Wild Woman's Garden

Wild Woman's Garden
Author: Jillian VanNostrand
Publisher: Radical Weeds
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2001-12
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780966424607

Hot flashes? Not up this garden path! Simple herbal remedies for natural menopause. Free seeds.

A Woman's Garden

A Woman's Garden
Author: Tanya Anderson
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0760368406

In A Woman’s Garden, the creative force behind LovelyGreens.com, Tanya Anderson, shares inspiring ways to use the power of plants for home and health—with helpful growing advice and step-by-step instructions for creating over 35 inspiring projects, edibles, and art from your garden. Gardens grow more than just pretty flowers. They grow well-being and a deeper connection with nature. Gardens can also produce plant material for creating homemade skincare, natural dyes, artisan crafts, delicious foods and beverages, and medicines—homegrown ways to create a wholesome lifestyle. Making things with your hands and heart, and then sharing the fruits of your labors with friends and family, is both satisfying and soul-stirring. Learn how to grow dozens of plants and then transform them into gorgeous items to nurture yourself or gift to others, including: Using onion skins to dye wool Alkanet root and lavender soap Soapwort multipurpose cleaner Rose petal facial mist Edible flower frittata Healing calendula skin salve Paper mache leaf lanterns Chamomile tincture Gardening projects, including a herb spiral, strawberry pallet planter, and more In A Woman's Garden, you'll be introduced to seven categories of useful plants. Plus, meet inspiring women gardeners from around the globe who grow and use edibles, herbs, and flowers to create natural products you can make, too. Find inspiration, healing, health, and happiness right outside your own backdoor with A Woman's Garden.

Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden

Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Author: Gilbert L. Wilson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0873516605

This that I now tell is as I saw my mothers do, or did myself, when I was young. My mothers were industrious women, and our family had always good crops; and I will tell now how the women of my father's family cared for their fields, as I saw them, and helped them. --Buffalo Bird Woman

Women and Their Gardens

Women and Their Gardens
Author: Catherine Horwood
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1613743408

From the golden age in English history to today s gardeners and designers, this volume recognizes women s contributions to gardening in Britain and around the worldspanning more than four centuries. Despite growing vegetables for their kitchens, tending herbs for their medicine cupboards, and teaching other women about the craft before agricultural schools officially existed, women have been mere footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. These pioneers influence on the style of gardens in the present day is illustrated here in a style both accessible and scholarly. Presenting a rare bouquet, this collection shares the stories of more than 200 women who have been involved withgarden design, plant collecting, flower arranging, botanical art, garden writing, and education."

A Woman's Guide to the Wild

A Woman's Guide to the Wild
Author: Ruby McConnell
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 163217006X

Hike, camp, backpack, and navigate the wilderness like a pro with this fun and comprehensive survival guide for outdoors-women and fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild This fun, practical handbook covers everything from “feminine functions” (like dealing with your period and peeing in the woods) to staying safe (like protecting yourself from strangers). You'll also find chapters that help you prepare for—and make the most of—your time in the wilderness with information and advice on: • Gear lists • Personal Care • Camp setup • Fire building • Weather • Navigation • Food & Water Fun and informative, A Woman's Guide to the Wild will inspire you to get out on your own or with your girlfriends, explore the wilderness, and get a little dirty.

The Secret Lives of Garden Bees

The Secret Lives of Garden Bees
Author: Jean Vernon
Publisher: White Owl
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2020-03-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1526711885

A friendly, accessible guide into the weird, but wonderful world of bees in the gardens of the UK. From the common or garden bumblebees that nest in bird boxes, compost heaps, and old mouse holes making “Winnie the Pooh” style honey pots to feed their babes; to the quirky wool carder bee, a solitary bee that combs the fluff from garden plants to line her brood cells; and the amazing leaf cutter bee that carves chunks out of plant foliage to seal its egg chambers . . . This book will reveal the secrets and fascinating lives of the bees that live and breed in your garden, from buzz pollination, to the bee robbers that cheat the plants and steal nectar by stealth. With a chapter per season to explore what you are likely to see in your garden, great plants to grow to help them, plus other fascinating information on these secretive creatures, this book is designed to bring alive the world of garden before your very eyes. “The colorful narrative radiates the authors love for bees and is punctuated with heaps of beautiful photographs. Easily read from cover to cover or dipped in to when in need of bee identification.” —Sunday Express (UK)

A Woman's Hardy Garden

A Woman's Hardy Garden
Author: Helena Rutherfurd Ely
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2022-05-28
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Aiming to set a perfect garden, the author of this book came through numerous experiments and mistakes, which resulted in detailed advice on everything from soil preparation to garden design. The book gives answers to questions like when to plant or transplant, when to sow this or that seed, and how to prepare the beds and borders, and many more.

Wild Women and the Blues

Wild Women and the Blues
Author: Denny S. Bryce
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496730089

Includes author's note, a reading group guide with discussion questions, and an excerpt from Blackbirds.

Succulent Wild Woman

Succulent Wild Woman
Author: SARK
Publisher: Atria Books
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1997-05-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780684833767

This book is my glowing invitation to you—to live a rich, succulent life! I explore love, sexuality, romance, money, fat, fear and creativity. It's a little bit like reading my diary -- with permission. Succulence is powerFull! and so are we as women.