Cassie Liversidge

Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry tea leaves to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year. As a guide to using tea to make you feel better, there are nutritional and medicinal benefits. Finally, there is an illustrated guide to show how to make up fresh and dried teabags and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea. It is sustainable way to look at a beverage, which is steeped in history and tradition. Sample drinks include well-known plants such as rose hips, mint, sage, hibiscus, and lavender, as well as more obscure ones like chicory, angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena.

An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Tisanes

Homegrown Tea

Liversidge shows you how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill, to create your own tea cupboard. From growing your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea, she lays out when and how to harvest your plants; how to dry it to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year; how to make up fresh and dried teabags; and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea.

an illustrated guide to planting, harvesting, and blending teas and tisanes

Homegrown tea

Spaghetti with sauce is a staple meal in many households, and now kids can learn how to make their very own tomato sauce with this step-by-step guide. Master gardener Cassie Liversidge's cut-out art accompanies simple, easy-to-understand instructions for planting and growing tomatoes, onions, peppers, basil, and garlic—all the ingredients you need for making pasta sauce. Even kids who have never met a weed can tackle this project! Parents will appreciate reminders to wait patiently and handle buds and flowers gently; kids will love the jokes scattered throughout the book. (Why did the tomato blush? Because he saw the salad dressing!) Budding chefs will love following this easy guide and will take pride in each step of the culinary process, from planting tomato seeds to serving a delicious meal! Pasta Sauce! is part gardening book and part cookbook and is sure to delight young gardeners and cooks. This is the perfect springtime gift for food-loving children. And as a bonus: Watching tomatoes and peppers grow from seeds and learning how to cook is the perfect way to get kids to appreciate their veggies!

Grow Your Own Ingredients

Pasta Sauce!

Grow It! Harvest it! Cook it! Eat it! Yummy Jam and Jelly for You and Your Family! There is nothing like eating homemade jam and jelly. Now you can learn how to grow the plants they come from and then make your own. Strawberry jam, pumpkin jam, mint jelly, and rhubarb jelly are perfect for so many occasions, from summer picnics to weekend breakfasts and everyday snacks. You will learn how to grow strawberries, pumpkins, mint, and rhubarb with the fun instructions inside. Then you can harvest your ingredients and head to the kitchen to learn how to transform them into these delicious treats! They can make very special gifts, as well, if you can bear to part with them. Have fun getting your hands dirty while growing your own ingredients. Most of all, get ready to eat the best food in the world—food you have grown it yourself! This is the third book in the Grow Your Own series, after Pasta Sauce! and Ice Cream!

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