{"product_id":"the-medicine-wheel-garden-creating-sacred-space-for-healing-celebration-and-tranquillity-9780553380897","title":"The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquillity","description":"The American Indian medicine wheel was an ancient way of creating sacred space and calling forth the healing energies of nature. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study with native healers, herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch offers a step-by-step guide to bringing this beautiful tradition into your own life--from vibrantly colorful outdoor circle designs to miniature dish, windowsill, or home altar adaptations. Inside you'll find: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Planting guides for medicine wheel gardens in every zone, from desert Southwest to northern woodlands \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- A beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of 50 key healing herbs, including propagation needs, traditional and modern uses, and cautions \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Easy-to-follow herbal recipes, from teas and tonics to skin creams and soaps--plus delicious healing foods \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Ideas for herbal crafts and ceremonial objects, including smudge sticks, wind horses, prayer ties, and spirit shields \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Seasonal rituals, offerings, and meditations to bless and empower your garden and your friends, and much more \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Practical, beautiful, and inspiring, \u003cb\u003eThe Medicine Wheel Garden\u003c\/b\u003e leads us on a powerful journey to rediscovering the sacred in everyday life as we cultivate our gardens . . . and our souls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. Barrie Kavasch \u003c\/b\u003eis an herbalist, ethnobotanist, mycologist, and food historian of Cherokee, Creek, and Powhatan descent, with Scotch-Irish, English, and German heritage as well. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnduring Harvests \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNative Harvests\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter of which was hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eas \"the most intelligent and brilliantly researched book on the foods of the American Indian.\" Kavasch's work has been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMartha Stewart Living, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications, and she has been a guest lecturer at the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50720780157202,"sku":"9780553380897","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6c026281-4a0b-4ba3-a58f-af456a618fb5.jpg?v=1734676073","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-medicine-wheel-garden-creating-sacred-space-for-healing-celebration-and-tranquillity-9780553380897","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}