This is an accessible exploration of 48 medicinal and culinary herbs that you can grow and use throughout the year, with information on gardening, cooking, and integrating them into a comprehensive wellness routine.

Herbs attract more bees, more birds, and beneficial insects to the garden. They add spicy flavors and depth to any recipe. Herbs enrich our lives, our health, and our earth in a deep and nourishing way. Herbs in Every Season offers gardeners, herbalists, cooks, and growers a new perspective on herbs all year round.

Herbalists will learn how the growth habits of a herb influence its healing properties, while gardeners will gain knowledge about herbs as essential culinary plants for the garden, pollinator-attracting plants for annual bouquets, and key ingredients for a home apothecary.

With detailed plant descriptions for 48 herbs, many of which are native plants, Bevin Cohen encourages a seasonal perspective that combines the cultivation and use of herbs with the seasons. He reassures newcomers that herbs are not only easy to grow but also forgiving.

Readers will enjoy:

• Simple, homemade recipes and preservation techniques for cooking and preparing herbs into tonics, teas, meals, and treats
• Herbal remedies and useful DIY applications for common ailments like sunburns and mosquito bites
• A deep understanding of how a herb’s life cycle contributes to a range of medicinal and culinary properties
• How a seasonal approach to herbs can offer a much-needed process of cyclical reconnection with the earth

The practice of living close to the earth is profoundly enriched through a daily relationship with herbs — in every season.