Herbs in Every Season offers gardeners, herbalists, cooks, and homesteaders a new way of looking at herbs throughout the year. Herbalists will learn how an herb’s growth habits inform its medicinal capabilities, and gardeners will gain insight on herbs as integral culinary plants for the kitchen garden, pollinator plants for perennial borders, and key ingredients for a home apothecary. With detailed plant profiles, Bevin Cohen encourages a year-round perspective on growing and using herbs in tandem with the seasons. He assures any newcomer that herbs are not only easy to grow but also forgiving. Readers will take delight in:

• Simple, homegrown recipes and preservation techniques for tonics, teas, meals, and treats
• Herbal remedies and useful DIY applications for common ailments such as sunburns and mosquito bites
• Deep insight on how the life cycle of an herb contributes to its medicinal and culinary properties
• How a seasonal herbal approach can provide a much-needed process of cyclical re-connection to the earth

Start a new seasonal routine today with Herbs in Every Season! 

The Mother Earth News Guide to Fresh Food will help you enjoy better-tasting, more nutritious, homegrown and homemade food all year long. With our expert's guidance, you'll learn recipes for fragrant bread made of freshly ground wheat, all the knowledge you'll need to pluck ultra-fresh spinach salads straight out of your cold frame, and even information on how to make your own yogurt and vinegar. In many cases, this fine fare will cost you less than what you pay at the supermarket.

Articles include:

• Grow Your Best Fall Garden: What, When and How - No matter where you live, there are crops you can grow now.
• Save Money on Groceries - Buying in bulk and freezing or canning fruits and vegetables are great ways to enjoy better food and cut food costs. 
• 10 Ways to Boost Flavor and Nutrition in Fresh Food - You know you should eat your fruits and vegetables. What you may not know is that how you handle, cook and store these fresh foods, and the types and varieties you choose, can notably affect their nutritional value. 
• How to Raise Chickens for Meat - Don't just wing it if you're new to raising meat chickens. Use our guide to fill your freezer with broilers in as little as six weeks form hatch to harvest. 
• Use Cold Frames to Grow More Food - Sow seeds in simple frames to add more than a month to your spring garden season. 
• You Can Grow Winter Tomatoes - With the right light, you can grow tomatoes indoors all winter. 
• Easy, High-Quality, Low-Cost Homemade Yogurt - After you know how to make yogurt at home, you'll wonder why you ever wasted money on the sugar-laden, store-bought stuff. 

And more!