A-Z of Useful Plants

Tired of food pollution and the high cost of living? This book provides many alternatives for off the shelf products and produce, and shows how to make and grow them yourself.

• If you want to know how to grow and roast your own coffees, extract your own sunflower oil, and make your own perfumes or dyes, linen or baskets
• If you want to brew a digestive liqueur from mint leaves, cure olives, roast cashews, piant peanuts, and make scented baby powder from iris roots or candles from banksias
• If you want to pick ‘sandpaper’ from a fig tree or grow your own dates, vanilla, mustard, pepper, poppy seed or hundreds of other useful things
• If you have a passion for growing and making things
– then this book is dedicated to you.