Recipe for a Whole YOU: A Woman's Garden: Grow beautiful plants and make useful things by Tanya Anderson

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Since Earth Day is today, I thought this a good time to share this book with you!

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.

Synopsis:

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.

Review:

The idea in this book is to give you 3 ways that you can grow a garden, and what you can do, both craft, health and edible wise, with each. Pretty straightforward, and this book will give you SO much inspiration for bringing back the ways of our grandmothers and reconnecting to the earth by  using what we grow! While it may start off as Mom's project, it's sure to be come a garden for the entire family to use, and this book would be an excellent resource for a homeschool garden projects as well. mainly because the photos are just so easy to follow along with and understand. You may find yourself immersed in this book for quite a while before you even start your garden, and don't be surprised if you take bits from all 3 types, and make one garden for YOUR needs and wants. That's the beauty of this book- it allows you to do just that. Make mom's day this year with this book and a basket of gardening and craft items, and it will be the gift that keeps on giving!

About the Author:

Tanya Anderson is an organic gardener, soap maker, beekeeper, and beauty producer on the Isle of Man in the UK. Tanya is the creative force behind the website and YouTube channel Lovely Greens. Followers subscribe to her for her creative garden ideas and positive, friendly personality.

When she's not publishing gardening and plant-based beauty ideas, she's retailing her own line of beauty products. Lovely Greens Handmade crafts natural soaps, beeswax skincare products, and candles. She also hosts monthly creative workshops, is a regular gardening-guest on an a local radio station, and helps manage an allotment (community garden).