Resources That Have Helped Grow The Witch's Garden

A great resource is to find your local nursery, and ask for non-GMO, native, organically grown plants/seedlings.  Supporting local and developing local relationships is important to help with promoting a regenerative outlook into farming and gardening.  Some other resources I have found helpful for sourcing seeds are the following companies and websites. 

• www.strictlymedicinalseeds.com
• www.livingseedcompany.com
• www.unitedplantsavers.org
• www.highmowingseeds.com

Below are some phenomenal sources to help expand your knowledge of herbalism.  There are so many resources out there, beyond what I share here, but this can be a starting point for you to find your teachers. 

• www.scienceandartofherbalism.com
• www.chestnutherbs.com
• www.evolutionaryherbalism.com
• www.theherbalacademy.com
• Podcast - Root Radical by Kyle Denton
• Podcast - Herbs with Rosalee by Rosalee de la Foret

There are tons of books to recommend! Here are a few I found extremely helpful.

• The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer by Jeff and Melanie Carpenter
• Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth by Dr. Sharol Marie Tilgner
• Self-Sufficient Herbalism by Lucy Jones
• The Herbal Kitchen by Kami McBride
• Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss
• Making Plant Medicine by Richo Cech
• The Book of Herbal Wisdom by Matthew Wood
• The Way of Herbs by Michael Tierra
• Herbal AntiVirals by Stephen Harrod Buhner
• Herbal Body Book by Jeanne Rose
• Evolutionary Herbalism by Sajah Popham
• Growing and Using The Healing Herbs by Gaea and Shandor Weiss
• Southern Folk Medicine by Phyllis Light 

Tending to the bees will be completely new to me this year, 2025.  I have a few resources to recommend, but I am also very much open to anyone sending me their experiences and firsthand knowledge too.  The bees have been calling to me for about 4 years.  I have been researching and trying to learn as much as I can before I take on a hive to tend.  So many lives at hand, I wanted to make sure I knew something before taking on such a big responsibility. And from all that I have learned, I can only know so much through secondhand knowledge and wisdom.  I have to jump in and do it.  So wish me and the bees the best! 

• www.honeybeewild.com
• www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org
• www.beebuilt.com
• Song of Increase by Jacqueline Freeman
• A Lively Hive by Alex Tuchman
• Toward Saving the Honeybee by Gunther Hauk
• The BeeKeeper's Bible by Abrams Books