Hey Nature-lovers!

Deepen your knowledge of plants and their fascinating uses

With the Herbs Around the Year ebook

Do you long to feel more connected to the natural world? Are you a gardener, forager, or just someone who is intrigued by plants and their many uses? Do you feel wistful for a bygone time when people lived in touch with the land?

If this sounds like you… Then I have the perfect ebook for you!

Herbs Around the Year Ebook

£13.00

When you’re outside in Nature you feel energised yet calm, grounded yet vibrant. You want to carry that feeling inside you at all times. You want to be the kind of person who grows a bountiful vegetable garden, forages for wild plants, knows what’s growing in your local area, and uses herbs to elevate your daily life. You want to feel connected to the land and the cycle of seasons.

You can do all this.

The first step is to get inspired. No pressure to do anything difficult, just dip your toes into the beautiful world of herbs by reading this simple ebook and following along over the coming year.

About me

Hi, I’m Helen Christov. I’m a practicing Medical Herbalist, trained at the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, and I’ve been running my own home clinic since 2011. I’m also a keen gardener, growing lots of my own food and herbs.

I’ve always been fascinated with plants and the countryside. Long before getting into herbalism, I ran my own landscape gardening business. I am passionate about honouring the Earth and using plants for food, medicine, natural beauty and wildlife.

I wrote this ebook to share my love of plants, help you feel more connected to Nature and spark your curiosity to learn more.

Learn about 36 plants and their many uses in this seasonal guide

The Herbs Around the Year ebook introduces you to 36 plants, organised around the turning seasons.

Each plant section contains information on:

Wildlife and habitat
Nutrition
Medicinal benefits
Skincare and/or other practical uses

When I say ‘herbs’ I mean it in the broadest sense. So this guide covers not just plants you’d typically know as medicinal herbs, like St John’s Wort and Chamomile, but also food plants, flowers and trees such as Pumpkin, Cranberry, Fuchsia and Scots Pine.

All of these plants have fascinating uses - some commonly known, and some more obscure!

For example, did you know that…

Mustard Greens are packed with phytonutrients that beautify the skin, and lutein which helps protect your eyes from the blue light in screens.
French Marigold can be used as a companion plant for tomatoes and strawberries as it helps repel whitefly, slugs, red spiders and mealy bugs.
Cleavers paired with fresh Nettle tops make a perfect spring tonic, as the Cleavers benefit the white blood cells and Nettles the red.
St John’s Wort is so effective at flushing toxins through the liver that it can render the contraceptive pill ineffective.
Blackberries are packed with 19 different vitamins and minerals, but to maintain the high vitamin C content you need to eat them raw.
Primroses provide an early nectar source for Queen Bumblebees emerging from hibernation, and in Irish and Celtic folklore they are connected to the Faerie realm.

This ebook is packed with interesting facts and tips like these, which will help you live a healthier life and deepen your appreciation for just how amazing the natural world is.

Reconnecting with Nature through our cultural heritage

In our modern world, alienation from Nature is endemic. People live in cities, spend all day inside buildings and cars, buy processed food from supermarkets, and spend much of their day looking at screens...

This is an unnatural way to live and is a rare blip in human history.

For millennia, humans lived in touch with the Earth.

Rediscovering our cultural heritage from pre-industrial times, when people revered Nature and lived by the ebb and flow of the seasons, is one powerful way to reconnect to the land.

For us living in Britain, our Celtic ancestors celebrated annual festivals linked to the agricultural calendar as well as the astronomical motion of the Earth around the Sun. These were later adapted and reformed into Christian holidays, many of which are still celebrated today.

So, this ebook follows the Celtic Wheel of the Year, which is divided into 8 festivals roughly 6 weeks apart. Each section includes several plants that can be found at that time with an overview of their uses. For each of the 8 Celtic festivals, there is a short introduction and I re-tell the ancient story of the Celtic God and Goddess, as recorded in folklore representing the annual birth, growth, death, and rebirth of the land.

I have loads of herbals on my bookshelves. Many of them have a theme or special angle, but surprisingly, I’ve not come across one that looks at seasonal plants through the Celtic Wheel of the Year.

Herbs and Celtic festivals covered in the ebook

This 67-page ebook, with gorgeous original photos throughout, covers the following 8 Celtic festivals and 36 plants that can be found growing at those times of year:

Imbolc

🌿 Alder

🌿 Cleavers

🌿 Quince

🌿 Mustard Greens

Spring Equinox

🌿 Primrose

🌿 Lesser Celandine

🌿 Magnolia

🌿 Wild Garlic

Beltaine

🌿 Hawthorn

🌿 Yellow Deadnettle

🌿 Stitchwort

🌿 Wallflowers

Summer Solstice

🌿 St John’s Wort

🌿 Limeblossom

🌿 German Chamomile

🌿 French Marigold

Autumn Equinox

🌿 Tansy

🌿 Chicory

🌿 Woad

🌿 Blackberry

🌿 Hops

🌿 Fuchsia

Lammas

🌿 Evening Primrose

🌿 Coneflower (Echinacea)

🌿 Nasturtium

🌿 Sunflower

🌿 Watermelon

Samhain

🌿 Pumpkin

🌿 Scots Pine

🌿 Wintergreen

🌿 Cayenne

🌿 Spindle

Winter Solstice

🌿 Norway Spruce

🌿 Cranberry

🌿 Holly

🌿 Mistletoe

Buy the ebook and discover the awesome health benefits and practical uses of these 36 common plants

Herbs Around the Year is available to buy now for just £13.

If you want to learn more about plants, if you want to reconnect with Nature, and if you are interested in how our Celtic ancestors lived in tune with the land, then buy this ebook and follow along as the year turns.

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