Growing your own healing and medicinal herbs can be as simple as growing basil and thyme on your kitchen windowsill to as complex as starting your own business producing herbs en masse for sale. Either way, it can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience to grow, cultivate, and create home remedies from healing herbs that you nurtured yourself.
For thousands of years, people have relied on the wisdom of age-old healing solutions made from items they could grow right in their own backyards. Luckily, we are seeing resurgences in returning to the earth for more natural-based remedies. Along with that, there is a return to the nurturing and farming-based cultures of the past and a willingness to provide for ourselves.
Planning, designing, choosing plants, and caring for a healing and medicinal herb garden is a worthwhile endeavor. In addition to cultivating a healthy hobby, growing herbs and creating medicinal home remedies can generate some additional income. As demonstrated through the case studies in the book, there is a variety of ways in which healing herbs can touch our lives, from new career options to general well-being and caring for our families and pets.
When used as part of a healthy lifestyle that combines exercise, healthy eating, and stress reduction, growing and using medicinal herbs can promote well-being and longevity as well as reduce the occurrence of disease and ailments.