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

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.

Available Everywhere January 12, 2027.

$ 35

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.

Order your book directly from Juliette to support her work and receive special bonuses!

Pre-Order Bonuses Exclusively for Direct Orders:

The Clinical Herbalist's Record-Keeping Workbook: A Companion to The Herbal Year

Receive this beautiful workbook to support the type of record-keeping that advanced community and clinical herbalists consider essential. Includes downloadable, fillable templates for your Harvest Log, Medicine-Making Record, and Materia Medica Journal, so you can track your work into the future.

The Winter Apothecary Reflection & Planning Journal

Start the season of rest and reflection properly with this in-depth journal that guides you through reflecting on last season and planning for next season in your garden and medicine-making practice. Drawn directly from lessons in The Herbal Year, this 16-page guide (with downloadable, fillable templates for ongoing work) will draw you naturally through a reflection, critical thinking, and planning process to grow your practice in tune with the rhythm of the seasons.

First Access and Discounted Tuition

Be the first to access the brand new Herbal Year Apprenticeship, a self-paced apprenticeship based on the book. The new program is online, with optional opportunities for in-person connection during the growing season. When the new program goes live, you will be the first to know, access early registration before the public, and receive an exclusive coupon for discounted tuition!

And of course, your book will be signed by Juliette!

$ 35

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

“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

“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

“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

“The Herbal Year is everything I want in an herbal book: both folk and scientific understandings of herbs woven together beautifully, all while centering accessibility without sacrificing exactness. Juliette is a shining example of how to incorporate herbalism realistically into your life, especially if you have a family and want to live more closely to with the ever-changing seasonal year. The incredibly beautiful photography coupled with the many years of tried-and-true herbal teaching and learning make this book a treasure for any person walking the herbal path.”

Rebecca Beyer, author of The Complete Folk Herbal and Wild Witchcraft

“Warm, practical, and deeply rooted in seasonal living, Juliette Abigail Carr’s book beautifully captures the rhythms of herbalism. Through recipes, medicine making, and thoughtful explorations of plants and place, readers are invited into a richer relationship with the seasons and their botanical allies.”

Mimi Prunella Hernandez, RH (AHG), Author, National Geographic Herbal, Former Executive Director of the American Herbalists Guild

“If you crave a closer relationship to nature for you and your family, Juliette will bring you there—aligning your life with the seasons through fun, meaningful herbal activities and practices for every part of the year.”

Bevin Clare, author of Spice Apothecary

“Juliette Abigail Carr’s The Herbal Year is my favorite kind of book: one that presents information accessibly and roots that knowledge deeply in reliable herbal concepts. This is important because “home herbalist” defines one’s scope of practice, not their depth of knowledge, and this book lays a solid foundation upon which to grow a skilled practice of herbalism. Even more than that, Juliette illuminates the intrinsic relationship between the herbalist and the ecosystems and cycles of nature we are a part of, which nourishes and inspires all we do.”

jim mcdonald, herbalist

“Passionate and dedicated home herbalist Carr shares her decades of experience cultivating plants and transforming them into medicines and remedies that heal both body and spirit. Ambitious novices and seasoned herbalists alike will benefit from this accessible, authoritative guide that is filled with detailed profiles of 60 common herbs, providing an understanding of each one’s cultivation, harvest, preservation, and use in a variety of teas, infusions, salves, syrups, tonics, tinctures, and medicinal foods. The emphasis is seasonal, with encouragement to follow the rhythm of spring’s awakening, summer’s plenty, autumn’s harvest, and winter’s reflection. An abundance of colorful photographs aids in the identification and enjoyment of plants and their many uses. A commonsense, conservative approach to herbs and their uses is evident in safety considerations that focus on both modern scientific research and centuries-old tradition. Detailed formulas and recipes for common ailments such as pain, inflammation, insomnia, wounds, and digestive issues allow blossoming home herbalists to create practical working apothecaries that foster natural health and wellness.”

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

Pre-Order Directly From Juliette for Special Bonuses!

Order your book directly from Juliette to support her work and receive special bonuses!

Pre-Order Bonuses Exclusively for Direct Orders:

The Clinical Herbalist's Record-Keeping Workbook: A Companion to The Herbal Year

The Winter Apothecary Reflection & Planning Journal

First Access and Discounted Tuition

And of course, your book will be signed by Juliette!

Pre-Order Directly From Juliette for Special Bonuses!

Praise for "The Herbal Year"

Pre-Order Directly From Juliette to receive bonus material & support her work!

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