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Northeast Medicinal Plants Book Launch - Online

Celebrate the abundance of wild medicinal plants of NYC and throughout Northeastern North America with the launch of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press, 2020). Meet the author, Liz Neves, who will be demonstrating how to make herbal elixirs using plants featured in the book. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase through gatheringground.nyc.

About Northeast Medicinal Plants:
In Northeast Medicinal Plants, herbalist Liz Neves is the reader's trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 111 of the region’s most powerful wild plants. Readers will learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season makes the guide useful year-round. This is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.