By Dede Cummings and Alyssa Holmes. A complete guide to growing, harvesting, and using healing herbs. In these pages, you’ll learn the basics of gardening in your backyard or on your windowsill or porch, including instructions for design, preparing soil, composting, maintaining and harvesting. You’ll then find detailed descriptions of the twelve most common, easy-to-grow, most useful healing herbs, with instructions for growing, harvesting, and utilizing them along with inspiring stories, medicine-making instructions and recipes for your home medicine chest. 160 page paperback.