Medicinal Herbs in the Garden, Field & Marketplace by Lee Strudivant and Tim Blakley. Takes you step by step from your garden or field into the marketplace of Medicinal herbs. Complete details on growing, harvesting and marketing. Detailed help from medicinal herb growers, practitioners, product makers, wildcrafters, and medicinal mushroom growers in the US and Canada. Shows the small farm and business opportunities in North America's growing demand for herbal medicine. Best techniques for propagation, cultivation, harvesting, drying and processing. Covers: Regulations; Herb Safety; Standardization; Marketing Aids; and Company surveys. Sturdivant is the author of three other books on growing and marketing herbs and flowers. She is a long-time grower and small business participant. Blakley, one of America's foremost medicinal herb growers, has managed the National Center for the Preservation of Medicinal Herbs in Rutland, Ohio, Frontier Herbs in Iowa, Herb Pharm in Oregon and Cilifornia School of Herbal Studies. This book has earned the International Herb association Book Award. Soft cover, 9" x 6", 375 pages. FREE SHIPPING. To order by phone call toll-free: 866-596-9982