Book
Homegrown tea : an illustrated guide to planting, harvesting, and blending teas and tisanes / Cassie Liversidge.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250039415 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 125003941X (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: xv, 270 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 270) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Leaves -- Seeds -- Fruits -- Flowers -- Roots -- Further plant advice -- Further tea advice -- Quick plant reference chart. |
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| Subject: | Tea. Herbal teas. Herb gardening. Organic farming. Organic farming. Tea. |
CASSIE LIVERSIDGE was born in the UK and studied Fine Art at Plymouth University. She grew up on her parent's plant nursery where her love of gardening began. Her debut book, Grow Your Own Pasta Sauce came from a desire to share her passion for eating home grown food and living in a more sustainable way. She lives and works in London with her husband and two sons, but spends two months of the year in New York.