Homegrown Tea: An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Tisanes – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Ebook Name: Homegrown Tea: An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Tisanes
ISBN-13: 9781250039415
ISBN-10: 125003941X
Addition ISBN: 1250039428, 9781250039422
Author(s): Cassie Liversidge, Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (Macmillan US Trade)

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.