Homegrown Tea: An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Tisanes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250039415)

Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry tea leaves to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year. As a guide to using tea to make you feel better, there are nutritional and medicinal benefits. Finally, there is an illustrated guide to show how to make up fresh and dried teabags and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea. It is sustainable way to look at a beverage, which is steeped in history and tradition.

Sample drinks include well-known plants such as rose hips, mint, sage, hibiscus, and lavender, as well as more obscure ones like chicory, angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena.

Author: Cassie Liversidge
ISBN-10: 125003941X
ISBN-13: 9781250039415
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 8.97h x 7.08w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2014 pg. 7
New York Times Book Review 06/01/2014 pg. 35