Conversations with Plants: The Path Back to Nature - Paperback

by Nikki Darrell (Author)

A book to remind us of the intimate bond that has always existed between people and plants and encourages us to bring them back into our daily lives.

In some parts of the world, plant medicine is still taught at the kitchen table, by the cooking fire, or in the fields, passed down from parent to child and woven through the fabric of the culture. In many places it has been severely eroded, but it has not been lost. This book helps us reclaim and restore a hugely important part of our heritage: our plant medicine path.

Conversations with Plants reminds us of the intimate bond that has always existed between people and plants and encourages us to bring them back into our daily lives. It includes instructions on how to develop these connections by using essential oils, gardening and growing herbs, medicine making and gathering wild food. It is an invitation to step into your own relationship with plants - their stories and meanings - feel into their medicine and understand how to work with them by bringing your own medicine into the conversation.

It is for practitioners, students, and anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge of the green world.

Author Biography

Nikki Darrell works as a practitioner of herbal medicine, aromatherapy, and aromatic medicine. She studied horticulture and plant science at the Sutton Bonington campus of the University of Nottingham and, after graduating, spent 5 years researching phytochemistry and plant tissue culture. She then went back to her first love of working with medicinal plants and in 1999 graduated with a degree in herbal medicine from the School of Phytotherapy.