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Wildcraft your way to wellness! 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, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season makes 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.

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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

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

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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.

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