Gardening & Herbal Remedies

  • Cover of a gardening book titled 'Vegetable Gardening Handbook for Beginners' with a yellow background.

    Vegetable Gardening: Handbook for beginners

    UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Growing Gardeners Program. A 46 page PDF on how to plan your garden.

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  • A book cover titled 'Rewild or Die' with yellow flowers growing through a crack in concrete and graffiti on the wall.

    ReWild or Die

    A 138 page PDF on how to “rewild” by Foraging for plants.

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  • Circle infographic listing permaculture principles with icons and descriptions, including observe and interact, catch and store energy, obtain a yield, apply self-regulation, use renewable resources, produce no waste, design from patterns, integrate rather than segregate, use small solutions, value diversity, edges and value the marginal, creatively respond to change.

    Permaculture: An Ethical Design for living

    Written by Graham Burnett. A simple guide to permaculture.

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  • A black-and-white drawing depicting guerrilla gardening with a banner that reads 'Beneath the Concrete,' surrounded by potted plants, gardening tools, and various decorative elements.

    Guerrilla Gardening: Beneath the concrete

    Mixes civil rights and liberation with gardening and food production.

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  • Colorful illustration with the title 'Fruit for Free' in large pink letters, a yellow apple in the center with 'for' written on it, and small decorative leaves and flowers surrounding the text, indicating it is a foraging zine by Melanie Gillman.

    Fruit For Free

    A Foraging zine about how to find fruit.

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  • Cover page of a book titled 'Edible, Medicinal, & Utilitarian Plants, Volume 1: Weeds & Common Plants' by Rowan Walking, with illustrations of a tree and a dandelion.

    Edible, medicinal & utilitarian plants

    Volume one: Weeds and common plants

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  • Cover of a book titled "An Herbal Medicine-Making Primer" by Simon the Simpler. The cover features a detailed black and white illustration of a plant with leaves and a root. There is a small illustration of a mortar and pestle in the bottom left corner. The text includes a copyright notice from 2010 and an email address.

    An herbal medicine making primer

    Like so much in this consumerist society, it is easy to ignore the connections between a bottle on a shelf in some store and a living, growing plant out in the world somewhere.

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  • Black and white informational poster titled "Home Remedies for Common Maladies" with illustrations of four medicinal plants: Yarrow, St. John's Wort, Lemon Balm, and an unlabeled plant. The poster includes a slogan "Fight the Power. Do No Harm" and a circular logo for Rosethip Medic Collective with a heart and cross symbol and the text "Wellness on & off the streets."

    Home Remedies For Common Maladies

    The Rosehip Medic Collective is a group of volunteer Medics in and around Portland, Oregon

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  • Book cover titled 'Radical Mycology' with illustrations of various fungi and mushrooms on a black background. Smaller black-and-white photo of two children holding a tray of mushrooms with the text 'Spread Your Spores' below.

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    Spread your spores. An SLF primer

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