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The Herbal Year: A Complete Guide to Making Medicine in Rhythm with the Seasons

Learn to wild-craft herbal medicine and wild foods in the northeast

This beautiful guide to herbal medicine empowers readers to deepen their connection to the natural world while developing a strong foundation of practical herbal knowledge.

From spring allergies to winter colds, The Herbal Year offers herbalists of all levels in-depth information on working with herbs to address seasonal health concerns and support well-being year-round. Juliette Abigail Carr, a family nurse practitioner and clinical herbalist specializing in integrative medicine, explains the properties and energetics of more than 60 common herbs.

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You’ll learn to: 

  • Master essential medicine-making techniques, such as creating tinctures, syrups, oils, salves, and teas
  • Understand holistic physiology and how the cycles of nature and the body intersect
  • Support your health using protocols for common ailments and seasonal challenges
  • Discover a wide range of medicinal plants, with in-depth profiles exploring their impact on the body
  • Harvest, process, preserve, and formulate with herbs for a year of medicine-making abundance

Offering inspiration for reconnecting with nature and plant-based healing traditions, this is an indispensable reference you will use again and again.

Praise for "The Herbal Year"

“A beautiful and well-organized book that takes the reader on a deep dive into the foundations of herbalism. This is an excellent resource for anyone looking for more than just a casual introduction to home herbalism. I especially love how the author has organized the book by the seasons, filling it with bountiful seasonal recipes that support health and well-being throughout the year. The lush photography and beautiful illustrations make an already wonderful book even more enjoyable to explore.”

 Rosemary Gladstar, author and herbalist

“I highly recommend Juliette Carr’s delightful, insightful, witty, sensible, detailed, yet highly readable guide to natural self-healing, The Herbal Year. It is an irresistible invitation to partake in the intangible joys along with the fruits of each season, to notice both the wild and cultivated bounty of the land, and to harvest and preserve with common sense and reverence. Her medical training informs her crisp, clear discussions of human health and disease. Her botanical expertise reveals natural means of restoring organ vitality and metabolic balances. Her instructions on creating your own botanical remedies are both precise and an invitation to individual creativity. Her perspective as a mother is to nurture the children and the gardens of the world with cheerful, patient determination. Reading this book is like having a thoughtful, funny, enthusiastic friend lead you from her gardens to her kitchen where you share ancient wisdom and fresh decoctions.” 

 Tim Shafer, MD, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Vermont Academy of Family Physicians

“Herbal resources that take a seasonal lens to the art and craft are among my favorite, and this book now tops that list. This is a gorgeous, practical, and inspiring book I wish I had written, but now I don’t have to! Nurse practitioner-herbalist Juliette Carr brings you on a multi-sensory journey through the seasons, connecting with the earth and ecosystem, your body, and locally abundant plants. Beautiful photography, practical tips, and fantastic recipes evoke the vibe of each of the four seasons. This makes remedy making, herbal energetics, herbal actions, and learning herbal healing a natural and approachable adventure. Fans of my book, Body into Balance, will find Juliette’s The Herbal Year a joyful guide to add another layer of deeper meaning and focus to your herbal and healing journey.” 

Maria Noël Groves, RH(AHG), clinical herbalist at Wintergreen Botanicals and author of Body into Balance and other books

“There is no greater joy than embarking on a journey with a guide who has passion, skill, and years of experience to help you explore the terrain. Juliette’s book is all of that and more. As a farmer and grower, she leads us through the patterns and medicine of the seasons with clarity and poetry. A must-have for those beginning their journey into the study of this ancient and timely practice of herbal medicine. As a clinician, she brings trusted wisdom to the materia medica we know and offers a deeper, broader lens. The beauty of her gardens, recipes, and insights into the meaning of the seasons’ medicine will delight experienced herbalists alike.”

 Kat Maier, author of Energetic Herbalism: A Guide to Sacred Plant Traditions, and Director of Sacred Plant Traditions, a center for herbal studies

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