and incredibly relevant for emergent care.
Herbal Constituents, by Lisa Ganora - this is a more scientific perspective on what plant constituents do in the body, as well as the best methods for extracting them. Also has excellent online courses.
The Medicine Makers Handbook, James Green
All books and information by Gregory Tilford
Medicine Making
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Oil infusion, salves, and ointments
Herb Schools
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