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Suggested Reading

Recommended Books and Authors

These non-exhaustive lists are books that I have personally found useful over the years. I will continue to add to these lists. When buying books, always try to support independent owned bookstores.

  • Making Plant Medicine by Richo Cech

​   (anything by Richo Cech, but this is my favorite medicine making reference book) 

  • Anything by Rosemary Gladstar

  • Anything by David Hoffman

  • Anything by Michael Moore

  • Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal by Jeannine Parvati Baker

  • A Handbook of Native American Herbs by Alma R. Hutchens

  • Botanical Medicine for Women's Health by Aviva Romm

  • African American Slave Medicine by Herbert C Covey

  • Homegrown Herbs by Tammi Hartung

  • Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West by Cecilia Garcia and James D. Adams

     https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/ (and his facebook)

  • A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve

  • The Modern Herbal Dispensatory by Thomas Easley and Steven Horn

  • The Herbal Medicine Makers Handbook by James Gree

  • Hormone Intelligence by Aviva Romm, M.D,

  • The End of Alzheimer's by Dale E. Bredesen, M.D.

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Herbal Studies

  • Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D.

  • Disease Delusion by Jeffery Bland

  • The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz 

  • Why Don’t Zebras Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky 

  • Digestive Wellness by Elizabeth Lipski 

  • Sugar Blues by William Dufty

  • Anything by Aviva Romm

  • Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert Ludzig

  • Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

  • The Natural Fatty Liver Cure by R. Huntington

  • This is Your Brain on Food by Dr. Uma Naidoo

  • Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Russell Blaylock

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Nutrition Studies

  • Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (anything by Ottolenghi)

  • Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat

  • At Home in the Whole Foods Kitchen by Amy Chaplin

  • Eating for Health by Dr. Ed Bauman and Chef Lizette Marx

  • Downtime by Nadine Levy Redzepi

  • Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen

  • Bottom of the Pot by Naz Deravian

  • Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz

  • The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen

  • The Low-FODMAP Recipe Book by Lucy Whigham

  • Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

  • The Pegan Diet by Dr. Mark Hyman

  • The Complete Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners by Dorothy Calimeris and Lulu Cook

Recipe Books

  1. Plant Identification Terminology by James G. Harris and Melinda Woolf Harris​

  2. Peterson Field Guides

  3. National Audubon Society Field Guides

  4. The Jepson Manual by Willis Linn Jepson 

  5. Anything by Judith Larner Lowry

  6. A California Flora and Supplement by Phillip A. Munz

  7. Tending The Wild by Kat Anderson

  8. Gathering Moss by Robin Kimmerer

  9. Botany In A Day by Thomas J. Elpel

  10. Natural History of Pollination by Michael Proctor

  11. Geology & Plant Life by Arthur K. Kruckeberg

  12. Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon

Botany Books

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