Blackberry Cove Herbal

A month-by-month celebration of common herbs, their medicinal and culinary uses, folk tales and legends surrounding them.

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In Blackberry Cove the herbs are wild and free to spring up wherever the wind carries their seed. This herbal guide to Blackberry Cove has organised herbal lore and wisdom on the area into months and seasons with brief essays on the wild and common herbs a wanderer might discover on a walk during that time of year. Each month is introduced by an essay evoking the weather and nature with a legend or two woven into the reality of life in the Eastern mountains of America. The description of the herbs also includes their natural habits and healing qualities, sometimes a recipe for a traditional remedy, lotion or ointment and often a sauce, jelly, vinegar or tea.